Tremors as Dangote fever grips Zimbabwe

Muchadura Dube
LAST week, Zimbabweans  woke up to exciting news derived from the visit of Africa’s top most wealthy man, Nigerian Mr Aliko Dingote, a humble fellow who paid Zimbabwe a courtesy call. Of course, the Nigerian met the Head of State and Commander in Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, President Mugabe and his two deputies, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko.
His investment vehicles dominate the cement sector in Nigeria and lately Tanzania. In the Southern African Development Community (SADC) community, the billionaire has a cement plant in Zambia where virtually all the raw materials are emanating from Zimbabwe. Finally, the Gods are smiling on the nation for investors are now seeing the light by coming to the real destination where everything is unfolding, the mighty nation, Zimbabwe.

Africa and the entire world are slowly but surely living the reality which we have always preached that Zimbabwe is endowed with natural resources with the potential to turn around the economic fortunes of its populace and even beyond the lives of citizens within SADC and indeed the continent.

When it comes to minerals, Zimbabwe is to the world what the Middle East is to the entire globe when it comes to oil wealth. Had it not been the sky blue lies of the Western World led by Britain and its American acolytes who continue to spread falsehoods just to make sure that Zimbabwean resources live another day in the vain and heinous hope that they will be regime change in Zimbabwe.

The British and their American poodles continue to hallucinate that one of these days their doomed ally who they founded and funded the now politically irrelevant Movement for Democratic Change for, Morgan will acquire reins of power.

If this is not day dreaming, then it should be pure madness. Tsvangirai is more popular for impregnating teenage girls and breaking people’s families than anything else. Add that hard earned philandery fame which Tsvangirai deserves to his infamous fame which he earned and acquired in the far away seas where he gobbled taxpayers’ money by taking his then girlfriend Nozipho Shilobane to the seas earning himself the moniker ‘Legend of the Seas’.

The investor friendly environment is there for everyone to experience and feel it. It is reality which will unfold to all who have the appetite to invest in all these abundant opportunities which are there for the tapping for all with the financial muscle.

There are a plethora of investment opportunities in the agricultural sector where virtually an overhaul is required to ensure that the sector reflects the new reality that Zimbabwean majority are now owning this precious resources which had prior to the Land Reform exercise been in the hands of a few racist white elitist who had taken the land during the colonial epoch.

These mentally challenged few whites had continue to irrationally occupy the land in that skewed proportion, a scenario which enraged the majority indigenous people who then launched a democratic exercise to successful  take what rightfully belongs to them, their land.

This sector needs huge investment which will even repay whoever wants to invest. It is crucial to note that, the country’s investment laws are not one size fits all but rather the leadership is ready and prepared to negotiate with any investor to ensure a scenario of win-win situation for the investor and government prevails.

There is another comparative advantage which the country has to any other African country,  that is the exceptionally excellent academic credentials of the Zimbabwean populace.

Zimbabwe is at the top in Africa in the literacy rates, it is the unassailable giant which has remained at the apex for the past years, a reflection that the country’s leadership has had foresight which has taken the nation thus far.

So any serious investor will have exceptional qualified manpower that will fit into any system which the investor will apply. There is also another unique advantage which any prospective investor will find appetising, that is the currency of trade which is dominating the economy of Zimbabwe, the United States dollar which will be tradable anywhere in the world.

Zimbabwe’s famed informal sector which now is host to billions of United States dollars is ready for the tapping for it represents an incredible market for any prospective sector.

Now with Mr Dangote having seen the abundant investment opportunities, Zimbabwe is poised for even great heights. The billionaire African stands ready to invest even in the energy sector given that Zimbabwe has numerous untapped water bodies plus enviable coal deposits which can be used for the setting up of an energy facility to complement the already existing energy facilities. Zimbabwe still needs other energy schemes which will feed into the national greed hence any other investor will to tap into this lucrative sector is welcome.

Mr Dangote has definitely shamed all enemies of the people including the usually corrosive so called private press who were silenced by the arrival of such a serious investor in the calibre and mould of Mr Dangote.
Given the so called private press’s penchant for evil to befall the nation, they were left speechless with these mammoth developments which even shook the region.

Its tremors were even felt in the Western world as they could not fathom an African taking a giant step in reigniting this sleeping economic titan. Zimbabwe is indeed reawakening economically.

 Muchadura Dube is a Nyanga based farmer and political analyst