People should not confuse what Kirsty Coventry did in the swimming pool with what she is doing now, especially when it must be remembered she is propping up a regime everyone has said rigged last year's elections! I do not care how many Olympic medals she has won that does not give her the right to sell-out!
This comes after South African media reported in December last year that Pretoria had turned down a request from Mnangagwa’s administration for a US$1,2 billion bailout. But South Africa’s Finance minister, Tito Mboweni — who accompanied Ramaphosa to the Harare BNC — later confirmed that Pretoria was indeed considering financial assistance to Zimbabwe. The country’s International Relations minister, Lindiwe Sisulu, also weighed in subsequently — saying Ramaphosa’s government would grant Zimbabwe the bailout that it sorely needed to address its deepening economic crisis which triggered riots in January this year. “We will help Zimbabwe as and when we are able to. If there’s anything we can’t do, I’m sure they can find help from other international parties. “But they are our sister country and we’d like to help solve their problems. Any assistance we can afford, we’d like to provide it,” Sisulu, who was also part of Ramaphosa’s delegation to Harare, said. Last month, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube also confirmed that Zimbabwe was seeking assistance from its biggest trading partner. In a joint communique which was issued after yesterday’s meeting between Mnangagwa and Ramaphosa, the two leaders also said they were looking at increasing a standing credit facility between the central banks of the two countries — under whose facility Zimbabwe can access R100 million from the South African Reserve Bank. “Other financing options beyond this are also being explored, for example, a facility from South African private banks to the Zimbabwean private sector and guaranteed by the South African government with an appropriate counter-guarantee from the Zimbabwean government,” the communique said. In addition, Ramaphosa bluntly demanded that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his under pressure government provide a safe and conducive investment climate for South African companies operating in Zimbabwe. Speaking earlier, Ramaphosa told the BNC that Zimbabwe, which also faces a severe drought this year, was worthy of the international community’s support to help revive its economy — repeating his previous calls for sanctions against Zimbabwe to be lifted. “We want to see meaningful support being given by international development partners to Zimbabwe because Zimbabwe does deserve the support that the world can give,” said Ramaphosa. Mnangagwa rigged last year’s elections and everyone knows that including President Cyril Ramaphosa and as long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs the country will never register any meaningful economic recovery. Preside Ramaphosa can call for sanctions to be lifted and for “meaningful support” for Zimbabwe until he is coal-black in the face no one is going to listen to him. If SA was money to waste propping a corrupt regime, that is his democratic right to do so. He will not do this for long, that much is obvious, Zimbabwe has no problem spending money. What President Ramaphosa cannot do is tell other sovereign nation to join him in throwing good money into a black hole. As a Zimbabwe, I do not thank President Ramaphosa for insult all the people in Zimbabwe fighting for meaningful democratic change by insisting last year’s rigged elections is the best we should aspire for.
“Yes there may be issues of sanctions and foreign currency issues but there must be ways of managing these issues. I have said I want a healthcare team who are well supported and this is why i then decided that we have a forum where we can meet. When i was CEO of Chitungwiza Hospital, I could hear everything everyday and I would act swiftly, i like the same to happen here. “If we feel like we have to change management, we will do it, we do not want to relax and sleep on the job, we have to perform. I was telling the Health Services board (HSB) that we need those performance appraisals. We might have sanctions and foreign currency issues but we need to be innovative and get around these challenges,” said Dr Moyo Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals Chief Executive Officer, Mr Zigora said it was difficult for Zimbabwe to make any procurement and purchase of medical supplies and sundries outside Zimbabwe as suppliers are rejecting money from Zimbabwe be it USD or not. Meanwhile, the situation at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals (PGH) has deteriorated beyond comprehension with evidence on the ground showing that the institution has recorded several fatalities in the maternity, burns, cancer and emergency wards over the past few months. When HealthTimes visited the institution on the side-lines of the ongoing industrial action by senior doctors and consultants, hundreds of desperate patients were waiting in the waiting bays amidst indications that some had travelled from places as far as Masvingo, Kotwa among others only to be told to return home as doctors were only attending to emergency cases. Senior doctors and consultants concurred that the situation at Parirenyatwa was no longer tenable and they vowed not resume normal work until the plea to address the equipment, drug and sundries issue has been resolved. According to consultants, nurses in the burns wards are now forced to recycle and wash bandages for reuse owing to shortages of bandages, a situation which has seen patients