There is certainly a wave spreading across the region. It happened in the 1990’s. Some took advantage & some chose the moment to become more intransigent.
Confirmation bias means we see what we want to see. In psychology it’s the invisible gorilla experiment.
Confirmation bias means we see what we want to see. In psychology it’s the invisible gorilla experiment.
My suggestion for political parties in Zimbabwe is to engage an impartial commissioned study of what happened in Malawi & Zambia. Of course it’s not to confirm what we already know. But to make us see the gorilla.
As far as the Economies of SADC are concerned. Another moment as it was in 1990 has arrived. Zambia & Malawi missed the opportunity and remained socialist despite multi party democracy. Zim went the opposite direction into hyperinflation. SA used the moment to end Apartheid.
The region missed the moment when compared to Eastern Europe. Eastern Europe was just in much squalor as SADC. If not worse. E.E, led by Romania & Estonia instituted reforms & fundamentally changed their economies. All of them rejected socialism & embraced markets reforms.
In SADC the moment arrives in a world made of three critical ingredients;
(i) Western Nation money printing, commodity boom & liberal politics of debt forgiveness
(ii) AFCFTA & greater African integration
(iii) Post Covid economic reorganization .
It’s the perfect storm.
(i) Western Nation money printing, commodity boom & liberal politics of debt forgiveness
(ii) AFCFTA & greater African integration
(iii) Post Covid economic reorganization .
It’s the perfect storm.
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