"No sane Zimbabwean is against indigenisation" says Musewe - on the contrary only insane support it! by P Guramatunhu

“The monumental lie which has been sold to all and sundry by ZANU (PF) is that we are facing an economic meltdown because of sanctions. This blame game has gone on for far too long that it has completely disempowered us to come up with our own solutions but instead we are looking elsewhere for solutions,” wrote Vince Musewe.

 

The lack of a vibrant free media and freedom of expression have allowed Zanu PF to lie and get away with the lies. One of the 2008 GPA democratic reforms was geared at reforming our media to end Zanu PF control of the vital pillar of a healthy democracy.

“We must create a new paradigm that says that Zimbabwe can indeed be a self-reliant economy with food security as it used to be,” you said. You can say this million times but this will never happen not whilst a tyrannical regime like Zanu PF is in power.

“There is no sane black Zimbabwean who is against indigenisation but this process must be clear and transparent to avoid political interference or discretion. In fact most successful economies such as Germany, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and others, are driven by small enterprises. In Zimbabwe we have thousands and thousands of 100% indigenous owned small enterprises and all we need is to rather focus on attracting capital for these companies which will create not only jobs but more economic value for our country,” you continued.

 

 

Any company, local or foreign, will pay tax, levies, etc. to the government or local authority just as they would do in any other country in the world. What Zanu PF is proposing is an additional charge payable to an individual(s) in the form of shares; that is bull! No investor in their right mind would ever want to find themselves joked to some good-for-nothing individual especially if blood sucking parasite has controlling shares too!

 

There only occasion when any new investor would still want to invest is in extremely profitable ventures like the mining of diamonds in Marange. The investor spends very little of their own money and racks in huge profits, in this case, shared exclusively with their ruling elite partner(s) without paying a single dollar to central government or local authority.

 

Zimbabweans have seen individuals, poor as a church mouse some of them, vana mupurwa, walk and take ownership of a viable farming business worth hundreds of thousands of dollars some worth even millions during the njambanja seizure of white owned farms. Many people now believed that they too can become filthy rich, literally overnight; since there are no more white owned farms to be seized Zanu PF is offering these people 51% shares of foreign owned businesses.

 

People who still believe in Zanu PF’s indigenisation policies are naïve and gullible, the laws were passed in 2008 and they are still expecting posse of foreign investors queuing for a chance to be ripped off. Even if the shares were available most of these do not have a single dollar to buy them with!  

 

Trust me, there are NO SANE black Zimbabwean who still believe in Zanu PF’s indigenisation policies because they are unworkable and dumb.

 

How many of the countries you named above are totalitarian dictatorships?

 

We should focus on getting all the 2008 GPA reforms implemented and the economic reforms will follow. There is absolutely nothing of value that can ever be accomplished until we implement all the 2008 GPA reforms!