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POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: CAUSES OF ZIMBABWE'S ECONOMIC PROBLEMS

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: CAUSES OF ZIMBABWE'S ECONOMIC PROBLEMS : Mugabe,'s own history and actions attest to a schizophrenic personality, posturing as a Marxist revolutionary, sometimes by only wear...

CAUSES OF ZIMBABWE'S ECONOMIC PROBLEMS

Mugabe,'s own history and actions attest to a schizophrenic personality, posturing as a Marxist revolutionary, sometimes by only wearing Communist attire during elections and emitting searing populist rhetoric, some just know him as an educated man recognized for his Western suits, love for English cricket, tea and admiration for British royalty. Mugabe was for long content and not inclined to upset the applecart when it came to Western interests. Most importantly, after Independence in 1980, apart from command economic and social services delivery approach, Mugabe did not seek to reform the settler colonial state structure in line with his party’s socialist and one-party state manifesto. He happily inherited colonial institutions, laws and even top individual officials and bureaucrats to run the state while he learned the ropes.   Zimbabwe cannot create, and thereafter continue, needed formal sector employment. Thus not only does Zimbabwe very urgently need to repeal the neg