Could it be that something is so grossly wicked about politics in Zimbabwe or is it about the people and their mentality?

INTRODUCTION

More than three and half decades ago Zimbabwe economy was almost in the first world category and the very same United States dollar Zimbabweans use today was equal to the Zimbabwe dollar then. Thirty-eight years, to be exact, Zanu has run the country down, poverty among ordinary people is at treacherous levels, and people then poor in 1980 are today millionaires and own houses and farms no white Rhodesian without inheriting from his/her parents owned. Simple questions baffling every honest person are: What must have gone wrong with our farming, industry and commerce and the mining sectors?

Poor government attitude supported by no policy on indigenization and agricultural land distribution made Zanu government live in a honey moon happy disposition assuming everything will go well for ever until when the economy begun straining to support a government zero revenue fiscus. The old adage of milking a cow without feeding it is pertinently applicable. The problem with Zanu is, has and will always be of poor management, transparency and accountability coupled with persistent accusation of the defenseless poor and innocent.

The people problem has been that of being a nation of wannabees.  We have a million briefcase business persons beginning from the president of the country, his siblings, their families and relatives to his surrogates who sit in their offices willy-dealing making millions out of the poor man's income taxes. The economy created a false middle class who own no means of production, but who is artificially rich to cause price hikes in houses, consumer goods, land and food without any backing of a strong home manufacturing and/or agro-based industry. The economic degeneration has been unabated no wonder enough is now enough government cannot pay civil servants, the army, police and prison services  

LET US UNDERSTAND WHY OPPOSITION POLITICAL PARTIES ARE EASILY FOUNDED YET VERY WEAK

From 1980s through to 2016 that Robert Mugabe and his surrogates baptized corruption and poor governance as modus-operands for future political strive in Zimbabwe no doubt shares in the outcome of the results showing in the formation of more than forty-two political parties assumedly to join in the grabbing competition for riches of Zimbabwe including people and other subterranean wealth. It is annoying to realize that unless as a nation Zimbabweans are sick, by now it should be clear why Mr. Mugabe finds it easy to keep in control of the people as President-using power catch bet to entrench corrupt practices.

If political parties' formation was as risk as many paint in Zimbabwe, why would so many risk their life without much outcome in terms of changing the regime or being tortured as alleged. Consider 1990s and early 2000s when brutality on political parties took a real rough riding skype with more torture and arrests encouraged by the regime. We almost had zero political opposition parties. The importance is not in forming more opposition political parties but seeking a way of unifying positive forces so as to influence with impact that bring up change. If the objective is less risk but motivational to personal aggrandizement by actors than impressions given to followers, then we see a rise in deception and an ineffectual impact of opposition politics.

The very participants in opposition politics always leave to form another organization meaning they see something lucrative normally this is receipt of funds which are not accountable. Evidence exist in many cases that the world is always taken for a ride to sympathise with a cause and be hoodwinked. Equally some international organizations aim at steering waters in countries and benefit from information and/or intelligence sourcing.  The answer to any country avoiding being an appendage of another is dependent on the sincerity of leadership to its citizens and their commitment to the country. The attraction of making oneself richer as evidenced in all Zimbabweans surrogates to Zanu including opposition suggests corruption is endemic in Zimbabwean community supported clandestinely by leadership. The mistaken impression taken for a vision is rooted in the concept of either my tribe or family is richer than yours. Much vividly given in Chinua Achebe book as "My Mercedes Benz is bigger than yours, syndrome." The cancer is in love to be better than others using every short cut to the rules. Police road blocks are an example of governance decay. Admittedly no wonder why Zimbabwe economic performance continue to deteriorate as well as thinking outlook.

It is true that some Zimbabweans have had too much education such this education has perhaps surpassed its productive levels for being a community benefit or service. Consider that before professing to knowing too much as children, we naturally knew and know that there is power in coming together in the face of a bully. That coming together is strength than divisive stand alone shows in quest for individual fame against national commitment. That ills in any community are always evident after a slight disagreement occurs when, in order to satisfy the pride of a few, some take off to forming a leadership splinter group. It is as though the vocabulary of social profit organizations that help align governance to the constitution and the rule of law is often taken as an enemy since she opens masses eyes to causes of corruption.

Accountability and transparency are responsibilities specially made privy only to the executive president. The removal of check and balances by restricting a responsibility to one government arm invites open abuse of power by those assigned to apply the powers. Hence the Zimbabwe Central Intelligence's none accountability except to the president. Even if it is the case, would that not be playing to any regime control weakening opposition political parties influence and their impact on masses, policy and governance?

