“The tail end of 2014 brought more suffering, more job losses, more deterioration in services across the board coupled with heightened corruption and record low response from Mugabe and his top government chefs,” said the newly appointed MDC-T secretary for presidential affairs and Gweru MP Sessil Zvidzai in a recent interview.
“It is a black record of a government which for the first time in our recent history failed to honour its obligation to its civil service by failing to pay bonuses. This is a manifestation of an economy that is not stagnant but heavily retrogressing. The national budget was unnoticeable.
“All that tells you of a dire need for a miracle should things turn out better in 2015. There is no chance for better prospects for Zimbabweans in 2015 if the status quo is not acted upon by none other than Mugabe himself,” said Zvidzai.
He added that there was urgent need to halt bad governance practises like expatriation of natural resources, investment in foreign lands by corrupt top chefs and externalisation of free funds. Ultimately, we should go for fresh elections in order to rectify the legitimacy crisis of the last polls so that the country re-joins the international community of nations.
Last year efforts by Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa to resolve the country’s relations with multilateral financial institutions like the IMF and World Bank in order to realise a flow of lines of credits to boost the economy did not succeed due to the country’s bad image abroad caused by human rights abuses of the Mugabe regime.
According to ZCTU’s secretary-general Japhet Moyo, records from the Retrenchment Board show that last year the country lost 9,617 jobs with more than 70 companies closing down, thereby worsening the economic situation of the ordinary people.
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