of a new fuel supply deal – but the fuel never seems to flow into the long pipeline from Beira to Harare. If the state-controlled press, which is quick to trumpet them, is to be believed, there have been many other such deals – with Libya, Angola, Venezuela, Kuwait, Sudan, Nigeria, China and Equatorial Guinea.
Every time such a headline appears, boot-licking commentators are effusive in their praise for Mugabe’s economic miracle-working prowess and the success of his Look East policy. But the fuel queues never end.
Somehow, the wonder deals are just too good to be true and the fuel, if there ever was any in the first place, never trickles down to the service stations to become available to the person in the street.
Zimbabweans are perfectly justified in asking whether these so-called fuel-sourcing foreign trips are of any benefit to the country. It would seem they merely benefit a few individuals at the top of the food chain.
The queues get longer and longer. Sometimes it seems the only thing moving is Mugabe’s official cavalcade.
Support for Zanu (PF) unpatriotic
There have been several disturbing reports of Zanu (PF) zealots turning the civil service and the armed forces into a party political outfit. From next year the civil service will start conducting the so-called patriotism testing – in other words. a test of Zanu (PF) loyalty.
The army and the police are recruiting only Border Gezi-trained thugs. And now the school of journalism at the Harare Polytechnic, will follow suit.
This is a dangerous development. The wholesale politicisation of national institutions to the exclusion of the majority of Zimbabweans, who no longer support the ruling party, jeopardizes our very nationhood. It must be resisted at all costs.
Patriotism and support for Zanu (PF) are not the same thing at all.
In fact, supporting Zanu (PF) is unpatriotic.
Word for Today
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” – John 16;33