Zimbabwe: stagnation and despair instead of celebrating

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Zimbabwe: stagnation and despair instead of celebrating

Zimbabwe is in a political and economic Stagnation. President Robert Mugabe wants to even after 36 years in Power, not soft. On Saturday, he celebrated his birthday.

A Grand Party it should be. Today, commits President Robert Mugabe and his 92. Birthday as ever with great Pomp and circumstance and thousands of guests. During the like a Saint by his followers and venerated head of state, celebrates, suffers the population of Zimbabwe is under a severe drought: More than three million people in the southern African country are on Lebensmittelhilfen from the world food programme of the UN instructed.

Bone-dry, The fields in Zimbabwe

Almost 900 000 Euro will be the Mega Event to honour Mugabe’s costs, in the city of Masvingo will rise – in just the same homonymous province, the dryness has been most affected. The population there is applied: “This is mere mockery,” says a Passer-by. “I think Mugabe sets the wrong priorities,” says another, “instead of this waste Firmly hold that you would have food for the Starving people in Masvingo can buy.“

Still, last week asked the Zimbabwean government to the international donors for food aid in the amount of 1.4 million euros. A quarter of the population suffers from the
Drought. Mugabe was a gefühlskalter leader, said Pedzisai Ruhanya, Director of Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI) in an interview with the German wave.”He is exclusively on staying in power, interested and not at all at the improvement of the living conditions of his people”, so Ruhany, “he is a selfish, narrow-minded, and individualistic person.”

Battle for Mugabe’s succession

The party of the aged heads of state, Zanu-PF, is deeply divided. Officials in the party and the governing body to carry your food with mutual insults in Newspapers and social media. These evil contest are probably a result of Mugabe’s failure, at an early stage of its succession rules. “The word ‘succession’ Mugabe’s is in the vocabulary of the party does not even exist, says the political scientist Alexander Rusero, in an interview with DW. The eternal President, was “the Alpha and the Omega,” the Zanu-PF. The got, for example, the former Vice President Joyce Mujuru to feel that Mugabe supposedly inherit from wanted. It was in 2014, excluded from the party.

Robert Mugabe and wife Grace at the ceremony

Mugabe’s glamorous wife Grace sits down in the meantime for a further candidacy of the then 94-year-old Mugabe’s in the next elections in 2018. She has for the time being with the chair – are also influential – Zanu-PF women’s League satisfied. “Politics is a power play to the resources,” analyzes Alexander Rusero. Alone Mugabe embody the whole Power of the state. “The closer you are to him and his family, the better.”

Weak Opposition

Mugabe has little Opposition to worry about. It has the election defeat in 2013, not recovered and is today fragmented and divided. Neither the former from the West, strongly supported the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) Morgan Tswangirai, he was in the coalition government of 2009 to 2013, the Prime Minister nor the party of “People First “Movement” of Joyce Mujuru can the rulers be dangerous. “These two parties would have a cooperation agree, but then sees it not,” says the Simbabwer and research scientists Brian Raftopoulos of the University of Cape town. Also, make sure to check the ruling party still has the electoral process. Hardly anyone believes that the electoral Commission is independent, act.

Fallow Economy

Stark contrast: While the President is celebrating, eating people in Zimbabwe worms out of sheer Hunger

However, suffers from the population. Zimbabwe’s food will always be scarce. The Inflation increases it exponentially. Daily, the current drops. 94 percent of the Simbabwer are impoverished and need to be in the informal sector to survive, white Brian Raftopoulos. Industrial production, in the 1980s, a quarter of the gross domestic product have identified, is almost at a Standstill, so the scientists. “This is also the workers’ movement, the driving force of the Opposition in the 1990s and 2000s, has been severely weakened”.

Moreover, would the revenue from the sale of the ineralien, such as the largest trading partner of Zimbabwe China, completely non-transparent managed. It was only last Monday, the government has seven diamond mines seized. The licenses of the mines in the Eastern Marange Region are expired, it said. A month earlier President Mugabe’s government a state-owned company was founded, the degradation of the precious stones in Marange now wants to adopt. Cut off from the Wealth of natural resources tried to the most people, “from day to day simply to survive,” says Raftopoulos.

Lawlessness and Depression

The population is afraid of their President

So you have with additional repression to expect, as a representative of the independent Association “lawyers for human rights” last Wednesday, the Parliament in Harare recited. Local officials and police would informal traders to chase out, so sometimes all of your Goods to lose. It would also in some of the drought-stricken rural areas, relief supplies, depending on the party affiliation spread.

Nevertheless, there are hardly any protests against Robert Mugabe. Why, says the report by a research Institute in Harare: “90 percent of the people in Zimbabwe felt then is not free enough for criticism of Mugabe.”

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