Minister of Finance and Economic Development Patrick Chinamasa has urged Zimbabweans not to rubbish their country, lamenting the fact that his booking at a South African hotel was cancelled a few hours before he his arrival. This is despite the fact that the room had been book 3 months prior. Chinamasa blamed Zimbabweans for instigating the cancellation of his booking. Chinamasa was travelling with Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor, John Mangudya.
Narrating his ordeal at local think-tank Sapes Trust in collaboration with Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, National Endowment for Democracy and Catham House, Chinamasa said
Last week, we had a conference with the Diasporans in Johannesburg,
The hotel where we were originally to hold this was booked three months before. On the afternoon just before the day of the conference, they (hotel staff) said they had been threatened by five people, through emails and so on and had to cancel the booking.
We only had about two to three hours to look for alternative accommodation.
This is by Zimbabweans, not by South Africans! Why would you want to stop a dialogue between government and Zimbabweans who are in the Diaspora
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Very simple minister – allow Diasporans to vote (postal) not just grabbing their money to fund your constituency projects…..and allow rural voters to be free to vote for a party and leader they like, (not fear) by discouraging your party cadres from threatening them in any way. Every party must be free to campaign throughout the whole country. That way, you will leave this earth with some vestige of respect. Right now Zanu PF is doing everything in its power to be unpopular, just like ISIS or ISIL – this won’t last forever and will have a very negative and violent backlash (you cannot buy the future with threats and stolen money – Pablo Escobar tried it and failed). Most of those in govt will find it very hard to live their last years peacefully in Zimbabwe….just saying….
THEY MUST BOOT HIM OUT OF SOUTH AFRICA AS WELL. LET HIM GO BACK AND DO HIS BUSH ECONOMICS WITH RUBBISH BOND NOTES BACK IN HIS RURAL HOME