Opinion / Columnist
How long are the Zimbabweans going to stomach nonsense coming from these politicians?
14 Oct 2015 at 06:26hrs | Views
Not long ago Registrar General Tobaiwa Mudede went ballistic about the use of contraceptives in Zimbabwe. They should be banned so that the Zimbabwean people can multiply and replenish the country with kids. Most Zimbabweans ignored him and me included as we thought: here is another baboon that has just discovered that a whistle can make noise just by blowing it. Minister Kasukuwere is at it again, telling the electorates that Zimbabwe needs to have many children, preferably boys. People should go home and make children. Multiply and replenish Zimbabwe.
I suppose since there is no Zesa service in the country he is saying we should resign to our beds early so we do not complain about the shortage of electricity in the Great Zimbabwe. Should be taken away from me how many children I wish to have? How much dictatorship are we to stomach from this rogue government of Zanu, they tell us to multiply and replenish in abject poverty, abject poverty! This whole Minister is completely out of touch with the suffering of the people of Zimbabwe. We wish there was some military coupe and save us from the rote of Zanu PF. Enough is enough!
The people of Zimbabwe have been taken for granted for a long time. The Zimbabwean politicians think we are the most stupid people on Earth. The fact that a lot has happened in that country, it was the Gugurahundi atrocities of the 1980s, the corruption scandals of the 1988s and onwards, the economic down turn resulting from massive retrenchments of the 1994 and onwards, the ESAP prescription resulting in further loss of jobs from all aspects of Zimbabwe work force, private enterprises and public services retrenched workers enmasse, makes them think we are indeed stupid.
Zimbabwe never recovered from the ESAP and the adoption of neo-liberal pill coming from the donor companies: World Bank and World Bank Group. In 1997 there was a new government in Britain that scraped the abuse of funds sent to Harare to quell colonialism and the imperialist tag that is still hanging as an albatross on the neck of the British Empire. Multiply and replenish Zimbabwe said Mr. Kasukuwere.
To punish the British Mugabe and his henchmen invaded farms massively and punished the white electorate and together with Great Britain! Then the rogue government took to punish "sellouts" blacks who worked in the farms causing massive unemployment. As if it's not enough, Murambatsvina came with all its ugliness and made three quarters of the population homeless. Thousands of people died, no shelter, food insecurities lingered all over, they became squatters in their own land. But the Bwanas looked and gloated to have "put them into their place" punished them for their being loyal to whites than blacks! Multiply and replenish Zimbabwe.
There were elections in 2008, when Zanu was at the brink of losing the elections, they went violent and killed indiscriminately whoever voted for MDC. Thousands of people died and many people lost limbs for voting different and thinking different. Multiply and replenish Zimbabwe.
Hook and crook Zanu rigged the elections in 2013 just to stay in power. They showered anesthetics: they will create millions of jobs with their Zim-Asset, empty policies. It does not matter to them if this Zim-Asset is working or not, it does not interest the "good" government of Zanu PF anyhow, the main thing is that they are in power, period! Multiply and replenish Zimbabwe!
The population is so desperate for change. The will-power to rise up and claim their land is lacking and people are generally tired of any uprising. They saw it all during the bush-war of the seventies, a repeat of that makes them weary of yet another uprising. They are tired of going to the streets to claim what belongs to them from birth, the national cake!
There were diamonds discovered and now we are told they are already mined out. Where did the diamonds returns go to? Good sources say that because the diamonds were to be sold in dollars, Zidera never allowed the sale of Zimbabwe diamond beyond the threshold of 3 hundred millions, most diamonds were sold illicitly, below the international tables and Zimbabwe was swindled 14 billion dollars by international crooks they traded with. Where is the rest money? Does it not belong to the national treasury? We are still told to multiply and replenish Zimbabwe.
The economic and indeed political situation at home in Zimbabwe is abhorrent. Hospitals are demanding fees from a young woman to deliver her baby. The "good" government does not ask where will this young woman get 500 dollars to deliver her baby if the unemployment is over 80%, some even quote 90% following the recent retrenchment. Schools are demanding fees, the "good" government does not ask where will a parent in Bulawayo get the money from if the second city is shadow of itself. Most towns in Zimbabwe are setting up water meters to make sure residents pay for the "clean" water they get from the taps. The "good" councilors do not ask where the money will come from if the people are not working but are turned vendors, an unreliable income. We are told to multiply and replenish Zimbabwe.
There is massive lawlessness in towns and in the rural areas too. The social fabric is torn apart and eroded massively. Young girls are raped, sent for early marriages by uncouth guardians because of dire poverty in the homes. Unwanted pregnancies as a result of rape are recorded in most rural parts of the country, but abortion of even rape is illegal. HIV/AIDS is prevalent and the highest in Africa. Old, very old grannies are raped too, by young boys in the lawless areas in the country. The police force is corrupt they are part of the problem in most cases. The rains are unreliable in some parts of Zimbabwe especially in Matabeleland. There will be serious food shortages this year. Most families have been lined up for food hand-outs. Still we are told to multiply and replenish Zimbabwe.
