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President Emmerson Mnangagwa, My Two Cents Advice!!!

Tinashe Muzamhindo

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In 2017, during your swearing in ceremony at the gigantic national sports stadium, you were very clear that you are a listening President, and you pledged loyalty to people.

Fortunately, I was few metres away from you, and I managed to take all the notes, and last night, I was going through your speech, and I was making some few comparisons with your 2018 speech, to find out what went wrong, and what happened?

One thing for sure, you need to understand that there is normal life after Presidency, and all those around you who are breeding corruption will jump the ship, and this will complicate your legacy.

Issues to address:

1. Criminals have regrouped and you are in a fix

2. Breeding corruption

3. Legacy issues at stake

4. No clear policy direction of the country

5. You are not felt on the ground

6. Light – weight Presidency

7. Political acumen-ship is lacking

8. Government has become the breeding ground for corruption

9. Human Rights obligations

10. Heads must roll at cabinet level

We need a proper business model to run this country.

I attended few budget meetings, and I had the privilege to listen to Muthuli Ncube, the current Minister of Finance, Governor of Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Dr Mangudya, and other top bankers and below is my advisory in a nutshell:

1. Instead of launching museums and other monuments, focus on the growth of the industry

2. Lack of priorities. Priority of the Government should be increase of productivity, not museums or monuments.

3. Tax thresholds must be reviewed, since 90% of the population belongs to informal sector.

4. Redirect expenditure to the mainstream or critical sectors of the economy such as Agriculture, Infrastructure development, mining, tourism and industry

5. Increase on exports is important and critical for our country

6. Our country must not survive on handouts, but you must empower citizens. Why should we depend on handouts, yet we have gold reserves, second largest platinum producer in the world, alluvial diamonds, chrome and other minerals, we must utilize all the resources we have using proper economic framework to address all the fundamentals

7. We have a bloated system, huge financial expenditure on us because of bloated senate, Parliament and cabinet. Reduce the size of the cabinet to 13/15 Ministers

8. Remove Deputy Ministers, and then Permanent Secretaries will be responsible for administration roles in assisting cabinet Ministers

9. We need a clear policy direction of the country.

10. You need first-hand information from the ground, regular updates and the way the Government is behaving clears shows that they are out of touch with reality on the ground

11. Lack of priorities is affecting institutional capacity to deliver key results. Why would Government spend over 2 million USD on Mbuya Nehanda structure, when we have only two hospitals in Harare with no drugs, no ventilators, and dialysis machines are literally down?

12. Definition of economy is production and exporting.

13. We should be setting up refinery systems in the production sector, establishing car assemblies, and we are doing opposite.

14. Honestly, how does an individual own two banks in Zimbabwe? CBZ and ZB are gone.

15. I have a fear that RBZ will be undermined, and possibly those who are moving in to purchase banks will undermine the role of the central bank or render it dysfunctional.

16. Reduce the size of foreign missions. We have huge expenditure on foreign missions. Let’s major on those which are strategic to our country

17. Your Presidency has not been felt on the ground. There is little impact on your leadership.

18. Economic deals must be reviewed. Belarus deals have done much damage to our economy, within a short space of time, most of these Zupco buses poses a danger to our society, and we are losing many lives

19. We need a proper economic recovery framework which is mainly targeted on

(a) Increase on productivity

(b) Private and public partnerships for rapid, Inclusive and Sustainable Development

(c) Clear Policy direction

(d) Redirection of expenditure to the mainstream economy

(e) Short term plans

20. Address Human Rights obligations. Political prisoners must be released.

21. Dialogue is key to development. You need to bring all political players on the table.

22. Clear foreign policy

23. Foreign exchange auction policy must be backed by increase in production and proper balance of exports. We need to take advantage of the rainy season to boost the Agriculture sector through increase of exports and manage our reserves

24. Separate politics and development

25. You need dry hands on addressing corruption.

26. You need a proper business model to run this country.

27. There is too much guess work on what exactly is happening, yet you are the one on the driving seat

28. Public sector must be reformed

29. Economy should be liberalized. Role of private sector is critical for Economic development

30. There is monopoly on critical sectors of economy. If an individual can control banking sector, agriculture, transport, roads, mining, etc then what is left for Zimbabweans?

Last but not least, WHEN IS THE NEXT RESHUFFLE?

Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo is the Head of Zimbabwe Institute of Strategic Thinking – ZIST, he can be contacted at [email protected]

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