Apparently, key figures in Zimbabwe's power-sharing government are quarrelling over how to spend recently donated funds. Finance Minister Tendai Biti (of the MDC party) says the $800 million should only be used once a budget plan is in place, while Central Bank governor Gideon Gono, an ally of President Hitl... sorry, Mugabe, is impatient at the speed at which the money is being spent. Gono knows exactly where the money should be going: it's called the Zanu-PF social fund.
Of course, Biti is quite right to be suspicious of Gono, whose mismanagement is surely a significant contributor to the country's economic collapse. It doesn't help matters that many key Zanu-PF members live in ostentatious palaces, while the rest of the country struggles. If Gono is allowed any control of these funds, it will only mean a few more houses for the President and a more jewels for his evil wife.
If Zanu-PF really wants to make this government work, it has to understand that the MDC has to be cautious. If a dog viciously attacks you, you're not then going to leave it in a room with your children, are you? However, that's pretty much what Zanu-PF is expecting. Of course, one way to calm a dog would be lobotomise it but, unfortunately, in the case of Mugabe and his cronies, it seems like it's already been done.
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