Zimbabweans must be one of the most laid-back people on earth.
The Zimbabwe economy shrunk by a staggering world record of 84% in the six year period 2002 to 2008 alone throwing millions out of work and into a live of abject poverty. Zimbabweans have seen their life expectancy plummet from 68 years when Mugabe took over in 1980 to 34 years by 2004, the last time it was measured. And throughout all these trials and tribulations have done very little to stop the madness behind it all. To the people of Zimbabwe it was water off a duck's back. Instead of water rolling off well-oiled duck's feathers Zimbabweans had the corruption, looting and brutal oppression, concentrated sulphuric acid which burns the skin, flesh and bone. Other than groan in pain and bury their dead Zimbabweans have staidly done nothing else.
Zimbabweans have had a chance to define what kind of Police service they wanted, for example. After 33 years of a Police service that has turned a blind eye to politically motivated violence and thus contribute to the nation’s culture of mindless violence; there was one thing one expected that Zimbabweans would want to see changed. The MDC, the party one expected to be more in tune with the nation’s needs, has done nothing on the matter although they have had the parliamentary majority these last four years. The people themselves have clearly not paid much attention on the subject either.
Yes, Zimbabweans must rank amongst the most laid-back people; or am I confusing laidback with being stupid - the dodo kind of stupidity!
6 comments:
@ Savagehunter
Could not agree with you more! But can anyone do? If after 33 years of one of the most corrupt and oppressive regimes on earth people still cannot see for themselves that the political system is rotten to the core while nothing will ever open their eyes.
I can understand nations who have lived under a similar regime for even longer than Zimbabweans but the onething you will find is the burning desire to break free. I would bet you even the people of North Korea, without doubt one of the most oppressive regimes on earth, will not be that foolish and freely vote YES to the Copac draft before. They will be no need for anyone to organise them. We have the Movement for Democratic Change and they are the ones telling people to vote YES to a constitution that will only cement their repression! So not just the ordinary people are dodo laidback even the democratic politicalo leaders are dodo laidback!
@IQ66
I agree with everything you said about there being no one to lead the people. However you must also agree that people should not need any leader to tell them there is something fundamentally wrong with a Police service that neglect its core duties of keeping law and order to advance selfish political gains of a dictatorship. Anyone with any grey stuff between their ears should see that for themsleves surely. If they do not, which is sadly the case in Zimbabwe, then they are more easily led astray as otherwise, which is exactly what is happening here.
@Cde George Galloway MP
Roy Bennett has part and parcel of the MDC leadership who signed the one-sided GPA; I do not expect a good leader to be that incompetent!
Roy Bennett has, like most other MDC leaders chosen to say nothing about this Copac draft constitution, whilst the party's position is to endorse it one has to assume that too is Roy's position. The people of Zimbabwe deserve a democratic constitution and not this Copac rubbish. There is no other reason why MDC is endorsing this Copac rubbish other than that this is a continuation of this party's agenda to appease Mugabe for having been allowed on the gravy train. This is nothing but an act of betrayal of the people's trust second only to Zanu PF's betrayal in the Gukurahundi massacres!
Mr Bennett must denounce the Copac draft now and save the nation from the horrors of years of oppressive rule and tyranny which destined to follow if this feeble and weak constitution is passed. Any leader with a conscience and common sense would do the right thing; let us hope that there is at least a few individuals in MDC with one or both these virtues!
@ Guest G O
Or is it that those in the diaspora need to suffer before they too realise that making sure that Zimbabwe address its political problem with the seriousness it clearly deserves. Things can easily turn up side down in SA, for example; the country is sliding into the same chaos as happened in Zimbabwe because of corruption.
If everyone in the diaspora spoke to their relatives back home explaining to them why they need to be more politically savoir faire and not just follow like sheep! If you want the truth, those in the diaspora are not as political shrewd as they claim. They have been singing the praises of MDC leaders, regardless of the latter's blunders, just as feverishly as many of us praised Mugabe for years even when we knew of his murderous repressions.
@KVW
What most people have failed to appreciate is just how close Zimbabweans came to ending Mugabe's dictatorship in 2008! Mugabe should have been thanking Tsvangirai a lot more than he has done because it was the latter's incompetency that got the tyrant off the hook again and again!
Zimbabweans will have another chance to end this dictatorship; Mugabe has worked himself into a corner. And this time not even an idiot would let him off the hook!
What tyrants like Mugabe forget is that it is the human intellect that made the gun and therefore soon or later the former will prevail over the gun wielding monkey! Mugabe is no more than a gun wielding monkey; he is a man of little intellect!
@Analyzer
Well if one was to take the gun wield monkey to its logical conclusion; one should not be surprise to find many monkeys with gunshot wounds and many dead from gunshots. I would not say the monkeys are ruthless as such because that presupposes the monkeys were aware of the consequences of their actions. I would say the monkey are stupid and hence the reason why Mugabe is not a man of great intellect. Yes his IQ is above that of the monkey but, sadly, not that mush higher!
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