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Food Health
days, it is this same hoarding Chimuka, Sandra Mpunga, empires outside and millions
of dollars by our so-loved Divine Ndlakhula, Simon in tax havens must account for
foreign investors and white Rudland, Billy Rautenbach, how they took that money out
farmers in the late 1990s Shingi Mutasa and such, of the country and where they
and early 2000s, that began these guys have shown a can’t justify, their licenses
the cycle of depreciating the huge propensity to reinvest should be revoked and given
local dollar when they got back in the country and use to more loyal Zimbabweans.
enraged at the government its local currency for their Our own government must
for compensating our war business activities. build enough confidence
vets for their liberation in the local currency by
contribution. With their money they have demanding and accepting
invested in infrastructure the ZIG for all their services.
It is through such construction, fuel supply, They must also stop the
externalization that many buying contracting illogical multi-currency
black businessmen who were machinery, building system and simply stick to
empowered by indigenization, factories, buying conpanies, using the gold backed ZIG
have homes and wealth building hotels and for all internal transactions to
outside the country, instead developing Zimbabwe more avoid unnecessary arbitrage.
of reinvesting back in the than some billionaires who
country that made them. after making their money in Meanwhile banks must offer
Zimbabwe, bought dollars deposit protection insurance
This is one of the reasons on the black market and that enables people to
we say, for the ZIG to laundered it out of the bank their dollars in local
survive, the Zimbabwean country to build empires commercial banks so that
government must focus elsewhere. they are available for foreign
on directing its tenders, exchange to government,
licenses, and contracts The latter love being in importers and travelers, to
more to Zimbabweans who Zimbabwe with its warts kill the black market.
prefer living in Zimbabwe, and all, and our government
than foreign companies and must invest more in such We have to wean ourselves
Zimbabweans who have people because they will be from our old selfish habits if
shown a propensity to prefer the engine of the economy we are going to strengthen
using Zimbabwean profits to by reinvesting in it and by our ZIG.
live outside like colonizers. so doing strengthening the
No matter how much value of the ZIG through
people may hate people local production.
like Phillip Chiyangwa,
Mashwede, Kuda Tagwireyi,
Scott Sakupwanya, Obey Those with billion-dollar
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