Zimbabwe has a chronic shortage of decent housing in both the urban and rural areas and it is insane that those in positions of power and authority have again and again seen it fit to demolish the few decent houses that have been built. It is clear we have men and women in position of power and authority who have an invested interest in keeping as many our our people poor and destitute.
Poor and powerless serfs are easier to bully around and the ruling elite and their cronies are the overbearing landlords doing as they damn well please.
Both central government and local authorities have made it near impossible for ordinary people to get title deeds to even a few square metre of land on which the people can build a decent home. As soon as a decent house goes up the overbearing landlords will find an excuse to pull it down.
Last year parliament passed a law forcing every one with the old paper title deeds to have it converted to digital format. Many people see it for what it is - those in power going after those with pre-independence title deeds who had remained out of reach of the regime until now.
The urban dwellers have turned a blind eye to Zanu PF denying rural povo title deeds these last 46 years and now the nightmare has spread to towns and cities. The deed digitalisation law is a rude wake-up call!
The single most important question the people of Zimbabwe must ask themselves today is: "DO ZIMBABWEANS HAVE ANY LEGAL RIGHT TO OWN PROPERTY, ESPECIALLY TITLE DEEDS TO LAND?"
The right to own property is a universal right and Zanu PF is denying the people that right for selfish political reasons.
Indeed, the number issue in the fight for independence, as far as the rural blacks were concerned, was land ownership. It is tragic that 46 years after independence the rural povo continue to be denied title deeds.
It is tragic that 46 years years after independence nation is still fighting for some thing as basic as title deed to land. We should be attending to other matters like building a vibrant economy and keeping abreast with the fast changing technology. No wonder we are a failed state.
Still, we must now fight to dismantle this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship and its equally corrupt and utterly useless MDC/CCC side-kick. We must replace it with a healthy and functioning democracy that will secure and guarantee the freedoms and rights of all Zimbabweans. It is not mission impossible!
Zimbabwe is a failed state, many of us have accepted this reality and, naturally, have been fighting for change. 46 years and counting, the nation has blundered from pillar to post and has been sinking deeper and deeper into the abyss.
ReplyDeleteThe Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 (CAB3) is a done deal. The amendment will allow Mnangagwa to extend his illegitimate rule by two more years beyond the ten years limit stipulated in the constitution and given Zanu PF even more dictatorial powers. Zimbabwe will move from a de facto one-party dictatorship to a de jure dictatorship and sink even deeper into the political and economic abyss.
It is not enough to want change, we have continued to sink into the abyss because we failed to define where change was to come from! DETAIL MATTERS! DETAIL IS EVERYTHING!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrrNQfKaXJM
ReplyDeleteZimbabwe is a failed state. We have had many opportunities to end the Zanu PF dictatorship with the best chance coming during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. And we have wasted them all.
It is not good enough to want change, one must know what is the format of the change, how and when it must be implemented, etc. Details matter! Indeed, detail is everything!
After 46 years of blundering from pillar to post the challenge for Zimbabwe is: Have we finally learned why we have failed to get the democratic changes we have been waiting for?
@ Professor Lumumba
ReplyDeleteZanu PF thugs can pretend all they want that CAB3 will improve good governance and the people of Zimbabwe approved it. The whole world knows that is a lie. The ordinary Zimbabweans have never ever had a meaningful say in the governance of the country.
The nearest the nation has ever got to free, fair and credible elections was the March 2008 elections. When it was clear Zanu PF was losing, Mnangagwa and Chiwenga, launched operation Mavhotera Papi, an electoral coup, to wrestle electoral victory from the opposition and to punish the voters for daring to reject Zanu PF.
The nation had the opportunity to implement the democratic reforms and stop Zanu Pf rigging the elections. Alas! Not even one token reform was implemented and so Zanu PF emerged out of the GNU with all it dictatorial powers untouched.
Zanu PF blatantly rigged the 2023 elections , both SADC and AU elections observers condemned the process as flawed and illegal. Of course, the regime has rigged the Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 (CAB3); rigging the election was a much tougher challenge than rigging the amendment!
@ Chims
ReplyDeleteAddress the issues raised.
There are a hell lot more other equally important issues to be resolved other than casting the vote in fight to end the Zanu PF dictatorship. Just because you are incapable of comprehending anything of substance does not mean everyone else must be forced to wear blinkers!
@ Teeman
ReplyDeleteThe whole world learned of Zanu PF’s blatant cheating and wanton violence in 2008. SADC argued MDC leaders not to participate in 2013 elections without first implementing the reforms because they knew with no reforms the 2008 cheating and/or wanton violence will be repeated. MDC leaders knew that and participated regardless out of greed. They admitted it.
“The worst aspect for me about the failure to agree a coalition was that both MDCs couldn’t now do the obvious - withdraw from the (2013) elections. The electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility,” confessed David Coltart in his Book, The Struggle Continues 50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe.
The real tragedy for Zimbabwe is that there are some people who refuse to accept even simple truths even after those involved have confessed it and with all the benefit of hindsight! Fcuk me!