succumbing to various infections while many fatalities have occurred as a result. Dr Faith Muchemwa a plastic surgeon with Parirenyatwa Hospitals said a number of patients have died over the past few months from infections arising from burns and lack of sundries. “There are no bandages in the burns wards, nurses are now washing bandages, those that would have even used before, just to ensure they cover the burns. However, a number of infections are being recorded from since these bandages won’t be that clean and at times there is no detergents to wash the bandages. “We are not on strike, it is our desire to strike, we only can’t work under the current conditions, there is no water there is no soap sometimes to disinfect our hands during surgery. We are saying could we cut our cloth according to the material that we have. “We only here that supplies are only two weeks strong now, so let’s put our heads together and say what can we do with what we have, things are bad and for me it is just very difficult to proceed under the current situation,” said Dr Wazara. If things are this bad in a big referral hospital like Parerenyatwa how much worse in the small provincial hospitals and worse still rural hospitals! Like it or not the health services in Zimbabwe has all but completely collapsed! This is really tragic! What makes our situation even more infuriating is that we have a regime that continues to waste money on the filthy rich ruling elite whilst starving the rest of the population of funds for the life and death necessities. A few weeks ago Zanu PF leaders took delivery of new trucks, a few weeks earlier Ministers had just received their new limos, in January Mnangagwa was on a jaunty on a hired jet costing US$25 million for ten days, etc. The people are stuck with the corrupt and tyrannical regime as it is able to rig elections and use brute force to beat the people into submission. What a nightmare!
The tragic reality in Zimbabwe is that the ordinary people are caught between the rock and the deep blue sea with Zanu PF on the one hand and MDC Alliance on the other. Zanu PF blatantly rigged last year's elections. The election process had so many flaws, irregularities and illegalities it is nonsense for anyone to claim they won those elections. ZEC has failed to produce a verified voters' roll and failed to release a number of the V11 forms giving a summary of the polling station vote count for the individual candidate although these are all legal requirements, for example. “The final results as announced by the Electoral Commission contained numerous errors and lacked adequate traceability, transparency and verifiability. Finally, the restrictions on political freedoms, the excessive use of force by security forces and abuses of human rights in the post-election period undermined the corresponding positive aspects during the pre-election campaign. As such, many aspects of the 2018 elections in Zimbabwe failed to meet international standards” stated the EU Zimbabwe Election Observer Mission in its final report. So Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF junta have no mandate to govern and they should step down. Instead of the nation focusing all its energy on putting pressure on Zanu PF to step down the nation is being diverted by Chamisa confused call. He is accepting the results of parliamentary race but rejecting the presidential race. How he has done this is a mystery since it was the same ZEC, same unverified voters’ roll, same unreleased V11 forms, etc. involved in both races. Zanu PF has taken full advantage of the confusion Chamisa has created to reassert the whole election was free, fair and credible and the party’s candidates have the electoral mandate to govern. Both Mnangagwa and Chamisa do not care that the electoral process was flawed and illegitimate as long as they are declared the winner. In other words, both Zanu PF and MDC Alliance do not care that 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora were denied the vote, rural voters were frog marched to attend Zanu PF rallies and then to vote for the party, etc. as long as they secure a seat on the gravy train which is why failed to implement even one democratic reform in five years of the last GNU. It would be naïve to trust these two to implement any reforms now hence the reason the nation is caught between the rock and the deep blue sea.
ZIMBABWE'S trade opened the year in the negative, registering a $44,2 million deficit in January, latest data from the statistics agency has shown.
Figures released by the Zimbabwe Statistics Agency (ZimStat) show that in January, the country imported goods and services worth $336,8 million against exports of $292,6 million.
However, the trade figures for January 2018 are still not available as the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority, which is the source of merchandise trade data, has not provided them, according to ZimStat.
The bulk of the country's imports in the period under review remained heavily skewed towards consumptive products, which comprise fuel, wheat, medicines and vehicles, while exports were gold, flue-cured tobacco, nickel and chrome, among others.
The top four imports in the period under review were ranked as diesel, which guzzled $61 million, followed by unleaded petrol at $36m, aviation spirit ($9,6m) and durum wheat ($7,6m).
Where is the figure for the diamonds? In 2012 Edward Chindori-Chininga, former Zanu PF minister of mines, reported that there were no record of the quantity and quality of diamonds being mined in Marange and Chiadzwa or where the diamonds were being sold and for how much. Nothing.
