Zimbabwe: Espionage and the tattered economy

In my last article I mentioned how the RBZ governor, Gideon Gono orchestrated the specifying of a number of prominent and competent business people during the years 2003 and 2004, soon after he was appointed RBZ governor. I also mentioned how by so doing he sabotaged Zimbabwe's economy because these competent business people that he frustrated to the extend that they fled the country and left their businesses at the mercy of his economic terrorist fangs where making such a big positive contribution to Zimbabwe's economy to the extend that the effects of the ZIDERA bill of 2001 sanctions were not being felt in the country. Gideon Gono and Patrick Chinamasa were the judge and jury in all the cases of these business people most of whom were being accused of externalising foreign currency and causing the enormous foreign currency shortage that had hit the country. No Commission of Inquiry to investigate what Gideon Gono and Patrick Chinamasa where accusing these business people of was set, it was up to these two men to do whatever they pleased with the lives and businesses of these competent professional business people. In most cases soon after the owners of the businesses had fled the country, Gideon Gono, Patrick Chinamasa and their fellow ZANU-PF cronies would seize or buy shares in those businesses at prices far below the market price. That was corruption, injustice and unfairness at its best. To make matters worse not even one reporter in the country had the courage or thought of interviewing these business people to hear their side of the story or investigate the cases further, they all printed Gono's lies about what he was alleging to be the economic crimes that these business people had committed. So like sheep most of the Zimbabwean population after reading the lies in the media concerning these cases cheered Gono on and congratulated him for a job well done not knowing that actually what they were cheering him on was his economic terrorist activities of getting rid of all competent business people in the country so that he is left with no impediment to his goal of tearing the Zimbabwean economy to tatters.








It's a pity that Mugabe and the country's intelligence network who could have stopped him all trusted Gono and Chinamasa so much that they didn't suspect that they were economic hitmen on a misson, sent forth by God knows who. It's also sad to note that up to now Mugabe still trusts these two men. Even more pitiful and sad is the fact that these two men are not the only ones trusted by Mugabe whose actions revealed that they were on a mission to destroy Zimbabwe one way or the other. One such man is Jonathan Moyo who together with Patrick Chinamasa again drafted the POSA and AIPPA bills in 2003 and 2004 which with the help of the police officially killed human rights in Zimbabwe. Then there is Ignatius Chombo who is notorious for Operation Murambatsvina which made headlines all over the world in 2005 because of the inhumanness and cruelty it portrayed. Recently, soon after the GNU had been conceived, Themba Mliswa joined in the list of economic hitmen by instigating a fresh start of commercial farm invasions targeting the few white commercial farmers that were protected by SADC and still farming in the country . The actions of these men that I have mentioned, namely Jonathan Moyo, Patrick Chinamasa, Ignatius Chombo and Themba Mliswa had the effect of proving to the whole world that human rights were being abused and there was no rule of law in Zimbabwe which is what the ZIDERA bill lists as the reason why they can not allow lines of credit to be opened for Zimbabwe. For that reason I am sure you now understand why I am calling these men economic terrorists terrorising their own country.





Let me end this article by philosophising about this issue.
A nation's success depends on the character of its people. A nation's success is not even dependent on the armed forces or intelligence security of the nation only or its President or Prime Minister alone because if the character of some of its people is such that they work against the development of their own nation then that country won't succeed.
Zimbabweans should learn from the people of ancient China, who sought protection from the barbaric hordes from the north by erecting the Great Wall of China. It was too high to scale, too thick to tear down and too long to go around, yet during the first 100 years of the wall's existance, China was invaded three times. How was the security breached? The enemies simply bribed the gatekeepers and then marched easily through the gate. The fatal flow in China's security lay in spending its wealth to build a wall but paying much less to build the character of its gatekeepers.

CAN THE CHARACTER OF ALL ZIMBABWE'S GATEKEEPERS BE TRUSTED? ARE THEY ALL WORKING TOWARDS THE ONE AIM OF POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN ZIMBABWE?