Zimbabwe MP says we must be mad if we think people can invest in our country when we continue attacking them.

Twenty four hours later, you accuse the French of masterminding the demonstrations in this country, are we mad? – [Laughter.]- Do we know what we are talking about? –[HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.]- Why did we send a Minister there if we are going to be attacking them 24 hours later? What has happened to our intelligence sources there who should have informed us not to send anyone to Paris because those people are conspiring against us? We need political stability, sensibleness and soberness in this country, it is lacking.

The issue of legacy is one thing that should be embedded in the culture of our country. I was listening to President Obama when he received a question a few months ago to say, what is it that you would like to be your legacy when you leave the White House? The response was I will only know about my legacy ten years after I have retired from politics. The politicians in this country should learn to leave a legacy and not to die with their legacy having been known by anyone in this country.  That is very important Mr. Speaker, if the future of our country is going to be developed and we also have to address the issue of technology. In fact, a few months ago we were talking about sending our children who have got so many ‘O’ levels in sciences and so on, even funding that particular programme so that they learn about science.

We need to absorb science developments that are there and technology developments that are already there in this country.  We need to utilise our scientist. There are so many ways that have been suggested by Hon. Dr. Mashakada as solutions to what we have. One of the immediate solutions is we have nurses in excess in this country who have been trained but who are not employed. We have teachers in excess in this who have been trained but are not employed. We have graduates who have been trained that are not employed varikutengasa ma card apa ma juice  card, but here we are, we sit here each and every year we cap  10 , 20 thousand and we make them sit at home.

When we grew up hondo isati yanyanya kuenderera mberi kwaive neinonzi Winera where we used to export labour force to South Africa and there would be agreements where those people would be paid a third of their salaries into Rhodesian Banks. That was one way of earning foreign currency. If they did it then why can we not did it too – [Laughter.]-  It is a pity that sometimes we sit in this House and make noise about nothing, when we are supposed to listen to ideas.

The fact that the idea is coming from MDC T that does not mean that it is not a good idea. Let us start listening to each other because by the end of the day, it affects all of us. If we are not careful, we will have a fossil type of development whereby we will be garbage collectors, but not for recycling but just collecting garbage. That is what we are doing in this country. So Mr. Speaker, when I was listening to the proposer of this motion when he was putting across solutions that we should actually embody so that we are able to move forward, I sat back and said yes, Zimbabwe is attending its own economic funeral.  When you are attending a funeral there are many mourners who cry, some sob and others like the Hon. Member who was sitting there make noise.  We do not need political hooliganism when we are facing problems in this country. 

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