In 2016 Mugabe admitted the country was “swindled” out of $15 billion in diamond revenue. Mugabe never arrested even one swindler and neither has Mnangagwa after all that rhetoric of “Zero tolerance to corruption!”
So people believe the country is being swindled of as much as $2 billion worth of diamonds every month. No wonder there is a scramble for Zimbabwe diamonds and the EU has lifted the sanctions on most Zanu PF leaders so countries like Belgium can join in the wholesale looting. Zimbabwe will never register any meaningful economic recovery as long as the country remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. The country must push for Zanu PF to step down so an interim administration can implement the democratic reforms necessary for free, fair and credible elections. Zanu PF will never ever allow the country to hold free and fair elections. Never! The ruling elite have too much to lose in losing the elections!
Zimbabwe's top hospital Parirenyatwa has run out of basic necessities like betadine and painkillers it has been revealed.
The issue came out during a meeting between Minister of Health Obadiah Moyo and Senior doctors on Wednesday. The doctors and consultants have put down tools citing inadequate equipment to use to treat patients and saying they are now producing deformed patients.
If a big referral hospital like Parirenyatwa has run out of basic necessities like butadiene and painkillers what more of the provincial hospitals and even worse the district hospitals!
It is interesting that just over two months ago Mnangagwa was at Parirenyatwa Hospital and acknowledge the sorry state of decay and rot at the hospital and in the health service in general. He promised to do something about it but has clearly done nothing just as he had promised to hold free, fair and credible elections only to blatantly rig the elections.
Indeed, from the hospital visit Mnangagwa was off galavanting all over Asia for 10 days in a hired luxury jet costing the nation a staggering US$25 million. In the face of such in your face extravagant waste, it is little wonder there is donor fatigue. For decades now the donor community has provided up to 98% of Zimbabwe’s medicinal needs, they are sick and tired of the thankless task.
The people of Zimbabwe must wake up to the reality that they are responsible for holding the government to account; they have not taken this sacred task with the seriousness it demands and hence the reason the country is in this mess. If the people do not wake up then they will suffer and die. They are suffering and dying already but this is only the beginning there is hell-on earth still to come!
Government should seriously look at concerns raised by senior doctors over the dire situation at the country's public hospitals. Yesterday, the senior doctors took their grievances to the street as they have realised it is the only way to draw government's attention.
Those in the know will tell you that it was the donors who had shouldered the bulk of the financial burden of Zimbabwe's supply of medicine, as much as 98%. When Zimbabwe's ruling elite are seen galavanting all over the world in 787 - 8 Dreamliner Jets costing US$ 25 million for 10 days it must have left a bad taste in the donors' mouths. Donors are sick and tired of their thankless task of bankrolling Zimbabwe's health, education, food aid, etc. whilst the country's ruling elite waste the nation's wealth of luxuries and the masses themselves just go along without even raising a finger to object.
It is great that the senior doctors have finally woken up and are taking the regime head-on. Still one has to ask why it took them so long to do so? Was it because they were comfortable with the status quo and are only now beginning to feel the heat!
These are crocodile tears, Zanu PF has dragged the nation into this hell-on-earth these last 38 years; why has Dr Mashumba said nothing in all those years. If she is serious about putting an end to the suffering and unnecessary deaths then she should be demanding that Zanu Pf step down from office.
Anyone who believes Zimbabwe can ever achieve any meaningful economic recovery whilst the country remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs is very naive.
Zimbabwe is in this mess because people have been naive and lazy to think and the country will continue to sink deeper and deeper into this abyss. We have people who are so lazy they will not open their eyes even with millions of people now living in abject and dying like flies because the health service has completely collapsed. There is no hope of Zimbabwe getting out of this hell-hole anytime soon. None!
@ Chinono I still hear the words of Dr Azza Mashumba in my head, “…there is just no urgency , we are trying so hard. We are making a plan. We are trying to come up with contingency plans. Everything that we are trying to do is futile. We need support.” Government must step forward and be responsible by allowing Zimbabweans who are willing to ship hospital equipment by removing the prohibitive duties, that is the least they can do! What we need is a competent government accountable to the people. All these efforts of trying to have a health health care service whilst the country remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs is a nonsense. How many more people must suffer and die before we finally take the responsibility of good governance seriously with the urgency the matter demands! This Zanu PF regime must go it has no democratic mandate to govern since it rigged last July’s elections. Government must “remove prohibitive duties”! How nauseating!
People should not confuse what Kirsty Coventry did in the swimming pool with what she is doing now, especially when it must be remembered she is propping up a regime everyone has said rigged last year's elections! I do not care how many Olympic medals she has won that does not give her the right to sell-out!
