An Eventful Week for Zimbabwe

By Lloyd Takawira 

Filled  with glamorous glimpses of humor and wretched by the loss of two members of parliament , Hon Mirriam Mushayi (Kuwadzana) and Hon Patrick Chidakwa ( Marondera East) , the week toppingly earned a reflection. 

Despicable , of all was ,the degree  heist demand by the country's veterans of  liberation war .

Yes !!! ,  War veterans demanded  university degrees, tax rebates as gratuity for their war sacrifices

"... the government must award us degrees because we went to war and learnt principles of the revolution and we made it," 

Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) spokesperson, Douglas Mahiya said: 

State Party Conflation.

Zimbabwe has been suffering from a  twin paralysis of state - party conflation , largely blamed on the ruling ZANU PF party's dejavue policies .  

Vocal these days ,  ZANU PF politburo member and acting spokesperson  Patrick Chinamasa  said the Cabinet ministers  must answer to the ruling ZANU PF party . Not only that , the man who earned himself the nickname 'Mr Bin' threatened that Zanu PF  would fire ministers that do not file reports with the secretariat. 

 “They should serve Zanu PF interests not their own, but Zanu PF,” Chinamasa said 

Despondent from multiple punches by  keyboard warriors , Zanu PF announced that it  is going  establish cyber units to counter( varakashi)  social media activists to shove up its image as well as to defend the party.

Zanu PF Politburo member Munyaradzi Machacha said 

" We  should also have a cyber-unit which will be involved in defending the party’s programmes on social media platforms. Social media has become the new battlefield for control .”

The General Almost Awake 

Listening to Vice President Constantine Chiwenga address where he said , that  he intends  to ban foreign medical trips  for ‘everybody’ was a complete logical  fallacy in dreamland . 

“We will not export our patients. We will not make referrals (to foreign medical facilities) for our patients. It’s everybody,” Chiwenga told journalists .

Vice President Chiwenga , spend months seeking treatment overseas. His acknowledgement  that overseas treatments by the ruling elites' have been gobbling state coffers sounded like a fabricated lie by a man whose last trip to China was in July this year for a “routine medical review.”

A Whopping $18 Million for By-elections 

Worrysome to the ordinary overburdened struggling Zimbabwean was the announcement by the  Zimbabwe Electoral Commission  that , it intends to hold by-elections on  December 5 . The commission submitted that a whopping  US$18 million was to be gobbled by the by-elections .

Fresh Farm Invasion 

Amidst a thunderous and aggregious USD $3 billion that the government of Zimbabwe promised to pay to former white commercial farmers as compansation for developments they have made on their farms ,  comes another property rights violation . The question is at whose expense? Obviously at the expense of the ordinary Zimbabwean . 

 Although the  government has said it is investigating the invasion  of Protea Farm in Ruwa by a senior official in the agriculture ministry. Protea Farm is owned by Martin Grobler. The writing is on the wall  that property rights and the rule of law in my motherland is seclusive . 

The Sister Revolution Hullabaloo 

Pissed off by the African National Congress delegation stance , that indeed there is a crisis in Zimbabwe . The regime in Harare did what it knows best  , threw salivo to their counterparts arguing that Zimbabwe and South Africa are two independent countries with sovereign rights and some members of African National Congress (ANC) were offside . 

The Genuineness in ANC 

It should be underscored that the ANC especially Madam Lindiwe Sisulu is keen on resolving the Zimbabwean problem . There is no doubt that , our problems are spilling to our neighbors South Africa . However , the old ways of throwing tantrums in the way dialogue has been our political leaders biggest undoing . 

The Politics of Hardliners

The Politics of Hardliners .

There is no doubt that , hardliner and the politics of entitlements has killed any hope of resurrecting and awakening  Zimbabwe.

The attack on Lindiwe Sisulu and Tony Yengeni for being the voice of reason in the midst of a debilitating crisis manifesting itself in various forms should be condemned . It is the 'stockholders mentality' 'chinhu chedu' mentality that has bastardized our country to this level .

 Zimbabwe For Us All 

Under sortorial , it can be underscored that Zimbabwe's  biggest undoing  has been , the "ruling elites' . The jargonization of , "tisu tirikutonga" has been an obiter-dictum to the fortunes of raising Zimbabwe from the doldrums  . Those at the top are not ruling , but are governing . 

Zimbabwe requires a "governing  party" not a "ruling party"

Llyoyd Takawira is a Freelance Writer . He is also a Governance Expert . He can be contacted on +263771923115 , Email :tllyoyd@gmail.com