“I remember Mugabe sometime when he said people living in Mbare do not have a totem. He is damn right,” said Eddie Cross in one one of his recent blubbering.
The irony of that statement from Mugabe is glaring and only a heartless tyrant and his upstart acolyte like Eddie Cross would fail to see it. Here is the tyrant who has striped Zimbabweans, not just in Mbabre but all over the country of the democratic freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful vote and even the right to life itself. Mugabe destroyed the country’s once booming economy forcing unemployment to soar to dizzying heights of 90%. 75% of our people now live on US$1.00 or less a day. The tyrant murdered over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans for the love of absolute power, the influence and the looted wealth to brought him and his cronies.
He denies the whole nation its humanity, pride and even the sanctity of life itself and the tyrant even has the chutzpah to mock his victims about having no totem. Is that the reason why you have abused and terrorised the nation?
As for Eddie Cross, many Zimbabweans have risked life and limb to elect him and his MDC friends into power on the promise they would bring about the democratic changes the nations was dying for to end the Zanu PF dictatorship. MDC leaders sold-out and failed to bring about even one democratic change in 19 years even when they had the golden opportunity to do so during the GNU.
Eddie Cross and his MDC friends have never apologised for selling-out on reforms. Never.
Indeed, instead of apologising for his part in landing us in this economic and political mess Eddie is so presumptuous as to lecture us on how we should speak as if that is more important than being unemployed and the grime certainty the economic meltdown will get worse now Zanu PF has rigged the recent elections!
The greatest mistake Zimbabweans have ever made was to ever trust a tyrant like Mugabe and idiots like Eddie Cross with political power! We have paid dearly for our folly.
The present economic situation of 90% unemployed, basic services such as health care and clean running water all but collapsed, etc. is socially, politically and morally unsustainable. Totem! Who cares about the blood totem when the nation’s very survival is now hanging by the thread.
4 comments:
@ Mavaza
During the year just ending, Zimbabwe confirmed to the world, within a difficult context, the soundness of its institutions, the resilience of its economy and its attachment to national unity. Despite the pains we as a country endured the year moved and we are now seeing its end.
Indeed, our country demonstrated a remarkable capacity to meet the numerous challenges it faced in the security, economic or social domains. Our people have suffered but their suffering is bit to the end of these problems. The situation in Zimbabwe makes every Zimbabwean a Hero. Surviving in Zimbabwe now is a great accomplishment.
Credit for such accomplishments goes first and foremost to you, the Zimbabwean people! An overwhelming majority have always demonstrated courage, dynamism, patriotism and, above all, maturity. While the opposition poured send in the efforts brought forward by the government Zimbabwe managed to trudge on. Congratulations to you all you have made Zimbabwe a self-sufficient state.
What are you blubbering about? If you were one of the 90% unemployed, one of the 75% living on Us$1.00 or less a day, one of those who have faced the daily challenges of an all but collapsed health service and clean running water, etc. you would not be talking about “courage, dynamism, etc.” Where is the courage and dynamism in wasting one’s life standing on the street corner day-in and day-out selling air-time cards for pittance?
“Surviving in Zimbabwe?” 50 people died of cholera in Zimbabwe this year, in 2008 4 000 died, all because the country cannot supply clean running water and sewage is flowing everywhere. Cholera is a medieval disease but clearly not so in Zimbabwe because the people are living in medieval squalor!
The on-going shortage of foreign currency has left millions of ordinary Zimbabweans without life-saving medicine either because the drugs have run out or they are too expensive. Some Pharmacists are demanding payment in US$ which many people do not have.
Zimbabwe is in serious trouble the economic meltdown has made life for the millions of Zimbabwe hell-on-earth, the situation is so serious the country is in danger of total economic collapse and political instability. Burying our heads and pretend we are ok is not being patriotic; it is being foolish! How much more human suffering and lost lives will it take to open your eyes to the reality that Zimbabwe is in deep, deep trouble!
Mnangagwa and his junta must step down now before the nation is engulfed with the economic collapse and social unrest!
The trouble with people of little intellect like Eddie Cross, Robert Mugabe, etc. is that they always become obsessed about the trivial matters and lose sight of the real important issues. Mbare is one of the oldest residential areas for blacks in Zimbabwe. The houses are old, ugly and crowded. The situation has been made worse by all the shanty structures that have been added.
It is no surprise that Mbare is where many of the poorest of the poor live. Zimbabwe's economic meltdown has hit the poorest of the poor the hardest. It is therefore an insult, to say the least, to call these Mbare residents totemless especially coming from the man whose insatiable greed for power is behind the economic meltdown!
Eddie Cross is just an ignorant fool not even the privileged five-star education he received as a white person has helped enlighten him. You talk of MDC implementing the reforms; well there is one MDC leaders with no clue what reforms are about. How can he ever apologise for failing to implement something he does not know and will never understand!
Eddie Cross talks too much and, sadly, says a lot of rubbish! Zimbabwe would be better off is people like him can just shut up. They contributions are but a distraction to the nation and we know how easily distracted some people are especially the brainwashed Zanu PF and MDC supporters!
@ Rex
Well fancy that! Is it not true that Mugabe's father is from Malawi? If he has a totem then why should others from Malawi or Zambia not have one?
Mbare is were some of the poorest of the poor live and no human being should have to live in such poor condition. Where they came from is irrelevant, they are Zimbabweans.
“I understand that this Christmas is one of the most difficult festive seasons that you have ever experienced but i want to assure you that it is the last,” said Chamisa to the people in Mbare.
Nonsense, MDC has been on the political stage for 19 years now; what democratic change have you managed to bring in all those years? And now you expect the nation to believe that you will bring ALL the democratic reforms the nation needs and transform the economy in just 12 months!
You are desperate for a seat on the gravy train and want the people to help you get it by promising them everything.
The only sure way for Zimbabwe to recover is for the nation to appoint an interim administration tasked to implement the democratic reforms Zanu PF and MDC failed to implement during the 2008 GNU. Both Zanu PF and MDC cannot be in the new admin.
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