
“Our policies have created problems, but we are certain of where we are going. To achieve our goal we have to take measures which are painful, but it will pass and everyone will be happy. Nothing comes cheaply. We have to tighten our belts and I am happy that the worst is over! The bad is past us. Things are going to improve” – President Emmerson Mnangagwa in Mutare on the 18th December 2019
I don’t know if it is the scarf, his yes-men or the cronies around President Mnangagwa that makes this seemingly so. It seems like his echoing the dreams of a narrative, which apparently isn’t true. There is no indication that the financial system is balancing, that the inflation is dipping or stagnating and that the civil servants are paid properly to actually be their livelihood.
Apparently, that is a lost art of the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and the President. Together with his Ministers comes with statements and predictions, which isn’t panning out. There is different about having personal dreams and the promises of changes as the Head of State.
As long as the doctors, teachers and other civil servants lacks funds because of lack salaries. As long as the lack of foreign currency or even of the local currency itself. That is why with the rising prices and lack of wages, is hard to tell the public that the government has made progress and over the hurdle.
Especially, since the state has stopped dropping inflation numbers. The state have more big-scandals and misuse of government funds, than actually governing. That ZANU-PF is more preoccupied with hunting its enemies, than actually finding ways to solve the crisis. This is a self-made crisis, a crisis made out of misuse of bad policies and greed. They blame the sanctions, but Command Agriculture wasn’t banned by US, neither was the EU stopping the President from spending like a drunk sailor abroad on expensive private jets.
The President can promise a better 2020 and rightfully so. Nevertheless, it doesn’t make it true. When the state isn’t delivering and seems not interested in doing so. They rather battle for the power and eat, than actually doing what is needed. They are just going from one scheme to the next. Hoping someone will bail them out.
The echo is hitting back at the President. He hears it and yawns, but he is not commenting on it. Because, its just his own voice and his not crazy, but the stories that is put on repeat doesn’t make it true. Neither does it amplify the message, it is just saying it over and over. However, that doesn’t make it true, but it just make it sound like either a terrible hook or bad ad-libbing. Peace.






