CONSIDER SOURCES OF CORRUPTION AND ITS ENTRENCHMENT

Recently as a result of much social pressure from non political civic organizations; Mr. Mugabe accepted that during the struggle days in exile, Zanu isolated its opponents in an underground silo while giving them food. This admission is accidental admission of an aging man on how cruel a position the liberation struggle took on HUMANS who questioned social justice and their objectives, particularly when legal decisions on liberation struggle comrades lacked in natural justice etiquette. These and many other social ills that temporarily disappeared at independence to appease international community have emerged and reveal tendencies that earned Zimbabwe a poor human and people rights abusive records in successive years in the 80s, 90s including today.   

All Zanu high ranking party leaders own a piece of farm whether or not that farm is productive. Close study shows no payments were done for most of them except grabbing them from former owners who are whites. Labour in the farms has reduced increasing social unrest in the country. Businesses have been taken by ambitious but experience clueless who if it were not for funds coming out of corrupt practices they would be broke. So all these sectors which used to contribute much to National Gross product in the past has no contribution to make today and no wonder why the economy is sinking and people rising to rescue the country from total collapse while Zanu watches. Civil servants, police and military all have gone unpaid and yet billions of revenue from minerals still go unaccounted. It is false to hope Zanu can reform incompetence that has contributed to highest levels of corruption in the country.

ZANU HAS SACRIFICED PEOPLE TO SILENCE INTELLIEGENT DISCOURSE FROM THE MASSES.

Today with a record so fresh on Itai Dzamara unaccounted disappearance under the custodianship of Mugabe government, the subsequent abuse of public participants in peaceful demonstrations can only help confirm that Zanu is dictatorial, cruel, abusive, unfair and treats citizens with callousness and punitively. The birth of #Tajamuka, #ThisFlag and other civic endeavors to persuade Zanu to reason and uphold the constitution and meet ALL situations with justice, is very strong testimony that people of Zimbabwe need no FORCE OTHER THAN THEIR OWN RESOLVE to realize their objective; removing Zanu, Mugabe and surrogates from keeping power by force of violence through abuse of citizens.

Numerous images of Zimbabwe police abusing citizens including pregnant women beating their feet while they are in a sitting and defenseless posture has become an ominous site on social networks. No doubt Mr. Mugabe and his party are losing it were it not for the little thread of force they keep employing through secret police who visit people by night and take them for harsh inhumane interrogations. I find it offensive to the extreme that the opposition parties who are meant to have the machinery somehow to take stock of people abuse are quiet and uncompetitive to individuals who use their WhatsApp's to connect the world through the Diaspora. Parties have access to press conferences while individuals and loosely organized civic clubs do not, yet more information comes through individuals than through institutions who are supposed to work hard in removing human oppression.

With much respect for humanes it is possible to develop democracy that tolerate different views and accept change for the general good. Respect though comes from families built on solid values of tradition and Christian-Jewdeo family values. Our tradition neither exists nor has it disappeared, yet very few Zimbabweans love their culture or tradition if they are not cause for division from within. Our languages need to be a pride than source for division as it has been made to appear.

THE INEVITABLE WAY FORWARD

There is no need for a negotiated table conference but a government REPLACEMENT plan called TRANSITIONL AUTHORITY if Zimbabweans have a commitment to the new order that will make a concerted effort to change entrenched corruption ways at home and abroad with international communities. The civic rights movement in its INNOCENCE OF PURPOSE HAS SHOWN IT IS THE ONLY WAY CITIZENS CAN CLAIM BACK WHAT IS RIGHTFULLY THEIR OWN. None corrupt citizens will agree with me that this is the only chance to review and settle differences caused mainly by a poverty thinking people misarranging as revolutionaries.  

It is not difficult unless we owe it to people who destroyed the country while we sheepishly watch as they slapped us using the armed forces, secret police and public police including auxiliary police reservist not registered yet getting paid from government fiscus and budget. The mentality to down trod on others by dictators has grown an underlined sense of a get-rich-quickly mentality driving everyone so competitively to engage in subservience and ingratiation with those in authority cementing the strong sense of covering wrong-lack of transparency and accountability. Zanu has set up numerous commissions on corruption and results are as though these helped endorse further strategies to smart up corrupt practices.

Its necessary to radically review social justice systems, constitutional relevance and rule of law plus separation of powers to get a home grown democratic norms and values similar to universal systems.  Deeper vision aught be based on a national interest concept which we have trashed in the last thirty-seven years gone by. Life as a value has lost value during Zanu rule. Policing has assumed very awkward picture in the minds of people particularly the youth. We need gain and build policing on respect and human sustenance on support than being undermined. It will not be difficult to realize that UNITY is our survival strategy founded on HUMILITY of purpose from what we have gone through so far. Any answer outside this solution prescription is caused either by ignorance or deliberate quest for selfishness in disguise of political party formation.