Opinion / Columnist
Hate the deeds and not the person but in Zim's tragic situation the distinction is blurred!
21 Sep 2015 at 20:14hrs | Views
Let me say this up front; I have never hate President Mugabe but what he has done to this country. As my late mother has said thousands; "Usa venga munhu, venga zviito zvake!" (Do not hate the person but his/her bad deeds!)
Over the weekend I visited my cousin in hospital. He is pale shadow of his former self; he has been sick for a year and he weathered away. He is dying.
"Sekuru (Uncle) is dying because the system has let him down!" Comment my other cousin who was with me. She is a nurse by profession and so knows what she is talking about.
"Thirty years ago Ndanga Hospital (the rural hospital where the patient was first admitted) should have able to treat him. They could not even do a blood transfusion!
"It has costed the family over $1 000.00 in blood transfusion and other route treatments whilst they moved him from one hospital to the next. Now the doctors are saying he needs any operation and that is going to cost $650.00. None of his children are working so where does government expect him to raise that kind of money?"
Yes the country's collapsed health delivery system, the economic collapse that has left so many people unemployed and destitute, etc.; the whole system has let my cousin down. He is not the only; the system has let the whole nation down.
If I had to name one thing or person responsible the sorry state Zimbabwe now finds itself in it will have to be President Robert Mugabe. He has ruled this nation with an iron fist; for 35 years it has always been his voice and opinion alone that was heard and carried the day.
There is nothing more annoying that someone who express their point of view with the air of one who is correct 100%, especially when it turns out that they actually as knowledgeable as they claim to be. There is nothing more nauseating that having such a mister-know-it-all in a position of power and authority where he is able to impose his views on all sentry.
President Robert Mugabe has stifled meaningful debate at national level and within Zanu PF so that his views alone carried the day; he was the infallible one. But now it is self-evident that he just as fallible as anyone else and my cousin like hundreds of thousands of other Zimbabweans are paying dearly with their very lives for President Robert Mugabe's mister-know-it-all arrogance.
I have been listening to Thomas Mapfumo, Mukanya's old hit song Pidigori; when the song was first released I never imagined anyone would stoop so low as hate another human being to the point of wishing dead. The distinction between hating the deeds and not the person has become so blurred!
"Pidigori waenda! Pidigori waenda! Wanga achinyanya kuvhaira! . . . . ."
Over the weekend I visited my cousin in hospital. He is pale shadow of his former self; he has been sick for a year and he weathered away. He is dying.
"Sekuru (Uncle) is dying because the system has let him down!" Comment my other cousin who was with me. She is a nurse by profession and so knows what she is talking about.
"Thirty years ago Ndanga Hospital (the rural hospital where the patient was first admitted) should have able to treat him. They could not even do a blood transfusion!
"It has costed the family over $1 000.00 in blood transfusion and other route treatments whilst they moved him from one hospital to the next. Now the doctors are saying he needs any operation and that is going to cost $650.00. None of his children are working so where does government expect him to raise that kind of money?"
Yes the country's collapsed health delivery system, the economic collapse that has left so many people unemployed and destitute, etc.; the whole system has let my cousin down. He is not the only; the system has let the whole nation down.
If I had to name one thing or person responsible the sorry state Zimbabwe now finds itself in it will have to be President Robert Mugabe. He has ruled this nation with an iron fist; for 35 years it has always been his voice and opinion alone that was heard and carried the day.
There is nothing more annoying that someone who express their point of view with the air of one who is correct 100%, especially when it turns out that they actually as knowledgeable as they claim to be. There is nothing more nauseating that having such a mister-know-it-all in a position of power and authority where he is able to impose his views on all sentry.
President Robert Mugabe has stifled meaningful debate at national level and within Zanu PF so that his views alone carried the day; he was the infallible one. But now it is self-evident that he just as fallible as anyone else and my cousin like hundreds of thousands of other Zimbabweans are paying dearly with their very lives for President Robert Mugabe's mister-know-it-all arrogance.
I have been listening to Thomas Mapfumo, Mukanya's old hit song Pidigori; when the song was first released I never imagined anyone would stoop so low as hate another human being to the point of wishing dead. The distinction between hating the deeds and not the person has become so blurred!
"Pidigori waenda! Pidigori waenda! Wanga achinyanya kuvhaira! . . . . ."
Source - Patrick Guramatunhu
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