My Dear People
THE proposal to put in place a law that will result in the Ngwena regime determining the amount private health institutions can charge is one of the worst decisions among the several atrocious policies it has put in place since barrelling into power on the back of guns and tanks.
The proposal is effectively imposing price controls on the private health sector, which will undoubtedly have disastrous consequences which will result in private hospitals scaling down or closing shop worsening the parlous state of the health sector in the country.
This desire by the so-called second repubric to control the private healthcare sector is after it has totally destroyed public health institutions that have turned into death traps through neglect and just downright shambolic misgovernance.
The Ngwena regime should be focused on reviving public health institutions, which have become national symbols of shame in which there is virtually no medicine with patients patched up in cardboard plaster.
The attempt by the regime to get their grubby hands on private health care, which has been pivotal in saving lives that would have been lost in dilapidated public health institutions, is indicative of the vapid and bankrupt leadership that permeates the halls of Munhumutapa building.
The regime seems to have learnt nothing from the catastrophic consequences of trying to control prices of goods in the formal retail sector which resulted in the closure of shops as well as the flight of retail giants such as Choppies.
The act of doing the same thing and expecting different results is the definition of insanity, something that seems to have escaped the notice of this deluded lot.
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Munopengaaa!!!
The Scarfed One declared last week that Zimbabwe is open for business while on a visit to the tourism expo in Japan.
This declaration made at the Japan Business Forum is of course, hollow given the bureaucratic sloth that characterises the not so new dispensation.
As Ngwena was shouting from the rooftops that the country is ripe for investment, the National Competitiveness Commission director Brighton Shayanewako revealed that one needs an astounding 26 different permits from multiple agencies to run a dairy operation, a statistic which shocked one senior bureaucrat in Ngwena’s office into calling the regime’s institutions ‘predatory’.
“How do we grow sectors given such hamstringing????” he wailed lamely on microblogging site X.
Well I, your good doctor, advises this bloke to ask his boss Ngwena that question instead of crying crocodile tears on social media!!!
Munopenga!!!
The Rever… oops The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has, over the past week, been waxing lyrical about how the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) has strengthened due to the increase in foreign reserves.
The value of this funny money is protected through the increase in reserves and current monetary policy stance and consumers should be assured of sustained value preservation and stability of ZiG, the central bank told us.
Given that past assurances did not stop the depreciation of the funny money by nearly 50% and inflation from shooting to more than 90%, consumers and businesses will not derive much comfort from the latest guarantees emanating from the suits at 80 Samora Machel Avenue.
I laughed heartily when John the Second declared that soon the funny money will be used to purchase fuel and secure a passport
Just like his boss, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, John the Second has not given us any timelines as to when this will happen which reduces his declaration to nothing more than a load of hogwash.
John the Second cannot tell us that the funny money is gaining in strength when it still cannot fulfill the basics of procuring fuel and a passport.
After its routine visit to the country for consultations last month, the International Monetary Fund advised the regime to put its money where its mouth is by using more of the funny money for its own activities to engender public confidence which is in seriously short supply .
Hear hear!!!!
Munopengaaa!!!
The fights that have erupted in the Movement for Democratic Change led by Dougie is the source of comedy.
After the High Court ordered Dougie to resign and facilitate a congress within six months, the party’s vice president Elias Mudzuri and Morgan Komichi have attempted to boot the bespectacled fellow out of Harvest House resulting in a major scuffle at the party’s headquarters which necessitated police intervention.
This is the latest episode in the crumbling of the MDC which was booted to the political scrapheap during the 2022 by-elections as it failed to garner a single parliamentary or council seat.
The unedifying fight for control of the beleaguered party comes just after Komichi had declared that the party was focusing on talks that would result in a united front as the opposition.
It is no coincidence that the fights have intensified after Ngwena stopped the meetings of the Political Actors Dialogue, which was a grouping of failed presidential candidates who did not even manage to garner even 5% of the vote.
The meetings were characterised by visits to the Scarfed One’s farm where the political failures would admire his fish pond and receive trinkets such as vehicles.
Little wonder why there has been gnashing and grinding of teeth by these opposition charlatans since this monumental waste of time and taxpayers’ money was stopped abruptly by the Scarfed One kikikikikiki.
Munopengaaaaaaaa
Stop It!
Dr Amai Stop it! PhD (Fake)
