The trouble with Zanu PF apologists like you Hopewell Chinono is that they are incapable of thinking logically.
“Ultimately the responsibility for health care in Zimbabwe lies with the State, but until the State has fully grasped that reality, we can do what is within our means because the people who are dying are our kith and kin,” you say.
“It is shameful for the rest of the world to watch our health delivery system become a death trap whilst we claim to be an educated nation.
“In the event that we don’t get a buy in from government, we can come up with other plans that can help save lives.
“After talking to doctors working at the four major hospitals, it was clear to me that the doctors do not trust the health authorities either, so the best thing will be to get a logistics company to do this for free.”
- Zimbabwe’s health service did not collapse in the last week or month but has been in decline these last 38 years. If it is the state’s responsibility to provide health care, as you readily admit, and the said state has failed to “fully grasp that reality” in the last 38 years; what makes you believe they will ever do so?
- It is the donor community that has carried the burden of Zimbabwe’s health, education, food air and many other areas which would have totally collapse a long time ago. The tragic reality is that the more the outsiders helped the more the Zanu PF government neglected its duty and responsibility. It is a matter of record that the donors sourced and pay for up to 80% of Zimbabwe’s medicine is some areas. Even with the best will in the world there is a limit to what the donors can do especially when the Zimbabwe government authorities are known to seek health care outside the country and waste vast fortunes of luxuries.
- The suggestion that individual Zimbabweans can take-up the challenge of sourcing and paying for all the nation medical needs is laughable. With unemployment in the country a nauseating 90%, Zimbabweans in the country are in no position to pay for the medicine. And Zimbabweans is the diaspora are already doing their best to keep the nation ticking and will not be able do much more. But even if the people can be mobilised to make the sacrifice, this can only be a short term solution. We need a cure and not just another painkiller!
- Zimbabwe is in a serious mess with 90% out of work, 3/4 of the population living on US$30 or less a month, with health care and other basic services all but collapse, etc. We know the root cause of the country’s economic problems is the 38 years of corrupt and tyrannical rule by Zanu PF. We know Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF junta rigged last year’s elections to extend their misrule. We can continue to bury our heads in the sand and pretend we do not know about the corrupt and tyrannical misrule but must know it is insane especially when the price for our insanity is now human lives.
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@ Chinono
I still hear the words of Dr Azza Mashumba in my head, “…there is just no urgency , we are trying so hard. We are making a plan. We are trying to come up with contingency plans.
Everything that we are trying to do is futile. We need support.”
Government must step forward and be responsible by allowing Zimbabweans who are willing to ship hospital equipment by removing the prohibitive duties, that is the least they can do!
What we need is a competent government accountable to the people. All these efforts of trying to have a health health care service whilst the country remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs is a nonsense. How many more people must suffer and die before we finally take the responsibility of good governance seriously with the urgency the matter demands!
This Zanu PF regime must go it has no democratic mandate to govern since it rigged last July’s elections. Government must “remove prohibitive duties”! How nauseating!
Zanu PF has chanelled taxpayer's money and other public funds to finance the extravagant lifestyles of the ruling elite. Even if the people can be mobilised to bailout the nation on health for how long can they do this? If Zanu PF has failed to provide basic services then we should remove the party from office and stop finding foolish ideas of keeping the party in power regardless of its pathetic public record and rigged elections.
Zimbabwe's collapsed health care services is a result of decades of under funding by this Zanu PF but to read the above one would think this was an act of God. When are we ever hold this regime to account for its failures and crimes such as rigging last year's elections?
If we are serious about reviving the country's collapsed health service and saving human suffering and lives then we must deal with the problem of bad governance and stop pretending we have a healthy and functional government,
Speaking at a meeting on the state of the economy organised by the British Council, Robertson said the recent monetary measures that created an official interbank foreign currency trading platform and made the local currency official needed to be buttressed with stable policies.
"At last, our situation has started to look promising. We all know the uncertainties that we have been battling with for years. We have had shortages of bread, cash, fuel and various imports, including job opportunities and everyone has their list of which I can say that our lists are now shorter. In spite of that, I would still say our situation looks more promising anyway," he said.
Whatever economic recovery the country registers, it will be a temporary one. During the 2008 to 2013 GNU the country even enjoyed a 12% economic growth rate but that was not sustainable because the country had remained a pariah state under a ruthless dictatorship in all respect but name. As long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs this country is going nowhere.
This is the tragedy with Zimbabwe; instead of holding the government to account by demanding an explanation for the economic mess, wasted resources and, ultimately, for the rigged elections which has helped to keep Zanu PF in power regardless of the people's democratic wishes, the dimwits are letting the regime off the hook. Zimbabwe is in serious economic trouble because of the decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption and it beggars belief how anyone with even half a brain would think that asking donors and the taxpayer to take on the responsibilities of central government would be the answer.
A corrupt and tyrannical regime would only be too pleased to waste the nation's resources and let other do the donkey work and that is exactly what has happened in Zimbabwe. After 38 years of Zanu PF misrule, one would have thought that the Zimbabwe populous has learnt the folly of giving a rogue regime like Zanu PF a blank cheque!
The donors have stepped in to help fund health, education, etc. in all these years but that was to give the people of Zimbabwe the time to organize themselves and hold the government to account. Sadly, the people wasted the opportunity and now the donors have walked away and left the people to face the music.
"It is shameful for the rest of the world to watch our health delivery system become a death trap whilst we claim to be an educated nation”. Only a shameless apologist like Hopewell Chinono would say such a stupid thing. He is demanding that the donors should do what we pay Zanu PF to do!
"We have been forthright in acknowledging the effects of decline of governance, corruption and what we describe as 'State capture' on our economy, our institutions and our people," Ramaphosa said.
To change direction, a country needs investment, whether domestic or foreign.
"We have also recognised that we will not be able to meaningfully address the triple challenges that our country and people face; of unemployment, poverty and inequality without increased investment in critical areas of our economy."
President Cyril Ramaphosa has been a great disappointment; he is confused and full of contradictions. He talks of being “forthright in acknowledging” past mistakes and yet he has just endorsed Zanu PF’s rigged elections.
How does he expect Zimbabwe to register any meaningful economic recovery whilst the country remains a pariah state ruled by vote rigging thugs!
Briefing the media soon after a closed door meeting with Mr John Culley who is the Political Counsellor at the British Embassy Harare, ZACC Head of Media, Dr Davison Gomo said the engagement for the removal sanctions has commenced.
These are upstarts who are desperate for political relevance. Ask them how the sanctions are hurting the ordinary people? They will give you a long winded answer.
Ask them, which of the two has hurt the ordinary people the most, corruption or sanctions? And you will never get a straight answer.
But the political naivety of these ZACC members comes out to the full when you ask them whether last year’s elections were free, fair and credible? You will never ever get a straight answer.
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess because of 38 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF misrule. The regime has managed to stay in power regardless of the economic mess and mass murders because it rigged the elections. The only hope for Zimbabwe to get out of this hell-on-earth is for the country to held free, fair and credible elections. How is it possible then that even now, with the benefit of 38 years of hindsight, anyone still fails to see the critical importance of ensuring the country holds free and fair elections as the only way out of the mess.
These ZACC members are not demanding free and fair elections because they will never take on the Zanu PF regime but would take on outsiders on anything regardless how trivial it happens to be! The British, Americans and the rest of the western nations should just ignore these utterly useless ZACC idiots. Sanctions are not the problem but corruption is and we need free and fair elections to end the latter.
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