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Dec 19, 2022 11 tweets 8 min read Read on X
*US Must Shake Itself from Policy Dilemma on Zimbabwe Sanctions Adventurism*

1. Only 30% of imposed sanctions end with complete or partial goal attainment. A POLICY DILEMMA for US is that regime change & land reversal in 🇿🇼has not yielded 21 yrs later. US policy makers simply
2. need to capitulate, & not hold onto measures whose costs exceed the benefits derived from them - SANCTIONS FATIGUE

Washington imposed #ZIDERA without a clear road-map for its eventual removal - precise knowledge about how, when, & why sanctions end was not thought of.
3. US sanctions are marked by ambiguity in imposition, enforcement & termination. They failed to articulate clear & ideally attainable benchmarks, & thats why 🇿🇼compliance has been spotty at best. Sanctions are not a major factor in 🇿🇼state decisions towards good governance
4. US reputation may take a knock if they lift their failed measures, but keeping them will disadvantage US industries. Increasing presence of China & Russia in 🇿🇼presents a potential long-term existential threat to US-the GREAT DYKE which they described in the most expressive..
5. language as part of 'The Persian Gulf of Strategic Minerals of our earth' is fast going into Chinese & Russian hands!!!

By lifting the measures US will not incur any audience or political costs at home because its people do not view 🇿🇼as a 'threat to US national security'.
6. US will lose respect completely if it does not change course. The #EU has been a 'responsive sanctioner' that gradually reduced the no. of officials & C/o's from the blacklist due to its own commercial interests. #Belgium pushed for the removal of diamond C/o's from the...
7. blacklists due to its own commercial interests, & the #Netherlands was in favour of rewarding modest political reforms in 🇿🇼

US has exhibited policy inconsistency towards 🇿🇼 & Africa at large. Around May 2021, its @USEmbZim Ambassador Brian Nichols & @CommerceGov launched..
8. the first-ever official Trade Mission to 🇿🇼 which supported US C/o's pursuing opportunities in 🇿🇼 Nineteen months later, the same US excludes Pres @edmnangagwa from the #USAfricaSummit as it did Pres Mugabe in 2014. On the eve of the Summit, US sanctions 4 people & designate
9. two C/o's, quashing expectations to repair relations. The Summit becomes pointless when US fails to normalize bi-lateral relations with 🇿🇼 & other blacklisted African states.

The pragmatic thing for US to do is focus on what's vital - protecting & promoting its interests,
10. influence, & positive reputation. It's ostracization of 🇿🇼 has uncertain but predictable disastrous consequences for 'US Strategy Towards Sub-Saharan Africa', as evidenced by calls at the Summit by AU Chairperson Mack Sally, Pres of Senegal, & @SADC_News Leaders, for the...

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Jul 19, 2020
Farm Mechanization Furore

1/FTLR created nascent farmers with no wherewithal for farm establishment. The role of state in funding farmers has been a recurrent theme in the past 130 yrs. Govts support of new farmers thru schemes was/is crucial @matigary @chakatsvamelody @kmutisi
2/The skewed RBZ farm mechanization allocations can be looked upon as a sui generis case of corruption. Politicians & civil servants improperly enriched themselves. However, this does not take away from the fact that grants/loans had to flow as a matter of necessity to farmers.
3/Farm setup after the FTLR was difficult becoz there was a general lack in capital, just in the same way it was difficult for early white settlers. Our Govt is doing more or less what BSAC had to do to kickstart farming. No commercialization can occur without funding models.
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The story of “Makate and Nehoreka”

1/ The story happened about 1840 in the district of Mtoko in north-eastern Zimbabwe.

Chief Makate who lived in Mtoko was well known and feared for his powerful war charms. No other king could defeat him and none dared go to war with him.
2/ But one king from the north, Nehoreka, decided to invade Makate’s chiefdom intending to take Makate’s fertile lands. As expected he was defeated as Makate used his dreaded war charms.
3/ However, Nehoreka was determined to defeat Makate. He thought of a plan to defeat him. He sent messengers to tell Makate that he was so remorseful about invading his country. What he did was bad and he wanted the two to have cordial relations.
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