The Second Republic under the revolutionary leadership of President Ruka Chivende has introduced an innovative governance model, one that could only be described as the “begging economy.” 

This isn’t your typical welfare state. 

Oh no, this is a unique system where the State strategically collapses essential services such as healthcare, education, and housing amenities and the President’s philanthropic friends rise as the guardians of social and economic security. 

Forget about welfare. 

This is survival of the fittest, and if you’re lucky, the fittest might throw you a bone.
While Scandinavian countries like Norway boast of their state-of-the-art welfare systems, where the government actively invests in the well-being of its people because they believe in something called a “social contract,” Zimbabwe’s model is a little different. 

In a traditional welfare state, the citizens can hold their government accountable if it fails to deliver. 

In Zimbabwe, however, the government has no such relationship with the people. 

Instead, the ruling elite is more indebted to a select group of institutions and individuals who through a mix of “ingenuity” and “creative electoral strategies” ensure the ruling party secures its mandate time and time again. 

Forget social protection, the social contract here is between the ruling elite and the election  handlers. 

Given this context there is no need to strengthen State capacity to deliver services to the people. 

Ruka Chivende was not elected by the people, so why would he owe them anything?

His loyalty lies elsewhere, specifically with those who have expertly navigated his rise to power in 2017, 2018, and 2023. 

These illustrious figures, who deftly manage the flow of power and influence, have every right to strip and molest the State resources for private gain. 

Under our revolutionary Second Republic, wealth has to be transferred from the State to the hands of the hand picked corrupt dealers.
Let’s just call the dealers, hustlers or better yet “Mbingas.”

You see the Mutapa Investment is a well calculated move to make assets transfer for our beloved corrupt Mbingas. 

Recently USD 1.6 billion was seamlessly transferred from the State to private citizens in the name of buying 35% shares from Kuvimba Holdings. 

Towards the 2023 elections millions were transferred from the State to Wicknell Chivayo and team in the name of procuring election material. 

Chivayo also benefited from millions paid to him in the name of a Gwanda solar project. 
The asset stripping modus operandi is a complex web, spanning from shady goat deals to lucrative gold smuggling schemes. 

In the end citizens must both sympathize and empathize that the State has no capacity to deliver healthcare and education among other basics. 

While a special crop of hand picked elite Mbingas are enjoying big earnings from stripping and rapping the State of its assets.
When the State fails, the poor majority,  whose voting behaviors are not nice, have to look elsewhere for support.

The True Patriots recommend divine intervention in this case. 

Yes, you heard us correctly! Head to a prayer mountain, your closet, or a church, and pray without ceasing, hoping your economic and socio-economic problems will vanish in thin air. 

Our beloved Mbingas are waiting to assist a few who have special skills in praising, worshipping and cheering our beloved leader Ruka Chivende. 

A begging economy only  thrives when citizens beg for education, healthcare and other basics.

Which of course our government has to conveniently ignore for the innovative governance model, to be functional.

Then our Mbingas will pick one or two cases for Public Relations but the majority will remain unattended languishing in misery and abject poverty. 

It is clear that the Zimbabwean economy will continue to grow under the Second Republic but it is not an economy for the majority who never voted for Ruka. 

It’s an economy for those who brought Chivende to power. 

Citizens are urged to sharpen their begging skills for survival.