A year on and we still have no idea what ZIMASSET is

The rich and powerful got to celebrate a year in the office, the poor and powerless commemorate a year of bhora mugedhi. The rich and powerful are so rich they can not be bribed and powerful enough to practice nepotism in full view of the public. Does Masimirembwa ring a bell? The statement was good enough to round off a year that had no highlights in regards with the promises made in the run up to the election.

It was a year where we had another one of the tourism minister's Carnival that had semi-nude individuals on the streets of Harare and the television much to the chagrin of the nation at large. And just recently MPs found anomalies in the ministry's purchase of vehicles in the run up to the WTO Conference last year, and the servicing of such. We will pretend it is a first and play shocked, speak out our indignation and go back to the fact that they have always been doing it this way. The only way to deal with it is to get them out of office, truth be told. And what of the fake awards from dubious institutions?

A year in which Dokora blundered his way through the education ministry. The minister lacks the grace of humility, when one only listens to their own advice on a subject they know nothing of the results never are far off from a catastrophe. The poor man is in all appearances and manner a danger to the ministry he heads. Teachers realise they are on thin ice, and with only 12 months gone, they wonder how they will survive the rest of the term. A year in which Jonathan Moyo was rogue and villian and survived to see another day in the office. At his instigation the state controlled media raised a storm over Baba Jukwa and they unearthed a few corruption scandals much to the ire of our noble Vice President - who, one is prompted to assume, the graft trail might lead to her and her cronnies. Being one who gets fidgety if they spend too much time away from the limelight, he is back in the news for challenging the election results from his constituency.

A year in which Mudede for all his intelligence showed his acumen by urging poverty stricken Zimbabweans struggling to feed and clothe let alone school the children they have, to have more so that the nation can have more soldiers. I take it we are preparing for battle, Tobaiwa? A year in which the minister of psychomotor... did what? I have no recollection. And the local government chap? He carried on as he always have.

A year in which ZESA still has problems keeping the nation electrified and ZINWA has no idea what to do. At least ZIMRA and ZRP afforded us a lighter moment with their little spat over revenues. While Kasukuwere did something positive in regards with the poaching.

*sigh*

Well, these individuals do know how to build up to a party. What better way than in celebrating the endorsement of the First Lady to the helm of the Women's League? Now that is perfect timing.

Another year of fighting sanctions, imperialists and their agents: smoke and mirrors, excuses and scapegoats. And I really like the way a certain gentleman broke it down for me:
Scapegoat: the tribesman finds this word fascinating, as we grew up in the hilly and sandy village were we had been driven to by the Rhodesians to make way for their farms on our fertile lands we used to literally scapegoat, the goats for everything: eat all the ripen fruits and not share with the family we would say it was not us it was the goats.

Steal the neighbouring village carrots, it was never us but the goats in our village it was never anyone's fault but the goats. We never did any wrong because it was the goats fault even when we bunked school it was always the goats.

In this year though, we still have no idea what ZIMASSET is, millions are still unemployed and more are getting retrenched. More people continue to live below the poverty datum line and it is a miracle that they can go from one day to the next. Our young people suffer the most because only a few know what a payslip is, and they are supposed to be proud to be Zimbabweans! If we expect them to be proud citizens, proud nationals, we must teach them that only they can better their lives by getting rid of incompetent servants who delude themselves to be their masters.