African leaders as the problem?

from the African executive:

"....Zimbabwe’s case is no exception to the idea that we are underdeveloped because of the colonial past...

In Zimbabwe there is a diametrically opposite understanding between the two sides of the same coin: the colonial leadership and the post colonial leadership.

The latter subscribes to the societal value that they needed to develop a racial apartheid exclusively enjoyed by their own people (kith and Kin) centred on acceding to economic freedom and the sanctity of property rights as much as they valued human quality of existence minus the black majority.

Our dear leadership in the postcolonial state views themselves as mere victims than authors of their history, giving birth to an economic rights movement, which is just a euphemism for anarchism. This anarchist economic philosophy has undermined African potential of the people in much of modern day postcolonial Zimbabwe...

A microscopic view of Zimbabwean specimen will reflect the causal link between the annihilation of property rights and the economic decadence. The leadership never ceases to further the path of anarchism buried deep in the economic rights movement. The announcement by the Ministry of Industry and International Trade that it has appointed a board for the Zimbabwe Development Corporation (ZDC) tasked with establishing ‘peoples shops’ and administering companies seized from purported saboteurs of the economy is in its own right a failed policy. It is irrational for government to take up management functions of the economy because it has never been a good entrepreneur. State management of seized companies is just a euphemism for a criminal state....