Commando Ministers

Are we going commando again? It begins by naming major general Sibusiso Moyo and air marshall Perrence Shiri as ministers and while you are thinking ahhh this is it the next move is Chiwenga is Vice President. We all know that he is the de facto President or rather the second in command as the silent VP (the unofficial one). Where are we heading with the surprise cabinet solely comprising of the old wood stokes? Having people like Dokora back on board we seem not to be serious about improving our education status and be competitive again. We need some seriousness here, a man who presides over curricular change that the system was not ready to adopt mainly because of lack of proper management in the preparation and lack of proper consultations.

This continual recycling of old ministers who are incompetent is really freaking me and to be precise it does simply show that even the new President is biased towards those that praise and worship him and not true in walking his talk. Zimbabwe has seen enough of these old blood, stuck in the past cronies who have failed again and again. The likes of Parirenyatwa and Chinamasa who have decimally failed to deliver in their portfolios and have presided over the failure of their institutions. How can you have faith in them? Who is actually advising the President of Zimbabwe on these critical issues? I wonder! Mr President, you need to think again and if you are to deliver as you promise, this is the first wrong move. Looking at the ministers of state, again another package of old forks who should go home and rest or be advisors to new blood. It is important to note that as the President, you are not there to reward your cohorts but search for people with potential or those that have proved to be competent and have the capacity to deliver, are energetic with new innovative ideas and you don't have to look far, we are here just under your nose. We are here to serve and not to be served, to be servants and not to be masters, to unite and not to tear apart our nation, to embarrass a united front and not a decisive motion, to combat corruption once and for all and not to target selective individual but holistically showing an example that you are really serious.

Although I am happy for reducing the ministries, a good move to remove unnecessary redundancies, as well as some ministries that you have introduced new faces, we may give you the benefit of doubt and hope that they will deliver as expected. Maybe a new leader was needed to wake them up or their voices and ideas were being shunned and not listened to. Lets to forget the very near past and relax in our chairs as if the job is done, it is just the beginning and we are expecting tangible results.

We need a rejuvenated Zimbabwe and your Cabinet so far does not depict this beginning and the new dispensation you talk of Mr President. Lets mean business for business, this you owe Zimbabwe.

This article was written by Dr. Takesure Tazvishaya in his on personal capacity as a Zimbabwean.