Bring currency dealers to book
THERE is no need for people to politicise everything introduced by Government or the ruling party. The recently launched ZiG currency came under attack even before it was officially introduced.
There is a bad political culture that some tend to negatively criticise everything done by the ruling party including trying to sabotage it.
How does the country grow with citizens who have turned into keyboard warriors?
If this currency fails, it does not fail for anyone or any political party; MDC, CCC, Blue, or ZANU but for all Zimbabweans.
There is no shop for CCC, Blue, or ZANU PF. We live in the same socio microeconomic environment and there is no need to politicise the currency launch.
A number of individuals and organisations want to gain political mileage from creating crisis situations.
The issue of conflict political entrepreneurship has become cancerous to some Zimbabweans.
Building political parties on creating crisis or leveraging on crisis situations is archaic and is nowhere good in any theory of political science.
People should not criticise developmental initiatives without considering the advantages. It is not surprising that if President Mnangagwa had decided to use the British pound as our currency, it was going to equally attract widespread criticism from some sectors.
Some sections of the society have become so petty that they do not celebrate our own initiatives just because it was done by the ZANU PF-led Government.
Zimbabwe can never be a full sovereign state without its currency.
Some politicians, especially from the opposition, criticise Government’s initiatives so they remain relevant to their constituencies, lest they be relegated to political oblivion forever.
Some politicians believe that in politics, one must not concur with good things done by the opponent lest he or she loses relevance and followers.
Some criticisms, hidden in social media gowns, speak loud and clear about one’s political inclination and the hidden agenda behind it.
Some Zimbabweans have talked and spread bad messages about the country and refusing to appreciate all the initiatives and strategies being put in place by
Government to promote development.
A currency is by nature a trade enabler. However, some illegal foreign currency dealers have commodified it.
For the newly-introduced ZiG to stay, illegal foreign currency traders should be brought to book and their activities put to an end. These people sabotage Government’s initiatives to stabilise the economy.
The basic principle of any currency is confidence, and the hybrid warfare is using social media to antagonise the confidence level of the new currency.
Who is set to benefit from a failed currency and what does it mean to the general populace?
It is quite unfortunate when some sections of society celebrate when the country is sanctioned and when its currency is under attack.
In 1919, Woodrow Wilson, the former US president, stated that sanctions are worse than real war. To quote him verbatim, he said as “something more tremendous than war”: the threat was “an absolute isolation . . . that brings a nation to its senses just as suffocation removes from the individual all inclinations to fight . . . Apply this economic, peaceful, silent, deadly remedy, and there will be no need for force.
“It is a terrible remedy. It does not cost a life outside of the nation boycotted, but it brings pressure upon that nation which, in my judgment, no modern nation could resist.”
Sanctions have become a modern tool of warfare with detrimental effects on the general populace.
When the currency is being targeted and attacked its citizens must defend their symbol of sovereignty.
Zambians struggled with their currency since the 60s, supporting government initiatives. What has come over us Zimbabweans, that we believe that sabotaging own Government is the best approach?
It is surprising that, already, the streets are already plotting how to weaken the currency.
How can a foreign currency dealer wake up and get into the streets to determine the rate of the currency? What kind of economic theory is that? We are tolerating evil doers to the extent that they end up thinking that doing bad is normal.
It is high time the Government comes heavily on economic saboteurs.
Evil prospers when those who are supposed to act choose to watch as the problem grows from latent to conflict or problem level.