BY the time the so-called ‘independent’ press went into overdrive over secret talks to establish another Government of National Unity 2 (GNU2), pressure had already been ratcheted by supposed ‘surveys’ intent on portraying the ZANU PF Government as the epitome of failure.
We are in the season of agenda setting where new strategies to launch unprecedented assaults on President Robert Mugabe and his ZANU PF are in the offing.
What baffles the mind though is how some in our midst, those who pretend to be blessed with the gift of wit would plant these fictitious GNU2 secret talks to pursue their not so-hidden agendas.
These are indeed exciting times where wishful thinking is not uncommon, times where those wont on peddling falsehoods end up consumed by the very lies and mischief they manufacture.
When the time comes, which should, they surely will be exposed.
First to lay the ground on this superfluous plan was the Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI) which claimed that Zimbabweans ‘missed’ the Inclusive Government.
Curiously, the report which carried the survey results coincided with the grand arrival of Nigerian multi-billionaire Aliko Dangote who came to Zimbabwe to start processes for investments of not less than US$1 billion.
“The survey was conducted in September last year but its findings have just been released, coinciding, with the economic troubles which have raised fears of unrest,” reads part of a report by a local daily.
What is as certain as the sun rising from the East is that no unrest will happen in Zimbabwe that is on an unstoppable trail of economic redemption.
Zimbabwe is a nation on the rise, it is a country emerging and reclaiming its position at the apex of global political economic affairs.
Early this week the Chinese Government sent a state insurance company representative to put closure to the mega deals agreement signed last year between the two countries.
President Mugabe signed a Memorandum of Understanding with SINOSURE on August 25 2014 during a State Visit to China.
Wang Yi, Chairperson of the insurance company, the China Export and Credit Insurance Corporation (SINOSURE) is on a five-day visit to Zimbabwe.
“In the meeting, Government acknowledged previous SINOSURE insurance cover for the Ziscosteel facility, agricultural equipment and machinery, supply of medical equipment and supplies and rehabilitation and development of municipal water and sewage treatment works,” Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chimamasa said in statement.
SINOSURE is a state-owned insurance company that is mandated to provide insurance cover for Chinese exports and credit facilities offered to overseas clients by Chinese institutions.
Minister Chinamasa said the visit by the Chinese executive was a sign that the two countries were committed to fast track the funding process.
“We took note of SINOSURE’s expressed desire to deepen cooperation by way of providing a comprehensive insurance cover, at a time when Government is making notable progress with regards to initiatives that support funding of Zim-ASSET priority projects towards development of energy, agriculture, infrastructure development, mineral exploration, and value addition and beneficiation.”
The malicious attempts to gloss over the enthralling fact that Zimbabwe is set for bigger things will without doubt come to naught as pretences of a GNU2 have crumbled.
“Almost half of adult Zimbabweans felt the country was going in the wrong direction. Zimbabweans had a gloomy assessment of their present personal and country economic conditions,” the MPOI report claimed.
“Forty-two percent believed the country was in a much worse economic situation than was being experienced during the Inclusive Government in which President Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai shared power following the signing of the Global Political Agreement.”
A fortnight ago, a local ‘think-tank’, Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI) leapt to the surveys reports arena with its own version of fiction which claimed Zimbabweans did not trust the Government.
In its research paper on the Post-2013 Election Governance Environment in Zimbabwe, ZDI claimed that ours is a high risk economy because of the alleged ‘trust’ issues.
“People do not trust the Government. The Government does not trust the people. The private sector does not trust the Government. When levels of trust plummet, a low trust economy is a high-risk economy,” the report said.
Then there was the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC), themselves part of the authors of the country’s economic problems saying Harare will not find economic solutions because of the perceived political problems afflicting it.
What immediately occupies the mind is that the said problems will only be solved if there is a pact of some sort.
But what will never happen is another marriage of inconvenience between ZANU PF and MDC-T because of the gulf in ideological orientation between the two parties.
“We restate that in the current global wave of democratisation in Southern Africa, without a functioning constitutional democracy, sustainable economic development is not feasible,” the report said.
When all is said and done, there will never be another GNU in Zimbabwe because it is just that, wishful thinking.
Despite these futile attempts to push for another GNU, the biggest game in town is ZANU PF and its economic revival programmes.
We hope someone is looking closely at the new wave emerging from Asia heading towards Harare.
Let those with ears listen.