“I know a young Zimbabwean mother who works in Johannesburg. It is a tough and thankless job, cleaning a fancy gym; wiping the sweat from the exercise equipment, making sure every client has a fresh and crisp towel and that the floors, toilets and showers are pristine,” you said.
“I cannot say she loves her job. It is what it is. It puts food on the table and ensures that her children, who are being cared for by a relative back home, lack for nothing. But for her to achieve this most basic human endeavour, she has to live and work in South Africa – an often unwelcoming country.
“She puts up with the xenophobic, racist slurs; the condescending stereotypes, the disrespect, from young and old. She is uprooted and lives with the chilly winds of displacement. Her host country uses bureaucracy, documentation and inefficiency to punish her and remind her that she does not belong.”
There, but for the love of God, goes me! Thank you, Redi, for caring.
We, Zimbabweans, have been our own worst enemies; we have done very little to stop the lunatics who have all but destroyed the country. Yes Zanu PF thugs are ruthless murderers and they have ruled the country with an iron fist. No one needs any reminding of what the regime is capable of; we have just seen it enacted in gruesome detailed in the last week and our history is a catalogue of Zanu PF rigged elections and brutal barbarism.
Still, it is a historic fact that in the last 38 years the country has had many golden opportunities to end the dictatorship, the best chances by a long mile being the 2008 GNU. We have wasted each and every one of these opportunities. The on-going crisis is presenting another opportunity to end the dictatorship but that is being thwarted at every turn by the MDC, Church and NGO leaders, etc. who are determined to have a new GNU composed of the same recycled corrupt and incompetent leaders of yesterday. And, to make things worse, the millions of ordinary Zimbabweans including the gym cleaner in SA and millions of other Zimbabweans in the diaspora are all doing precious little to end the madness!
Indeed, many in the diaspora are cheering and applauding Nelson Chamisa and his MDC friends oblivious of the fact that they are the ones who failed to get even one reform implemented in five years of the last GNU. It is shocking that even now, with benefit of hindsight, there are millions of Zimbabweans who have no clue what happened in the last GNU.
In this day and age who would believe that ignorance is still an epidemic afflicting so many people. The tragedy for Zimbabwe is we have more than our fair share on the naïve, gullible and downright stupid! Worse still, the stupid have a vote!
“After 38 years of appeasing Zanu PF with disastrous consequence that has left the nation in real and immediate danger of tumbling over into the abyss and yet there are some fools still pursuing the policy of appeasement!”
Could not agree with you more! It is shocking that the Catholic Bishops, for example, have concluded that Zanu PF rigged last July’s elections; which is exactly what happened. And yet they are the ones bending over backwards to get Zanu PF and MDC to form the next GNU. They are rewarding Zanu PF for rigging the elections by allowing the party to remain in power or be it by the backdoor. They are bending over backwards to appease Zanu PF thugs at the expense of the long suffering ordinary Zimbabweans.
Zimbabwe has become the stereotypical failed state proving that blacks are incapable of self-governing, whether we Zimbabweans care to admit it or not is irrelevant.
Indeed, the failure to grasp that the Zanu PF dictatorship has failed, even now with all the overwhelming evidence of the economy in ruins and millions living in abject poverty and hopelessness and despair, is itself further proof of our inability to govern ourselves. How can we govern ourselves when we cannot even learn from our past mistakes even after 38 years of making the same blunder!
I am ashamed to admit that I am a Catholic and these busy bodies called Bishops are my church leaders!
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@ Redi Tihabi
“I know a young Zimbabwean mother who works in Johannesburg. It is a tough and thankless job, cleaning a fancy gym; wiping the sweat from the exercise equipment, making sure every client has a fresh and crisp towel and that the floors, toilets and showers are pristine,” you said.
“I cannot say she loves her job. It is what it is. It puts food on the table and ensures that her children, who are being cared for by a relative back home, lack for nothing. But for her to achieve this most basic human endeavour, she has to live and work in South Africa – an often unwelcoming country.
“She puts up with the xenophobic, racist slurs; the condescending stereotypes, the disrespect, from young and old. She is uprooted and lives with the chilly winds of displacement. Her host country uses bureaucracy, documentation and inefficiency to punish her and remind her that she does not belong.”
There, but for the love of God, goes me! Thank you, Redi, for caring.
We, Zimbabweans, have been our own worst enemies; we have done very little to stop the lunatics who have all but destroyed the country. Yes Zanu PF thugs are ruthless murderers and they have ruled the country with an iron fist. No one needs any reminding of what the regime is capable of; we have just seen it enacted in gruesome detailed in the last week and our history is a catalogue of Zanu PF rigged elections and brutal barbarism.
Still, it is a historic fact that in the last 38 years the country has had many golden opportunities to end the dictatorship, the best chances by a long mile being the 2008 GNU. We have wasted each and every one of these opportunities. The on-going crisis is presenting another opportunity to end the dictatorship but that is being thwarted at every turn by the MDC, Church and NGO leaders, etc. who are determined to have a new GNU composed of the same recycled corrupt and incompetent leaders of yesterday. And, to make things worse, the millions of ordinary Zimbabweans including the gym cleaner in SA and millions of other Zimbabweans in the diaspora are all doing precious little to end the madness!
Indeed, many in the diaspora are cheering and applauding Nelson Chamisa and his MDC friends oblivious of the fact that they are the ones who failed to get even one reform implemented in five years of the last GNU. It is shocking that even now, with benefit of hindsight, there are millions of Zimbabweans who have no clue what happened in the last GNU.
In this day and age who would believe that ignorance is still an epidemic afflicting so many people. The tragedy for Zimbabwe is we have more than our fair share on the naïve, gullible and downright stupid! Worse still, the stupid have a vote!
“After 38 years of appeasing Zanu PF with disastrous consequence that has left the nation in real and immediate danger of tumbling over into the abyss and yet there are some fools still pursuing the policy of appeasement!”
Could not agree with you more! It is shocking that the Catholic Bishops, for example, have concluded that Zanu PF rigged last July’s elections; which is exactly what happened. And yet they are the ones bending over backwards to get Zanu PF and MDC to form the next GNU. They are rewarding Zanu PF for rigging the elections by allowing the party to remain in power or be it by the backdoor. They are bending over backwards to appease Zanu PF thugs at the expense of the long suffering ordinary Zimbabweans.
Zimbabwe has become the stereotypical failed state proving that blacks are incapable of self-governing, whether we Zimbabweans care to admit it or not is irrelevant.
Indeed, the failure to grasp that the Zanu PF dictatorship has failed, even now with all the overwhelming evidence of the economy in ruins and millions living in abject poverty and hopelessness and despair, is itself further proof of our inability to govern ourselves. How can we govern ourselves when we cannot even learn from our past mistakes even after 38 years of making the same blunder!
I am ashamed to admit that I am a Catholic and these busy bodies called Bishops are my church leaders!
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