Press Release.
Considering the challenges that our nation is facing, the press conference by the President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa last night, showed the world how our current government is detached from reality on the ground. To put it more politely and accurately, the economic quagmire we are in as a nation demands that all key pillars of the state are expected to be on high
alert responding positively to the issues affecting the people who happen to be the electorate.
The Government of Zimbabwe by resorting to astronomic fuel price hikes instead of addressing the currency distortions they created by the surrogate Bond’s supposed parity with the US Dollar,
has literally declared war against the working class and the poor who constitute the majority citizens of Zimbabwe. The Mnangagwa regime has unashamedly exposed it’s double standards towards the poor; it would rather cushion and enrich the fuel cartel at the expense of the masses.
We expect the government to play its primary role of protecting the people of Zimbabwe from capitalists rather than enriching the Queen Bees of this land. The MDC-T implores the government
to do the right thing and bite the bullet for the benefit of the country and sustainable human development.
As MDC-T, we have long called for a responsible policy response to the ever deteriorating state of socio-economic conditions and inevitably political instability in Zimbabwe. Alas, the elected leadership slaps the poor on their faces! Do they expect the long suffering Zimbabweans to give
them another cheek?
This past week, the government failed to give civil servants a living wage but it has the audacity to say “by midnight fuel pump prices go up by more than 100 percent” yet it can’t pay it’s workers
even 20 percent more. No one in his/her right senses, more so, Zimbabweans with 2008 hyperinflation experience, will believe the lie that fuel price hikes won’t affect other prices as ripple effect. Actually it’s insulting to ordinary people’s basic intelligence. In any event, basic commodities have long been beyond the reach of many households, both rural and urban. Only
the few rich and those politically connected will access basic commodities and services. In essence, the new unreasonable fuel prices do not relieve tax payers from subsidizing the corrupt
fuel mandarins who shall continue siphoning USDollar from the central bank and making a killing from the parallel fuel and currency market. That’s where Zimbabwe’s second tragedy is. Of course,
the first being having rulers who blatantly falsify common sense reality like Bond and USDollar parity.
FROM THE OFFICE of the
SECRETARY FOR INFORMATION &
PUBLICITY
103 Robert Mugabe Way, Bulawayo
Cell: +263-772118783/+263-719118783
info@mdc.org.zw
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