WE, Zimbabweans, must surely be cursed because those who rule us always give us what we don’t want. We are the proverbial children, who ask for fish, but are given rocks instead.
Kamurai Mudzingwa
When talk of the re-introduction of the Zimdollar was floating within the dark corridors and hinted at by propagandists, we experienced horror at the mere thought of it, but knowing our leaders, we were certain in our hearts of hearts that it was just a matter of time before the currency’s return. Now it is back with another name — bond notes — and as long as we don’t want it, the rulers will make sure it is there to stay.
While we want leaders for the country, the rulers are already plotting their unwelcome and painful stay beyond 2018. Leaders would be men and women who are followed with love by their people, not the rulers who enjoy dominion over others, using coercive methods to stay up there.
We have seen how the rulers revel in giving rocks instead of fish. When we said no please don’t give us a dinner of corruption, they intensified graft from siphoning millions to billions, making us not only poorer, but the laughing stock of the world, as we have become unwilling slaves in other people’s nations. We saw food in the billions, but we got hunger and poverty instead.
When we screamed with the pain of being fleeced at roadblocks by the police, the rulers actually increased these roadblocks, so that before one even changes gears, one encounters a fresh one.
We want peace, but, as is the norm, we get the opposite — violence and abductions. Our young people today know no peace. They are either perpetrators of violence or victims of it at the instigation of sadistic rulers.
We want to teach our youths to be truthful and to carry themselves with dignity, but we have our youths taken away from us to be brainwashed so that they become instruments for the destruction of the future. They are taught to lie, lie and lie in defence of the impossible. They are also taught to destroy and not to build. They are taught to destroy with everything — their hearts, their minds, their hands, their feet, their pens, their tongues and their lips.
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We desire to have youths who love, who respect their country and their fathers, mothers, sisters and brothers, but our rulers are moulding monsters against us.
It is our wish that the youths get employment so that they respect the philosophy of the dignity of labour. But with the machinations of our rulers, all jobs are destroyed; the youths are taught to reap where they did not sow.
They are taught the indignity of grabbing other people’s assets earned through hard work.
We need leaders with a soft heart, but we get men and women of stone instead; people with not a shred of empathy. We want leaders with fresh ideas to carry us forward, but we get either deadwood recycled or young minds that are already poison to their people. Young people who are too blind to see that they are ruining their own future.
We want a democratic nation, where losers and winners in elections shake hands and sit together to map the way forward for a better future, but our rulers believe in the doctrine of them and us. They boast of having degrees in the art of violence so that when fair play is needed, they use foul play, and where a handshake is needed, they use claws and fists.
We want to move forward, but for every forward step we want to take, we are dragged 1 000 steps back.
We hope this nightmare of an existence will end one day and we will get what we want, what we strive for and a brighter future for our children. We hope one day we will have leaders who give us fish when we ask for fish not quarry stones.
