Is Zimbabwe a failed State?

Is Zimbabwe a failed State?



Is Zimbabwe a failed State?

A failed state is composed of feeble and flawed institutions. Often, the executive barely functions, while the legislature, judiciary, bureaucracy, and armed forces have lost their capacity and professional independence. A failed state suffers from crumbling infrastructures, faltering utility supplies and educational and health facilities, and deteriorating basic human development indicators, such as infant mortality and literacy rates. Failed states create an environment of flourishing corruption and negative growth rates, where honest economic activity cannot flourish. Zimbabwe is due to turn twenty six in April with one leader and one party that has monopolised the political space. When the homeland was born, there was much optimism that the homeland was going to work for its persons and the persons were going to work to construct a new Zimbabwe not blinded by the past but disputed by the future. When Gideon Gono took over as book Bank administrator, he furthermore ran away with the baton and the party is furthermore helpless. The party has not been adept to construct an institutional structure that is informed by real nationwide concerns but has left persons to manipulate the State for their own selfish needs. To this end, Mugabe would have been fired if he was a CEO of a company called Zanu PF for malfunction to present and yet the constituents of the company have not been able to make him accountable. The party's enterprise interests have not ever performed and, if anything, Mugabe has never trusted blacks to be in charge. Instead persons like Rautenbach, Glynn and Victor Cohen, Bredenkamp, Roger de Sar, Zed Koudinaris, Tony Kates, Joshi btother, Adam, etc have been entrusted by the party to benefit from its enterprise ventures. In detail, Mugabe did not care about the financial health of his own party but was and is more concerned about residual in power. The national economic crisis is a major cause of homelessness. It has widened the affordability gap (the cheapest house now costs more than thirty times the annual minimum wage) and crippled the ability of housing delivery systems to improve supply. From a peak of some 25,000 units per annum in 1992, national housing production had by 2003 slumped to below 10,000 units per annum (Zartman, 1995, 36-42)

Demographic causes include rural-to-urban migration and natural increases. The rural-urban influx, which rose dramatically after independence in 1980, continues unabated. The new arrivals exert a strain on available housing. Consequently, demand outstrips supply, thereby contributing to increased housing costs and the mushrooming of unauthorized settlements and slums Nearly half of the 2.9 percent annual increase in the national urban population is attributable to people born and raised in urban areas. (Zartman, 1995, 36-42) Almost all of these continue to stay there, forming new households that add to the oversubscribed demand for housing.

Since 2000, politics has become a significant cause of homelessness. This period coincides with two direct causes of homelessness: land redistribution and politically ...