New Chinese Loan to Zimbabwe

They must be having a laugh in Beijing right now as they have managed again to increase their current asset figure in the loan made to a small African country at the southernmost tip, next to it actually to the tune of $100 millions. I am ecstatic that we now have $100 million worth of new equipement that will help improve hospitals' capacity to help people seeking help. I guess everyone should be clapping their hands and if they can get near him, slap the president in the back and congratulate him for a job well done. China's main aim is to make money, lend money and own whoever it lends money to. America is in books as a huge debtor and when I come to think of it, I think the clever Chinese may have gotten Mugabe to sign the papers for those medical vehicles and machines and bring them with a payment note attached, maybe in the form of diamonds. Why did we not get to have the Chinese give us the diamonds in exchange of the diamonds without the loan? Could we not have arm twisted them into supplying what we need for them to mine our minerals, send their Chinese defense to Chiadzwa and mine our stones. How is the appropriation ratio of the produce at Chiadzwa given the number of companies involved, plus the ministers and their business partners? What trickles finally to the coffers of the Ministry of Mines is loose change really.

Looking at the Chinese deal, it still is rather an unfair arrangement as the Chinese have a well known reputation for selling to Africa and other third world countries their sub-standard goods which will hardly last any long. I bet you, the equipment will long be commissioned out of service due to inoperability as the loan would still require payment. What president Mugabe should have done or perhaps he did, to request manufacturer warranty on those products so that the loan will be repaid without much grumbling or anything of that sort. Other than that, it is but a rubbish deal. We should really make sure that the number of years that equipment is in use is recorded in order to be deemed useful or else, we were shortchanged, kudos to Mr Xi Jinping and your team!

A Nation of Jokers

So this is what we get? While the country's industry is continuously plunging deeper into paralysis, politicians are running around, first trash-talking each other to the applauding naive masses who have absolutely nothing to do with their cat and mouse games but think that they do. It is disheartening really, to say the least, how the gullibility levels in Zimbabwe have actually skyrocketed while wit has plummeted. I say this, to say this; As the first lady went around the country, giving wry narratives about her opponents, consolidating her grasp of the party headed by her frail president husband, creating the great rift while at it, that saw big names in the ZANU PF camp like Mujuru, Mutasa and Gumbo get expelled from a party that they were with since time immemorial, in other words, a party that groomed them to be adept at what they have been doing till then, Nothing and thievery.

So these fellas who lost their rather protected positions in a party that has like a tick sucked the lifeblood out of Zimbabwe feel short-changed and have run to the courts. A paper in the country reported that Gumbo knows his former boss is a lier and wants to call him for that. I believe Mugabe didn't wake up a lier a day after his 91st birthday. He has been one all the years that people have brutally murdered others for daring to stand with the feeble attempts of opposition parties to oust him from power. Now they are fighting viciously, for their sake, not for anybody's or the country's for that matter. For this incident to even make the headlines is utter rubbish and our tolerance levels are stretched loose now as we do not really know what to prioritize. The economy is suffering as Mugabe, with the help of his recently feverishly motivated wife, has managed to try and make the presidential post of the country more or less an inheritable throne, not a position that has to be earned by merit. And people clap and cheer to that. At this point, it is rather futile to play party politics because all hands are needed on board to change the course of economic direction the country has been on for quite a while. I really think all the men and women who were involved in the running of affairs during this period carried out some treasonous acts that they should own up to and to continue looking up to them hoping that by grace they may change for the better is rather a futile and self-defeating hope. All signs have showed that they are pathetic failures who hide it by blame, arrogance and brutality. What a blatant liberty?!

Well, as again a country, which has somewhat a lot to do to help itself instead of selling out to other countries that have it figured out. Our solution is but a pragmatic approach to everything. First of, the president needs to resign immediately. He is old and can certainly not make sensible decisions. If this hurts his feelings, the more a reason for him to leave office. He has been showing more signs that he is being controlled by his wife to make rather irrational decisions. How can a country of quite intelligent people be held hostage by a man losing his wit? We all can't be like his bootlicking yes sayers like Gumbo and the rest of them were till they fell out. The man has done his part, good and bad and he must own up to every bit of it. The land reform was not a bad idea, given the wealth inequalities between blacks and whites. But then that birthed a problem of its own when his upper echelon ministers took to looting and complete disregard of their duties. A new breed of colonizers emerged. Gluttonous men, women loving breakers of the law who drove the country into malady- a problem quite prevalent in African economies.

If we continue to play the party song and nod our heads to anything that rambles out of these humans' mouths, we will sink deeper into trouble. They have fooled us into believing that they are the solution, and that no one else has the ability to change things for the better, and that's some animal farm shite right there.