The son of the late Josiah and Ruth Chinamano, Josiah
Chinamano Jnr died at Parerenyatwa Hospital on Christmas day. He now risk
pauper’s burial after Zanu PF failed to help the family raise money to retrieve
the body form mortuary where it has been lying since Christmas Day.
This is sad testimony of the depth of the rot in Zimbabwe today
– the people are so impoverished they have cannot afford to give their dead a
decent sent off and have to ask the State assistance.
The deceased his mother and father played a prominent role
in the fight for independence and were declared National Heroes and are
interned at the National Heroes’ Acre in Harare. a to help bury their dead! It was on the
strength of his parents’ historic contribution that the family appeal for help
from the State to help bury the son.
It is altogether a very common and familiar story right
across the country of men and women who sacrificed their lives, some never came
back and others did but have since died whilst other are still alive, and their
families and relatives living in total abject poverty. They have all jointed the millions of other
Zimbabweans whose contribution in the liberation war is not so illustrious or
were too young or too old to play a role who have been condemned by this
corrupt and oppressive Zanu PF dictatorship to a life of total abject poverty.
The late Josiah Snr and Ruth Chinamano must be
turning in their graves because the State has not stepped forward to assist
burying their son but worse still because a country rich is resources and full
of so much promise for economic prosperity for all and not just the few ruling
elite has been reduced to this sorry state where millions live in grinding
poverty they cannot even afford to bury their dead!
2 comments:
@Afrika
The argument here is the Zimbabwe economy is in a mess a real big mess because of three decades of mismanagement, corruption and looting. The nation been helpless to change this becauses of the brutal repression. For 33 years Zimbabweans have been denied a meaningful say in the governance of the country.
It is right and reasonable that the regime that forced all these millions into abject poverty should be asked to help its victims. Even when the victim happens to be the son of the man and woman who can rightly claim to have done as much for independence as the ruthless rats who have governing the nation all these years.
The truth is this dictatorship would have happily buried Chinamano and helped all the other war vets now living in abject poverty IF the regime had the money. The three decades of misrule have left the nation poor. The regime is "struggling to keep kids in school", it is struggle to run hospitals. prisons, etc. because it is broke. Zimbabwe is broke, which part of broke do you not understand; you stupid idiot!
"If his family can't afford to bury him then he should be incinerated to free space, morgues are overflowing, and I am sure the staff will appreciate a free stal,l" you say. Is that a way to talk of a fellow comrade in arms' dead son. Well it is what one would expect from vultures like you There is no such as a life long friend amongst vultures; we all know that.
Well not to worry, the days of the vultures in power are over. Mugabe is finished!
@Savagehunter
When you have nation with an IQ of 66, you sure have a lot of idiots. What I am waiting to see is whether Zimbabweans are going to be that stupid and approve this Copac draft constitution which is only going to perpertuate the dictatorship. They can all see this draft will not bring free and fair election; the prerequesite of good governance; and many will vote to say that is what they want. You cannot be more stupid than that!
The upcoming referendum will decide whether we are a nation of morons totally incapable of learning from their past folly! That is what the Copac referendum is about!
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