PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s declaration that the opposition will never rule Zimbabwe because Zanu PF was the sole custodian of the country’s liberation history is ill-advised, undemocratic and out of order.
Efforts to create a one-party State through decimating or sending some shivers, threats and intimidations to the opposition at this era will be resisted by the majority Zimbabweans.
A country is not meant to be ruled by only one party without divergent views.
Progressive Zimbabweans must ignore such unfounded utterances which are meant to idolise and drive a selfish agenda.
However, that statement is not new. Mnangagwa took notes from the late former colonialist Ian Douglas Smith, who used to say the same that blacks would never rule this country in a thousand years.
What the Zanu PF leaders are failing to read is the fact that the cabals are getting old each day, and a few years from now, they will no longer be there to see the next government.
Mnangagwa must be reminded that he does not own Zimbabwe and that Zanu PF is not Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe is not Zanu PF.
Zanu PF is not in any way a custodian of the liberation struggle. If anything, it has long abandoned the ethos and values that inspired the liberation struggle.
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It has captured State institutions for self aggrandisement. It is now opposed to the same struggle they claim ownership.
Unfortunately, we have among us enablers who have played a role of supporting this regime.
The forest is shrinking and the trees are keeping on cheering and voting for the axe because it’s handle is made of wood and they are thinking it is one of them.
The comrades in the nationalist movement are afraid of denouncing corruption and they want to continue looting the country’s resources unabated, threatening the gains of the liberation struggle.
The party is always in election mode. The struggle has been hijacked by criminals.
Why do these comrades appear to believe that they do not make mistakes and never do anything wrong to such an extent that they cannot be criticised?
How can Mnangagwa equate the opposition to puppets? This is offside and completely off tangent. Zimbabwe is for all not for a single entity. –Leonard Koni
Through Jesus Christ, there is still hope for the youngRE: “The Great Commission and the church (2),” Opinion, June 25
From my understanding, Judaism’s Messiah is reflective of the unambiguously fire and brimstone angry-God Almighty of the Torah, Old Testament and Quran.
This fact left even John the Baptist, who believed in Jesus as the saviour, troubled by Jesus’ apparently contradictory version of Messiah, notably his revolutionary teaching of non-violently offering the other cheek as the proper response to being physically assaulted by one’s enemy.
Though no pushover, Jesus fundamentally was about compassion and charity.
Therefore, Jesus may have been viciously killed because he did not in the least behave in accordance to corrupted human conduct and expectation, and in particular because he was nowhere near to being the vengeful, wrathful and sometimes even bloodthirsty, behemoth so many people seemingly wanted or needed their saviour to be and, therefore, believed he would have to be.
Also, he clearly would not tolerate the accumulation of tens of billions of dollars by individual people, especially while so many others go hungry and homeless.
Today, when a public figure openly supports a guaranteed minimum income, he/she is nevertheless deemed communist/socialist and, therefore, somehow evil by many institutional Christians.
This, while Christ’s teachings epitomise the primary component of socialism, does not hoard morbidly superfluous wealth in the midst of poverty.
Thus I can picture many “Christians” finding inconvenient, if not plainly annoying, trying to reconcile the conspicuous inconsistency in the fundamental nature of the New Testament’s Jesus with the wrathful, vengeful and even jealous nature of the Old Testament’s Creator.
I, myself, like to picture Jesus enjoying a belly-shaking laugh over a good joke with his disciples, now and then.
Maybe everything about Jesus was/is meant to show to people that there really was/is hope for the many, especially for young people living in today’s physical, mental and spiritual turmoil, seeing hopelessness in a fire-and-brimstone angry-God-condemnation creator requiring literal pain-filled penance/payment for Man’s sinful thus corrupted behaviour. (It’s somewhat like an angry father spanking his child, really).
He became incarnate to show humankind what the Messiah ought to and has to be. Fundamentally, that definitely includes resurrection. –Frank Sterle Jr
Ndoro must wake up from his deep slumberPRIMARY and Secondary Education communications director Taungana Ndoro said in a recent news release that his ministry considers sending learners to boarding school as a luxury.
