Real facts about Economics

To conclude, African remedies against genocide, violence and the conflict between state and the civil society should include:
• Defining national identity to be equitably accommodating to all the contending groups
• Developing principles of constitutionalism or constitutive management of power that creatively and flexibly balance the dynamics of diversity in unity to promote national consensus and collective purpose
• Designing a system of distribution or allocation of economic opportunities and resources that is particularly sensitive to the needs of minorities and disadvantaged groups and induces these groups to see unity as a source of security and not a deprivation
• Through all these measures, to challenge every group to recognize that it has a distinctive contribution to make the process of nation building by utilising its own cultural values, institutional structures, and a self propelling sense of purpose within a national framework of diversified unity and equitable pluralism. Where conditions make such a uniting sense of national identity impractical or too costly, the residual alternative, which should be internationally sanctioned, would be to allow the right of self-determination, including the option of partition (Deng, Francis M. 1980. Dinka Cosmology) on 213

Economics from a grassroot perspective.

The rural areas of Zimbabwe bear the brunt of the economic challenges of the country just like anyone else in the country.

Most often, these people undergo situations of unparrallelled intensity as some of them actually go for nights without anything to eat.

Catapalted by the exorbitant prices of both food and transport and even lack of it, these people actually find it very difficult to deal with these situations as they come in packs. While most of the roads there are dust roads, the buses are even very few, maybe just one very old and unroad worth AVM model bus that comes once in a blue moon.

The only moment that these people receive attention is just towards ellections when politicians will be trying to buy their votes using food tokens. The best way that these people use to survive is to plant a few crops being supplemented by a few goats and cattle, all of which are at the mercy of the ever changing climatic conditions.

"Life is difficult here my son. These people come out here to give us food tokens only when they want us to vote for them and once we do so they disappear for good until the next election again," protested the kraal head of a village in Madlambudzi, Plumtree.

"Last time we were promised boreholes here but none has been drilled so far and we still continue to live in poverty," added the leader.

"I last had something to eat the day before yesterday my son and as you can see right now all the pots are empty and clean," said a lady in her fifties who chose to be named MaDlodlo.

It is apparent here that people now confuse politics with economics. To allay such allegations, politicians should give undying support to their subjects regardless of whether it is time for elections or not.

The picture above is an example of the ideal roads found in all rural areas of Plumtree. Those that are crossing the road are the goats that the people keep in order to supplement their food supplies.

Signs of Economic Instability

The first signs of economic instability in any given situation are the standards of living which are inclusive of many issues like the state of roads, sanitary status, nature of buildings in cities and so on, a closer analysis can reveal.

Most of the streets and roads in Zimbabwe are now potholed to the extent that the combi drivers are now taking advantage of that and breaking traffic rules in the pretext of avoiding potholes, making it very difficult for the police to deal with although they are trying very hard to curb this corruption.

"These potholes are going to lead to the loss of many lives," commented an old man (name with held)who was in a combi involved in a "chase" as the passenger ferrers wresled and jostled for customers in the morning.

The clear matter now is that the economy of Zimbabwe has not yet recovered despite the "dollarisation" adopted by the GNU late in the year 2008 and moreso, the city council inh every town of Zimbabwe still has a huge task of renovating the roads such that large sums of money have to be pumped into this sector.

"I think the only solution to these fatal accidents is the renovation of the roads," commented Tapiwa Moyo who owns a garage along the Bulawyo-Plumtree road in Donnington and has witnessed an accident near his garage.

Tapiwa also suggested that it is the duty of every Zimbabwean however to be extra careful as the economy is not affecting one person but generally everyone, even the government although it is trying very hard to mend the economic loopholes caused by the ditching of the economy in 2008.