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The Flag Tanjamuka, Preparing for a good harvest

05 Jul 2016 at 06:17hrs | Views
His Excellency Mr. President, since 1980 everything had revolved around you and your ZANU PF.

We saw Gukurahundi which resulted in massacres of innocent people. Every election since then has been labelled with thieving. Political rivals has been murdered or imprisoned in Zimbabwe a country you claim to be free from British rule.

The most productive people in the country, the farmers were driven away making millions of blacks homeless and destitute. Productive farms were given to political crones and family members who have let the land fallow and unworkable. Reduced the Zimbabwe dollar to worthless toilet paper and send four million Zimbabweans into exile more than during the height of the Rhodesian war.

As a leader you have totally failed to facilitate the coming together of the Nation to find its feet and map its way out of the crisis it finds itself in.

For a party that should celebrate liberating the people to run down to governing fraudulently is very demeaning.

As a President you have failed all Zimbabweans in many dimensions and also failed to protect a legacy of equality and fair opportunity you fought for. You have turned Zimbabweans into economic immigrants and destitute because of your failed policies.

Mr. President, we are now living in a global age. This means our competition is now global and so should be our partners.

The Youth of Zimbabwe and the general population are clearly speaking as they carry out peaceful demonstrations across the country. They need to reorganize their country and meet the challenges of this new order with confidence.

They are saying "NO" to corruption which has brought the country to its knees and it goes without being said.

Mr. President, Zimbabwe cannot be allowed to harvest a curse from the blessings of abundance. We need to be more discerning. Time has changed and so as the events. We are no more at war with anyone anymore, but we are faced with economic war which requires us to change the way we do things.

We do not forget or undermine the huge sacrifice taken to unyoke us from the racism we suffered under the white rule supremacists.Zimbabeans refuse to betray the same by standing idly whilst the meaning of that sacrifice is enjoyed at the expense of the majority of our people by a few misguided malcontents who have no desire to build a happy nation for all.

We the people, refuse to stay away from the challenge to lock horn and even die in search of a victory for the common citizen.

Mr. President, you have done brave things in your lifetime. IF there is energy to do more let that be shown by the willingness to be more democratic, to be inclusive, accommodating and to accept that Zimbabwe is no longer a playground for a single idea but that we have come to the stage where we no longer look for idols, heavyweights or omnipotent players.

We are all in this together to create and sell the best idea that Zimbabwe can gather around for the sake of its economy, its internal relations, everlasting stability and our children, grandchildren who wait to inherit the fortunes we must leave behind. Workers are going without being paid on time, or receive a portion of their wages, while most companies have closed, people have no jobs, there is no money in the country and your government has no clue of what action to take.

Mr. President it is time you come up in the open and concede failure. If a government fails to provide its people with basic needs, it has failed to run the country.

The Zimbabwe economic state demands serious governance reconsideration.

Mr. President, on several occasions you have spoken about failure by your government to meet the basic needs of the citizens but have not taken an action to address that as the man in overall in charge, except blaming the sanctions from the West. I am sorry to say you should have been impeached and removed from office long time ago for incompetency. "The greatest among you must be a servant". We hope and pray for a miracle that one day we get leaders who will be willing to work as servants of the people, without intimidation, ethnicity, political and social discrimination.

Failure to respond to the needs of people, you are not a leader. The greatness of leaders is to be able to listen to conscience and relinquish power, forget self and ask what the people need.



Source - Dr. Lindiwe M Chopamba USA
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