“PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa Friday took time to criticise some Africans he accused of continuously looking down upon themselves while apportioning high regard for Western ways of doing things,” reported New Zimbabwe
“Let me explain to you why it is called Victoria Falls. There was a man called David Livingstone who visited this area and found some people who told him it is called Mosi-oa-Tunya and he couldn’t comprehend. He named it after his Queen Victoria Falls who was sitting somewhere back there in his country. If we advertise saying visit Mosi-oa-Tunya you don’t come, but if we say come to Victoria Falls you come. That is the tragedy of Africa,” said Mnangagwa.
Actually the real tragedy of Africa is that we make mountain out of mole-hills.
And so, if calling the falls Victoria Falls brings in tourists in the hundreds the and with them wealth the local community and the nation at large; and calling it Mosi-oa-Tunya only bring a few tourists. Call it Victoria Falls.
It was China’s Chairman Deng Xiaoping who famously said "It doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.”
The tragedy of Africa is we have leaders whose anti-Western has rhetoric has become an obsession, it has clouded their thinking (little as it was already) they cannot see trees from the grass. They blundering incompetence has turned a once upon a time thriving nation into a failed state in just a few decades. Their failures has only serviced to confirm their inferiority complex to the whites and thus inflamed their hatred of everything western.
Woo to the nation that such find itself stuck with a whole cabinet and parliament of village idiots as is the case in Zimbabwe. 41 years and counting of gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and rank lawlessness has dragged the nation deeper and deeper into this hell-on-earth. The village idiots are not only in power but worst of all they have usurped the people’s freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country. We are stuck with the corrupt and tyrannical regime!
Mnangagwa said Pan Africa Postal Union should play a developmental role in uplifting standards of living in line with aspirations of the Africa Union’s Agenda 2063.
How typical, looking into the distant future, chasing a mirage, has become the norm to escape facing the challenges of the past and present - the only sure way to prepare for a better future. Zimbabwe has swept corruption under the carpet for decades and now it has become so rampant, it is choking the nation to death. According to a recent Auditor General’s recent report only 1% of US$4.5 billion in cash and material donated to the Cyclone Ida relief was put to good use the rest was looted or wasted.
The truth is most independent African nations now look at the colonial years with grudging nostalgia as their golden age compared to they have become. It is a damning testimonial in independent Africa’s failure to govern itself.
Africa is being dragged back into the dark-ages not by Africans who "continuously look down upon themselves" but by the continent's leaders whose inflated ego and anti-white obsession (born out of their inferiority complex) will not allow them to admit they are human and fallible and therefore subject to scrutiny, criticism and democratic accountable to the people!
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All this anti-west rhetoric by leaders like Mugabe and Mnangagwa is all contrived to hide the individual’s incompetence and inferiority complex. For the first decade after independence, Mugabe worshiped the British and he loved everything British. The British rewarded him with the knighthood.
However when the Zimbabwe economy started flagging and was failing to pay its blooming debt Mugabe was always itching for a fight with the IMF, WB, AfDB, Paris Club, etc. He blamed them for imposing unworkable economic reform programmes of poor African countries although he is the one who had initiated the programmes.
Mugabe initiated the fallout with the British over the land issue in the turn of the century to justify his violent seizure of the white owned farms. The seizure of the white farms has been used as cover behind which to justify the violence used against the MDC opposition whom the regime accused of being supported by the white farmers and the West. Mnangagwa has taken over from where Mugabe left off.
Only a slow witted person like Mnangagwa would admit calling the falls Victoria Falls attracts tourists and yet would argue changing the name! And this for a nation in serious economic meltdown and has many serious problems to worry about instead of wasting time on trivial. What is in a name!!!
We cannot run away from the historic fact that we would not be in this political mess if MDC leaders had implemented the democratic reforms when they had the golden opportunity to do so during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. Worse still, MDC leaders are going to participate in the 2023 elections with no reforms in place knowing fully well that by doing so will only give legitimacy to vote rigging Zanu PF.
MDC leaders are participating in these flawed and illegal elections out of greed. It is for us, the ordinary citizens, to put an end to this madness!
THE biggest referral hospital in Zimbabwe, Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals, cancelled 1 688 surgical operations in one year, owing to a lack of medical equipment.
BRIDGET MANANAVIRE
In her 2019 audit report on state enterprises and parastatals, Auditor-General Mildred Chiri said this may compromise health service delivery.
She also found that during the year under review (2018) the hospital did not have adequate monitors in anaesthetic rooms and recovery areas, with only eight out of 18 stations in use.
If this is the sorry state at a referral hospital one can only image the sorry state of the provincial and the rural hospitals.
When VP Chiwenga took over as Minister of Health he said he would turn the health services into a five star. This is a sick joke!
The people of Zimbabwe became obsessed about names, it was not just the country's name that was changed from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe but cities, towns, companies, individuals, etc. changed their names. At it turned out we were busy changing names and took our eyes off what really mattered - making sure we built a free, just and democratic nation. We have a renamed nation but in ruins after 41 years of gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and tyrannical rule.
It is ironic that we have a Banana Republic in which 50% of the population now live in abject poverty and all the ruling elite care about is renaming whatever else they had missed out. What a buffoon!
@ Arthur Mntungwa
“But to ZANU, any African who opposes them and expresses a different opinion is a puppet of the west. Isn't that looking down on Africans?
Africans should not have independent thinking, because they have no brains.
They should tore the ZANU line, otherwise they are Western puppets. They cannot belong to an opposition party other than one approved by ZANU. Shame!”
You are 100% correct on that, any black person who says anything critical of Zanu PF must be repeating something the whites told him or her to say. Even people demanding free, fair and credible elections, they must be puppets as far as Zanu PF is concerned; as if it is inconceivable that a black person could ever consider the right to vote as anything worth the spit!
Zanu PF has never ever allowed the ordinary Zimbabweans to enjoy their basic freedoms and rights for the same reasons the white colonialists denied the blacks the same freed and rights. Zimbabwe’s independence did not change anything of substance, we removed the white oppressors only to replace them with the Zanu PF thugs!
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