PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday read the riot act on businesses that are working behind the scenes with a vested foreign country to hike prices so as to make the people suffer and turn against the Zanu PF led Government especially as the country heads for the harmonised elections.
This follows a spate of often inexplicable price increases
that have been witnessed in the past few weeks, increases that often defy
market and economic logic as they are benchmarked on the parallel market and
have squeezed the consumer hard.
The President said his patience is running thin with the
business community that is seemingly working in cohorts with the country’s
detractors to effect regime change in Zimbabwe as they covetously eye the
country’s rich mineral resources which they can get through puppets in the form
of opposition parties.
Speaking to thousands of first time voters at a rally that
was organised by Young Women for ED in the city of Masvingo yesterday, the
President said his Government will not brook any more nonsense from businesses
that are in the habit of increasing prices.
“We are aware of those bent on causing havoc in our country
by attacking our currency, they will never succeed, they want our minerals,
vanoda kuti imi mukatsamwa voisa zvimbwasungata zvavo, vouya vachimora, imi
miromo yenyu yakangochena nenzara, PASI NAVO. We will remain united as a
people.
“This wanton increase of prices and manipulation of the
foreign exchange rate must stop. This morning when I met the (Reserve Bank of
Zimbabwe) Governor (Dr John Mangudya) and the Minister of Finance (Prof Mthuli
Ncube), I gave them instructions that we shall not tolerate this nonsense.
Those who are going to be found wanting and commit crimes against measures we
have put in place, we shall have their trading licences withdrawn, because
these people doing these heinous acts to cause suffering on our people, I now
warn them, warn them three times. Understanding that dialogue, tolerance, love,
respect friendship must remain key traits among our people, this the DNA of
Zanu PF,” said the President.
Thus, the 2023 elections, the President added, offers
Zimbabweans a platform to rejects puppets who are denigrating the country and
invited sanctions that have caused suffering on the people.
Over 100 affiliates of the party attended the rally—which
was a demonstration of the ruling party mobilising power ahead of the August
elections and which also shows how the party rejuvenates and renews itself
through drafting the young people and merging them with the old.
The President told the young people, most of whom who
received their national identity documents free of charge, that the country
erstwhile detractors cannot now come and preach ideals of democracy and
majority rule which Zanu PF paid for through blood resulting in the rule of the
people that Zimbabwe enjoys today.
“We in Zanu PF are building this country while some
opposition parties supported by their Western handlers are causing suffering to
our people through sanctions and the attack on our currency. These detractors
and their surrogates have never had the people of Zimbabwe at heart, our mass
revolutionary party is the only party with a vision for the future,” said the
President.
Since 2018, the President has implemented various projects
that speak to every demographic group in the country—as he implements development
that leaves no one and no place behind.
For the youth, who came up in their numbers, the President
has created jobs, set up innovation and industrial hubs to create employers
among the young, availed scholarships for the economically disadvantaged and
also provided a host of life transforming projects.
Such leadership has attracted young people to the party
with this on display during the recently held party primary elections where the
youth won in wards and constituencies with more seats guaranteed for them
through the quota system.
“You the youth of today must stand up and play your role
towards the realisation of Vision 2030, and the Zimbabwe we all want. To be
able to do so. It is important that we appreciate our past and rich history. We
are no ordinary people. We are a brave and resilient people, we fought and
overcame imperialism, nothing can stand in our way as long as we are united and
focused, we will achieve our goals,” the President said.
He said because of the land reform programme, some Western
countries imposed economic sanctions on Zimbabwe to make the people suffer.
“These ruinous sanctions are still a shackle to our
development and have been upon us for 23 years now. We have been on our own
with no lines of credit from any nation in the world. Other than that, we
ourselves focus on the resources that we got from God,” said the President.
Most of the first time voters were born under sanctions and
have lived all their lives under the baneful economic embargoes but the
President said through “Nyika inovakwa nevene vayo” Zimbabwe will be developed
using its rich minerals, water sources and fertile soils.
The President said the unilateral economic sanctions are a
violation of economic and social rights and the youth should stand up on August
23 to vote for their rights and the rejection of the Western countries and
their hegemonic practices including cultural imperialism.
He added that while during the brutal 16 years of fighting
for independence some people lost lives and limbs to achieve majority rule. The
youth of today must defend the country’s independence through voting for Zanu
PF.
The President was accompanied by his Zanu PF Second
Secretary Cde Kembo Mohadi, Zanu PF Politburo members among others.
In her speech, Young Women for ED leader Cde Tendai
Mavetera said Zanu PF has embraced everyone hence the multitudes who were in
attendance yesterday.
“As affiliates we would like to thank you because you
embraced us. We have so many young women, who are joining politics because of
you. So many young people want to join the party because you have opened the
door for them. First time voters who are here will vote for you because you are
a leader who delivers,” said Cde Mavetera.
Giving a testimony, a nurse aid thanked the President and
First Lady Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa for bringing several projects to their
doorsteps.
“As a person living with a disability, I would like to
thank the President for giving us sewing machines, goats and other projects
that have transformed our lives. We will be saying ED pfee on August 23,” said
Vimbai.
The President was treated to a drama skit from the comical
Vharazipi who, in his satirical way outlined development projects that have
been carried by President Mnangagwa since the dawn of the Second Republic.
These include the empowerment of women, youth and
Infrastructural development projects in every part of the country that leave no
one and no place behind.
“Ini saSabhuku ndinoti ngatizivei kuti chakatanga ndicho
chakachejedza. We must work as a team but in a team we need a striker and our
striker is President Mnangagwa,” said Cde Vharazipi. Herald
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