“Wishing a blessed Sunday to my brothers and sisters in lockdown. I am proud of the way you have responded to this challenging situation, with discipline, commitment, and spirit. The road is long, but we are on the right path. Stay strong and keep it up. Together, we shall overcome!” said Mnangagwa.
I find this sickening! Mnangagwa has treated the ordinary Zimbabweans as third-class citizens denying us our basic freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful vote and even the right to life. He rigged the July 2018 elections and even had seven people shot dead for daring to protest another rigged election. And so after once again ruthless crashing our hopes for meaning democratic change and economic recovery; he is now lording over calling us brothers and sisters!
Mnangagwa is like an abusive husband who is all over the wife like a rash, as if he is the most loving and attentive husband ever, even as she sports a black-eye from a recent savage beating by the brute!
“We don’t want violence, so I said soldiers go and silence these people, they were silenced,” Mnangagwa told his Zanu PF supporters in Mwenezi following the protest the fuel rise in January 2019. “Sort them out … We will crush our enemies, and they are being crushed!”
Hundreds of thousands were beat and/or raped and 17 were shoot dead for daring to protest the country’s worsening economic situation.
“Even on communal water points, joint ZRP and municipal police manned and organized communities for order and social distancing. It became clearer that the water supply situation in our cities and towns need urgent attention,” chipped in the faithful as a dog George Charamba.
It is laughable that the regime is admitting to its failure to supply clean running water so people can wash their hands regularly as one of the simple measures in the fight to stop the spread of corona virus. The country has completely failed to implement even the most basic measures to stop the spread of the virus and as the outbreak picks pace will find it is ill-equipped to deal with the sick and dead!
Our health care services has all but completely collapsed. There is a chronic shortage of doctors and nurses as most left the country to seek a living wage and better working conditions. There is no basic equipment and no medicine, even referral hospitals like Parerenyatwa and Mpilo Hospital regularly run out something as basic as pain killers and even clean running water. The situation is even worse for the smaller hospitals and clinics.
Zimbabwe will offer no meaningful hospital care service to the corona virus patience and so the death rate will be considerably higher compared to other nation that offered ventilators and ICU.
“Communities really appreciated the fact of a leadership mindful of the need to show empathy and first-hand appreciation of how families are coping. The whistle trip became the only appropriate mode and approach in the wake of the severe lockdown during which crowds and crowding are disallowed,” continued the infernal Charamba.
Appreciate! What is there for the ordinary Zimbabwean to appreciate in a regime whose leaders have creamed off the nation’s wealth to build their palatial Blue Roof mansions and to pay for their extravagant lifestyles, so much so that even the country’s hospitals have no clean running water!
Prior to the spread of the coronavirus or COVID-19 that was first detected in China’s Hubei province late last year, the IMF had already slashed its 2020 economic growth projection for Zimbabwe from 2.7% to 0.8%, citing poor performance of the agriculture sector and government’s “policy missteps”.
ReplyDeleteThe country is under a 21-day lockdown to try and control the spread of the disease with far-reaching disruptions of local businesses.
Bleak economic outlook
In a statement, the IMF said that it was now apparent that the outbreak would adversely impact the economic outlook.
“Covid-19 will make it even harder to balance the policies needed to restore macroeconomic stability with those to address urgent social needs,” the IMF said.
“Zimbabwe is experiencing an economic and humanitarian crisis.
The people of Zimbabwe have known for the last 40 years that Zanu PF was a corrupt, incompetent and murderous regime that rigged elections to stay in power. There is no denying that in those 40 years the nation has had many golden opportunities, most notable of all during the 2008 GNU, to implement the democratic reforms to end the de facto one-party dictatorship and have wasted them all.
In the long run, nations get the government they deserve, we in Zimbabwe certainly deserve this corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF regime complete with its entourage of equally corrupt and incompetent opposition parties, all 130 of them at the last count!
The nation has paid dearly in lost treasure, avoidable human suffering and wasted human lives. Corona virus is exerting a lot of economic hardships and many lives have been lost but countries like Zimbabwe with corrupt and incompetent government will pay an even higher price to corona virus.
The failure to ensure the country had something as basic as clean running water, for example, means even more people will get the virus and more will die! And it goes without saying that a lot of the donor assistance will be wasted or looted!
Until the day we finally decide to do something to end the curse of bad governance, Zimbabwe will pay the price for having a corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless government.
The number of Covid-19 positive cases has increased from nine to ten, according to latest report from the ministry of health and child care.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the health ministry, 13 samples were tested today at the National Microbiology Laboratory with one of these testing positive for Covid19.
The tenth Covid19 patient returned home from UK two weeks ago.
So the individual has been infecting others for the last two weeks! So if we count the number of people he/she may have come in contact with from the person seating next to him in the plane, the immigration officer at the airport, the person who picked him at the airport, all the people who live in the same house or visited in the last two weeks, all the people he visited in their homes or offices, etc.
The list will be 40 people plus already and we have not counted the strangers he met in the bank queue, etc. All these people must all be traced and test a.s.a.p. because if anyone of them got the virus then they too are busy spreading it. If you can only test 13 samples a day it will take three days to test the 40 people! 40 days!
Countries like South Korea have been able to do as many as 10 000 test a day so the technology is there. The question to be asked is how much effort has this regime put into buying such test kits?
It is really frustrating that the country cannot even guarantee the supply of clean running water!
There is no doubt that many, many lives are going to be lost unnecessarily to covid-19 in Zimbabwe because of the sheer incompetence of this Zanu PF regime. This is truly a high price to pay for bad governance! Too high!
According to Mambo, the latest case is a 24-year-old female, a Harare resident who arrived from the United Kingdom two weeks ago.
ReplyDelete"She said to be clinically stable. A total of 371 people has so far been tested since the first case was recorded," Mambo said.
This is just a nightmare in which there is no waking up because one knows that they are awake and that it is all real!
Zimbabwe has had a total of 10 confirmed corona virus cases and so there have been a total of 37 follow up tests carried on each case. It is nonsense to think the young lady in this case would have had contact with only 37 people in two weeks!
Zimbabwe is clearly not carrying out enough trace and tests and therefore there are many infected people out there who are spreading the virus. The country is going to pay dearly for it when the death toll starts to rise and cannot be swept under the carpet anymore.