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Response to “‘Sanctions won’t stop
re-engagement’” The simplest method of re-engagement is implementation of reforms. When you create a conducive environment for businesses to operate, investors will come on their own will and the international community will react positively. A case in point is Ethiopia. — @DonMajukwa.
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fuel shortages” Despite the recent proposal to ban the use of jerry-cans, they continue to find their way to service stations, and it is even easier to refuel using a jerrycan than to spend the whole day in the queue. — @martinmuwengwa.
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Responses to “We shall overcome, says Acting President” With Your Excellency we shall overcome our challenges. We have faith in our new dispensation. — Tafara. *** Let us not give up, for God hears and answers the cries of his people. I couldn’t have said it better myself. — Clement Rera.
*** We must at all times have hope as a nation, if sanctions are removed and if we stop corruption our economy will improve. — Mandaza Farai.
*** Response to “Forex woes hit drug
procurement” The National AIDS Council and every other pharmaceutical companies should get first preference to foreign currency issuance or else there will be a crisis in the country. HIV drugs are important and so are TB drugs, so they have to be readily available at all times. — Outspoken Zimbo.
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Response to “Teachers want pay
adjusted” Zimbabwe workers are now making it a habit to hold the Government hostage because our country is going through a difficult patch. First, it was the doctors, now teachers are demanding to be paid in foreign currency as well. There is no need to take advantage of your profession and hold the country hostage, because at the end of the day every job and worker is important, even the ones that seem like they don’t matter. We should all be striving to develop our country and make a Zimbabwe that we all want, but people are busy focusing their energies making unrealistic demands. — Karugonjo. www.herald.co.zw Response to “Teachers want pay
adjusted” Teachers should be the people to educate us on the effects of austerity measures and they should understand the situation the country is in as far as the economy and availability of foreign currency better than anyone else. No civil servant in this country is being paid in foreign currency for the simple reason that there is none for salaries.
We are struggling to stock drugs in our hospitals and clinics because of foreign currency shortages. We cannot retool our industries. We cannot purchase the bare essentials in this country because we do not have sufficient foreign currency available. Yet you find teachers making such demands.
This is either typical mischief from our teachers or, just like businesses, they are on a regime change agenda. By “expecting” Government to “address” this issue of getting their salaries in foreign currency, teachers are setting the stage for strike action. Like doctors, who believe people should die if they are not seeing US dollars in their accounts, teachers are also saying dollars are more important than the education of our children, including their own (the irony of Zimbabwean mentality). Everyone is suffering under austerity. We just have to soldier on until we get it right. It is not going to be easy, but we will get it right. The likes of China, Malaysia and Singapore took decades to be where they are today. — Masaisai.
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