Zimbabwe's economic ruin, any hope?

According to Bernard Harborne, Lead Conflict Specialist at the World Bank, Zimbabwe’s military and its leaders have been “major beneficiaries” of government “quasi-fiscal excesses.”

“Substantial transfers and subsidies are made to keep them loyal and in check. This fiscal drain has reinforced the regime-focused nature of the military and cultivated a culture of entitlement,” Harborne says.

This excerpt from an article that gives good insight about the state of the economy of Zimbabwe and the prospects for improvement points at one of the big obstacles. In a nation where the military has developed a "culture of entitlement" the biggest danger would be to reform the system drastically and simply say to the branches of the military and paramilitary (the infamous wovits, war vets) especially close to the ZANU-PF, "we're cutting off your benefits, now you are a normal military," or worse "there is no need for you, go back home and find a job." The transition for the military is one of the touchiest ones for the country as a whole and will be, for me, a reference to measure progress. Tsvangirai has expressed the possibility of prosecution of some of the leaders, but it not the leaders alone that have ruined the country by seizing farms.
I can just imagine what happens in France whenever the government tries to rescind some social benefits, except in Zimbabwe they don't go to the street with placards, they go with pangas, knobkerries and AK-47s.
Furthermore, this situation is not unique to Zimbabwe, the case of (child) soldiers in Liberia and Sierra Leone unable to go back to a normal life and becoming mercenaries in other wars, the protracted war in DRC, etc. Control and regularization of the military seems to be a major problem in Africa, a problem that deserves more attention.

Good luck Morgan