ROBERT MUGABE is a new Moses, leading the people of Zimbabwe out of British colonialist captivity, the former Bishop of Harare Dr Nolbert Kunonga has said.“As the church we see the President with different eyes. To us he is a prophet of God who was sent to deliver the people of Zimbabwe from bondage,” Dr Kunonga said, urging Zimbabweans to back the octogenarian strongman in the March 29 General Election.
Speaking on state radio, Dr Kunonga said President Mugabe was an instrument of divine justice. “God raised him to acquire our land and distribute it to Zimbabweans; we call it democracy of the stomach. There is no Government without soil.”
The economic meltdown in Zimbabwe was not the fault of the government, he charged, but the result of foreign sanctions. “As the church we are totally against sanctions for they are destroying our country,” he said according to a report in the independent SW Radio Africa.
Inflation in Zimbabwe is currently running at 100,000 per cent, and a third of the nation’s 12 million people are currently subsisting on emergency food aid, the UN reported in January. The situation will only worsen the Food and Agriculture Organisation said, as only 10 per cent of the fertilizer needed for the crop was available to farmers at the start of the planting season.
On Monday, President Mugabe announced a new Economic Empowerment Act that nationalizes portions of the remaining white-owned businesses in the country.
“Indigenous Zimbabweans” must hold a 51 per cent stake in every business and have a controlling stake in every merger. The new law is seen as an election eve stunt to bolster the president’s popularity.
The government has also spent its remaining foreign currency reserves on importing corn, once one of the country’s major export items, spending £23 million since December, central bank governor Gideon Gono said on March 8.
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