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Aren't Zimbabweans tired of waiting for better days?
23 Aug 2015 at 11:11hrs | Views
A Zimbabwean based in South Africa has questioned if the Zimbabweans were not yet tired of waiting for better days to come which are never realised.
Thabani Ncube said aren't Zimbabweans tired of waiting for better days?
"Waiting for jobs, for hope, for real empowerment. Waiting for a different Zimbabwe. One without suffering, without the indignity of poverty, without families torn apart by the diaspora," he said.
"I'm just tired of hearing how bad things are, how people are just surviving. How nothing is getting better, how the only a few are getting richer. I thought we'd finally be tired of praying for the country, tired of being foreigners and being killed in other people's countries. Tired of aunties in the U.K and cousins in the U.S. Tired of money gram pounds, dollars and rand."
"I'm tired of being lied to, tired of being a migrant of circumstance instead of choice," he added.
He said he was tired of whatsapping relatives instead of seeing them.
"Tired of daydreaming of sitting ekhaya eating umxhanxa," he said.
"I'm also scared, of living my whole life in a foreign land. Of dying there. Of having children who don't know or claim Zimbabwe, who speak better tswana than ndebele, or no ndebele at all. Scared things will always be like this. That troubles will settle in our land. Scared that the final trip home is destined to be in a coffin. Scared that my hopes are false and my fears real. We are waiting. Patiently, quietly, prayerful, but fearful."
Thabani Ncube said aren't Zimbabweans tired of waiting for better days?
"Waiting for jobs, for hope, for real empowerment. Waiting for a different Zimbabwe. One without suffering, without the indignity of poverty, without families torn apart by the diaspora," he said.
"I'm just tired of hearing how bad things are, how people are just surviving. How nothing is getting better, how the only a few are getting richer. I thought we'd finally be tired of praying for the country, tired of being foreigners and being killed in other people's countries. Tired of aunties in the U.K and cousins in the U.S. Tired of money gram pounds, dollars and rand."
He said he was tired of whatsapping relatives instead of seeing them.
"Tired of daydreaming of sitting ekhaya eating umxhanxa," he said.
"I'm also scared, of living my whole life in a foreign land. Of dying there. Of having children who don't know or claim Zimbabwe, who speak better tswana than ndebele, or no ndebele at all. Scared things will always be like this. That troubles will settle in our land. Scared that the final trip home is destined to be in a coffin. Scared that my hopes are false and my fears real. We are waiting. Patiently, quietly, prayerful, but fearful."
Source - Byo24News