Opposition party challenges Cabinet to deliver

GWERU – Opposition political party, Zimbabwe Coalition for Peace and Development (ZCPD)is
expecting the new cabinet announced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa recently, to come up
with progressive policies that will arrest economic challenges facing the country.
President Mnangagwa announced a 26-member cabinet comprised old and new ministers, who have
been tasked to steer the country to economic development in line with Vision 2030 of making
Zimbabwe an upper-middle class economy.
ZCPD president and Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) principal Trust Chikohora challenged the new
Cabinet to address the economic challenges bedeviling the country in order to improve the lives of
the general populace.
“However, we wait to see the policies that will come out of the new Cabinet and to see how
progressive those policies will be. We wait to see if the Cabinet will be able to tackle the myriad of
challenges that are facing the Zimbabwean economy and if at all the lives of the people of Zimbabwe
will be improved by this new Cabinet that has come in, they will have their work cut out.
“There are a lot of issues and challenges that are facing the socio-economic environment in the
country especially the economy. They have to make sure that the economy is stabilised on a
sustainable basis, and they have to ensure that the prices on the market are stabilised and the
inflation is reigned in to get to single digit levels,” said the chartered accountant.
He urged the new Cabinet to come up with sustainable policies that attract both foreign direct
investment and local investment for the country to achieve Vision 2030.
“The country should be able to attract investment in order to spur on development . If we are to
achieve Vision 2030, there has to be a stable economy and there have to be sustainable policies and
this should be able to attract much needed investment in order to ensure economic growth and for
the country to be able to attain an upper middle income status which is envisaged in Vision 2030,”
said the ZCPD leader.