Sociopoliticonomics

*Is it all about Currency reforms or there is more to it ?* By Hosia Mviringi 21 October 2018. Lets look at our problems holistically.My view is that or nation has never had any Economic Crisis.But we have focused on the wrong target and thus our solutions may never work.We have suffered a Foreign Policy crisis for over two decades now, but our biggest Crisis has been lack of CONFIDENCE. We have a sound economy with a resilient infrastructure and an intelligent human capital base.Those to me are the most important ingredients to a functional economy.There are some countries in the region and internationally with worse economies than ours but still enjoy a degree of stability. Take for example what could be better in a Zambian or Mozambican economies that makes these countries more stable and  habitable than Zimbabwe ? We still have clean streets here, beatiful buildings and intelligent and hardworking citizenry, a peaceful environment for 38years , yet we rank as having ...

How Zimbabwe can avoid Dictatorships : Lessons to learn from history. By Hosia Mviringi 18 October 2018 Dictatorships are a creation of mankind , they are not a natural phenomenon and thus can be managed. Most dictatorships are a result of complacency and or willful inaction by citizens.Active citizen participation can stop dictatorships in their infancy.  If I had my way I would seriously advocate for a law that limits the number of Political Parties in Zimbabwe to three (3). All other small Parties will be required to disband and all interested persons encouraged to join bigger parties and fight for positions therein. To me this creates a health competituon for ideas and it discourages building of fifdoms by power hungry leaders. Lets take for example if such brilliant leaders as Nkosana Moyo, Simba Makoni and others would all join the MDC. I think Chamisa would be kept on his toes inorder to beat the competition.But currently what do we have ? We have a scenario whe...