09/11/2016
For over three and a half decades, Zimbabweans have witnessed the government grow far away from us. For the Zimbabweans masses the government has proven to be like a foreign body of idealess individuals, whose main priority is to loot, extract from the poor masses through obscene corruption and enrich themselves at the detriment of millions of citizens.
Surely as Zimbabweans our freedom today, 36 years after independence, is not free.In our nation where according to ZANU PF’s Robert Mugabemis-rule, enormous wealth rubs shoulders with abject poverty, the army, the judiciary and the police force form the pillars of the regime; all of which, in accordance with their application are corrupt, biased, and clear apologies of the ZANU PF regime. The abuse of the judiciary, the police force and the power of this army are proportional to the socio—economic marasmus that afflicts the rest of the nation.
Zimbabweans have a serious crisis and are confronted with a situation that requires urgent address for the sake of our nation and its citizens. We are seriously facing a cultism complex that has presided over decades of plunder and virtual lawlessness and is the direct source of a whole series of exceedingly serious and grave perversions of democratic principles in our country,principles which guided the first and second Chimurengas,principles which guided our own liberation war heroes and principles which inspired the post-independence struggles for democracy, human rights recognition and socio-economic freedom.
At 35 years, we have been exposed to a highly corrupt land reform exercise, the ZANU PF regime sells itself in- creasingly openly to the major foreign companies through corrupt procedures and euphemise it as international economicengagement. Foreigners grab concessions through kickbacks, scandals abound, ministers get rich, their wives become floozies, members of the legislature line their pockets, and everybody, down to police officers and customs officials, joins hands in this huge caravan of corruption. This is Mugabe’s legacy and we denounce it.
Contemporarily, all this political and socioeconomic quagmire can be summed up in two words, 'Bond Notes'. The government is desperately trying to make us believe that these notes are the solution to our economic decay and try to use all sorts of jargon and sophisticated economic terminologies but it all amounts to nothing being said in a lot of words.
The liquidity crunch that we are being told to be the problem to be solved by bond notes is not even the problem on hand at all, these are just symptoms of a dead economy, just like the stinky smell of a co**se. You don't ressurect a co**se by buying and applying air freshener to diffuse the smell, never.
Our real problems as Zimbabwe the body politic and the economy are rampant corruption, illicit financial outflows, externalisation of funds and resources, non-productivity, misgovernance, mal-administration and development clueless national leadership.
Ours is never a reproductive economy but a spending one. We have an insanely bloated government, with government officials awarding themselves unrealistic salaries, allowances and benefits. We have a globetrotting president who is addicted to flying. We have an irresponsible first lady who thinks that Zimbabwe was created for her and her family alone. We have ministers who are masters of corruption and stealing. What is scary is they have even lost all conscience and, as a result of watching to much Hollywood movies, liken themselves to characters like Robin Hood.
All these crimes against the people are done by the elite whilst the ordinary people suffer. You need strong political capacity and state backup to be able to externalise funds, partake in illicit financial outflow activities, and award yourself huge salary perks or steal hundreds of thousands and claim to be a Robin Hood. Thus the problems we are in are just but a creation by our political elites in government.
We are currently caught up in a debate with some rejecting the bond notes and others embracing them. Unfortunately for the progressive citizens who are rightfully rejecting it for the bond notes will never resolve the aforementioned problems considering the liquidity crunch is not the problem but one minor symptom of the real problems, the bond note is coming and has already been printed.
What is more appalling in he face of all this rot are the politically indifferent youth. We pretend to hear no evil, see no evil and shun participation in issues to do with how we are governed. We do not seem to know that the cost of living, the price of mealiemeal, chicken, weave, databundles, the price of rent, of school fees, and transport all depend on political decisions. We even pride ourselves on political ignorance, we don't have the time to read newspapers or online stories on the political and socioeconomic state of affairs of our country. We don't even know how much $15 billion is worth and the great impact it could have made on our economy had it not been stolen. We do not know the harm inflicted on education in our country by the continuous heroic Robin Hood escapades on ZIMDEF money by successive ministers of higher and tertiary education. We even pride ourselves on political ignorance, stick out our chests and pull out our backs, and say we hate politics. We are stupid and ignoramus from the fact that from our political nonparticipation comes unemployment, expensive cost of education, the liquidity crunch, and more worrisome with the advent of the bond notes, hunger, poverty, cholera, typhoid and all those 2008 horrors that killed thousands in our ghettoes.
We have been wrongly conditioned to think that only politicians can solve our problems, but what really do we need to wake up and recognise that they are the chief architects of our suffering through their corruption and misgovernance?
It's high time we wake up and realise that we are the ones we will be waiting for to free ourselves. More so, we have virtually lost everything to this regime and you future is bleak. As such we have nothing to loose but their chains.
That is why we should also be part of the 18th movement calling for the anti-bond notes demonstration. Mind you, it indeed is not only a demonstration against bond notes but also against corruption, misgovernance, mal-administration and illicit financial outflows. It is also a demonstration against the demonstructive impacts of the introduction of this 'fake' money. It indeed is a demonstration against financial terrorism, money laundering and against the grand theft of our monies. November 18 is a day to say no to all these vices that have contributed to the bond notes.
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