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02 May 2014 at 09:11hrs | Views
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7:59am, 2 May - +263 7* *** ****: DEVELOPMENT IS NOT ALWAYS EXPENSIVE AS PROJECTED: I would like to write concerning wrong perception on development. Often, when the word development is said, people think of mega expensive projects. However, development is diverse. On top of economic development, it also encampuses social and political development as well as environmental management. In Zimbabwe, successive governments have always given priority to economic development at the expense of other elements. It should be known that economic advancement is not enough to make ordinary people have a share of the economy. In a country that is highly corrupt as Zimbabwe, all that could be accrued economical can be easily pocketed by few individuals within spheres of patronage.
Again, there is this tendency of us to associate development with elements which are far beyond our reach. I believe progress; being an outcome of making use of what one has in order to improve his or her life. In farming, people would talk of hybrids, fertilizers, irrigation schemes etc. I am not against these expensive projects but if this at least happened in conjunction with growing and improving our traditional crops, undoubtedly we could be successful.
I come from Binga and the climate there is such that the place is in region four of Zimbabwe. The characteristics of the ecosystem is such that the rains are sparodic and unreliable. With all the above knowledge, you find a government said to be composed of intelligent people advocating for hybrids eg maize. Then people venture into a continued crop failers. Why do they not campaign for the growth of traditional crops like millet and sorghum because these have proven to do well in Binga?
Again there is Zambezi in the vicinity as well as clay soils. But you find our government planning big dam construction projects for irrigation. Why not make concessions with the Zambian government so that Zambezi water may be used for irrigation. When it comes to development planning and management, our country has so much love for foreign experts that do not have a background on our traditions and practices. Yet the same country has invested in human development; why then not making use of what you developed?
These foreign experts are just too expensive and they often remmit what they earn here back to their countries. Initial it was the West and now it is the East(china). China is the worst because it does not take social responsibility in places where it invest. But if we believed in ourselves and made use of available resources, development would be an easy way. At times; changing attitudes is all what is necessary for development to take place, not money. Lets make use of our Traditional Knowledge Systems; they might help us! Let the country use us in development planning!
8:02am, 2 May - +263 7* *** ****: I am a concerned citizen from Binga. Mathew Unique Dube and my email is : mathewuniquedube85@gmail.com. I need to hook with people who specialise on issues of development.
7:59am, 2 May - +263 7* *** ****: DEVELOPMENT IS NOT ALWAYS EXPENSIVE AS PROJECTED: I would like to write concerning wrong perception on development. Often, when the word development is said, people think of mega expensive projects. However, development is diverse. On top of economic development, it also encampuses social and political development as well as environmental management. In Zimbabwe, successive governments have always given priority to economic development at the expense of other elements. It should be known that economic advancement is not enough to make ordinary people have a share of the economy. In a country that is highly corrupt as Zimbabwe, all that could be accrued economical can be easily pocketed by few individuals within spheres of patronage.
Again, there is this tendency of us to associate development with elements which are far beyond our reach. I believe progress; being an outcome of making use of what one has in order to improve his or her life. In farming, people would talk of hybrids, fertilizers, irrigation schemes etc. I am not against these expensive projects but if this at least happened in conjunction with growing and improving our traditional crops, undoubtedly we could be successful.
Again there is Zambezi in the vicinity as well as clay soils. But you find our government planning big dam construction projects for irrigation. Why not make concessions with the Zambian government so that Zambezi water may be used for irrigation. When it comes to development planning and management, our country has so much love for foreign experts that do not have a background on our traditions and practices. Yet the same country has invested in human development; why then not making use of what you developed?
These foreign experts are just too expensive and they often remmit what they earn here back to their countries. Initial it was the West and now it is the East(china). China is the worst because it does not take social responsibility in places where it invest. But if we believed in ourselves and made use of available resources, development would be an easy way. At times; changing attitudes is all what is necessary for development to take place, not money. Lets make use of our Traditional Knowledge Systems; they might help us! Let the country use us in development planning!
8:02am, 2 May - +263 7* *** ****: I am a concerned citizen from Binga. Mathew Unique Dube and my email is : mathewuniquedube85@gmail.com. I need to hook with people who specialise on issues of development.
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