My Dear People
If there was still any need for proof that the post-coup regime is bereft of ideas to get us out of the economic problems they created in the first place, Mthuli Ncube delivered it in some spectacular fashion.
Ncube’s budget delivered on November 28 was dog’s breakfast. It showed that Ngwena and his cabal have nothing to offer this country beyond their tribal and toxic politics.
They believe that the only way to increase government revenues is to tax punters and businesses selling chips and burgers.
Ncube proposed a new raft of tax measures that included taxing betting winnings and fast foods.
He also wants the government to squeeze the informal sector by targeting everyone from clothing boutiques to car dealers.
Boutiques, spare parts dealers, car dealers, grocers, hardware shops and lodges will be forced to register with the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority and transact through point-of-sale machines.
Ncube’s budget had zero economic stimulus or any new idea that will breathe life into the comatose economy.
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After killing businesses that employed the masses of our people, they want to now follow everyone who is trying to eke out a living in the informal sector with their taxes.
The power cut that happened during the budget presentation, which forced Ngwena to leave Parliament prematurely, was a graphic illustration of the calibre of this administration.
Its lights out, literally.
In fact I loved how Tendai Biti described the budget. Biti said the “budget correctly bluetooths everything cataleptic about the Mnangagwa regime: incompetent, ideologically vacuous, corrupt, insensitive, vicious and toxic.”
Munopengaaaaaa
It also emerged last week that Ngwena’s government is so broke it can’t even afford to pay its workers.
The Zimbabwe Teachers Association (Zimta), the country’s largest teachers’ union, last week said the government had failed to pay the local currency component of November’s salaries and bonuses to thousands of its members.
Zimta described the situation as “a breach of contractual obligations.” Such things never happened during Gushungo’s long 38 years in power.
Teachers in particular are being treated with contempt by this regime because they do not value education.
Their priority is to loot and to amass obscene wealth.
Those who danced on the streets with soldiers when they staged that cowardly coup in 2017 should be decent enough to apologise to some of us who warned that using tanks to remove Baba was the biggest mistake this country was making.
Munopengaaaaaa
The announcement by Choppies that it is planning to cease its operations in Zimbabwe is evidence that this regime has failed.
Choppies cited, among other reasons, competition from the informal sector. Unchecked smuggling, which is mainly driven by politically connected people, is killing Zimbabwe’s retail sector.
The decision by Choppies to exit Zimbabwe is a tip of the iceberg as other big brands might soon follow.
In August, British multinational Uniliver pulled out of Zimbabwe after 80 years in the country.
Some of the reasons that were used to justify the coup was that since Ngwena was allegedly business friendly he would be good for the economy.
What nonsense! The only businesses that we have seen thriving under his rule are those connected to his family and tribesmen.
Only the likes of Wicknell Chivayo seem to be thriving in this economy even though their source of wealth remains a mystery.
Meanwhile, Chivayo’s brother Joachim was arrested in South Africa last week for illegal possession of gold worth a staggering R15 million.
Joachim was arrested alongside 20-year-old Ayanda Brian Gungwa, who was described as a South African while looking for a buyer in Johannesburg.
There are online videos posted by Chivayo where the two are seen driving together around Johannesburg. The source of the gold is yet to be disclosed, but your guess is good as mine.
That investigation by Al Jazeera called Gold Mafia opened our eyes and one day these criminals will be made to account.
Stop it!
The campaign to impose Ngwena on us beyond 2028 when his term comes to an end continues unabated.
In Masvingo where Ngwena is originally from, the campaign has assumed a dangerous tribal outlook.
There is a senior Zanu PF official who was recorded saying the only reason they were supported Ngwena, who is Karanga, was because it was too soon to return power to the Zezurus.
I wonder if this is still the legacy that the Generari and his friends told us they were restoring.
Is it not shameful that in this day and age people are still thinking of protecting tribal fiefdoms in this global village?
The good thing is that Zimbabweans are seeing for themselves the monster they thrust into the throne despite repeated warnings by Gushungo. You haven't seen nothing yet!
Munopengaaaaaaaaaa
Stop It!
Dr Amai Stop it! PhD (Fake)
