By Nomusa Garikai- The sight of Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies kitted out with brooms and mops sweeping and mopping hospital grounds and wards provides the lazy reporter with a story. But in a country where unemployment has soared to nauseating heights of 90% the really story is why are the hospital wards and ground in such filthy conditions except for the odd occasion, the photo opportunity, when these politicians visit? Hundreds of thousands of University Graduates will happily take up the job as cleaners if only the regime would pay them a living wage!
In other words these public cleaning projects by our leaders are just gimmicks. If these men and women were spending their time and energy is solving the country’s worsening economic meltdown, which is their number one task, then our hospitals, schools, etc. would not be in such a deplorable state!
Worse still, our political system is broken so we, the people, have no meaningful say in the governance of the country. And so find ourselves stuck with leaders who rigged elections to stay in power but have no clue what to do to fix the country’s mounting problems!
Instead of finding solutions to the nation’s problems they are now competing in gimmick projections.
“We have not been participating in the national cleaning programme. Beginning this year, we are going to be part of government’s clean-up campaign. We are coming up with what is called Jekesa Zimbabwe.
“We are also going to launch the smart villages policy that will entail our model smart homesteads smart sources of energy solar for each rural home borehole per village infrastructure for villages, schools, bridges, etc.”
Zimbabwe is in this political and economic mess because the country’s political system is broken; we are stuck for 40 years and counting with an incompetent, corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF regime. Zimbabwe is a pariah state ruled by corrupt and incompetent murderous tyrants and as long as it remains a pariah state there will be no hope of any meaningful economic recovery. None!
The people of Zimbabwe have risked life and limb to elect Chamisa and his MDC friends into power on the understanding they will bring about the democratic changes to end the Zanu PF dictatorship, the nation has been dying for all these years.
It is truly disheartening that not only has MDC failed to bring about even one democratic change in 20 years of the party’s existence but worse still it has now abandoned the cause of democratic change in favour of gimmick projects.
Zimbabwe does not need leaders to show them how to do something as basic as sweeping the floor; pay them and they will do it. What the country needs above all else is leaders who will repair the country’s broken political system, who will restore the people’s freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country!