Stephen Mpofu, [email protected]
EVERYONE get ready for it:
Husbands and your wives serenade yourselves with love songs.
Mothers hum to yourselves or sway around as you do dishes, tidy up the house or cook;
Fathers prance around as you dress up and prepare to go to work;
Lovers embrace yourselves with much ecstasy as you look forward to a bright future;
The above acts should celebrate President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s participation at the World
Governments Summit in Dubai, which carried the heart of our beloved motherland, Zimbabwe and of which he is our Head of State and therefore bears ultimate responsibility for our country’s movement forward developmentally or its stagnation but should, as things stand, bear handsome dividends.
As it appears the first such gurus gathering known in recent history must bear handsome dividends or else habitual detractors will write it off as having been a waste of time and large sums of money spent on it instead of on development back home to improve the welfare of populations represented at that world gathering.
As things stand for Zimbabwe, however, a surge of interest had manifested itself in the hearts of some countries opposed to the known imperialist West for their engagement in trade with and investment in our motherland, witness delegates that visited Harare and Victoria Falls where the stock exchange is a hive of activities with foreign companies eager to reap handsomely from the tourism hub that The Smoke that Thunders — or Mosi-Oa-Tunya, as Zambians call the Victoria Falls — provides for those willing to part with their hard-earned cash.
Zimbabwe’s gold, manufactured goods as well as agriculture combine into a magnetic pull of international traders as well as investors both of which our beautiful motherland requires for sustained economic development to benefit the masses today and in the foreseeable future, thereby completely neutralising all illegal economic sanctions imposed by Western imperialist countries as punishment of Zimbabwe’s land reform programme.
(Today, our neighbour South Africa is facing harsh reprisals from the same Western imperialists for reclaiming its land which was seized by white racists who rushed to America seeking refuge and punishment for blacks I power whom they sought to tread under feet without end.)
On Zimbabwe’s part, those progressive countries after trade and investment with us should be received with open hands, which, in this case impels the powers that be to keep a tight rein on the rate of inflation as high prices for goods are demonic in the eyes of foreigners eager to invest their hard-earned money in or trade with us.
Today’s inflation rate is treated in business circles in the same way that a mother in-law is not called by her first name by the son in-law but economists say this year’s inflation rate should be a single digit.
Which suggests therefore that those businesses eager to cash in by raising prices of their products from increased buyers taking advantage of the low rate of inflation should experience the wrath of those overseeing the performance of our trading markets.
Above all, our country’s trade extravaganza, the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair, should serve as a window to doing business here so that Zimbabwe becomes a beauty queen international trade and investment-wise.
Everyone wants to be associated with beauty queens.



