Sanctions
Who are they meant to hurt?
Who was hurt, Affected?
Will they be lifted?
I'm sure the answers to those questions came to your minds as soon as you read the first word at the top...
There is good news for Zimbabweans.
The EU has lifted sanctions on Zimbabwe although Ten people, including President Robert Mugabe, and two companies, including state-run diamond miner the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation, remain on the sanctions list, an EU source said.
What we should take from this is hope for a better future as we can expect that the tourism industry can regain some of its lost ground. That's my hope.
The lift according to the EU is a reaction to the peaceful and successful referendum. I wonder then that had the vote been a no would the sanctions have been lifted?? This is a curious matter to me, this reward and punishment power that the west has over most of the third word countries as to how they can effect political decisions by giving or withdrawing economic aid or any other forms of assistance begs the question "who is running my country and who is running them?" well in the case of the current president that was clear. perhaps thats why he remains on the sanctions list. No sovereign nation should be forced to conform to western standards of governance. Each nation should freely determine it's own political road map.
Well all we can do now is hope that the lifting of the sanctions brings some good economic fortunes to the country. Perhaps the the EU and USA have plans on as to the out come of the general election set to have taken place by the end of the year. Could they have an assertion that the winner of the general elections could be one who would conform to the West's Ideologies. I surely hope that's not the case, because this would not better the conditions of the greater population of Zimbabwe. I feel this way because the trend in most western countries is a capitalist system that has seen the greater population finding themselves in debt or unable to pay for all the expenses and luxuries they expect to live in.
Sanctions on Zimbabwe may be partially lifted but whats the take of the common citizen and what effect does it bear on the country as a whole. We can only hope for the best out of this situation.
If those ten people, who, supposedly have a huge impact on the well being of the rest of the nation, are still under sanctions. Then were they really lifted?
ReplyDeleteit's not a matter of who is on the sanctions list it's about why are they there in the first place. they are unwarranted measures to discourage progress and development in the country of Zimbabwe and Africa as a whole....
ReplyDeletei think if sanctions are to be lifted it must be done wholly otherwise what EU has done is change without change!
ReplyDeletesanctions are an anathema to our development. Ordinary citizens are the ones suffering not those on sanction lists. so we want them off as soon as yesterday...
ReplyDeletewell put Mr Nyoni
ReplyDeletethough i feel their true effect was to cause regime change and as far as the EU and it's allies are concerned their goals are set to be met when the general elections take place
hoping for the best
ReplyDeleteIn as much as i agree with the notion that the Western countries preach this democracy gospel to the third world, i also believe that they have a lot of clandestine motives behind. They only do that to devide and rule. Sanctions are there to change people's opinions abt their leadership patterns.Applying sanctions force people to change the support of their governments. however, this does not mean that the gvnt is innocent-- both sanctions and the gvnt are to blame for the breakdown of the economy.
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