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ZSD's fervent hope for 2015 is that Zimbabweans finally learn why we are in this mess
19 Dec 2014 at 01:11hrs | Views
The country is in serious economic trouble whose roots can be traced to politics. One would think with the country in trouble the people have woken up and are paying close attention to what is happening and demanding answers. Sadly, there is not so; yes the people are feeling the ill effects of the economic hardship but other than that they are still going around in their usual sleepy way.
"As a party we will continue to call for the setting up of a national transitional technical committee to take charge of the affairs of the state and set up the structures for a free and fair election while dealing with the country's economic problems," said Mrs Sekai Holland. It was a MDC-Renewal's end of year statement.
In a country where no one is paying any attention politicians get away with anything and everything; it must have been with this in mind that MDC-Renewal came up with such a statement, they knew no one would notice!
The real tragedy here is that the leaders, like Mrs Holland, are themselves are confused lot; they promised to bring democratic change, in this case, but did not have a clue what those democratic changes were and how they were to be brought about. Even today, with the benefit of hindsight, they still do not have the foggiest idea what they are talking about. Because if the MDC-Renewal team did then they would have realised that this technical committee they are wittering about now would not be required if they had implemented the democratic reforms during the GNU as promised!
The team would also realise that getting Zanu PF to agree to having any meaning democratic reforms implemented now is going to be a real big challenged and yet the party had agreed to the reforms as part of the GPA.
What makes this a double tragedy is the people themselves have not cogged on that people like Mrs Holland, Tendai Biti, Morgan Tsvangirai, Mugabe, Mnangagwa, etc. are all conning the electorate by pretending to care about the common people when all they really care about is their own selfish interests.
Zimbabwe's political history is a litany of yesteryear's liberation heroes becoming today's tyrannical oppressors, of yesteryear's champions of human rights and democratic change forgetting their promises as soon as their have their snout in the gravy train feeding trough. Zimbabwe is in this political and economic hell-on-earth because every time the nation took one step forward it took six or more step backward.
There only way this country is ever going to get out of this hell is for the people to start paying careful attention on what are the big issues of the day and who will be the best leaders to address them. At present the people do not have a clue what the big issues are and they will vote in the good, the bad and the ugly and hope for the best. "Kukuvirira zvose mavhu namarara!" as one would say in Shona.
Quality leaders are not like wild berries that, come elections, the voters pick off and their job is done until the next elections. Quality leaders are like crops; one has to work the land before sowing the seed, weed it and protect from grazing animals, apply the right fertilizer when the time comes, etc. to be assured of a good harvest.
Zimbabwe has had a string of incompetent, corrupt and oppressive leaders because we, the electorate, have not bothered to think through who would make a good leader and who will not.
People get the government they deserve; after 34 years, we cannot say we do not deserve this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship or this corrupt and incompetent MDC opposition!
Have we learnt our lesson? Hell, no! Many Zimbabweans still do not have the foggiest idea what the democratic reforms are all about and many continue to treat any such matters with the indifference of one listening to a story of an earthquake half the world away a thousand years ago. Zimbabweans would recycle deadwood leaders again and again even those who have already proven to be corrupt and incompetent because they are too lazy to get fresh wood or find alternative modern materials.
Those who will not learn from their past mistakes are destined to repeat the same mistakes and pay the price. The lesson will be repeated again and again until they learn. Since Zimbabweans have not taken the trouble to look for leaders to get them out of this economic hell nothing is going to change other than the economic situation in 2015 will be lot worse than 2014. How much worse, time will tell!
Will the grinding poverty and despair next year finally lift the mental fog born out of decades of mentally inactivity and spur Zimbabweans to finally take the business of electing competent leaders with the seriousness it deserves? Again, time will tell.
We, in the Zimbabwe Social Democrats, are not going to wish the people of Zimbabwe a merry Christmas because we know it is going to be a grim one. Our hearts bleed for all the innocent children who will be denied the joys of presents and the festivities that other children the world over take for granted. Our hearts bleed for all the hundreds of thousands of children who will not go to school next year because their parents are too poor to pay the fees.
Zimbabwe is a rich country with good soils and good weather to produce all the nation's food requirements so that no one should ever go hungry. It has a great abundance of minerals and great potential to produce energy, etc. Zimbabweans should be among some of the wealthiest, happy and prosperous people on earth. Instead they are amongst some of the poorest and oppressed people on earth because for 34 years the nation has failed to come up with a democratic, just and progressive system of government.
Zimbabwean children will have no presents this Christmas and many will have no education their parents and grandparents have for 34 years failed to end this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship. The Lord is "visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation"!
When Zimbabwe attained her independence in 1980 from hence forth it was the duty of every Zimbabwean to ensure the country was ruled by good and competent leaders; we have yet to take this sacred task with the seriousness and undivided attention it deserves. Until we do, Zimbabwe will remain stuck in the hell-hole Mugabe and Zanu PF has dragged us into!
