Many global citizens have asked me why Zimbabweans are so poor and suffering when the country is so wealthy in natural resources. Others have asked me why there is so much corruption in Zimbabwe and why the State is ruthlessly looted daily with the ZANUPF political elites doing it openly without any political pushback. It is all to do with the lack of Good Governance, Zimbabwe is badly governed by a predatory and small ruthless crooked political elite. As you can see on the global governance index chart below, Zimbabwe is now in the top ten countries that are badly governed worldwide. Corruption, the looting of public funds and the plunder of the country’s natural resources are children born out of Bad Governance. Corrupt political elites require Bad Governance in order to be able to steal from your taxes and natural resources. Bad governance removes the pillars of transparency, Rule of Law, accountability, and it also removes equal opportunities for all to make it in life. You end up with one man and his friends only allowing opportunities to go to their families and “business” surrogates who mostly front this looting and plunder, folks like Wicknell. Even services rendered to the State like legal, banking or accounting are also routinely given to these corrupt surrogates on account of clansmenship, totems or regionalism as is happening in Zimbabwe. Since our country is now in the league of the worst governed countries in the world, it means that corruption is now at an all time high, it has never been this bad in post-colonial Zimbabwe. This also has a direct link to lack of both local and foreign investment. Nobody serious and sane would invest their hard earned millions in a country where policies change like the weather to suit the predatory corrupt elite, their families and their friends. No serious investor would want to come to a country where the exchange rate is fixed by the corruptly run central bank, where the judiciary is not trusted because of its self-evident puppeteer, the crooked ZANUPF political elites. This is how you end up with 95% unemployment, the highest inflation in the world and becoming the riskiest country to invest in on the continent as Zimbabwe has become. Read; newsday.co.zw/amp/local-news… It doesn’t require rocket science to get Zimbabwe out of this economic ditch that it is stuck in, it only requires to drastically reduce corruption and the country will take off again and hire competent Zimbabweans in Government who are scattered around the world. Why is this not happening? It is because of a corrupt ruling party, a hapless and disorganised opposition, compromised and captured State institutions, unprofessional and captured security services, and a citizenry trapped in exaggerated levels of fear and involuntary acceptance of mediocrity. Without fixing these key elements, economic recovery won’t fall from heaven like the biblical manna, Zimbabwe will remain a basket case and the laughing stock it has now become.

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