(NEWZIMBABWE) Farming inputs: Mugabe hits back at Tsvangirai
COMMENT - When "poor farmers – seen as the bedrock of Zanu PF support" you know who represents the people of Zimbabwe and who does not.Farming inputs: Mugabe hits back at Tsvangirai
19/11/2012 00:00:00
by Staff Reporter
A $20 MILLION farming inputs scheme launched by President Robert Mugabe to bridge funding cuts by central government is being financed by local and foreign donors who “threw coins into the President’s begging bowl,” his spokesman said on Monday.
The presidency felt under pressure to respond after MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai accused his Zanu PF rival of diverting diamond revenues to finance a party programme.
But Mugabe’s spokesman George Charamba accused Finance Minister Tendai Biti, who is the MDC-T secretary general, of failing to support poor farmers – seen as the bedrock of Zanu PF support – ahead of the planting season.
Biti unveiled his $3,8 billion 2013 budget last Thursday but it offered little joy to small scale farmers requiring government support. The minister blamed constrained resources.
“Certain parties in the inclusive government view agriculture as synonymous with supporting Zanu PF which is why it never occurs to them that it feeds their stomachs more than it feeds the Zanu PF ballot,” Charamba said.
Tsvangirai “finds enough money to atone his carnal excesses whilst the farmer out there does not have a single bag of fertiliser,” Charamba charged, mocking the Prime Minister who recently paid $280,000 to his estranged wife Locardia Karimatsenga Tembo to settle a maintenance claim.
Mugabe, he went on, was a “food warrior who fundraises for agriculture”.
Charamba added: “The donor is not the President. The donor are the men and women of goodwill who made available the resources to buy inputs so that the Zimbabwean farmers, after being failed by their own government, can still go back to the field.
“Those donors are not only African but some of them come from foreign countries who have been charitable enough to drop coins into the President’s begging bowl.”
The $20 million project, dubbed the ‘Presidential Well Wishers Special Agricultural Inputs Scheme’, has sparked fears of vote buying in the ranks of Mugabe’s rivals ahead of elections slated for next March.”
Seeds, fertiliser and dipping chemicals will be distributed to 800,000 farmers countrywide.
COMMENTS
Life!
Why is that zanu officials get really angry and defensive every time diamonds are part of any discussion? Chokwadi chinorwadza.
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Carlistus16
Under the circumstances with which Zimbabweans find themselves today regardless of whatever cause, sanctions, bad publicity, political intolerance etc, what poor sensible person surely would turn down an offer for free seed or fertiliser, drought power etc? Zimbabweans are natural farmers and have fed themselves time immemorial minus the natural/human factors. Flip the coin, How many Zimbabweans can afford to pay gupuro/damage/maintenance to the tune of say what Morgan has splashed to date?
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Rafique702
All of those Zanu fat cats can.......has your question been answered?
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datZart
Because the diamond issue is a lie. Remember the recent conference in Vic Falls when some sinister MDC lobists alleged the missing 2billion. Agriculture is the bedrock of Zimbabwe economy yet Biti's budget offers nothing. The truth is MDC cannot fund black farmers whom they allege to have stolen white owned land. Their western powers cracks the whip. Even if MDC is somehow voted in power th black Zimbabweans will gain little like the Smith or Muzorewa era. The MDC promises a fictious govt like Zuma's in SA whereby they hold the govt but the economy is run by foreigners. Their people subjected to hewers of wood and drawers of water and paid pittance
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Tino
Does zanu pf means black? And mdc means non-black? Have the majority black Zimbabweans accumulated so much wealth under zanu that the MDC is going to destroy or deprive them? If the Zimbabweans are going to gain little with the MDC like in the smith regime so what have they so much gained with zanu? Has the elite black minority NOT replaced the white rich minority. What about the majority? Where did you get your analysis?
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datZart
You have the niche to criticise ZANU PF but what has MDC done or proposed so far to make sure the majority as you claim are extricated from poverty, absolutely nothing. In fact they attack every idea intended to help the poor.
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Mahenye
Idzi ndo rubbish chaidzo,puppet yaMugabe hehehehehe he,zvichapera,pandonga po!
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RudeChikala
Why do MDC people get really angry & defensive every time Tsvangirai is part of any discussion? Chokwadi chinorwadza ka?
