Things fall apart in Zimbabwe

ZBC TV had no choice but to broadcast to the public the shortage of medicines at public hospitals nationwide. At another news bulletin it was forced again to screen parents deferring to enroll their children for 2016 because they are afraid to send their children to school on empty stomachs lest they collapse of hunger at school. ZBC Tv and other Zanu Pf government controlled media rarely reveal the exact state of deterioration of service delivery in the country or the poor conditions that people live in under Zanu pf poor governance. State media would rather allocate much coverage to sanctions mantra or some unverifiable interview of war veterans about the liberation struggle details, 'lest we forget'.

When you see state controlled media airing the negative situations, it's a sign that the situations are totally out of control. Usually it sweeps them under the carpet. Shortages of medicines or doctors at state hospitals have always been the norm under the callous and hard-hearted Zanu Pf rule. The well-being of the people has never been important to the Zpf government.

The state of affairs in Zimbabwe is untenable. Even if the people have been cowered to a pliable mode, situations on the ground will revolt. Zanu Pf cohorts will not ruin Zimbabwe and get away with it. Let's add up the conditions.

Each year hundreds of thousands of poorly educated Ordinary level youths are ejected from schools, raw, from around the country and these will not be able to get employed in an economy where industry base is shrinking fast and unemployment is already over 90%. So would be the A level graduates and diploma holders or University graduates. Many now are flooding the South African labour market but South Africa will not be able to continually absorb all the Zimbabwean school leavers for long. Xenophobic attacks witnessed are just the beginning of the SA society's total rejection of Zimbabwe's exporting of its problem to its door's step.

Secondly, due to poor economic performance, government has not been able to collect enough revenue to cover its fiscal needs. Government has also failed to collect enough revenue to remunerate civil servants for the whole year and for it to workers for the months 4th quarter, it was really a struggle to pay salaries with payments to various divisions being staggered. Unknown also to the civil servants also is that though medical insurance premiums deductions appear on their pay slips, government has for long not been remitting the monies to the respective medical aid society. Civil servants frequently are unable to access medical cover when they need it and most. Being also underpaid and unpaid, they cannot afford to go to private hospitals. Mugabe's government appears unmoved by their predicament. Government boasts of having a large number people being employed in the undocumented informal sector for which it has been unable to neither compute its combined production nor collect tax revenue from. Government simply does not have data on the informal sector and can only make very rough, thumb sucked conjectures.

Thirdly, a dangerous health hazard is brewing in various unplanned, spontaneous and rapidly growing settlements in Harare where there is no portable water, no sewage disposal provision nor refuse collection. Resident of these areas draw water from wells dug very few meters from their make shift pit latrines. This scenario provides perfect conditions for infection and spreading of cholera, dysentery and typhoid. Many hope that these disease outbreaks when hospitals are experiencing acute shortages of staff and medicines. City Council have been powerless to stop these settlements that disguise as Zanu pf mandated settlements since they all mast the Zanu pf flag at their offices.

Everywhere people are without food as agriculture has declined and the rains have not been good. The government, being broke, will not be able to source food for its citizens. Many people will die of starvation as a result. When drought occurred in 1982, many Western countries rallied to bail out Zimbabwe. But the nonagenarian leader of Zimbabwe has been on rampant rambling accusing these western countries in meddling with the affairs of the country. Recently also, food aid provided by NGOs was being politicized by the ruling Zanu pf party structures in the various provinces with many of opposition parties are being cruelly left empty handed until and unless they defect to the ruling party.

Elsewhere in most cities and towns people don't have water, the taps are dry. Because of intense political interference and prying from the central government, city and town governments have become inefficient and ineffective. As a result garbage remains uncollected and is simply dumped in the drains or at street corners. Roads are not repaired and the cumulative damage over the years is most evident in high density areas where Robert Mugabe never visits.

A careful government would avoid reaching such afore mentioned critical stages. An alert government would foresee and act to ameliorate the unfolding disasters. Not the Zanu pf I know. Zanu pf will walk blindly into all these and still find a dozen excuses for the disasters, unsound ones for that matter.  Zpf wants a job it does not like and for which it is not up to the task, it falls short heavily.

The Zimbabwe government continues to force itself on the people regardless of it completely failing to deliver. For a start the ZPF government acted in a very deceitful and devious way in maneuvering itself to be in control of the state of affairs in Zimbabwe. This state of affairs it has completely failed to manage as things are falling apart.   An old and very fragile head of state, Robert Gabriel Mugabe is risking everything, including the future of the youths to stay in power. Mugabe himself is way too old to notice such anomalies. A consortium of R.G Mugabes's glory hungry wife, Zanu pf crooks in high positions and those who wish to inherit the throne through bypassing an election they know they can never win:- these still urge the president to hold on. But the state of affairs on the ground is rebelling against the continuance of status quo; odds against Mugabe remaining as president a minute longer keep multiplying. The situation will explode right into Zanu Pf's face given a summation of this loose ends created by Zanu pf itself, with no-one else to blame.  Zimbabwe is hanging by a fine thread from falling into chaos.  The ruling party itself is rocked by a severe factionalism as many of its members are disgruntled by the total lack of lack of democracy in the party as Robert Mugabe increasingly morphs from being an elected official to a monarchy like. This has seen serious purges of dissenting voices being carried in bid to propagate Mugabe's undemocratic rule.

Though the Zanu pf government continue to abuse the people of Zimbabwe and continue to sell black empowerment as its mainstay to power, the reality is that only a very few in Zanu pf are reaping the proceeds of such an endeavor. The likes of Chombo, Kasukuwere, Chiyangwa, Zhuwao, Grace, Munangagwa and few others are the real beneficiaries of such a smoky scheme and are therefore the natural benefactors thereof. The majority of Zimbabweans are enduring the effects of the gruesome, gross mismanagement of every other sector by ZPF as I alluded to earlier. While the selfish few prosper, the economy is operating at the minimum capacity that cannot sustain many. In the end, it is only their intransigence that his holding the economy from performing at its best possible.