Still we are told that we should multiply and replenish Zimbabwe by some youthful Minister Mr. Savour Kasukuwere. This Minister, one has to ask oneself, which part of his body he uses to think, certainly not his brain, said Biti. "Go home and make children, and make sure you make boys and not girls," he said. How much insult are Zimbabweans still needed to stomach from these criminals masquerading as leaders of the nation? Is it not the time to say it's enough and the nation should rid itself from the lunacy of being told to go and make boy-children.
"Guys, let's be strong. Let's be strong because this is embarrassing. Each day, you are at the local bar drinking beer and even complaining about the cost of beer. Go home and make babies!" He added to wild cheers: "Another thing that I observed when children made their presentations earlier on is that there were a lot of girls and only three boys. Let us drink less beer, guys."
The Local Government minister jokingly said at the rate at which people were giving birth, government may be forced to shut
Mr. Kasukuwere is taking our silence for stupidity, we could be stupid if we are to stomach this vomit from a young man who thinks he was not born by a woman and therefore to be a man is better than to be a woman. What makes a boy better than a girl Mr Kasukuwere? Is it not backwardness that makes him think he is better because he is a man? Mr. Kasukuwere it is backward to serve a Zanu PF. Government, Mr. Kasukuwere, it is backward to think you are better if you bootlick an establishment like Zanu PF to afford the lifestyle you are living and you are mistakenly made to think that your posh life is equal to struggling and suffering people of Zimbabwe if you met them at the beer halls. The majority of the populations in Zimbabwe are honest citizens and they will never stoop so low as to serve a rogue government like you do. Please you should note this difference. Never think we are stupid.
It is backward to detain a young mother who has delivered her newly born baby from the hospital because she cannot pay those birth fees. It is backward to run down a once economic giant country like Zimbabwe to a scrap-heap when all sign were there that Zimbabwe was going to be an economic giant in the Sub-Sahara. Not even ZISCO is functioning. It is backward to let false prophets abuse the population because of the desperate situation they find themselves in and the "good" government does nothing about it. It is backward to pass laws that will allow employers to retrench employees at will. It is very backward to create a vendor economy in a rich country like Zimbabwe and you are not ashamed of it.
It is backward too, to run the economy so desperate, young girls have opted for prostitution in most growth points in the country to make ends meet. How many street children are there in the towns of Zimbabwe? Has it ever crossed your mind, instead of making babies, we can look after those street children that are parentless and homeless in all streets of Zimbabwean towns and cities.
You are insolent, wicked, uncouth and a package of nonsense Mr. Kasukuwere. Stop this nonsense of telling adult Zimbabweans what they are supposed to do with their bodies. Time and again you need reproach your conscience, do not insult the already insulted people of Zimbabwe.
I suppose since there is no Zesa service in the country he is saying we should resign to our beds early so we do not complain about the shortage of electricity in the Great Zimbabwe. Should be taken away from me how many children I wish to have? How much dictatorship are we to stomach from this rogue government of Zanu, they tell us to multiply and replenish in abject poverty, abject poverty! This whole Minister is completely out of touch with the suffering of the people of Zimbabwe. We wish there was some military coupe and save us from the rote of Zanu PF. Enough is enough!
The people of Zimbabwe have been taken for granted for a long time. The Zimbabwean politicians think we are the most stupid people on Earth. The fact that a lot has happened in that country, it was the Gugurahundi atrocities of the 1980s, the corruption scandals of the 1988s and onwards, the economic down turn resulting from massive retrenchments of the 1994 and onwards, the ESAP prescription resulting in further loss of jobs from all aspects of Zimbabwe work force, private enterprises and public services retrenched workers enmasse, makes them think we are indeed stupid.
Zimbabwe never recovered from the ESAP and the adoption of neo-liberal pill coming from the donor companies: World Bank and World Bank Group. In 1997 there was a new government in Britain that scraped the abuse of funds sent to Harare to quell colonialism and the imperialist tag that is still hanging as an albatross on the neck of the British Empire. Multiply and replenish Zimbabwe said Mr. Kasukuwere.
To punish the British Mugabe and his henchmen invaded farms massively and punished the white electorate and together with Great Britain! Then the rogue government took to punish "sellouts" blacks who worked in the farms causing massive unemployment. As if it's not enough, Murambatsvina came with all its ugliness and made three quarters of the population homeless. Thousands of people died, no shelter, food insecurities lingered all over, they became squatters in their own land. But the Bwanas looked and gloated to have "put them into their place" punished them for their being loyal to whites than blacks! Multiply and replenish Zimbabwe.
