It’s not so much about ‘change’

change is not an overnight guest!
It is a gradual process of becoming something different that is off target if you’re grossly unsatisfied and deeply ashamed of who you are and what you represent to a point where you desire change.
Change is to make the form, nature, content, future course of which you are into something different from what you would become if left alone. It may be to change one’s identity, one’s opinion or to change the course of history.
Change may be defined as to transform or convert (usually followed by a substitute) to substitute another or others for something else usually of the same kind.
It is to transfer from one (conveyance) to another of the same nature.
This kind of “change” advocated by others in our country is clearly by its nature not for Zimbabwe!
What is pivotal for our country is our economy and for our economy to thrive again it’s not so much about this kind of change but it is more about taking responsibility and becoming more accountable to our economic policies and processes that we have put in place.
It is about creating an environment that can boost and attract investor confidence to our local market.
The prosperity of our nation and growth of our economy rest on our ability now to retain value on our God given natural resources and gather a fair profit share and not allow multi-nationals in the mining sector to collect all the revenue at the detriment of our government and local economy!
Fellow Zimbabweans what we need in this country is clearly not “change” but rather for the captains of industry to embrace responsibility, accountability and begin to perform.
Now is not the time to seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
We need not shrink from this responsibility of rebuilding our economy by wasting time in petty politics of change. I have observed that even in times when we know what is right; too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day forgetting what tomorrow will become.
The best years of our lives really are the ones in which we decide our economic challenges are our own. We do not blame them on our family, the government, or the President. We realise that we are in control of our own destiny and are in possession of the ultimate responsibility to make a difference in our lives and a difference that will last.
It is now time to fundamentally introduce new ways of doing business. To help build a new foundation for future generations, we need to reform some of our government economic policies so that there are more efficient, more transparent, and more attractive to foreign direct investment.
This will demand a new way of thinking and a new sense of responsibility especially for every dollar that will be earned and allocated in the national budget.
During the Zimbabwean dollar epoch we’ve persevered because of a belief we shared as a people – a belief that out of the ashes of high inflation, a new beginning could be born, in this cradle of civilisation.
Through this remarkable chapter in the history of Zimbabwe we have met our responsibility now we are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Now, it’s time to turn a new page and believe again that we can steer our economy to greater heights.
We all are participants in weaving the national fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes and not preach a diverse gospel of “change” so we can dodge the responsibility that comes with a challenged system.
In the Euro Zone they got into their financial crisis together and currently are going through their economic summits and bailout plan.
The IMF and the finance ministers in charge of European countries and their heads of states are dedicated to see each country meet the required economic growth target and not drag the Eurozone down.
Now if Europeans are working together, why should we fail to do the same? We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, “duty”.
It is the other side of rights. As much as we claim the right to education, freedom and health care we should equally claim our “duty” to resuscitate our economy and not play hide and seek in the name of change!
In the name of change during his campaign Obama promised a lot of things to the American public and the world. He promised that Guantanamo Bay would be closed, he would withdraw half the solders from Afghanistan and stop mass killings of innocent civilians in the Middle East.
He promised that he would create jobs for the middle class and students, economic growth and stability. In the name of change he promised that he would work to change the perception relating to the American foreign policy as it is viewed as a supper power that also happens to be a bully internationally.
Coming to the end of his four year term, President Obama is still yet to deliver the change he promised during his campaign. He has had his success with the health care programme and a few other achievements including now withdrawing American soldiers from Iraq.
But Guantanamo is still opened, America is still a bully internationally, now bombing countries like Somalia and Pakistan killing civilians. Economic growth has been slow and stability nowhere near the protest infested Wall Street with unemployment rising now at 9.8 percent; the highest rate for America in the past 28 years.
Fellow Zimbabweans effective change cannot be made by an individual on behalf of the whole country! The only way we can bring about transformation of our country’s economy is by accepting our own individual responsibilities for our own lives and partner with the government to bring about economic growth.
The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to our welfare is being taken care of for us by someone else. We must take personal responsibilities. We may not be able to change our circumstances, the environment we find ourselves in, or the conditions in which we have to make decisions, but we can change ourselves. We can choose to become part of the solution and partner government, provide ideas and ask more of what we can do for the country and not what the country can do for us.
This shows that people have matured and have grasped the wisdom that it’s not so much about “change” but taking responsibility that can bring a struggling economy back at its feet.