He was responding to complaints by parents about the exorbitant fees charged by both primary and secondary at both day and boarding schools.
I declare to all and sundry that the young director (according to his photo in the Press) is in the wrong job. Education is not and never was a luxury in all of humanity’s existence, regardless of where it is gotten, how low it is gotten and at what cost.
Taungana badly needs to study more about human sciences. Sending a child to a boarding school is a choice and not a luxury: A choice between two environments. And choice is a sacrosanct right to be enjoyed by all.
A boarding school is a one-stop-shop and has to be more expensive than a day school, for obvious reasons; but it is not a luxury, for Pete’s sake!
Boarding schools are a means of decongesting day schools, especially in urban areas where populations continue to grow exponentially every year.
More than ever before, Zimbabwe badly needs more boarding schools in rural areas in order to stem the rural to urban migration tide. And you know what Ndoro, it will be the urban-based parents who will send their children to the countryside to enjoy the health-promoting aesthetic and pristine environment.
The word private is self-explanatory. Private schools are owned by private investors. They are based on class distinction and they make no secret about it. They are run by boards of directors and employ their own teachers and their fees are not subject to ministerial “approval” or otherwise.
They are provided for under section 75 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe. If I decipher correctly Ndoro’s use of the word “luxury”, he seems to erroneously conflate missionary and private schools, thus giving the general public the impression that the two are the same when, in fact, they are at polar positions.
Fees at private schools are the king’s ransom, if you will, virtually.
One would not be betraying one’s honesty by observing that their standards are far higher comparatively speaking.
Maybe Ndoro would like to tell me what constitutes school fees and levies when the Constitution prohibits that and why does his ministry approve payments by parents for church school teachers conferences and a myriad other “associations”?
He must also state why it is that parents are not allowed direct contact with the ministry before budgets are approved? Ndoro, boarding schools are not a luxury.
They have produced the cream of professionals in the country. They are the pioneers and trailblazers of African education, especially in rural Zimbabwe. –Shocked Citizen
IN response to Govt snubs salary talks, DAVID DAV DZAPASI says: Government workers would rather not go to work because it’s not worth it. This group of cartels, mafias and looters will not listen to anyone. You know how cartels operate.
IN response to ‘DNA tests will resolve Ndebele kingship wrangle’, ZAMANI NYATHI says: I think Raphael Tshuma is forcing himself. How can he be a Khumalo at the same time?
NHLANE MASUKU says: Was it not once alleged that Lobengula was an illegitimate king because of being born by Mrs Mzilikazi’s domestic worker?
IN response to MPs demand names of forex manipulators, ERNEST MWELLASIE says: Naming and shaming is nothing, they should be arrested, charged and jailed. If Finance deputy minister Clemence Maduwa knows them and does not bring their names, he should also be charged.
COLLEN GWIRIZE says: Up to now, we are still waiting for the criminals who were surrounding the late former President Robert Mugabe to be brought to book.
NIKKI HINDE says: We have a really great Parliament. The parliamentarians are doing a great job. Gentleness and kindness first. I’m very proud of the parliamentarians who we have. They are bringing light to our country a little every day.
DONALD ZHONGA says: How do you define an exchange rate manipulator? After coming up with a proper definition, you will find out that they are chasing the wind.
IN response to ED vows to tame price madness, RONITA MBANJWA says: President Emmerson Mnangagwa is not capable of doing anything to reduce inflation. If he knew that corruption, theft and violence affect the economy he would put a stop to it.
WATSON ADRIEL LOLO says: Prices are going up, which seems to have become the order of the day. This has been happening for decades now. There is nothing Mnangagwa or anyone in Zanu PF can do. If they could, they would have already done it. Zanu PF is clueless, it cannot solve the problems being faced by Zimbabweans. Now it’s beyond the capabilities of the current leadership. Zanu PF and those in charge have failed, period. Mnangagwa has been in government for too long such that by now, he would have ideas and clues of how to tame the runaway inflation.
