Thinking positive in times of absolute desperation

Fourth and last letter to the Workers of Zimbabwe: 1st of May 2015

Psychologically it helps to think positive because you can cope with your present circumstances better and tell your sub-consciousness that things will be better tomorrow. Freedom is coming, tomorrow! The consciousness feeds the sub-consciousness the positive messages of hope and it is the sub-consciousness that will realize these hopes and make them true. Dear Zimbabweans we shall overcome someday, deep in our hearts, we do believe that we shall overcome someday!

Let us be Dr. Richard Morgan Tsvangirai for a short spell or moment and tell ourselves that we shall oust Mugabe's Zanu PF from power by the end of 2015. What opportunities are going to be opened for all Zimbabweans of all ethnics and races in Zimbabwe and outside, us as workers? There shall be complete clean-up of the mess done by Zanu PF for 35 years. The people will realize that we need to work very hard to bring glory in our beautiful country called Zimbabwe. Stakeholders from all walks of life will be invited to come together and craft the Zimbabwe they want. It shall be the most exciting moment in the history and development of this country: Zimbabwe. We shall to be saying, "kuti ugare zvakanaka, tanga ne nhamo" The frontline services such as schools, hospitals, roads, agriculture, water and sanitation, public services offer those millions of jobs to be realized in the services they offer immediately.

Schools and hospitals will be given the priority number one. We want all our children to get education, the best education. Education will be facilitated according to each and every child's ability and capability. It will mean constructing durable school buildings across the country, employ educated and trained staff to run the schools, adequate books for all children will made available. Farm audits will be made to make sure there are no multiple owners of farms and they have sat on them because they do not have farming knowledge to produce. Land will be given to the people to use to produce and reduce poverty in their lives. Giving land to the people is a corrective and not a political gain to gunner elections. The railway system of Zimbabwe must be completely refurbished, that will create massive employment. We need a change of life altogether. In most rural areas and growth points there is need to establish durable establishments and front line services within their reach. This will reduce danger of being permanently affected by floods.

The coming government will plan how street children will be taken out of the streets and be sent to centers of learning. This exercise is not negotiable at all. An underage child has no right to live in the streets. It is the department of social welfare that will come up with clear workable policies on how to remove children out of Zimbabwean streets. No child will be criminalized for living in the streets but at the same time, the coming government will have zero tolerance with children living in the streets. Our standards of good governance will be measured on how we deal with the most vulnerable citizens in our societies, the children. Setting up such institutions that will look after the welfare of street children will offer numerous job opportunities country-wide for us workers.

The new government will have strict measures regarding the formation of churches in the country. While we embrace and cherish the freedom of assembly, so many churches have abused these constitutional rights and have turned churches into businesses under the impression of "gathering to worship." These numerous church leaders have, as a matter of fact realized a niche to exploit the poor masses and are taking advantage of the fact that Zimbabwe is a very Christian and  religious country. The masses then fall prey of such false prophets who have found a way of making money through manipulating the emotionally vulnerable people especially women and girl-children. The criminal's syndicates have realized how churches can be shops, big time businesses to make money. Most of those false prophets have become millionaires, self made millionaires by robbing the poorest of the poor of their last coins in their pockets. Religion has been clearly merchandised to get that dollar for the "Lord" illicitly. They are cold and unscrupulous people who deserve to be prosecuted by the law of the land. These false prophets will be prosecuted by the coming dispensation for exploiting the masses because it is abuse of freedom of assembly. Again women and children are sexually abused in these bogus religious institutions. They give false advice to men who are suffering from HIV/AIDS that it can be cured. Please workers hold on to your dollars tightly, and never give them up so easily. It is true that the times are very touch indeed to live in Zimbabwe today when you really do not know when the next plate of isitshwala/sadza will come from? To join those bogus churches make our situation even worse. Most of these church gatherings are criminals, watch out for such false prophets. But it is in the Bible again that "there shall be many false prophets, please be careful about them." It is shear desperation and abject poverty that sends masses of people these bogus churches to worship these false prophets. It is our government that has reduced people to believe and hang on to falsehood, the government overlooks it as it is to their advantage to have people turn to religion than to turn on to their government and ask for better lives, better services, jobs, food securities etc.

I am sure someone is asking pertinent questions, where are they going to get all that money to kick start the projects at once? This question is very valid. We wish to make sure that Zimbabwe becomes a pearl of African and recover its glory of yesteryear within our lifetime. Targets will be checked and measured by five year plans. The government will make sure it engages with the international community to free us from Zanu debt of US$9 billion dollars. If this is agreeable to the international community, that we are freed of this massive debt, it will ease financial strain in the finance treasury and be able to fund social spending. We shall engage with the USA to remove Zidera and able to trade in the dollar without any limitations in volume of our resource sales as we shall be out of hidden sanctions that of which are hindering us to sell the diamonds beyond the stated levels. We shall not be dependent on diamond sales alone but on many other resources that will give the treasury immediate kick start.

 A "marshal" plan will be the key. A marshal plan is not to be seen as Keynes plan that bankroll West Germany after the WWII. The Zimbabwe' marshal plan will have its own definition according to Zimbabwe's needs that we shall put in place. We have natural resources in our land that are in great demand in the world markets. We make use of these resources as they are in abundance. If the diamond sales are sold at the world market, they make available a workable treasury for public spending without borrowing from the international money lenders. The key to wealth creation will be to cub corruption and we must learn to respect the public funds. Zimbabweans have to learn the culture of creating wealth and consuming it only. Mr. Eddy Cross has said this in most of his articles and it makes a lot of sense.   

In 24 hours we shall be celebrating the International Labor Day, the 1st of May. It will be celebrated by almost all workers world-wide. Our thoughts are with our fellow citizens in South Africa, who are suffering from xenophobic attacks. Most of them would rather they stayed under those circumstances than to come home to Zimbabwe where there is no future perspective whatsoever. We know it ourselves that those workers preferred to go to South Africa because there was no work in Zimbabwe. It is unheard of that a country can have 95% of the working population out of employment. But is a reality in Zimbabwe. It amazes everybody that the government of Zimbabwe is not ashamed of this. The President is globetrotting all over the shore using the money we don't have, the treasury is bankrupt. We hope that the government will collapse and we start all over again and clean up the mess of 35 years. If we go out to the streets and demonstrate we shall be harmed. Zanu PF is now a Chicken that can eat its own eggs. We have proof of this all around us. Think about Mai mujuru, Rugare Gumbo, Mutasa, Themba Mliswa, the endless counting. We have seen many deaths and no one country has come to our side and assists. We need to look after ourselves. But when enough is enough then we shall know what to do, reclaim our freedom back so that we work and look after our families here in Zimbabwe and not in the Diaspora.

But because we are not Dr. Richard Morgan Tsvangirai, the reality is that we are still under Zanu PF, we do not know how long but we can be sure one day that this government will be told to pack and go by the unemployed workers of this country. As workers we focus on the reality on the ground. We the unemployed peoples are in the majority and number than of any organization you can think of in Zimbabwe, so change too is in our hands. One day!