Senator says Zimbabwe needs more people to be viable- family should have minimum of eight children

The Japanese factory, Toyota or Daihatsu cannot come to Zimbabwe and say look I want to come and build a factory to employ people. To start with, even if they set up so many factories the people may not be there with the necessary skills.  They are not there, let alone the market.  How many of our people can buy those cars?  Why should he actually come here to invest for 14 million, instead he will go to Nigeria 150 million, Ethiopia 90 million  and to Egypt where actually the people are there who can buy the product. So, that is a serious issue and it is a serious matter of concern. 

Madam President, on population again, I will take you through history again the problem of having less people. Even if there was a conflict, we cannot fight a war because we will run out of people.  We do not have the people, we cannot even fight it. – [HON. SENATORS: Hear, hear.]-  This is very serious in terms of security; we just do not have the soldiers.

 I will give you an example in the European wars, the second World War. The Germans were ruthlessly efficient in terms of equipment, tactics and everything but they did not have enough blood. The Russians were hopelessly inefficient but they had more blood.  They kept on coming.  You lose 300, tomorrow they have so many people coming from Siberia.    The Germans were surprised and ended up taking conscripts who do not know the traditions of fighting.  Whenever they hear a gun, because they were Hungarians, they were conscripts, they simply ran away.  That is how really serious it is if you do not have your own people committed.  Our own people really with the traditions of fighting here are getting old. I am sorry to say, in fact my General here – these are people with the tradition of fighting but he is old. We need new more people to be on the ground.     The ones that stayed in the Chimurenga war are all getting old and I am old too.

Let us face it, this is a reality.  The population is dwindling and dwindling.   I am appealing that as we go along in terms of economic development, security, consumption everything, we should actually encourage our young people, those who can and those who are able to support children and actually give them support mechanisms to make sure that they have more children. Well, we should actually encourage more people.  The organisations Mr. President, that are diligently committed to be antilife in the sense that all they are doing is birth control, in other words; do not have children,  have two children or none at all.  They are actually very happy if you do not have any children.  No this should be reversed. They should not be encouraging prolife but they should encourage life.

The amount of money they are spending Mr. President, thousands and thousands in birth control must be spent in supporting families and children in schools because they have the money. If they have the money to actually discourage life, why can they not encourage life? Hon. Members, face it.  What they do Mr. President, I will tell you.

Well, they will come to our ladies, our beautiful women and say ahh no do not have many children, there is this method of control, all of them with side effects. Once they have gone into side effects, they go and complain, look I am now having side effects and they say ahh do not worry, there is treatment for it. Now, the same people they have sold the birth control, they get money.  Now, you will go back with side effects and they sell again the medicine to you.  So again, they are making double money.   It is hypocrisy of the worst order.   [HON. SENATORS: Hear, hear.]

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