Speaking to NewsDay on the sidelines of the CEO Roundtable meeting at the resort town of Victoria Falls on Thursday, former Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara criticised President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s vision that Zimbabwe will be a middle-income country by 2030.
He said Mnangagwa’s vision lacks clarity and depth. Said Mutambara:
In my view, it is neither sensible nor meaningful for Mnangagwa to posit that the shared vision for Zimbabwe is for us to be a middle-income country by 2030. This is careless and thoughtless talk. What does that vision statement mean. What are the specific matrix? The MIC nomenclature is a World Bank analytical tool that refers to economies with the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of between $1 005 to $12 235. This is too broad a grouping. In any case our GDP per capita income is $977; hence jumping to $1 005 over 12 years is not sufficiently ambitious. More crucially, this definition of a share vision does not explicitly address the politics and society pillars. Neither does it speak to the issues of values and flagship (mega-impact) projects. Furthermore, where was the buy-in and ownership of that shared vision achieved? It is shared by whom?
In his submissions to the CEO Roundtable meeting, Mutambara said there should be a collectively desired destination of the country in 2040 called the Share National Vision, and a shared competitive national identity which he named The National Brand.
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