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Zimbabwe in ICU - Vee Zet Diary
31 Jan 2013 at 08:58hrs | Views
I hope this finds you well with your usual appetite to know what is happening back home. This week, I have started sending this diary to a wider audience after your feedback that it may help a few Zimbabweans who are considering returning home to appreciate how things have changed since they left all those glorious years ago when we were the bread basket of Africa and every child was a child of a happy, loving and cultured community. It is now a ndoda zibonele, survival of the connected.
Zimbabwe has now now become a vessel of corruption and social wrong doing. The cancer of corruption appears to be spreading through the police too.
Yesterday, I got reports that a policeman and two civilians allegedly robbed a man in a hit and run incident in an industrial area in Harare. In the city centre there are police in uniform operating and driving commuter omnibuses and people are asking if these are legal public transport operations or not. Who will police the police anywhere.
Personally, I was robbed yesterday by a gang of four strong guys. Lucky enough, I got away with my life. Like a good citizen, I went to report to the police afterwards but I am extremely disappointed by the police response.
If we as citizens are no longer guaranteed protection from those whose job it is, what will the nation end up like? It is difficult to trust anyone that is supposed to be trusted anymore. It is question many young people like me would continue to pose, who shall we trust?
The way we are proceeding, we will end up with no civilisation. We should never be another Somalia, socially. Everyone appears desperate for money as the situation get worse by the day but who can we blame?
Individual stress levels that a civilian is reported to have recently dropped to the floor and died in a supermarket in Avondale.
Unemployment levels have gone through the roof. This lovely country that once had local currency as strong as the current US Dollar has seen the deterioration of both the community and the corporate world. Yes we gained independence, but have we really gained economic independence, ourselves, our ways of thinking and our mentality?
The life that we were promised as the future generation of Zimbabwe is not the life we are living today.
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Vee Zet is a Zimbabwean teenager, based in Zimbabwe and has been writing a diary to update family members and friends based in the Diaspora for sometime about day to day challenges and the real situation on the ground. Email: veezet93@gmail.com
Zimbabwe has now now become a vessel of corruption and social wrong doing. The cancer of corruption appears to be spreading through the police too.
Yesterday, I got reports that a policeman and two civilians allegedly robbed a man in a hit and run incident in an industrial area in Harare. In the city centre there are police in uniform operating and driving commuter omnibuses and people are asking if these are legal public transport operations or not. Who will police the police anywhere.
Personally, I was robbed yesterday by a gang of four strong guys. Lucky enough, I got away with my life. Like a good citizen, I went to report to the police afterwards but I am extremely disappointed by the police response.
If we as citizens are no longer guaranteed protection from those whose job it is, what will the nation end up like? It is difficult to trust anyone that is supposed to be trusted anymore. It is question many young people like me would continue to pose, who shall we trust?
Individual stress levels that a civilian is reported to have recently dropped to the floor and died in a supermarket in Avondale.
Unemployment levels have gone through the roof. This lovely country that once had local currency as strong as the current US Dollar has seen the deterioration of both the community and the corporate world. Yes we gained independence, but have we really gained economic independence, ourselves, our ways of thinking and our mentality?
The life that we were promised as the future generation of Zimbabwe is not the life we are living today.
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Vee Zet is a Zimbabwean teenager, based in Zimbabwe and has been writing a diary to update family members and friends based in the Diaspora for sometime about day to day challenges and the real situation on the ground. Email: veezet93@gmail.com
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