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Opinion: Gen. Chiwenga there are other solutions to problems than firing people!

There are days, when Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga was a military man and the powerful man, the former Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Force. Since the Coup d’etat or the Operation Restore Legacy, where the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) decided to drop Mugabe for Mnangagwa. That we all know by now.

The PFee has changed, Gen. Chiwenga is supposed to be Second in Command after the President. The man who is the friendly side-kick and the man who helped using the army to get the Lacoste fraction to power. However, the seems to be misconceptions in the power of the VP. If this government are supposed to be better than the Mugabe administration. Than, The VP better change-up.

The Zanu-PF and Chiwenga can act in many different ways, it is foolish to fire nurses, doctors, junior doctors and teachers. Chiwenga even gotten media persons like CapiTalk Station Manager Napoleon Nyanhi and Star Presenter Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa in August 2018. I’m sure, he has tried to get various of media persons and social media influencers off-line, as there been questions about his health and his whitening dilemma.

However, as the VP, this micro-managing of firing people because of strikes, demonstrations or even articles, radio-shows and whatnot. Is showing weakness, not strength. The PFee loyalists might like it and get some good smirks out of it. Nevertheless, on the other side of the barrel, it might not be so rosy.

The VP should think of his kids and grand-children, as they could get into serious problems. As the lack of good-governance and care for protocol. There is lack of care for the civil servants and the ones serving the state in various position all across the Republic. They are there trying to their job. What they are fighting for is just salaries, fair working conditions and all the other matters, which the VP should support.

Gen. Chiwenga, talk and reason with the ones demonstrating for a better future and a more serving state. This shouldn’t be shocking, the VP should see this and he needs to see this. They wouldn’t do it this way, if they didn’t see it fit to do industrial action. The VP has to grow up and understand that. Find measures and search for positive ways to find solutions, this is the way to build a better republic.

To fire educated personnel over strikes and demonstrations, will create a brain-drain and the ones, who has gotten educated and working in crappie conditions could easily get jobs abroad. They are easily becoming the diaspora and not serving the PFee.

An old man Chiwenga shouldn’t need this schooling by anyone, but when he acts like a fool. He needs to hear it. Not from me, but from others with common sense. It is time for the VP to govern and not to rule. There is vast different between doing one or the other. Peace.

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Zimbabwe: MPs demand Land Cruisers to pass the Budget!

 

This here should be a joke, it should be satire, and it shouldn’t be real news. However, in the world we living in, it is the reality. That the Members of Parliament (MPs) of the Republic of Zimbabwe. A republic in dire financial distress and inflation, where the economy is on the rocks, the worst in a decade. Still, the MPs in this hour of need. If they want the Parliament to pass the 2019 Budget, the MPs needs Land Cruisers 4×4 Wheel Drive to drive on the shoddy roads of the Republic.

That is the state of affairs as we are going into Christmas, as the Bond-Notes and US Dollars are lacking, fuel crisis and problems of having enough cash to import foreign goods to the shops. It is at this very moment, the MPs decides to get themselves a Luxurious Car in the bargain with the state.

If this isn’t insulting, nothing is, as the MPs are in total disregard of the plight of the common citizen. They are not minding the hardships and lack of prospects. As they adding another tab to be eaten. They are even wanting better deserts after their lunch in the parliament, as their per diem is to low. They want Ipads and other gadgets too, not just the car. They are really going all in. They want to wheel in all the money over the budget. To secure the wealth and the luxury that is possible, while they are in power and has the seat.

With all of this in mind, as we are soon clocking in for the Christmas Eve, they are not the Santa Claus for the people, but the Grinch stealing all of Christmas. They are taking everything at their disposal and the ZANU-PF are showing their disrespect to the public. By assuming this is okay and good work.

The MPs should be ashamed of their greed, of their acts and the their will. They are willing to eat even more of the publics plate, without even caring about serving them. The MPs want to live lavish, want to be knights and kings, they want to be royals, they want to be all the above. Without doing the work or anything. Just writing it off as expenses on the tab of the state. Which is so far from noble as it can possibly be. Especially in a time of inflation and austerity, in a time of need and hurt.

This year shouldn’t be the time for this measure. This year the ZANU-PF have shown their true character of disregard and ignorance about their people. It is proven, by acts and words. This sort of play, shouldn’t even be considered, but it is. Peace.

 

Opinion: You don’t need a Goblin, when you have a Crocodile!

We know little or nothing has changed, as the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) hasn’t changed since the November 2017. The August 2018 Elections haven’t changed the Presidency either. President Emmerson Mnangagwa is acting like nothing changed. While the public had faith in that, but the goblin left. Mugabe left. However, the Crocodile is acting like him. They are maybe to different individuals, but the ZANU-PF system is pumping like it was a year ago.

The Goblin did certain things. Now the Crocodile does the same. To way that the President have created growing inflation, lack of foreign currency, a fuel crisis and steady unemployment. Just like it was done under his predecessor. While the Crocodile has a short term and brief moment as the Executive. Still, he hasn’t done anything significant or used his powers to any good.

The Crocodile haven’t created much substantial, other than being endorsed for the next elections. That only months in. This before he has even done anything. The economy is in tatters, strikers are detained, shops are empty and fuel stations without fuel. ATMs without cash. Still, he is not the problem.

I was triggered to write all of this because of The Herald Assistant Editor Isdore Guvamombe, as the Herald wrote: “His propensity for political showboating through demonstrations is not only childish but self-serving especially when dealing with a mature democracy like Zimbabwe’s under Zanu-PF. Yes, they will allow him to demonstrate on the streets and yet at the end of the day, it is much ado about nothing, full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing. Nothing! Besides showboating, spending the day on the streets, the demonstrations of that type prove nothing. It is a waste of time by any standards. It defies logic — assuming Chamisa still has some semblance of it — that he wants to have talks with President Mnangagwa, yet he does not recognise him as the Head of State. What nonsense!” (Isdore Guavamombe – ‘Chamisa is THE problem’ The Herald, link: https://www.herald.co.zw/chamisa-is-the-problem/).

Why I am curious about that mature democracy, why are demonstrations and strikes shut down by a mature democracy? Why are activist left behind and never surface again? How come the election results was so hard to come by and looking like precooked stew fit for the ruling party? We have seen all of this mess before with the Goblin and the Harmonized Elections in 2018 was no different. Only the peaceful campaigns until the 1st August Post-Election Violence. That is the ZANU-PF under the Goblin and now also under the Crocodile.

The Herald Assistant Editor tried to mock and make Chamisa look foolish. As he is not Presidential or have the leadership skills. Not to the greatness and grand stature of ZANU-PF. However, the ZANU-PF cannot be that great, when they are every 10 years destroying the economy and making shortages of goods in the Republic. It is special to call Chamisa self-serving, when the ZANU-PF are serving themselves. That is evident in the case of Zimbabwe.

The Republic deserves better leadership, also another voice than the Herald. They are so entitled and self-praising, that the Assistant Editor doesn’t see his viciousness. Chamisa isn’t perfect, but that isn’t Mnangagwa either. However, Mnangagwa has had years in the leadership and doesn’t change. He acts just like Mugabe did.

That is why the Herald has to make a fool out of themselves in favor of Mnangagwa. So, they hope the naive… are eating it like candy, but they shouldn’t. They should think on their own. Peace.

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