Welcome News and
Bravo to Zimbabwe Government Reengagement
efforts but hang on the devil is
in the detail , as the old adage goes !
So while an Executive Order by Joe Biden screams the
Removal of Sanctions the finer details
and concurrent action from other Departments
keeps the import of restrictions on trade with Zimbabwe in place
Zimbabwean legislation pronounced in the Constitution and
its various Acts has all key resources " vested " in the President
who remains together with his Vice President and with new additions of family and close associates on personal targeted Sanctions . Zimbabwe is not America where you
can separate the State from these powerful individuals and their decisions .
They are conflated , and if the USA hopes to leverage its new pronouncements on
No Sanctions on the State but individuals to further its own Resources , Supply
Chain , Trade & Investment interests then it is in for a rude shock.
Nothing has happened as far as the
@ZANUPF_Official
Government is
concerned as long as its leadership remains under Sanctions .
Going further into this debate , on what could be
influencing softening of relations , USA does not want to lose influence on the
State to Russia, China and other
satellites like Belarus whose friendship with Zimbabwe has not been a secret
and whose reciprocal visits may actually have put the First Lady under
spotlight . In the Global Supply Chain war , the USA is very actively
reexamining its options and hoping to keep some influential and well resourced
countries under its orbit , the only oversight being the fact that African
Presidents outlive American Presidents
in office . Mugabe was in office for 37 years and saw the back of many
American Presidents , so did Fidel Castro of Cuba . President Mnangagwa has his
sight on 2030 and beyond and will hold the US to account no doubt as
long as he is in office, his successor too if it becomes his VP also sanctioned
. So what's the point of announcing something that is not implementable ? Its all Public Relations by Biden to say we have removed Sanctions when infact
its just recasting the status quo . Perhaps tired of the annual noise from
@SADC_News & @_AfricanUnion on Zimbabwe
Anti Sanctions day and the well lobbied @UN General Assembly addresses by Heads of State
pointing at the iniquity of Sanctions , @POTUS decided to give something while retaining the
sting which is the targeted Sanctions.
Recently we have
been reading news reports of sponsorship of South Africa in the USA Congress for Sanctions over its
Foreign Policy positions deemed to be threatening their interests
as in the ICJ case and Russia Ukraine war . Can USA afford to have both
RSA and Zimbabwe in one corner , so could this review be partly influenced by
future actions in the Region .
But perhaps it is the backfooting of Human Rights issues
& the Democratic agenda and attendant Reforms previously high on the laundry list of US
State Department inorder to normalise relations with Zimbabwe which has been
the biggest casualty of this revocation
of the 2003 Executive Order renewed many times in subsequent years .
Coincidentally the agenda of Opposition Parties in Zimbabwe too, it means a
setback for this constituency and
leadership and certainly loss of influence in Washington. I pointed out a week ago in my post on the
power of the Deep State this diplomacy
deficit and the shift by the international community on better dealing with the
devil they know than plunge into the unknown ,
recent uninspiring events and decisions of the Opposition ranks and its fragmentation having been the
final nail on the coffin. New politics is required going forward . He was
writing on X
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