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ReplyDeleteThis comes after South African media reported in December last year that Pretoria had turned down a request from Mnangagwa’s administration for a US$1,2 billion bailout.
But South Africa’s Finance minister, Tito Mboweni — who accompanied Ramaphosa to the Harare BNC — later confirmed that Pretoria was indeed considering financial assistance to Zimbabwe.
The country’s International Relations minister, Lindiwe Sisulu, also weighed in subsequently — saying Ramaphosa’s government would grant Zimbabwe the bailout that it sorely needed to address its deepening economic crisis which triggered riots in January this year.
“We will help Zimbabwe as and when we are able to. If there’s anything we can’t do, I’m sure they can find help from other international parties.
“But they are our sister country and we’d like to help solve their problems. Any assistance we can afford, we’d like to provide it,” Sisulu, who was also part of Ramaphosa’s delegation to Harare, said.
Last month, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube also confirmed that Zimbabwe was seeking assistance from its biggest trading partner.
In a joint communique which was issued after yesterday’s meeting between Mnangagwa and Ramaphosa, the two leaders also said they were looking at increasing a standing credit facility between the central banks of the two countries — under whose facility Zimbabwe can access R100 million from the South African Reserve Bank.
“Other financing options beyond this are also being explored, for example, a facility from South African private banks to the Zimbabwean private sector and guaranteed by the South African government with an appropriate counter-guarantee from the Zimbabwean government,” the communique said.
In addition, Ramaphosa bluntly demanded that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his under pressure government provide a safe and conducive investment climate for South African companies operating in Zimbabwe.
Speaking earlier, Ramaphosa told the BNC that Zimbabwe, which also faces a severe drought this year, was worthy of the international community’s support to help revive its economy — repeating his previous calls for sanctions against Zimbabwe to be lifted.
“We want to see meaningful support being given by international development partners to Zimbabwe because Zimbabwe does deserve the support that the world can give,” said Ramaphosa.
Mnangagwa rigged last year’s elections and everyone knows that including President Cyril Ramaphosa and as long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs the country will never register any meaningful economic recovery.
Preside Ramaphosa can call for sanctions to be lifted and for “meaningful support” for Zimbabwe until he is coal-black in the face no one is going to listen to him. If SA was money to waste propping a corrupt regime, that is his democratic right to do so. He will not do this for long, that much is obvious, Zimbabwe has no problem spending money. What President Ramaphosa cannot do is tell other sovereign nation to join him in throwing good money into a black hole.
As a Zimbabwe, I do not thank President Ramaphosa for insult all the people in Zimbabwe fighting for meaningful democratic change by insisting last year’s rigged elections is the best we should aspire for.
“Yes there may be issues of sanctions and foreign currency issues but there must be ways of managing these issues. I have said I want a healthcare team who are well supported and this is why i then decided that we have a forum where we can meet. When i was CEO of Chitungwiza Hospital, I could hear everything everyday and I would act swiftly, i like the same to happen here.
ReplyDelete“If we feel like we have to change management, we will do it, we do not want to relax and sleep on the job, we have to perform. I was telling the Health Services board (HSB) that we need those performance appraisals. We might have sanctions and foreign currency issues but we need to be innovative and get around these challenges,” said Dr Moyo
Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals Chief Executive Officer, Mr Zigora said it was difficult for Zimbabwe to make any procurement and purchase of medical supplies and sundries outside Zimbabwe as suppliers are rejecting money from Zimbabwe be it USD or not.
Meanwhile, the situation at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals (PGH) has deteriorated beyond comprehension with evidence on the ground showing that the institution has recorded several fatalities in the maternity, burns, cancer and emergency wards over the past few months.
When HealthTimes visited the institution on the side-lines of the ongoing industrial action by senior doctors and consultants, hundreds of desperate patients were waiting in the waiting bays amidst indications that some had travelled from places as far as Masvingo, Kotwa among others only to be told to return home as doctors were only attending to emergency cases.
Senior doctors and consultants concurred that the situation at Parirenyatwa was no longer tenable and they vowed not resume normal work until the plea to address the equipment, drug and sundries issue has been resolved.
According to consultants, nurses in the burns wards are now forced to recycle and wash bandages for reuse owing to shortages of bandages, a situation which has seen patients succumbing to various infections while many fatalities have occurred as a result.
