The sight of Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies kitted out with brooms and mops sweeping and mopping hospital grounds and wards provides the lazy reporter with a story. But in a country where unemployment has soared to nauseating heights of 90% the really story is why are the hospital wards and ground in such filthy conditions except for the odd occasion, the photo opportunity, when these politicians visit? Hundreds of thousands of University Graduates will happily take up the job as cleaners if only the regime would pay them a living wage!
In other words these public cleaning projects by our leaders are just gimmicks. If these men and women were spending their time and energy is solving the country’s worsening economic meltdown, which is their number one task, then our hospitals, schools, etc. would not be in such a deplorable state!
Worse still, our political system is broken so we, the people, have no meaningful say in the governance of the country. And so find ourselves stuck with leaders who rigged elections to stay in power but have no clue what to do to fix the country’s mounting problems!
Instead of finding solutions to the nation’s problems they are now competing in gimmick projections.
“We have not been participating in the national cleaning programme. Beginning this year, we are going to be part of government’s clean-up campaign. We are coming up with what is called Jekesa Zimbabwe.
“We are also going to launch the smart villages policy that will entail our model smart homesteads smart sources of energy solar for each rural home borehole per village infrastructure for villages, schools, bridges, etc.”
Zimbabwe is in this political and economic mess because the country’s political system is broken; we are stuck for 40 years and counting with an incompetent, corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF regime. Zimbabwe is a pariah state ruled by corrupt and incompetent murderous tyrants and as long as it remains a pariah state there will be no hope of any meaningful economic recovery. None!
The people of Zimbabwe have risked life and limb to elect Chamisa and his MDC friends into power on the understanding they will bring about the democratic changes to end the Zanu PF dictatorship, the nation has been dying for all these years.
It is truly disheartening that not only has MDC failed to bring about even one democratic change in 20 years of the party’s existence but worse still it has now abandoned the cause of democratic change in favour of gimmick projects.
Zimbabwe does not need leaders to show them how to do something as basic as sweeping the floor; pay them and they will do it. What the country needs above all else is leaders who will repair the country’s broken political system, who will restore the people’s freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country!
Yes, these Zanu PF organised national cleaning programmes where the ruling elite are seen doing manual chores such as sweeping and mopping the floor in public institutions such as school and hospitals are foolish gimmicks. These institutions are indeed very dirty; the cleaning sessions are necessary, stage managed or not. Considering these stage managed cleaning sessions are once a month events; one has to ask why are these institutions kept in filthy conditions for 30 days out 31 days?
ReplyDeleteWhy is Zimbabwe failing to employ cleaners to keep our public institutions clean especially for a country with so many, 90%, unemployed?
Are we, the citizens of Zimbabwe, expected to accept the gimmicky once a month publicity gimmick in which the ruling elite parade themselves sweeping and mopping floor as good enough for living in filth the next four weeks.
My biggest question about the land commission is that why is the report not published properly so that every interested person can access it?
ReplyDeleteThis is political and it exposes how our institutions are captured because some of those accused were never summoned by the commission to give their side of the story.
All those 137 co-operatives’ leadership who are being sacrificed today were used to mobilise votes for Zanu PF in peri-urban areas. Now they are being dumped.
Mashayamombe’s remarks come after the publication of a report which investigated the sale of State land across the country.
The report implicated several former high-ranking ZANU PF officials in shady land deals that prejudiced the State of millions of dollars
This is exposing just one of the many ways Zanu PF rigged the July 2018 elections. It was totally irresponsible to agree to participate in these elections knowing fully well the process was flawed and illegal. Zanu PF is illegitimate because a rigged election will never produce a legitimate government.
It will be sheer madness to let the nation be dragged into yet another meaningless election and the only sure way to get the reforms implemented is for Zanu PF to step down. Zanu
@ By Tawanda Ruzanhi
ReplyDeleteOur political dynamics require a game changer to break the perennial stalemate between the two main protagonists of our failed politics, Zanu PF and MDC A. At the core of this gridlock is the vanity of the leadership of Emmerson Mnangagwa and Nelson Chamisa who have failed to answer not just the national consensus and call on genuine dialogue but regional signals on the need for national convergence and unity of purpose, the most recent being an unusual and out of tradition advisory from Naledi Pandor, South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation ( DIRCO).
The impatience of regional leaders with Zimbabwe expresses itself through South African Ministers personal opinions on the Zimbabwe crisis and opinion articles in regional mainstream media where Zimbabweans are now being caricatured in the same vein as Mexicans in the United States of America.
Walter Mzembi had been at the very heart of political power for decades, why did he not change anything then? The trouble with some people is that they cannot think outside the box dictated by the Zanu PF dictatorship.
The solution to Zimbabwe's political paralysis is in implementing the democratic reforms so the country has a healthy and functioning democracy. Zanu PF stalwarts like Walter Mzembi will never implement democratic reforms even if they were given a chance to do so because they cannot compete.
Jekesa Zimbabwe, this is a sick joke! The country cannot afford to employ doctors and nurses much less the unskilled labourers like cleaners because the country is facing a serious economic meltdown. Chamisa and his MDC friends on the one side and Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF friends on the other side are going to keep our hospitals, schools and other public institutions spotlessly clean, "jekesa" Zimbabwe.
ReplyDeleteIt should be said here and now that the nation is expecting those MDC and Zanu PF politicians to revive the nation's economy and restore basic services such as health care and education. It is totally unacceptable that these politicians have now seemingly abandoned their set tasks and wasting time on foolish activities such as cleaning hospitals!
@ P Moyo
ReplyDeleteMukori even if its stage managed what have you done yourself in helping reduce litter . People throw litter whilst on the bus in cars. Its not only for Zanu PF to show this in a cheap way of publicity you also need to add. Our actions affect us all. It’s not a matter of employing people and paying them. Our actions are more important than employing people.
1. Recycling facilities are needed.
2. Education of people through social media is very important.
3. Introduction of different bins would go a long way to help reduce litter.
Black bin for general waste ,Green bin for recyclables , brown for food.
We need a database of every household for the country, this will make it easy to manage.
Make it compulsory for every house hold to recycle ie have all three types of bins for free and pay to the councillor private companies to collect garbage. The database can be used to see who is not registered then we can get our culprits. If we don’t look after our environment.
Here Mukori jobs can be created easily. Problem is we look to the govt always their job is to put good laws that can help us create employment. I believe we are going in the right direction unlike when the old man was running the country. We need to be positive and stop blaming or looking for the govt to do everything.
What a foolish thing to say! Mnangagwa has been at the very heart of this corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship for 40 years and now you want to airbrush the 37 years Mugabe was in power out of history! It is now over two years since Mnangagwa took over and the country has continued to sink in the abyss.
As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging thugs, the country will continue to sink into the abyss.
Mnangagwa and his fellow Zanu PF cronies are corrupt and murderous thugs they will never implement any meaningful reforms to allow free, fair and credible elections. Mnangagwa had the opportunity to honour the promise to hold free, fair and credible elections but chose not to.
The only way Zimbabwe is ever going to get out of this mess is for the country to end the curse rigged elections if we are going to end the curse of bad governance. Reforms are not negotiable and Zanu PF is illegal and illegitimate and must step down now!