Opinion / Columnist
Yes, we can dream big once more
27 Mar 2018 at 08:13hrs | Views
Zanu-PF stole people of Zimbabwe's dreams for so many years. Some did not realize their full potential because they had put in place a system based on Zanu-PF patronage not on merit. When the situation gets to this scenario standards go down and mediocrity becomes any acceptable way of life. The MDC T leader says we should dream big, to some they say what he is saying is like a mirage in the desert but in a way he is right.
Zanu-PF did more than steal elections to stay in power. They did far much worse things to the Zimbabwean people. People's way of thinking changed from free thinkers to robot like humans. The dictatorship manipulated people's minds that Mugabe could do as he wished and we could do nothing about it. I will take an example to the state of our roads, be highway roads or those under local authorities, they deteriorated to such levels that to drive became a nightmare. A lot of people died along the highway, mostly cross-border traders trying to eek out a living by importing goods from neighbouring countries. To add salt to injury the insensitive Zanu-PF government set up toll gates, not because they wanted funds to rehabilitate the roads. The funds were to line their pockets, to fund their lavish lifestyles while ordinary people could barely survive. People complained in harsh tones and it became normal again. No road was rehabilitated from those funds, potholes became like dams and still we accepted that. This was being done by a party that claimed to love its people. Is it any different to a father who blows his earnings on beer and women but yet claims I love my family?
Standards kept going down. Zimbabwe education system once regarded as one of the best became a laughing stock as stories came out one after the other.An exam leak there, a teacher marking exam papers in a night club (Bulawayo) and so on. The deteriorating of all things became a normal way of life such that a normal thing looked like abnormality.
People forget that all the major projects we see in neighbouring countries or overseas were some one's big dreams that came to fruition. Zanu-PF has changed people's way of thinking so when Chamisa talks of bullet trains ,airport in Murehwa mouths are open agape.Blame Zanu-PF for that way of thinking. Zanu-PF knows how to officially open a public toilet and it is on national news. Ask the people in Dubai what it was until they dreamt of that tallest building in the world, ask South Africans how they have those beautiful shopping malls our dear leaders love to visit with their loot.
Yes, it is Zanu-PF that has denied people a kind of life we look at in awe when in foreign lands. To be honest we are way back as compared to our neighbours. Zanu-PF found the roads intact, they found the education system one of the best, hospital delivery system modern but through their incompetence destroyed all that. That is their legacy, a legacy of destruction not going forward.
Zimbabwe has vast resources which if managed well to have major projects would not take time.What would $15 billion do if it had been used in a transparent manner? So, to all doomsayers it is ok to dream big, everything good you see was someone's dream.
Zanu-PF did more than steal elections to stay in power. They did far much worse things to the Zimbabwean people. People's way of thinking changed from free thinkers to robot like humans. The dictatorship manipulated people's minds that Mugabe could do as he wished and we could do nothing about it. I will take an example to the state of our roads, be highway roads or those under local authorities, they deteriorated to such levels that to drive became a nightmare. A lot of people died along the highway, mostly cross-border traders trying to eek out a living by importing goods from neighbouring countries. To add salt to injury the insensitive Zanu-PF government set up toll gates, not because they wanted funds to rehabilitate the roads. The funds were to line their pockets, to fund their lavish lifestyles while ordinary people could barely survive. People complained in harsh tones and it became normal again. No road was rehabilitated from those funds, potholes became like dams and still we accepted that. This was being done by a party that claimed to love its people. Is it any different to a father who blows his earnings on beer and women but yet claims I love my family?
Standards kept going down. Zimbabwe education system once regarded as one of the best became a laughing stock as stories came out one after the other.An exam leak there, a teacher marking exam papers in a night club (Bulawayo) and so on. The deteriorating of all things became a normal way of life such that a normal thing looked like abnormality.
Yes, it is Zanu-PF that has denied people a kind of life we look at in awe when in foreign lands. To be honest we are way back as compared to our neighbours. Zanu-PF found the roads intact, they found the education system one of the best, hospital delivery system modern but through their incompetence destroyed all that. That is their legacy, a legacy of destruction not going forward.
Zimbabwe has vast resources which if managed well to have major projects would not take time.What would $15 billion do if it had been used in a transparent manner? So, to all doomsayers it is ok to dream big, everything good you see was someone's dream.
Source - AT Kadada
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