Dr Faith Muchemwa a plastic surgeon with Parirenyatwa Hospitals said a number of patients have died over the past few months from infections arising from burns and lack of sundries.
“There are no bandages in the burns wards, nurses are now washing bandages, those that would have even used before, just to ensure they cover the burns. However, a number of infections are being recorded from since these bandages won’t be that clean and at times there is no detergents to wash the bandages.
“We are not on strike, it is our desire to strike, we only can’t work under the current conditions, there is no water there is no soap sometimes to disinfect our hands during surgery. We are saying could we cut our cloth according to the material that we have.
“We only here that supplies are only two weeks strong now, so let’s put our heads together and say what can we do with what we have, things are bad and for me it is just very difficult to proceed under the current situation,” said Dr Wazara.
If things are this bad in a big referral hospital like Parerenyatwa how much worse in the small provincial hospitals and worse still rural hospitals! Like it or not the health services in Zimbabwe has all but completely collapsed!
This is really tragic! What makes our situation even more infuriating is that we have a regime that continues to waste money on the filthy rich ruling elite whilst starving the rest of the population of funds for the life and death necessities. A few weeks ago Zanu PF leaders took delivery of new trucks, a few weeks earlier Ministers had just received their new limos, in January Mnangagwa was on a jaunty on a hired jet costing US$25 million for ten days, etc.
The people are stuck with the corrupt and tyrannical regime as it is able to rig elections and use brute force to beat the people into submission. What a nightmare!
The tragic reality in Zimbabwe is that the ordinary people are caught between the rock and the deep blue sea with Zanu PF on the one hand and MDC Alliance on the other. Zanu PF blatantly rigged last year's elections. The election process had so many flaws, irregularities and illegalities it is nonsense for anyone to claim they won those elections.
ReplyDeleteZEC has failed to produce a verified voters' roll and failed to release a number of the V11 forms giving a summary of the polling station vote count for the individual candidate although these are all legal requirements, for example.
“The final results as announced by the Electoral Commission contained numerous errors and lacked adequate traceability, transparency and verifiability. Finally, the restrictions on political freedoms, the excessive use of force by security forces and abuses of human rights in the post-election period undermined the corresponding positive aspects during the pre-election campaign. As such, many aspects of the 2018 elections in Zimbabwe failed to meet international standards” stated the EU Zimbabwe Election Observer Mission in its final report.
So Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF junta have no mandate to govern and they should step down.
Instead of the nation focusing all its energy on putting pressure on Zanu PF to step down the nation is being diverted by Chamisa confused call. He is accepting the results of parliamentary race but rejecting the presidential race. How he has done this is a mystery since it was the same ZEC, same unverified voters’ roll, same unreleased V11 forms, etc. involved in both races. Zanu PF has taken full advantage of the confusion Chamisa has created to reassert the whole election was free, fair and credible and the party’s candidates have the electoral mandate to govern.
Both Mnangagwa and Chamisa do not care that the electoral process was flawed and illegitimate as long as they are declared the winner. In other words, both Zanu PF and MDC Alliance do not care that 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora were denied the vote, rural voters were frog marched to attend Zanu PF rallies and then to vote for the party, etc. as long as they secure a seat on the gravy train which is why failed to implement even one democratic reform in five years of the last GNU. It would be naïve to trust these two to implement any reforms now hence the reason the nation is caught between the rock and the deep blue sea.
ZIMBABWE'S trade opened the year in the negative, registering a $44,2 million deficit in January, latest data from the statistics agency has shown.
ReplyDeleteFigures released by the Zimbabwe Statistics Agency (ZimStat) show that in January, the country imported goods and services worth $336,8 million against exports of $292,6 million.
However, the trade figures for January 2018 are still not available as the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority, which is the source of merchandise trade data, has not provided them, according to ZimStat.
The bulk of the country's imports in the period under review remained heavily skewed towards consumptive products, which comprise fuel, wheat, medicines and vehicles, while exports were gold, flue-cured tobacco, nickel and chrome, among others.
The top four imports in the period under review were ranked as diesel, which guzzled $61 million, followed by unleaded petrol at $36m, aviation spirit ($9,6m) and durum wheat ($7,6m).
Where is the figure for the diamonds? In 2012 Edward Chindori-Chininga, former Zanu PF minister of mines, reported that there were no record of the quantity and quality of diamonds being mined in Marange and Chiadzwa or where the diamonds were being sold and for how much. Nothing.
