The ruling party’s election manifesto promised to create over 2 million jobs in the next five years, allegedly as part of an economic growth initiative based on the economic empowerment and indigenization drive. But the party’s secretary for Youth Affairs, Absolom Sikhosana, disclosed Tuesday that government will not be able to create the jobs promised in its manifesto, once again using the targeted sanctions as the excuse.
‘We are going to create jobs . . . but if you followed our strategy in our manifesto, you have got to accept we will not be able to create as many jobs as we would have loved to due to the imperialists’ continuing with their sanctions regime,’ Sikhosana said.
Reacting to this, Gutu, a former deputy Minister of Justice in the inclusive government, said they expected this to happen as they knew that Zanu (PF) did not have the capacity to deliver on its electoral promises.
He said the manifesto on job creation had glaring pigeon holes if you examined the performance of the economy. He said of the 74 companies listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange only ‘ten are in good shape.’
‘Sixty-four other companies are in the intensive care unit. So how do you create employment under these circumstances? I think they were also hoping to rig the economy as they did with the elections…you cannot do that, you simply need to run it like a good business to make profit,’ explained Gutu.
The MDC-T spokesman for Harare province said the truth is that, ‘chickens are coming home to roost’ as the Zanu (PF) manifesto contains nothing but a pack of lies.
‘It’s unfortunate that Zimbabweans were sold a dummy by Zanu (PF) and are suffering as a result. Zanu (PF) certainly has no capacity to deliver on its promises,’ he said. In the last two decades Zanu (PF)’s track record had been ‘full of failures and broken promises.’
Gutu said the party’s admission that it could not implement the manifest spoke loud and clear about ‘deceit with the common man.’
‘Since they came into power, this economy has taken a knock and is in bad shape. They promised the Zimbabwean people a lot in their election campaigns. They promised to change or improve a lot of things in a very short time. As such, more admissions of failure to deliver will come soon,’ Gutu added.
The government has also failed to fulfill promises it pledged during the campaign period, like raising salaries for civil servants and supplying farmers with inputs. – SW Radio Africa
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Obert Gutu….a DEADWOOD…in your tenure in government,what did you do my dear brother??… your comment is just a farce….you will never make a come back to government except you joining ZANU-PF Team… stop commenting silly things you stooge………
@Silungisani ndhlovu, are you somewhat lost? Gutu is merely commenting on what he thinks, can you prove him wrong by telling him what he doesnt know that is happening now instead of calling him names, it may not change him or his way of thinking.
Shepard Dube…carry-on sheparding these stooges and failers….what did they do during their time in office??? nothing.. explain to the world you SHEPARD DUBE ,your comment has no weight…MDC-T stooges have been tasted in GNU and failed…so what then?…. dump them
By admitting that people were sold a lie, Gutu is inadvertently admitting that Zanu PF won the election. Hence there was no rigging but maybe winning through misrepresentation on Zanu PF’s part. So lets hear no more of the rigging song. Zanu PF won fair and square. If people of Zimbabwe were foolish enough that all the promises were to be fulfilled within the two months that we have gone through since Zanu PF’s watershed win, I am sorry but that would be naive. Zanu PF won the election because Zimbabweans refused to sell their country for a dollar. To be rude, the people have refused to prostitute themselves. The MDC especially the the T one is made up of dollar worshipping male and female prostitutes. They love money than they love themselves let alone our great Zimbawe! Shame, shame, shame as the president would say.