Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai to Damage Country
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The Herald (Harare)
OPINION
26 March 2008
Posted to the web 26 March 2008
George Shire
Harare
Welcome to Mog Tsvangson the charlatan and the movement to damage the country and its people.
He is a neo-conservative and so are his flock and their diehard neo-Rhodesians. No one should buy their hype about their origins.
They defected to the right of the political spectrum a long time ago. They have joined hands with the Democratic Alliance in South Africa and make no mistake; together they pose a serious danger to Zimbabwe and the Sadc region. Morgan is also joined by a motley crew of method academics who have not got the faintest idea of what the role of a public intellectual is all about.
These are people who have suffered a crisis of political imagination and have given up their responsibility to think through the problem of how to negotiate a future outside of capitalism. That is because they have been doing very well in the last 20 years. They are quite comfortable with political systems that support wealth and imperialism. They want every Zimbabwean to become an atomised customer.
One of my friends caught up with Morgan on his walkabouts in Highfield. He tells people he is going to set up a truth and reconciliation committee of some sort when he gets into State House, and with the help of his friends in the West he is going to bring jobs to people, he is going to sack all in the army, the judiciary, the police, the diplomatic corps, and the banks, he is going to privatise the country's media institutions, and we can reasonably assume he is going to lock up everybody who disagrees with him. He is going to do an audit of the land distribution.
What he really means is that he will seek to go back to the pattern of land ownership as it existed in 1997. He will scrap the Economic Indigenisation Bill. We know that already because MDC members in Parliament voted against it.
He will not work with Sadc to see the turnaround of Zimbabwe's economy. Instead he tells us that he has been promised US$10 billion by the West to rescue Zimbabwe. Someone should remind him that such wild promises were made to Zimbabwe at Lancaster House and they came to nothing.
The MDC has been in control of all the major metropolitan centres of Zimbabwe for the last decade and they have failed to attract a single investor into these cities. They have been the undisputed cheerleaders of ZEDERA and the so-called EU smart sanctions. Morgan is in love with neo-liberalism.
He is hooked on "supply side economics", "monetarism", "new classical economics" and "structural adjustment". He wants every Zimbabwean to worship the market and the subordination of all other economic actors to its demand, including government and individuals.
He will do that through privatisation, reduced social expenditure, reversal of the land distribution programme, higher profits, free capital mobility, and the commodification of everything. We know this from reading the works of their economic guru, Eddie Cross.
If by some fluke the MDC gets into power, they will ensure that those people who do not have enough money to buy food will end up paying more for drinking water.
Morgan and the MDC will guarantee an absolutely exploitative economy as the basis of living becomes a source of capital accumulation and corporate growth.
Everything will be privatised: seeds, medicinal plants, drinking water, the country's rivers, land, you name it, and they will put everything up for sale. With the MDC in power the government and the political processes of the country will be hijacked by the corporate world. The corporations that have been funding the MDC and their independent offspring will be able to influence the entire voting patterns of the Zimbabwean Parliament. In their hands, the state will no longer be accountable to the people.
It will only serve the interests of the corporations. Morgan Tsvangirai talks about having a small, lean, and mean government. What every Zimbabwean knows is that he and his close associates have been made very, very fat from corporate interests. To create the protection of corporations, the government will actually grow bigger than before.
It will only grow thin as a protector of people. His only yardstick and measure will be freeing up capital and commerce from any limits. We know this to be true because that is what the shorthand in their manifesto and policy documents is all about. Morgan is a charlatan and his lot are a movement to damage the country.
Morgan Tsvangirai and the MDC are responsible for the negative perceptions about Zimbabwe in the West. All the policies that have been pursued by the West were born in Harvest House and through Morgan. Those negative perceptions have made it difficult for private and public companies to secure funding. ZEDERA and the so called targeted sanctions have created a socio-economic environment in Zimbabwe where NGOs and other agencies have relocated to other countries.
Relevant Links
The African Development Bank stopped supporting Zimbabwe by way of balance of payment support in 1998. The IMF followed in 1999, and the World Bank did the same in 2001. The suspension of balance of payment support, the suspension of technical assistance to Zimbabwe, the suspension of Zimbabwe's voting and related rights by the IMF and its declaration that Zimbabwe is ineligible to access fund resources had the explicit support of Morgan and the MDC.
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Apologies! I've suddenly realised that this rubbish DID come from The Herald. So then I must pose a new question George. Do you actually believe in the words you write?
rhodies shut up! Your lot just don't get the message do you? Zimbabwe doesn't need you low life racist who are trying to use the M.D.C to get back into power. Mugabe will go down in history as a champion. Your Bushe's,Blair's,Howard's and Brown's simply cannot match his intelligence. Why can't rhoddie's just get over it! You had many years of opressing black and coloured peoples and you damaged every country you've been to. Just go, Zimbabwe will be just fine without you - and take your black puppets with you.
Shame that you and others are using the West's sins of the past to somehow justify the continuation of a regime that is as or more oppressive today. White tyranny replaced by black tyranny doesn't make things better. Zimbabweans today want to be freed from Mugabe and friends as much as they wanted to be freed from Rhodes and company. Why can't you realize that?
kubatana6, you just keep digging your hole deeper don't you. Everything to you seems to come back to race. Hahaha each time i read your comments now i sit back and laugh and you keep saying for people to just get over it. Well here is one for you. Mugabe lost, your racist talks wont get you anywhere anymore and he will only go down as a champion in the eyes of Hitler and cronies like yourself. Now i think it is time for you to get over it.
Who said he lost? that's putting the cart before the horse. The game is not over and if he does lose it's a loss for black people the world over. Blacks need to even the score,even in your country boy! You enjoyed a wonderful life while the Abo's suffered and still do today.
Why do they not release the results then if he didn't lose? because he will more than likely worm his way out of it by rigging, cheating or by any other means. "Blacks need to even the score" what sort of a comment is that? you really are a racist pig. You say i have lived a wonderful life hey. Have you noticed how i comment to you on the things you say ie Your racist rants. yet you seem to comment to me as if you know me. I have lived with and have many Aboriginal friends and let… [Read Full Text]
you sound like your great leader that is an inspiration to the World and Zimbabweians or are you RM in disguise.
You are an intellegent fool george remain in your blind world.
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How much did you get paid to write this rubbish George? I suggest you take your article to The Herald - you may receive a better audience there from the simple-minded people who still read it. The same simple-minded people who think that the current economic crisis is somehow to blame on everyone else except the actual people responsible for managing the economy and governing the country. The same simple-minded people who still think that their leader of old who lavishes in extreme luxury, material wealth and extravagant holidays and shopping trips (disguised as official Zimbabwe business) still actually cares… [Read Full Text]