In 2016 Mugabe admitted the country was “swindled” out of $15 billion in diamond revenue. Mugabe never arrested even one swindler and neither has Mnangagwa after all that rhetoric of “Zero tolerance to corruption!”
So people believe the country is being swindled of as much as $2 billion worth of diamonds every month. No wonder there is a scramble for Zimbabwe diamonds and the EU has lifted the sanctions on most Zanu PF leaders so countries like Belgium can join in the wholesale looting.
Zimbabwe will never register any meaningful economic recovery as long as the country remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. The country must push for Zanu PF to step down so an interim administration can implement the democratic reforms necessary for free, fair and credible elections. Zanu PF will never ever allow the country to hold free and fair elections. Never! The ruling elite have too much to lose in losing the elections!
Zimbabwe's top hospital Parirenyatwa has run out of basic necessities like betadine and painkillers it has been revealed.
ReplyDeleteThe issue came out during a meeting between Minister of Health Obadiah Moyo and Senior doctors on Wednesday. The doctors and consultants have put down tools citing inadequate equipment to use to treat patients and saying they are now producing deformed patients.
If a big referral hospital like Parirenyatwa has run out of basic necessities like butadiene and painkillers what more of the provincial hospitals and even worse the district hospitals!
It is interesting that just over two months ago Mnangagwa was at Parirenyatwa Hospital and acknowledge the sorry state of decay and rot at the hospital and in the health service in general. He promised to do something about it but has clearly done nothing just as he had promised to hold free, fair and credible elections only to blatantly rig the elections.
Indeed, from the hospital visit Mnangagwa was off galavanting all over Asia for 10 days in a hired luxury jet costing the nation a staggering US$25 million. In the face of such in your face extravagant waste, it is little wonder there is donor fatigue. For decades now the donor community has provided up to 98% of Zimbabwe’s medicinal needs, they are sick and tired of the thankless task.
The people of Zimbabwe must wake up to the reality that they are responsible for holding the government to account; they have not taken this sacred task with the seriousness it demands and hence the reason the country is in this mess. If the people do not wake up then they will suffer and die. They are suffering and dying already but this is only the beginning there is hell-on earth still to come!
Government should seriously look at concerns raised by senior doctors over the dire situation at the country's public hospitals.
ReplyDeleteYesterday, the senior doctors took their grievances to the street as they have realised it is the only way to draw government's attention.
Those in the know will tell you that it was the donors who had shouldered the bulk of the financial burden of Zimbabwe's supply of medicine, as much as 98%. When Zimbabwe's ruling elite are seen galavanting all over the world in 787 - 8 Dreamliner Jets costing US$ 25 million for 10 days it must have left a bad taste in the donors' mouths. Donors are sick and tired of their thankless task of bankrolling Zimbabwe's health, education, food aid, etc. whilst the country's ruling elite waste the nation's wealth of luxuries and the masses themselves just go along without even raising a finger to object.
It is great that the senior doctors have finally woken up and are taking the regime head-on. Still one has to ask why it took them so long to do so? Was it because they were comfortable with the status quo and are only now beginning to feel the heat!
These are crocodile tears, Zanu PF has dragged the nation into this hell-on-earth these last 38 years; why has Dr Mashumba said nothing in all those years. If she is serious about putting an end to the suffering and unnecessary deaths then she should be demanding that Zanu Pf step down from office.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who believes Zimbabwe can ever achieve any meaningful economic recovery whilst the country remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs is very naive.
ReplyDeleteZimbabwe is in this mess because people have been naive and lazy to think and the country will continue to sink deeper and deeper into this abyss. We have people who are so lazy they will not open their eyes even with millions of people now living in abject and dying like flies because the health service has completely collapsed. There is no hope of Zimbabwe getting out of this hell-hole anytime soon. None!
@ Chinono
ReplyDeleteI still hear the words of Dr Azza Mashumba in my head, “…there is just no urgency , we are trying so hard. We are making a plan. We are trying to come up with contingency plans.
Everything that we are trying to do is futile. We need support.”
Government must step forward and be responsible by allowing Zimbabweans who are willing to ship hospital equipment by removing the prohibitive duties, that is the least they can do!
What we need is a competent government accountable to the people. All these efforts of trying to have a health health care service whilst the country remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs is a nonsense. How many more people must suffer and die before we finally take the responsibility of good governance seriously with the urgency the matter demands!
This Zanu PF regime must go it has no democratic mandate to govern since it rigged last July’s elections. Government must “remove prohibitive duties”! How nauseating!