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THE extremely flawed indigenisation law in Zimbabwe is nothing more than one of Zanu PF’s last and desperate political weapons to win the next election and assume power through the back door. However it will lead to the demise of the former liberation party.
The indigenisation hullaballoo is nothing but a vote-buying gimmick and a shallow political strategy meant to resuscitate Zanu PF. After realising that the land reform and the sanctions rhetoric had been exhausted and had become self-defeating, President Robert Mugabe and his cronies are now targeting foreign-owned firms in a bid to portray themselves as fighting for the people’s rights.
The indigenisation policy is elitist by nature and lacks a national outlook in many respects. The policy will only benefit Mugabe and his loyalists as it seeks to entrench patronage while riding on the backs of the suffering majority of the people of Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe has witnessed reverse racism disguised as black economic empowerment. Why are the Chinese exempted from the cruelty of this nefarious policy? The Chinese are more and more becoming the new imperialists in Zimbabwe and indeed Africa. They are ill-treating Zimbabwean workers and paying them very low wages while all the profits they get from Zimbabwe are channelled out of the country without benefiting anything.
The policy is a desperate bid by Mugabe to punish the West for imposing “illegal sanctions” on Zimbabwe. What is interesting about the indigenisation policy is that Zimbabweans are fully aware that it is elitist and partisan by nature.
The policy will not benefit the youth in the ghettos and rural areas of Epworth, Nkayi, Mabvuku, Juru, Murambinda, Mbare, Mudzi, Budiriro, Rusape, Highfield among others. The policy is anti-investment, anti-people, anti-peace, anti-tourism and anti-development. The indigenisation policy defies law, culture, reason, morality, rationality and order.
It represents the Hobbessian state of nature which is characterised by “a war of all against all”. To sum it up, the indigenisation policy is irrational, hawkish, frivolous, vexatious and fallacious.
Trymore Mazhambe,
Harare.
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