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Re-Education

now one of the biggest gold miners babwean economy, by tightening are still untapped by European ex-
in Zimbabwe. And despite his tax sanctions to obscure the success of ploitation. Contrast that with South
evasion allegations, the Zimbabwean this endeavor. Africa, which has been mercilessly
government continues to treat him • Albeit, in that environment, exploited to the extent that today,
as one of its own, and not a foreign- Zimbabwe has created organic US less than 18 years of gold and less
er, because of hunhu/ubuntu and dollar millionaires and billionaires than 10 years of iron remains.
values inculcated by Mugabe and his in banking, telecoms, technology, Today, many black Zimbabweans are
government. mining, farming, energy, industry, educated, property-owning, middle
• Implats is one of the biggest logistics and services and not token class citizens who are employable
miners of platinum in the world, empowerment gatekeepers in white anywhere in the world because of
their most profitable mines are run companies. subsidized education, food, trans-
by Zimplats in Zimbabwe and black • Today black Zimbabweans have port, healthcare, resource owner-
Zimbabweans manage and own more savings per capita than any ship, the vision, leadership and hard
51% of Zimplats. other African country on the con- work the old man and his team put
14. Finance tinent, with more than 68% of the in. But this same group are the first
• In Zimbabwe, we find one of country’s GDP in savings sitting ones who spit on his legacy based
the biggest black owned insurance, outside Zimbabwe. The third high- on what they hear and read in white
banking and telecoms industries in est percentage after Dubai and Saudi media and them focusing on birth
the world that have kept the country Arabia. pains more than the child (benefits)
afloat under the current economic This is capital that will leverage born.
war. Zimbabwe into a middle income They fail to realize that a sacrifice
Even African Americans or black economy in the near future, once had to be made for the empower-
Europeans do not own strategic Zimbabweans realize that they don’t ment they are beneficiaries of and
financial assets at the proportion of need foreign investment but their in many ways it’s their contribution
black Zimbabweans. Opening up own savings as their home-based (patriotism, investment, ideas, in-
the door for this paper-monied class investment. novation, taxes, creativity, solutions,
of American Africans to come and fight against sanctions) that is miss-
invest in real wealth in Zimbabwe. I 16. Zimbabwe Is Open To ing to deliver a better Zimbabwe.
won’t even talk about South Africa, Africans
which doesn’t even have a single Even now Africans who dare to South Africans Appreciate Little
black bank or insurer. venture into Zimbabwe, like Mzi Meanwhile, in South Africa, where
and Matshela, are building their bal- most of the anti-Mugabe media
15. Energy ance sheets from this emancipated lingers, the locals, who were short-
• The country’s biggest independent economy. changed by Mandela, appreciate
energy producers and energy traders Rumors continue to abound that their white savior and guard his
are black and they are the ones senior South African politicians like legacy jealously. Bantu education
building solar farms as independent Thabo Mbeki also have mines in seems to have preserved the uhun-
energy producers in the country. Zimbabwe, hence they are comfort- hu/ubuntu to appreciate little in the
• This has seen opportunities open able with an untransformed South South African, while great education
up for black South Africans like Africa, because they already own has eroded any sense of gratitude in
Matshela Koko to build a solar pow- resources courtesy of Mugabe. the Zimbabwean.
er plant under the new President. These are some of the cascading
Something he wouldn’t get to do in benefits of Mugabe taking the sac- 17. Decolonization
his own country because of white rifice of deconstructing the colonial Even though Mandela’s European
monopoly and exclusion by the edifice, transforming and indigeniz- colony of South Africa is ruled by
gatekeeping black leadership. ing his economy for the long term a white shadow government and
benefit of ALL black people. investment. Although it has given all
15. Wealth Creation All that Mugabe did was for the long resources to westerners and doesn’t
• As a result of Mugabe’s transfer of term benefit of future generations have sanctions around its neck. It
resources to their rightful owners, of African children. Through his still has the worst education in Afri-
black Zimbabweans have become indigenization policies, he preserved ca, yet it has the biggest budget for
rich and the western world has gone the country‘s vast gold, lithium, education.
into high gear to sabotage the Zim- iron, coal, oil and gas reserves that Alongside that is the biggest

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