Zanu PF has nothing new to offer

THE ruling Zanu PF party has dismally failed to maintain the status quo and has lost its credibility in implementing sound developmental policies and good governance in many sectors.

The party has been grappling with internal factional fights, the scourge of corruption, creating a pliant opposition and poor governance. It has clearly lost its marbles and has failed to stabilise the economy.

Surprisingly, the Zanu PF government is now talking about reviving the economy, forgetting that it has been in power for more than 40 years.

The so-called new republic, which was born out of the November 2017 coup is worse than the old republic and leaves a lot to be desired.

This year’s school calendar has already been plunged into another crisis after the outbreak of COVID-19, while headmasters have also joined teachers in an industrial action citing incapacitation.

Our economic policies are continually changed like diapers. There is lack of policy consistency.

There is always a hide and seek scenario concerning the issue of dollarisation, with Finance minister Mthuli Ncube blowing hot and cold.

Four decades of Zanu PF misrule have crippled the health sector, where medication is scarce, while the transport and education sectors, just to mention a few, have been brought to their knees.

There is no serious infrastructural development in major cities of the country, except a few colonial vestiges still giving off an aura of faded majesty.

Fuel prices continue to be pegged in Zimbabwe dollars, yet there is nowhere one can find fuel being sold in local currency.

The sector has since been dollarised.

Workers are heavily taxed without any breathing space. An economy is not grown by taxing the people, but by producing and increasing exports.

There is glaring and overwhelming evidence to show that Zanu PF has failed the nation through its empty promises.

Political gimmicks are the order of the day as the country gets into another season of political campaign, with residents being promised title deeds even though the structures were illegally built.

Giving them another five-year term will be disastrous as the leaders have no idea what to do to improve the economy and have nothing new to offer.

Leonard Koni