1) The Chinese have come a long way in Zimbabwe in under 18 years, going from poor merchants selling cheap goods to now dominating the mining industry and banking sector. They register and drive expensive SUVs while many educated Zimbabweans live abroad and cannot afford the same vehicles. 2) Chinese culture emphasizes hard work and not focusing on titles or degrees. Their banking systems have thrived even during Zimbabwe's economic volatility, something local banks have struggled with. 3) For Zimbabwe to restore national pride, locally produced goods like scarves need to come from factories within Zimbabwe rather than China. The author calls for Zimbabweans to work together across divisions to rebuild the country.

1. SCARF ON SCARS.(BRUCE S. MASHONGANYIKA.>>SOLUTIONS@BACOSSI.COM)
Fellow Zimbabweans and esteemed neighbours in the global village, my topic for the moment
is CHINESE ARE GOOD.
Not in a literal sense, maybe it also depends in which context one assumes. I am not going to dwell on
what they cannot change, like their physical features, height, hair, et al. I intend to focus the spotlight on
the circus they are enjoying in Africa.
In Zimbabwe we have seen them coming in at the turn of the century as poor merchants who slept in
warehouses where their stock of plastic clothing and not so useful gadgets were kept. I remember buying
a laundry iron in 2003 from one of their own which lasted only 1 minute before it melted. Zooming into
what these CHINESE have become in under 18 years truly begs for a deeper study of these human beings
as a people, as culture, as a system and through ecosystemic orders of cybernetics and the form of
Transactional Analysis they use to beat us cleanly in our own yard.
As a people, they are now mistaken for mining mini gods locally, almost every artisanal chrome miner
prays and begs them to buy their throughput from the horrendous open cast pits they call mines either
for a song or on a platter. "KOLOMO GOODA" fetching about $60 per ton regardless of the exhorbitant
CAPEX and OPEX our fellow brothers and sisters now known to these unscrupulous agents as “SHAMALI’
would have spent to heap up a meaningful load. The phrase “KOLOMO NO GOODA” sounding like a
sentence to further suffering.
What manner of culture is this? Over 3 million Zimbabweans said to be living in the diaspora, but never
will it occur that we hear any of our languages being introduced in any syllabus outside our borders,
excluding those which we already shared with our immediate neighbours. I am not confining culture to
language, follow me closely. They do not come in numbers having bibles of CVs and Degrees, they do not
look for the highest paying or most prestigious occupational title. Unlike our culture of purportedly very
educated Africans who leave our problems and go to foreign lands to provide solutions which are
pertinent in our own territory, only to be able to afford (over 60 months installments) the same SUV which
these Chinese are registering and driving around in Zimbabwe, should I mention that they buy these for
cash?
Systematically, we can bemoan our disposition of despondency but would that get us anywhere? Banking
systems indicate that what we look into when establishing financing houses locally is polarized to these of

2. the Orient origin. Just how many banks have sprouted when there was no money to talk about? How are
they thriving under such volatility? How did they absorb the hostility of the yesteryears in the economic
front? Are they making profits? How? How many of their clients are even paying taxes religiously? That
culture ought to be studied and if deemed logical, it should inform our financial literacy project
formations for the current and successive generations.
Nothing sinister with proudly wearing my scarf. It is at least a sign of patriotism. However, if MERLIN in
Bulawayo remains unproductive to the effect that any scarfs that we might need to exhibit our national
pride have to be sourced from China, that defeats the whole purpose. I know of a black man in South
Africa who owns a jersey knitting company. One man, supplying over 60% of all the jerseys worn by South
African learners from ECD to High Schools. How many men do we need in Zimbabwe to restore
operations at Merlin? Let us wear our locally made SCARFS on our LOCALLY INFLICTED SCARS.
1ST
ORDER CYBERNETICS of judging these well organised exploiters at a distance will give an impression
that Chinese are investors and all-weather friends of Zimbabwe. Cosmetically true. Historically
substantiated in defence and liberation accounts. 2
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ORDER CYBERNETICS however reveals maggots in
this current ecosystem. Some dead cells surely being feasted upon in the current whimsical and crotchety
recovery system, and the bulk of the red blood cells are in some pints which were donated to
neighbouring countries, Zimbabwe’s young blood, can you now see the propagation of this economy’s
anaemic condition?
What would it take for you to make the decision I took to turn my back on illustrious infrastructure in a
comfortable suburb a walkable distance from a shopping mall and just metres to free way. I am here now,
finding my feet, playing my part, negotiating with my partners in the global village across various time
zones to get them to contribute meaningfully in the current timeline so that the next generation of
Zimbabweans won’t have to be burnt on stake in xenophobic attacks, get trafficked into slavery and
prostitution abroad, or be deceived by artificial living standards in territories where they do not have title
to land.
Now that I have told you what I told you, what are you going to do with it? You didn’t just read to this
end for interest sake. Tell the child in you to reason with the adult inside you to revoke the parent
dormant internally to rise up to the occasion and be the change beyond the political divide. Let us stand
together, walk together, kneel together and work together to restore our National Pride and dignity. We
now have a fair chance to redeem our lost dominion and sovereignty as a people.
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