The Sunday Mail
Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa
Below we reproduce part of ZANU PF’s spokesperson Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa’s views in an exchange he recently had with Cde Dzingai Mutumbuka, who currently serves as a member of the governing board for UNESCO’s International Institute for Educational Planning. He was the first Minister of Education after Zimbabwe’s Independence in 1980.
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NICE to hear from.
Please, could you be the lynchman of a digital research and digital content on how you leveraged the wartime organisational flair to deliver UNESCO-rated high human development index of Zimbabwe.
This is how a third last-born African nation weighed down by wartime debts, post-war near-bankrupt Treasury can’t do Afro-pessimism ideological garbage of Bretton Woods institutions, which were shunted aside by the politico-military apparatus of Herbert Chitepo’s poignant revolutionary theory and practice entwined with scintillating military genius of Josiah Magama Tongogara to give birth to ZANLA — ZIPRA by induction and association — as the inimitable anvils of modern African military resurgence and virility.
Zimbabwe has gone way beyond Haiti and his/her Desallines revolutionaries and kindled the flame of a modern African nation state through sheer military prowess.
The Second Chimurenga is the ultimate expression of how an African people can scale up and bring to heel the much-vaunted historical and imperial jingoism of Anglo-Saxophonia.
It may be 42 years since guns died down yet the victories you flaunt lie precisely in the postulate above.
As the economy revives and pumps, we need to pay homage to the politico-military organisation that gave landlocked Zimbabwe the sinews that have withstood and defied post-imperial intrigue and its debilitating resort to treachery as a prelude to interventionist military adventurism, if not direct aggression.
You will know that I am the theorist and practitioner of all game-changing economic case studies that have lent credence to Zimbabwe’s plucky economic defiance against the bug bear of induced inflation as a tool to sap national capacity and kill the inclination to stay the fight.
As Ambassador to Beijing, China (2002-2007), I conjured contract tobacco farming with the global cigarette behemoth that is China Tobacco in 2003/2004.
Leaf tobacco deliveries had plummeted from 200 000 tonnes to 20 000 tonnes.
The Land Reform was on the deathbed of economic failure.
Today, 180 000 families produce the much-craved leaf blend destined for the world’s largest structured physical market, to the foregone memories of once-eulogised 4 000 white farmers of colonial land depredation.
The 2013 Masvingo War Veterans Congress saw me as a unanimous choice of chairman.
It passed a resolution to legitimise small-scale gold production.
We vaulted back to the future of the 800-year-old Great Zimbabwe civilisation that coalesced different tribes to a commercial lingua franca shared between two great rivers of the Limpopo and Zambezi; the Indian Ocean and the Kalahari Desert.
Post-war mental stupor had belatedly ensconced the greatest dagger in our sclerotic liver of colonial dispossession.
Settler explorers had trucked wagons of blankets as inducement to coax out prospecting reports destined to BSACo Mining Commissioner in Johannesburg corporate headquarters. No need for customary prospecting of centuries-old Shona gold mines that had spawned General Mashayamombe initial military victories in 1896-1897 First Chimurenga.
I ended as short-lived Cabinet Minister in 2016-2017.
Then-Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa embraced and drove decision to legitimise small-scale mining.
Half-a-dozen years hardly passed to give issue of a gold haul of 35 tonnes . . . 66 percent supplied by 2,5 million small-scale miners.
And President Mnangagwa is en route to restore gold reserves as backer of the Mosi-oa-Tunya gold coin to re-introduce the mighty Zimdollar.
And crispy US banknotes are exchanged by RBZ gold merchants in Dubai; sure to land in Harare unpacked with residual heat straight from Federal Bank New York print shops.
The block chain digital gold coin is stirring heated curiosity in global finance.
Ahead of Beijing’s fledgling petro-yuan and (New) Delhi’s petro-rupee, it is indomitable Zimbabwe charging against the increasingly quaint notion of the petrodollar.
The divorce between Riyadh and Washington is providing fertile ground for the return of the gold standard.
How is that for royal ancestors Munhumutapa and Changamire.
They can enjoy the sweet golden dreams of eternity.
Eight centuries of gold as king of great civilisation are back in sync with the venerated gold currency of ages.
(As for the) Tsingshan Steel and Manhize carbon steel ecosystem . . . I conceived this project as far back as 2013.
Then-Vice President embraced it.
We were thwarted by Mugabe and his herdboy cabal of dim-witted G40 ministers.
It changed after 2017.
Chairman Xiang Guangda, the globalist entrepreneur heading Tsingshan Group Holdings, re-ignited his interest to mix the world’s third-biggest ferrochrome deposits with 200-year iron ore reserves at Manhize.
This will be poured into blast furnaces heated by Africa’s highest quality coke-bearing thermal coal of Hwange. Watch out Turkey, Russia and other second-tier global carbon steel producers.
Puny Zimbabwe is poised to lap on your heels.
Tsingshan vaulted nickel-rich Indonesia to top two status in stainless steel after China.
The template is there already to be copied to carbon steel in Zimbabwe.
Welcome to Manhize, the gestation industrial zone of global carbon steel ambitions.
Hard rock lithium
Six global top-tier billionaires of the white gold metal of new energy electric vehicles have descended on Zimbabwe in the last 36 months.
What Riyadh and Moscow are enjoying with fossil fuel mobility will pass the relay baton stick to lithium-endowed Zimbabwe at the high table of lithium-ion battery value chain.
I have some hand in this new bonanza of riches.
With so much convergence of economic virtue, it is profane blasphemy to say Zimbabwe cannot enjoy a national currency.
Countries earn hard currency by trade.
Zimbabwe digs up hard currency that is gold.
Zimbabwe features in the top 10 production league of the following minerals: platinum group metals (number 2); hard rock lithium (number 5); ferrochrome (number 3), diamonds (number 4).
I can go on.
Move over George Soros.
Zimbabwe has more formidable odds in a currency war.
It is escaping the fate you meted as you broke the back of the Bank of England in the 1990s.
There is just no stopping the Great Zimbabwe show.
