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Why Do We Care About President Mnangagwa’s First 100 Days In Office?   https://allafrica.com/stories/201801080100.html     The minute Cde E.D. Mnangagwa assumed office of the presidency, the clock started ticking on his first 100 days in office. But why the fascination with a president’s first 100 days?. Does a first 100 days provide some insight into how President Mnangagwa  will run the government up until elections or beyond if he wins a fresh mandate? The concept of grading the president’s first 100 days was born of the Great Depression, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was aware that voters were desperate for fast action from their president. Knowing that the promise of expedient moves to ameliorate job loss, hunger and depleted national morale would set him apart, FDR became the first president to make big promises about immediate action,and then followed through in a serious way. FDR’s impact on American government was nothing sho...

Open Letter to President E.D. Mnangagwa https://263chat.com/open-letter-president-e-d-mnangagwa/ Dear Mr President, When you assumed office on the 24th of November 2017, you officially shouldered the hopes and great expectations of Zimbabweans both at home and in the diaspora. You pledged that your government would set a new, higher standard for transparency, accountability, program/service delivery, and ethics. You have pushed the sense that the government wasn’t functioning right and you would be the one to fix it. Your laudatory big-picture agenda and straight-forward appeal to fix the system has won you goodwill from the generality of Zimbabweans and the International Community. Your new government has a responsibility to develop and implement an integrated, short, medium and long-range plan for creating a Zimbabwe where all our people share in the benefits of a healthy, just, sustainable and prosperous nation. Citizens also expect your government ...