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chigudo
This is nonsense! A permanent Secretary and Presidential Spokesman ridiculing
the whole Prime Minister in the same govt? Just give us the break down of these
donations.$45 million for ZANU pf cars,$6.5million for the construction of a
ZANU pf conference centre in Gweru,$20million for presidential agricultural
inputs etc. who are these donors? A donation to the govt of Zimbabwe is not a
donation to the State President. These inputs are being donated by the President
of ZANU pf to his supporters but not from the State President. What is donated
to govt goes thru the budget. Period. George is waffling becoz he knows that all
this money is coming from the looted Marange diamonds. George prove the source
of this money? Who are these well-wishers? Name them and itemize the donations.
It is that simple!
YES ZANU PF HELL
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mboko
Chii charwadza pakubatsira varimi????
Ko ndiko kunonzi kubhenefita kwachozve kana zvichinzi imari yengoda.Nekuti hapana pamuchambonzi pindai mumuforo muforere mari yakawanikwa pakatengeswa madiamonds.Inotobhenefita avo vane zvavari kuita sevarimi,kwete iwe hako mupungurunje asina munda.
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chigudo
@Guest
TO HELL WITH YOU
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Jukwaaa
Zanu pf adminstrators are classical clinical narcissists .Who haven't done anything wrong since 1980 and have an excuse for free everything .Obert Mpofu sold diamonds cheap and blamed sanctions ,same with Goche on Air Zimbabwe ,Charamba now on farms .Even Mugabe blames Gukurahundi on MDC.
If you scan their brains under magnetic resonance imagery ( MRI) frontal lobe is damaged ,their supporters RG_M,Kavhu ,Chikala it's a combination parietal lobe and occipital .They all have one thing in common thus serial lying .
Zimbabwe psychiatry community will gain immensely researching these subjects to prevent serial killers from offending .
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Kwetekani80
Never in the history of human existence have I come across a tsunami of verbal diarrhoea! This Charamba dog must be a proper mugodhoyi. A useless dog that will bark at the passing shadow of bird up in the sky. If this is a mirror image of Mugabe and his bitc*es ZANU yawoora!!
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Bob Zim
Are you saying if someone deliberately tells lies about you should then simply smile otherwise it would then suddenly turn into true fact? Kufunga kwevanhu veMDC vakomana.
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chigudo
Bob Zim
SHUT UP YOU SATANIC ZANU PF BABY KILLER TO HELL WITH ZANU PF FAK YOU ALL
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Life!
The foot-prints in Chiyadza suggest otherwise, Its rare for Mugabe to come out swinging at "mere" suggestions/accusations by people. We love the free inputs, we love donations. Its something else to divert state revenue through illicit avenues for political purposes. The notion that ZANU is using diamonds revenue to sustain a parallel government is not rocket science. Simple Deductive reasoning is all you need.
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zvinhu_zviedzwa
'....paying for carnal excesses....'
Maiwee Charamba chikwaturo...a bag of seed maise cost $14.00 and with Morcarnal Excess splashing 280k.....does this baffoon realise he could have distributed 20,000 packets of 10kgs SEEDCO Tsuro and made impact to 20,000 families instead of waffling that Bob is using diamond money? This truth that this gorilla could have changed 20,000 voter lives is difficult to swallow
Even if he is using diamond money....ndiko kungwarazve kupa vanhu mbeu yatengwa nehupfumi hwenyika yavo
Monkey...you have no point!
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bassman01
your reasoning is extremely weak,in 1998 when we had Those floods that. Broke the droughts,do you remember your fat fucking ministers were bought 4x4 to go and inspect the damage in the rural areas ,yet all they did was say 'the roads were impassable' yet returning with loads of water melons,in a fucking helicopter?Honestly ,you blind following zany guys are sickening-your time is up- you ARE the weakest link.
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Kavhu
Kunyepa makambokunzeyi nhai nhai vanhu va Moregays imi ? What helicopter did you ever see carry water melons ? The AFZ is a much more professional outfit than that. Search the web for activities of the Training Team attached to the South African Flying Training School. It is as good an airforce any in the world.
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zvinhu_zviedzwa
If those ZANU fat cats were stupid....then paying $280k for a carnal is lurid and calamitous! And it this idiot who pays for carnal excess that takes the IDIOCY trophy of the year
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Life!