It is the Zimbabwe Social Democrats' fervent hope that Zimbabweans will, in 2015, start taking the business of ending the Zanu PF dictatorship and electing quality leaders to govern our great country seriously as sacred duty to themselves, to their fellow citizen, to their children and to posterity. If we are ever to have a free, just and prosperous Zimbabwe, we must earn and be worthy of it!
"As a party we will continue to call for the setting up of a national transitional technical committee to take charge of the affairs of the state and set up the structures for a free and fair election while dealing with the country's economic problems," said Mrs Sekai Holland. It was a MDC-Renewal's end of year statement.
In a country where no one is paying any attention politicians get away with anything and everything; it must have been with this in mind that MDC-Renewal came up with such a statement, they knew no one would notice!
The real tragedy here is that the leaders, like Mrs Holland, are themselves are confused lot; they promised to bring democratic change, in this case, but did not have a clue what those democratic changes were and how they were to be brought about. Even today, with the benefit of hindsight, they still do not have the foggiest idea what they are talking about. Because if the MDC-Renewal team did then they would have realised that this technical committee they are wittering about now would not be required if they had implemented the democratic reforms during the GNU as promised!
The team would also realise that getting Zanu PF to agree to having any meaning democratic reforms implemented now is going to be a real big challenged and yet the party had agreed to the reforms as part of the GPA.
What makes this a double tragedy is the people themselves have not cogged on that people like Mrs Holland, Tendai Biti, Morgan Tsvangirai, Mugabe, Mnangagwa, etc. are all conning the electorate by pretending to care about the common people when all they really care about is their own selfish interests.
Zimbabwe's political history is a litany of yesteryear's liberation heroes becoming today's tyrannical oppressors, of yesteryear's champions of human rights and democratic change forgetting their promises as soon as their have their snout in the gravy train feeding trough. Zimbabwe is in this political and economic hell-on-earth because every time the nation took one step forward it took six or more step backward.
There only way this country is ever going to get out of this hell is for the people to start paying careful attention on what are the big issues of the day and who will be the best leaders to address them. At present the people do not have a clue what the big issues are and they will vote in the good, the bad and the ugly and hope for the best. "Kukuvirira zvose mavhu namarara!" as one would say in Shona.
Quality leaders are not like wild berries that, come elections, the voters pick off and their job is done until the next elections. Quality leaders are like crops; one has to work the land before sowing the seed, weed it and protect from grazing animals, apply the right fertilizer when the time comes, etc. to be assured of a good harvest.
Zimbabwe has had a string of incompetent, corrupt and oppressive leaders because we, the electorate, have not bothered to think through who would make a good leader and who will not.
People get the government they deserve; after 34 years, we cannot say we do not deserve this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship or this corrupt and incompetent MDC opposition!
Have we learnt our lesson? Hell, no! Many Zimbabweans still do not have the foggiest idea what the democratic reforms are all about and many continue to treat any such matters with the indifference of one listening to a story of an earthquake half the world away a thousand years ago. Zimbabweans would recycle deadwood leaders again and again even those who have already proven to be corrupt and incompetent because they are too lazy to get fresh wood or find alternative modern materials.
Those who will not learn from their past mistakes are destined to repeat the same mistakes and pay the price. The lesson will be repeated again and again until they learn. Since Zimbabweans have not taken the trouble to look for leaders to get them out of this economic hell nothing is going to change other than the economic situation in 2015 will be lot worse than 2014. How much worse, time will tell!
Will the grinding poverty and despair next year finally lift the mental fog born out of decades of mentally inactivity and spur Zimbabweans to finally take the business of electing competent leaders with the seriousness it deserves? Again, time will tell.
We, in the Zimbabwe Social Democrats, are not going to wish the people of Zimbabwe a merry Christmas because we know it is going to be a grim one. Our hearts bleed for all the innocent children who will be denied the joys of presents and the festivities that other children the world over take for granted. Our hearts bleed for all the hundreds of thousands of children who will not go to school next year because their parents are too poor to pay the fees.
Zimbabwe is a rich country with good soils and good weather to produce all the nation's food requirements so that no one should ever go hungry. It has a great abundance of minerals and great potential to produce energy, etc. Zimbabweans should be among some of the wealthiest, happy and prosperous people on earth. Instead they are amongst some of the poorest and oppressed people on earth because for 34 years the nation has failed to come up with a democratic, just and progressive system of government.
Zimbabwean children will have no presents this Christmas and many will have no education their parents and grandparents have for 34 years failed to end this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship. The Lord is "visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation"!
When Zimbabwe attained her independence in 1980 from hence forth it was the duty of every Zimbabwean to ensure the country was ruled by good and competent leaders; we have yet to take this sacred task with the seriousness and undivided attention it deserves. Until we do, Zimbabwe will remain stuck in the hell-hole Mugabe and Zanu PF has dragged us into!
It is the Zimbabwe Social Democrats' fervent hope that Zimbabweans will, in 2015, start taking the business of ending the Zanu PF dictatorship and electing quality leaders to govern our great country seriously as sacred duty to themselves, to their fellow citizen, to their children and to posterity. If we are ever to have a free, just and prosperous Zimbabwe, we must earn and be worthy of it!
Source - Wilbert Mukori
