The disagreements over cabinet posts and the subsequent delays in the commencement of a new government have seen the nation’s economy fall into further abyss.
Far from the economic decline, the impasse is delaying the healing process for the traumatized rural communities that suffered from the violence during the run up to the elections.
As a union that represents the interests of the most mariganlised group, the farm workers and rural communities , we are therefore calling on the two political parties to quickly resolve whatever differences they have and start working together for national development.
Farm and rural communities are at the receiving end of the situation as they are struggling to see through the days as food shortages worsen.
Currently farm workers are earning a paltry $800 a month, an amount not enough to buy a loaf of bread and this positions them as the least paid workers in the country.
Far from delaying economic recovery, the political impasse is hindering preparations for the coming rain season and this may mean yet anothe failed season.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) about ” 2.04 million people in rural and urban areas will be food insecure between July and September 2008, rising to 3.8 million people between October and peaking to about 5.1 million at the height of the hungry season between January and March 2009. The food insecure population will require food assistance amounting to some 395 000 tonnes of cereals in 2008/09″
This automatically means that the majority of Zimbabweans are in dire need of food aid and any efforts to bail them out are currently being scuttled by the impasse in the creation of the cabinet.
Tapiwa Zivira
GAPWUZ information officer
+263 912 856 119
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