Opinion / Columnist
What's the Way Forward?
08 Aug 2018 at 10:50hrs | Views
Zimbabwe is for all Zimbabweans. It is not for a few individuals and similarly are state organs or state institutions, they should function for the state and not for a political party or those indiduals that have been appointed to head them.
I doubt if the army and the police or any of our securocrats are state institutions anymore having watched their operation over the years under Zanu-PF governance and definitely having watched the disproportionate actions of the army against harmless civilians two days after the elections, when every contesting politician has been busy preaching peace and change during their campaigns.
This is what worries many responsible Zimbabweans as to what else is happening unnoticed behind the scenes. What is the mood like in their camps? Have they decided to turn against us and start killing us? You cannot help having those questions in your mind if you are as defenceless as I am and you are a surviving victim of something similar before. So far there has been no strong apology to the nation for the death of our beloved fellow citizens.
You see, if my kid destroys my neighbour's kid's toy, I should eanerstly apologise and politely offer to buy them another one, but here, lives were lost and everything seems normal, and why is that so. If you don't value my life this way how can I trust you with honouring my vote. Under whose orders on August 1, 2018 did the soldier use live ammunition to kill six çivilians and injure 14 others? This is the question doing rounds in the minds of many and the president must give us the answer because this is a Zimbabweans' state and not a private organisation or company and we deserve an honest answer after such a tragedy and a no heads barred one from the commander in chief. He cannot expect us to trust him to provide peace and security for us when a lunatic in a soldier's uniform armed to teeth is let lose runming amok in the streets of Harare. Mr President you have a point to prove and let's see what you are really made of.
Zimbabwe is rich with many things including highly capable indiduals in many aspects. We have an ailing economy and the reason for that is no other than giving important jobs to wrong people or to weaks minds with no ethical principles but simply the willingness to tore the line and also wrong policies uncopatible to international best practices. Principled people are guided by professional ethics that are build out of researched information which can be rarely overridden. The game of party politics which has polarized the nation so much has made politics a nusty carrier in the minds of intellectuals and has pushed them away. I should say I admire the way Nelson Chamisa is conducting his political business. He is trying to bring everyone together so he doesn't have an enemy beause who ever makes one is a fool. What's the role of an enemy in one's life? To always check your back even when you are in the relieving room or we can check each other's backs? "The more the merrier", he says, although said subtly in reference to the character under discussion at that particular point.
That is what a true and brave leader does. He involves his opponents when dealing with matters of national importance. Now, according to the Zimbabwe Election Commission, the constitutional body in charge of elections in Zimbabwe, Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa has won the August 3, 2018 Zimbabwean elections with a majority vote allowing him to form a government. The big question is what is his cabinet going to look like. Will it be the usual Zanu PF kleptocratic and partisan kind of toring the line group again or highly professional Zimbabweans regardless of party affiliation. We are anxiously waiting bar the court decisions of election disputes.
Another problem we have is that very controversial characters seem to have found some space in our parliament at this election. This country's politics never seizes to amaze me. Are we from bad to worse or from worse to good?
Clement Moyo
Mediation for Peace Centre
+263 712 708 284/77 662 090
clemenmoyo@gmail.com
I doubt if the army and the police or any of our securocrats are state institutions anymore having watched their operation over the years under Zanu-PF governance and definitely having watched the disproportionate actions of the army against harmless civilians two days after the elections, when every contesting politician has been busy preaching peace and change during their campaigns.
This is what worries many responsible Zimbabweans as to what else is happening unnoticed behind the scenes. What is the mood like in their camps? Have they decided to turn against us and start killing us? You cannot help having those questions in your mind if you are as defenceless as I am and you are a surviving victim of something similar before. So far there has been no strong apology to the nation for the death of our beloved fellow citizens.
You see, if my kid destroys my neighbour's kid's toy, I should eanerstly apologise and politely offer to buy them another one, but here, lives were lost and everything seems normal, and why is that so. If you don't value my life this way how can I trust you with honouring my vote. Under whose orders on August 1, 2018 did the soldier use live ammunition to kill six çivilians and injure 14 others? This is the question doing rounds in the minds of many and the president must give us the answer because this is a Zimbabweans' state and not a private organisation or company and we deserve an honest answer after such a tragedy and a no heads barred one from the commander in chief. He cannot expect us to trust him to provide peace and security for us when a lunatic in a soldier's uniform armed to teeth is let lose runming amok in the streets of Harare. Mr President you have a point to prove and let's see what you are really made of.
Zimbabwe is rich with many things including highly capable indiduals in many aspects. We have an ailing economy and the reason for that is no other than giving important jobs to wrong people or to weaks minds with no ethical principles but simply the willingness to tore the line and also wrong policies uncopatible to international best practices. Principled people are guided by professional ethics that are build out of researched information which can be rarely overridden. The game of party politics which has polarized the nation so much has made politics a nusty carrier in the minds of intellectuals and has pushed them away. I should say I admire the way Nelson Chamisa is conducting his political business. He is trying to bring everyone together so he doesn't have an enemy beause who ever makes one is a fool. What's the role of an enemy in one's life? To always check your back even when you are in the relieving room or we can check each other's backs? "The more the merrier", he says, although said subtly in reference to the character under discussion at that particular point.
That is what a true and brave leader does. He involves his opponents when dealing with matters of national importance. Now, according to the Zimbabwe Election Commission, the constitutional body in charge of elections in Zimbabwe, Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa has won the August 3, 2018 Zimbabwean elections with a majority vote allowing him to form a government. The big question is what is his cabinet going to look like. Will it be the usual Zanu PF kleptocratic and partisan kind of toring the line group again or highly professional Zimbabweans regardless of party affiliation. We are anxiously waiting bar the court decisions of election disputes.
Another problem we have is that very controversial characters seem to have found some space in our parliament at this election. This country's politics never seizes to amaze me. Are we from bad to worse or from worse to good?
Clement Moyo
Mediation for Peace Centre
+263 712 708 284/77 662 090
clemenmoyo@gmail.com
Source - Clement Moyo
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