FASHION designer, James Pande, the brains behind the Hovhorosi Style — a clothing label popular among Zanu PF supporters for its workman-style overalls punctuated with President Robert Mugabe’s signature — has joined other voices of dissent against the country’s corruption-ridden government.
BY ALBERT MASAKA
Pande bemoaned how high-level political and economic sleaze has left the country in tatters and called for the recovery of the $15 billion diamonds revenue that President Robert Mugabe confessed had leaked out of the government system.
Pande’s Facebook page, for the past few months, carries posts of youths making frontal attacks on Mugabe’s government, although he was adamant that 92-year-old strongman himself was clean.
He told NewsDay that the country’s youths were now fed up with corrupt Zanu PF officials, especially in the mining sector and may resort to radical means to remove them from office.
Pande, who is also the Zimbabwe Entrepreneurs Youth Action (Zeya) president, said his organisation was going to launch an anti-corruption youth taskforce code named #Hatirare, after the youths realised that empowerment will not be possible before they uproot corrupt officials from positions of influence.
“We are now sick and tired of greedy and corrupt officials and it’s high time we use the radical approach,” he said.
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“Hatirare (we are sleepless) is our theme. These days we are now Team Hatirare because we will sleep only when our demands are met and $15 billion worth of diamonds are recovered and perpetrators arrested and their assets are seized,” he said.
“Those who are in Cabinet and are stifling youth empowerment, I want to warn them that your days are numbered because we are going to take your head on, one by one.”
Over the past few months, there have been increasing calls for the government to either put its act together or step down, as thousands, frustrated by the country’s political and economic failures, rally behind cleric Evan Mawarire’s #ThisFlag campaign.