The foot-prints in Chiyadza suggest otherwise, Its rare for Mugabe to come out swinging at "mere" suggestions/accusations by people. We love the free inputs, we love donations. Its something else to divert state revenue through illicit avenues for political purposes. The notion that ZANU is using diamonds revenue to sustain a parallel government is not rocket science. Simple Deductive reasoning is all you need.
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Masenjana Gayigusu.
Charamba rebuking MT for his 'carnal excesses'- a pot calling a kettle black.
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Majaira_Jairosi
The $20 million project, dubbed the ‘Presidential Well Wishers Special Agricultural Inputs Scheme’. Why not call it "The $20 million vote buying project, and dub it the, Monster's looted Chiyadzwa Diamond Precceds Scheme.
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ohreally_11
at least they are buying votes and helping people at the same time. so what about your MDC, how have they helped the people?
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chigudo
TO HELL WITH YOU AND ZANU PF LOOTERS 32 YEARS OF INCOMPETENCE WHAT HAS ZANU DONE IN 32 YEARS EXCEPT FOR LOOT
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ohreally_11
you voted for them not me. now your angry
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zvinhu_zviedzwa
Wabayiwa ngaabude.....enda undovhiya mbudzi!
Ohreally has hit you! Wongogwauta sembwa ine gwembe...
You pay for 'carnal excesses' and our RESPECTED AFRICAN STATESMAN is giving out inputs.
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Kavhu
And what contribution has the MDC T made in three years except for Moregays' womanizing, corruption that has brought all MDC T run councils to their knees ?
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chigudo
Kavhu
how can MDC make a contribution when they are being persecuted and subjugated at every turn ZANU PF ARE NGURUVE FAT THICK PIGS AND WE ARE GOING TO ROAST YOU
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Kavhu
Dream on dreamer. Vamwe vakarwa hondo kare, madzi baba ako, mapuruvheya vachifira mari , vachiti Zimbabwe haisunungurwe nekaSabhu. Zvikazoendepi ? Case long closed.
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Kavhu
"... vote buying project" ? and all for the good cause of filling-up your stomach when your party the MDC T has sought to sabotage agriculture ever since its inception ? Why don't you just call for all who support the stooge party of sexcellency, to go on a hunger-strike until mBiti realisise the importance of agriculture ?
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chigudo
Kavhu
shut up idiot
whos filling their stomach its you zanu bastads who are sellouts and who are sabotaging agriculture
you are creating us to become slaves to the colonising chinese
TO HELL WITH YOU
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Muzvambararawemota
20 mil worth of inputs for 800 000 families equates to $25 worth of inputs per family and on average for example a 50kg bag of compound D costs $30.
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Sendenkulu
not at wholesale price...if you buy a millon dollars worth, you are likely to get that bag for a fiver...
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chrisG
Why is it that when Zanu gets money from "outside donors" it is all hunky dory, but when others do the same, there are demands to know where the money came from? Just a question.
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General_Tichatonga
12 years down the line these so called small scale farmers still want to be assisted by the government kuti vatenge mbeu, fertiliser, pesticides etc......... saka 12 years dzese idzi havanakana kumboita profit. shame shame shame cry my beloved Zimbabwe.
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bigzebra
It took the white farmers a hundred years to get where they were.Whats 12 years or you just hate your own skin?
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Shapi
Exactly.And moreover, the labour was just as good as free because they paid peanuts to workers who toiled from 6 am - 6 pm each day.
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bassman01
I guess,but at there was employment!now?
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Kavhu
You want to call Rhodesian slave labour employment ? kikikikikiki.
