Voting for Zanu pf will take us further back

People always make a comparison between Zimbabwe and our neighbours, South Africa, especially after a visit there. Someone will say our country could have been like this Africa economic giant because we had all it takes to be like Mzansi. What went wrong after Zanu pf took over Zimbabwe?

The country had some of the best infrastructure in Africa .Our roads ,which had been constructed by the Rhodesians would need only some maintenance to keep them in that state. I will point to the roads because deterioration of roads reflects the state of the economy. Our rail system linked one centre to the other and trains moved most of the goods, whether for export or import. Enter Zimbabwean shoddy business persons connected to Zanu pf into the transport sector and this was a crucial turning point. Their greedy instincts have seen the lucrative transport business. An increase in haulage trucks saw goods moving on the roads more than by rail. Zanu of chefs owned these haulage trucks .The trucks inflicted so much damage on the once beautiful roads which would later resemble dams on the highway.The destructive path had started and nothing would stop the tyranny Mugabe and his henchmen from inflicting further damage on the once vibrant economy .

The economy began a free fall,from bread basket of Africa to a begging nation importing virtually everything. Forex became scarce but the insatiable appetite for money by the leaders saw them coming with schemes to fleece the desperate Zimbabwean people. Toll gates, Aids levy, Nassa, carbon tax, road levy were all meant to be for the country but in actual fact lined the already bulging pockets of the fat cats.

The discovery of diamonds in Marange could have offered the escape route but it was an opportunity to further loot. The 15 US$ billion presumed to have been unaccounted for in diamond revenue could be less than what actually was lost. Instead of paying their foreign debts the Zanu pf government officials were taking the loot to far off safe havens. The Zim dollar became a worthless paper not worth the paper it was printed on.

Education system, from one of the best in Africa, deteriorating like everything else in healthy delivery, finance system. If our leaders were for the people like they have claimed they could have stepped down. They did not and they don't want to.What do they hope to change when they brought all these challenges Zimbabwe is facing ? Who in is right mind would bring his money into our country with the same architects of destruction still in office unless you are a pseudo business man from China?This is what they meant by look east policy yet they shop at trendy shops when they fly out and leave locals to buy fake products brought duty free from some Chinese province.This is what we have become, a dumping ground for cheap China goods.

This will go on and on if this party stays in power after the elections.Zimbabwe is now like an island or I should say a sea of poverty.Go to Zambia, Mozambique, Botswana our other neighbours and see how things are changing.Chamisa talks of bullet trains and they laugh because Zanu pf has made people accept our scenario as the right thing.

Instead of going forward our country will slide further down with the Junta in leadership. They love to enrich themselves not develop Zimbabwe. As long as they stay in power we can keep sliding to stone age. Resources are in abundance to take us to our promised land not what they promised each other among themselves before 1980.

We need to bring Zimbabwe to those years were people did not bother about visiting neighbouring countries because we had all we wanted before greedy clouded their minds and blinded them .People are living like hunters and gatherers because they don't care at all.