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Why the 2018 Zimbabwean President will emerge from Diaspora

25 Jul 2014 at 20:19hrs | Views
Zimbabwe needs a completely new re-cultured Zimbabwean who does not think commonly but has innovative and creative traits which are not guided by Colonial Black inferiority stigma of yesterday. This innovated Zimbabwean can only be found from Diaspora and it should be someone who has never been traumatized by Colonialism, Tribalism, Starvation or any injustice which sets a human mind into a state of revenge and self-proving.

Anyone who was brought up and cultured in Zimbabwe will never be any different from President Mugabe. In the past 35 years, Zimbabweans have slowly been cultured by the corrupt rulership to live a corrupt life-style which rewards the worst criminals and impoverish the most honest citizens.

In Zimbabwe today, anyone in the momentous position of power acts and mistreats the public just like President Mugabe. If you walk into a shop to buy bread, a shop keeper mistreats you in a hostile manner. You board a bus and pay your money and the conductor will mistreat you exactly the way President Mugabe mistreats Zimbabweans. This has become a National Culture which was not the case in 1980. The Police, Vendors, Electricity Bill payment points, School headmasters, Passport and Birth certificates offices, furniture shops, City revenue hall operators, Boarder Officers and even Restaurants Workers all have the same hostile mistreatment of the public. They lack the old and normal professional polite, persuasive and ethical handling of a client as per Customer Service Book.

Our country has become a country of dealers, pay-before-you-are allowed to –pay, sex-before-position, my-relative first, speak-my-language-before-I-can employ-you.

The old criterion of employing people by the scope of their qualification and ability is gone. A Government minister pushes his wife to become a minister even without any hint of qualification.

All this was allowed and encouraged slowly by President Mugabe over the last 34 years. Our President is not the first person to do this in life. This way of doing things is the BASIC PRIMITIVE NATURAL PRINCIPLE OF HUMAN THINKING.

What it actually means is that there are two ways of doing things in life. The first way is the natural un-innovated way which anyone can do. This natural method of doing things is guided by one's thinking and it does not seek to apply academic referencing, advice or seeking experiences of others who have failed in the past using the same method. This primitive way is the way that Zimbabwe is being run these days. It is so primitive that even 2000 years ago, primitive leaders used to govern using that natural un-sophisticated way. This is proven in the book of proverbs in the bible that if a leader becomes corrupt, the whole country will become corrupt. Another verse in proverbs also says; "It is an abomination for kings to commit wickedness, For a throne is established by righteousness Proverbs 16:12"

This is proof enough that Zimbabwe is run by people who have no capacity to learn from 2000 year old noble advises which form the bedrock of other successful Nations in the World.

The second way of leadership is one guided by accredited referenced nobility. There is a vast difference between holding a Degree in Leadership and leading in an manner that displays the ethics of your Degree. It is simple to get a Degree in Leadership, but it is Golden to be capable of leading in an educated manner. Properly educated and talented leaders REFUSE TO ALLOW NATURAL PRIMITIVE TEMPTATIONS SPOIL THEIR PROFESSIONS. A properly educated Zimbabwean leader who respects his qualification would never allow any smell of corruption, tribalism, nepotism, or regionalism to ingress in his dominion. That is what education does. Proper education produces people who refuse to fall temptation to money or primitively driven fame. Educated people are more concerned  about doing things right and according to tried and tested ethics. They know that nothing has never happened in the past and they study policies before implementing them to avoid falling into the same mistakes that past users have suffered. Educated people refuse to employ on the primitive basis of nepotism, tribe or race because that has been done trillions of times in the past and has proven negative.

This second quality of leadership will never be found in Zimbabwe after President Mugabe's example. Education failed to change President Mugabe and his failure to do his job according to book has spoiled all Zimbabweans who see him as a role model. Zimbabweans are highly educated but, like their leader, their education suffers from failure to translate it into habitual practice. When most educated Zimbabweans get into a job, they exhibit primitive traits that any uneducated person can do. One uneducated Member of Zimbabwean Parliament clearly told one educated but fruitless Minister that his education had failed him.

Because of a corrupt culture that our Educated President has honed in 34 years, our education as a Nation has failed us.  

Now, there is one more thing that education can do. Education allows people to discover their own failures and publicly admit them. A properly educated person is not shy to say "I am trained for this job but I am not good at it, I would rather allow someone else to do it than allow myself to spoil the whole country" This is the correct thinking that most Zimbabweans should, at least, be able to adopt in finding the next leader.

It is IMPOSSIBLE FOR SOMEONE WHO WAS BORN AND BROUGHT UP IN ZIMBABWE SINCE 1980 TO SEE THAT IT IS WRONG TO BE CORRUPT. Even the most vocal opponents of President Mugabe who are Zimbabwean cultured are themselves corrupt.  Doctors in Zimbabwe falsely diagnose rich patients in order to siphon money. They are more interested in the financial background of a patient than they are worried about his health. Teachers put less effort in the class and encourage private lessons to fetch money out of their profession. This was not our culture in 1980. We used to call it a Zambian or Nigerian culture. It is now impossible to find a clean educated person you can trust in Zimbabwe. If a White-man from Britain opens a bakery shop in Mbare, he can easily become a millionaire as people will flock from 200Km in  Gweru to buy bread from him knowing that the bread has been baked, sized and priced up to standard.

In the same spirit, it is impossible to find a single honest person whose eyes have never seen corruption and one who is likely to lead our country and weed away the 34 year old corrupt traits that have befallen our country.

As an educated Nation seeking to fumigate our country and make it great again, let us use our education to select a new Zimbabwean leader who was cultured in other  civilized countries where only jail is the answer for any kind of corruption.

 Let us take this advice serious for the demon that has been encrypted into our Nation is so strong and needs a drastic and quick educated solution.  

We need a leader who is both educated and can demonstrate that he can transfer his education fully on his field of work. That leader can only be found outside Mr Mugabe's area of influence. Let's not be driven by loud, empty and poetic slogans like primitive uneducated people. Let each of us, at individual level sit down and remove from our menu all those we have trusted to lead us but who have failed us. Education is used to make an individual use his mind to see what is useful and what is useless. A truly educated person should not be fooled twice. The United Nations says Zimbabwe has the highest rate of education. What is our education for if we can't see which choices destroy our country? Educated people are not intellectually blind, why are we so educated but exhibit blind allegiance repetitively like the primitive? 

Source - Ryton Dzimiri
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