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In recent days I have been wondering what the core of my identity is. To this end, I believe I am most creating. Not creating in the sense of the great writers such as Shakespeare or our very own Shimmer Chinodya, but in the sense of the entrepreneurial minds that driven capitalism since the early man found barter trade is a means of getting what you need and could not attain.

So the focus going forward is to provide an "African" view of what participation in capitalism. I say "African" because there cannot be an African view since we constitute nearly 1 billion views feelings etc. Heck, we cannot constitute a "Zimbabwean" view. That is why this is my view.

To the item at hand.

I came from Zimbabwe the other day only to be saddened by what I see as the stalled Zimbabwean rebirth. Since 2008 and the height of the Zimbabwe Hyperinflation, I was naive enough to think by removing monetary authority from our government, who had clearly failed with the remit, private sector would lead us back to competitive growth. This is sadly not the case as that would be to simple, and as we know such a simple position cannot overcome such as complex case such as Zimbabwe. Or can it?

My 5 years in the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and subsequent years "eating what I killed" in the private sector notes that the subsequent demise of Zimbabwe (and many other third world economies) comes from a lack of understanding of our roles. The role of our country vis-a-vis the rest of the world; our roles within the country and our roles in relation to each other. Don't turn away just yet, this is not a theoretical lecture but has practical applications. This is where the politicians are getting it wrong for political expedience. Lets discuss this.

For a vehicle, body or any system to work, it must have components specializing in different areas working in unison. For example, if a spark plug stops working it affects the performance of the car. If two plugs stop working the performance gets worse. Now imagine in the same example, that if in replacing the plugs we put the wrong part in that sort of does the job. the car will work but something else might be affected. This is what is happening in Zimbabwe. Wrong parts are being used to try fix big problems.

To be more specific, government cannot correct the problems besetting the economy by not adjusting policy to reflect the realities on the ground. The realities are as follows:
1. Government role is to provide common services that are essential for society to continue.
2. Failure by Government to provide these services will over time render it irrelavant.

Now if we look at the above, what is happening that continues to weigh down economic progess? We as Zimbabwe cannot afford the current government as it is no longer providing a service for the tax it charges. We are currently looking at a situation where we as a citizenry are being charged for a service, but the service is not being provided as we a government spending most of its money on salaries instead of what we pay them for. This is not a problem for Zimbabwe but a problem across the world. I will look at this in more detail in future blogs.            

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