There were elections in 2008, when Zanu was at the brink of losing the elections, they went violent and killed indiscriminately whoever voted for MDC. Thousands of people died and many people lost limbs for voting different and thinking different. Multiply and replenish Zimbabwe.
Hook and crook Zanu rigged the elections in 2013 just to stay in power. They showered anesthetics: they will create millions of jobs with their Zim-Asset, empty policies. It does not matter to them if this Zim-Asset is working or not, it does not interest the "good" government of Zanu PF anyhow, the main thing is that they are in power, period! Multiply and replenish Zimbabwe!
The population is so desperate for change. The will-power to rise up and claim their land is lacking and people are generally tired of any uprising. They saw it all during the bush-war of the seventies, a repeat of that makes them weary of yet another uprising. They are tired of going to the streets to claim what belongs to them from birth, the national cake!
There were diamonds discovered and now we are told they are already mined out. Where did the diamonds returns go to? Good sources say that because the diamonds were to be sold in dollars, Zidera never allowed the sale of Zimbabwe diamond beyond the threshold of 3 hundred millions, most diamonds were sold illicitly, below the international tables and Zimbabwe was swindled 14 billion dollars by international crooks they traded with. Where is the rest money? Does it not belong to the national treasury? We are still told to multiply and replenish Zimbabwe.
There is massive lawlessness in towns and in the rural areas too. The social fabric is torn apart and eroded massively. Young girls are raped, sent for early marriages by uncouth guardians because of dire poverty in the homes. Unwanted pregnancies as a result of rape are recorded in most rural parts of the country, but abortion of even rape is illegal. HIV/AIDS is prevalent and the highest in Africa. Old, very old grannies are raped too, by young boys in the lawless areas in the country. The police force is corrupt they are part of the problem in most cases. The rains are unreliable in some parts of Zimbabwe especially in Matabeleland. There will be serious food shortages this year. Most families have been lined up for food hand-outs. Still we are told to multiply and replenish Zimbabwe.
Still we are told that we should multiply and replenish Zimbabwe by some youthful Minister Mr. Savour Kasukuwere. This Minister, one has to ask oneself, which part of his body he uses to think, certainly not his brain, said Biti. "Go home and make children, and make sure you make boys and not girls," he said. How much insult are Zimbabweans still needed to stomach from these criminals masquerading as leaders of the nation? Is it not the time to say it's enough and the nation should rid itself from the lunacy of being told to go and make boy-children.
"Guys, let's be strong. Let's be strong because this is embarrassing. Each day, you are at the local bar drinking beer and even complaining about the cost of beer. Go home and make babies!" He added to wild cheers: "Another thing that I observed when children made their presentations earlier on is that there were a lot of girls and only three boys. Let us drink less beer, guys."
The Local Government minister jokingly said at the rate at which people were giving birth, government may be forced to shut
Mr. Kasukuwere is taking our silence for stupidity, we could be stupid if we are to stomach this vomit from a young man who thinks he was not born by a woman and therefore to be a man is better than to be a woman. What makes a boy better than a girl Mr Kasukuwere? Is it not backwardness that makes him think he is better because he is a man? Mr. Kasukuwere it is backward to serve a Zanu PF. Government, Mr. Kasukuwere, it is backward to think you are better if you bootlick an establishment like Zanu PF to afford the lifestyle you are living and you are mistakenly made to think that your posh life is equal to struggling and suffering people of Zimbabwe if you met them at the beer halls. The majority of the populations in Zimbabwe are honest citizens and they will never stoop so low as to serve a rogue government like you do. Please you should note this difference. Never think we are stupid.
It is backward to detain a young mother who has delivered her newly born baby from the hospital because she cannot pay those birth fees. It is backward to run down a once economic giant country like Zimbabwe to a scrap-heap when all sign were there that Zimbabwe was going to be an economic giant in the Sub-Sahara. Not even ZISCO is functioning. It is backward to let false prophets abuse the population because of the desperate situation they find themselves in and the "good" government does nothing about it. It is backward to pass laws that will allow employers to retrench employees at will. It is very backward to create a vendor economy in a rich country like Zimbabwe and you are not ashamed of it.
It is backward too, to run the economy so desperate, young girls have opted for prostitution in most growth points in the country to make ends meet. How many street children are there in the towns of Zimbabwe? Has it ever crossed your mind, instead of making babies, we can look after those street children that are parentless and homeless in all streets of Zimbabwean towns and cities.
You are insolent, wicked, uncouth and a package of nonsense Mr. Kasukuwere. Stop this nonsense of telling adult Zimbabweans what they are supposed to do with their bodies. Time and again you need reproach your conscience, do not insult the already insulted people of Zimbabwe.
Source - Nomazulu Thata
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