At a time when Zimbabwe is reeling under sanctions that ZANU PF calls “evil” the same government deploys nothing to do, thoughtless CIO agents who move around in an unmarked twin cab to kidnap a man who is holding lawful but peaceful protests as guaranteed in the Zimbabwe Constitution. This is the very country that has been ignored by China as not being serious. The same country that has not been trusted with serious financial aid because of a wanton appetite to focus on childish luxuries.
This is the very country that has been trying to polish its image so that it can appear to be in good behavior and appeal for the removal of economic sanctions. This is a country that has been ordered by the Bretton Woods, the IMF and World Bank to improve its human rights records in exchange for financial aid. A country whose Ministers are crying daily for sanctions to be removed so that they can explore better shopping malls for their wives and children in the West. Others like the Mugabe family even want their children to try the NBA in LA in the USA. Sadly, this is the very country that continues to isolate itself through careless abrupt decisions that cost the nation at large.
Zimbabwe’s economy is on life support. Nothing is moving. Minister Chinamasa is getting tired and running out of ideas. There are no jobs. The farms are not producing because people are lazy and just want to be cell-phone farmers. The mines are at a standstill. Chiyadzwa diamonds were sapped and the proceeds fell into private pockets as blood diamonds money. Now Zimbabwean leaders wake up and try to mislead the world that they know nothing about Itai Dzamara’s kidnapping after carefully arranging for the disappearance. Who believes that?? It is already known the world over. The CIO acts on orders. They are following strict orders from the top. But then Zimbabwe is never going to be taken seriously before the World. This is a country where NIKUV arranges for elections to be forged and stolen.
A nation where only the few top leaders live comfortably as the whole nation suffers. This is a country with leaders without ethics who simply say anything to anyone with impunity. A country with a Constitution that must remain a paper theory. A country where many are terrorized by the CIO that is supposed to protect them. A country where the CIO has become a Mugabe private wing to protect ZANU PF and Mugabe interests yet it survives on tax dollars. A country where 10 000 people are ghost workers in civil service and their supposed salaries are openly pocketed by Government Ministers. The World is watching. Zimbabwe has become a big joke. People are suffering because the leaders are childish if not cruel to the masses.
No one takes them seriously. Very soon the economy will come to a standstill. It is even worse in that the human rights records and the rule of law continue to be spurned willy-nilly. People either perish by arranged traffic accidents where they get killed somewhere by bullets and are planted on the highway in smashed cars that run under fallen trees. The whole CSI scenes are arranged in early hours of the morning. The world now knows that.
At times people get kidnapped and are sent to Mahehe underground camp where the CIO practice torture and then they rush to Banket to see the Malawi sangoma who must magically subdue the dead souls to block avenging spirits from hounding the CIO. Some even drink the blood of those they kill as some take out some body parts for evil rituals. That’s why many people who disappear emerge as dead bodies with missing parts like tongues, eyes, etc etc. How evil is that? And who doesn’t know that? Everyone keeps wondering where the nation is going when there is no rule of law and nothing is working. And the Zimbabwean leaders still expect the world to take them seriously when all the major global news headlines are crying foul over the Itai Dzamara kidnapping. They are actually making the Zimbabwean situation worse.
Jones N.Mhlanga