Govt adept at stealing from the poor

e has become adept at setting up all kinds of “schemes” purportedly to benefit the workers and the poor people in Zimbabwe, and then the chefs help themselves to the resources.
We still remember the Pay-for-your-house Scheme that was looted by such people as Chihuri, the Commissioner of Police, and the second First Lady, while very few, if any, civil servants benefited from the scheme. Then there was the War Victims Compensation Fund, which was ransacked by many, including Joice Teurairopa Mujuru. Administered by Christopher Mushowe, the national scholarships scheme has been notorious for targeting only the children of top Zanu(PF) chefs and a sprinkling of poor students.
Evidence abounds to the fact that the majority of the beneficiaries of the Aids Levy that is charged against the salaries of workers comprise senior Zanu(PF) and government officials. Admittedly, most of them are sick and need the antiretroviral drugs, but so do thousands of other deserving Zimbabweans who have not benefited from the funds.
The proposed national health insurance is obviously going to be another grand scheme aimed at committing daylight robbery against the workers and the companies or employers in this country. Further, NSSA has a very poor record of managing whatever resources the state forcibly extorts from the workers.
For example, a pensioner currently receives a pittance $12 500 per month from NSSA. This year the NSSA senior staff is going to be issued with state of the art vehicles that the vampire organisation has purchased in the face of so much poverty among the poor. In this economy, the top people look after themselves very well
while the nation is in economic shambles.
But the proposed insurance scheme is not going to rescue the health sector from total collapse. Although the money that will be extorted from both workers and employers will be used for the purchase of desperately needed drugs and some equipment, it is very unlikely that such money will be adequate to stem the severe brain drain that has witnessed the exodus of medical personnel from Zimbabwe into the Diaspora.
At the time of writing this piece, all junior doctors and some senior doctors and nurses are into the fourth week of industrial action. It is an exercise in futility for the Mugabe regime to think that the proposed NSSA medical scheme will halt such job boycotts.
It is time the workers and employees in this country put their act together and tackle this evil regime head on. The regime must not be allowed to continue to suck the lifeblood of the people of Zimbabwe to feed itself. The regime has to be stopped in its tracks.
The ZCTU has already started meetings at all levels of its structures in order to mobilise the workers against this evil plot. Without some serious street demonstrations and other forms of civic disobedience this regime will stop at nothing from exploiting both employees and their employers for its own benefit.
It will be unwise the ZCTU to wait until July when the proposed scheme is expected to commence. The time to fight against this evil blood sucking by the vampire is now. The workers and employers will be fully supported by the now severely malnourished students of tertiary institutions who are being made to pay hefty tuition and boarding fees. The Mugabe regime has never been riper for the picking than it is right now.