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Gangarahwe Chimutsa
When we dollarised the economy in 2009 all the farmers who had zim dollars became bankrupt. Mbiti never assisted the farmers. Zimbabwean black farmers are hardworkers. The majority of us were sent to school by our fathers and mothers who were peasant farmers. The farmers have been increasing the tobacco hectorage every year whilst they are being sabotaged by Mbiti and Moregay. Moregay, Mbiti and the MDC in general thinks that the farmers dont need to be assisted thats why Moregay said "the President has become a donor who assist poor farmers"
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bassman01
Why did The dollarization occur,Why was our dollar so weak?Record inflation ?Did Mbiti cause this?Did Morgan?they are scape goats from ZANUs misrule because of ?Help me here I am lost
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Rafique702
Yes Tsvangirayi lost a lot of money because of the simple reason of not wearing a condom, Charamba beat his wife, rumours say he infected his wife with disease and went through a bitter divorce, Mugabe lost a lot of Money after falling out of favor with his then wife Sally over extramarital affairs who left him nothing in her will.......Back to the matter....Mugabe is NOT transparent......and his Agriculture program is is disarray...why should the MDC involve itself in that program.They are talking about supporting communal farmers only NOW...its too late....and 20 million divided by 800 000 families may very much end up elsewhere..school fees a case of beer, groceries...Its actually frightening that Mugabe thinks he is doing something great-there is no multiplier effect factored in or revolving fund.Even if Mugabe bought 20million worth of fertilizer the sher reason that its being done for political aggrandizement..and not for the economic well being of the country means there are no yield targets or monitoring..giving way to very possibly corrupt practices....Mugabenomics...has turned A bread basket into a basket case.....
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chigudo
A $20 MILLION farming inputs scheme launched
by President Robert Mugabe to bridge funding cuts by central
government is being financed by local and foreign donors who “threw
coins into the President’s begging bowl,” his spokesman said on
Monday.
WHERE IS ALL THIS MONEY FROM THE DIAMONDS LOOK AT HOW PATHETIC ZANU PF IS THEY HAVE TO RELY ON DONOR AID FROM THE VERY FOREIGNERS THEY DENOUNCE
Mugabe, he went on, was a “food warrior who fundraises for agriculture”
MORE LIKE MUGABE IS A LOOTER AND CORRUPT POLITICIAN THAT ONLY CARES ABOUT BUILDING SHOPPING MALLS AND DEFENCE COLLEGES
Those donors are not only African but some of
them come from foreign countries who have been charitable enough to
drop coins into the President’s begging bowl.”
HOW CAN THIS BE CALLED THE PRESIDENTS BEGGING BOWL WHEN ZANU PF HAVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN DIAMONDS REVENUE
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Gangarahwe Chimutsa
Only a fool and baboon would tell people that the diamonds revenue belongs to Zanu PF. Agriculture if funded seriously, it can become the fastest growing economic sector in zimbabwe. The farmers are bankrupt because of the introduction of multi-currency, what did you want the President of all people to do? Neglect them the same way Mbiti did? As long as the farmers and industry are not funded, the economy wont grow as anticipated. Mbiti, Moregay and the MDC in general should understand the problems that were brought about by the introduction of multi-currency for them to solve the country's economic problems.
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chigudo
Gangarahwe Chimutsa
YOU MUST BE THE BABOON THEN?
AGRICULTURE IF FUNDED CORRECTLY COULD BECOME THE FASTEST AND BEST ECONOMIC SECTOR IN ZIMBABWE WHICH IT WAS HOWEVER ZANU PF ARE NOT FUNDING IT CORRECTLY IT APPEARS ZANU PF ARE FUNDING THEIR OWN BANK ACCOUNTS THROUGH LOOTING , THEY ARE ALSO FUNDING THE MILITARY . YOU SAY THE FARMERS ARE BANKRUPT BECAUSE OF INTRODUCTION OF MULTI CURRENCY? IT WAS ZANU PF THROUGH GONO WHO INTRODUCED THIS CURRENCY DUE TO INFLATION AND MISMANAGEMENT CAUSED BY GUSHUNGO CHATUNGA THE OLD CROCODILE
EVERYTHING AND ALL THE CHAOS WE SEE IN ZIMBABWE TODAY IS DUE TO THAT OLD GOBLIN MUGABE
URIMHATA TO YOU MY FRIEND
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Kwetekani80
Bravo!! Vaudze vakadzi vaMugabe.
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Gangarahwe Chimutsa
NGOCHANI URIKUFARIRA N'ANGA INOBATA AMAI,
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chigudo
Gangarahwe Chimutsa
TO HELL WITH YOU NGOTCHANI
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Kwetekani80
Amai vako vanozikanwa samai muponesi murayini. Mai kabatwa mudanga vakapunira bhuru. Amai vanorarama no kukwabvura inyo segudo.
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