Letters

The Zanu (PF) MPs demand for higher allowances is an indication that Zanu (PF) is by all means trying to block the people of Zimbabwe from writing their own constitution. Zanu (PF) knows that with a new constitution in place, it will never win any free and fair election.

As a result the party is trying by all means to bar the constitution-making process from proceeding as it will seal their fate and throw the party into the dust bin of history. Zanu (PF) wants to cling to the current constitution that has been amended 19 times and will give it another opportunity to rig an election and continue trampling upon the peoples human rights.

But Zanu (PF) should have seen this coming. For the past 30 years, it has neglected the wishes of the people. It has used the state security forces to carry out human rights abuses. It has reduced a once prosperous country, which every year produced surplus food into a basket-case.

Better health, education living standards have fallen because of Zanu (PF) and the Zanu (PF) MPs have now realised that the people of Zimbabwe are not that dull as they first believed.

Now is the time for the people to come out in full force and shape their destiny in a new Zimbabwe that is free from human rights abuses, corruption and other evils the people had been subjected to at the hands of Zanu (PF). TRYMORE MAZHAMBE, Mutare

Maguwus arrest a cover up

EDITOR – The continued illegal detention and harassment of Farai Maguwu, the director with the Centre for Research and Development, is now a clear statement that Zanu (PF) is using state machinery as a personal tool to cling on to power by whatever means available.

Zanu (PF) is fully aware that the people of Zimbabwe are sick and tired of this dictatorial and ruthless party. However, for Zanu (PF) to continue with its looting and abuse of state resources for the benefit of a few, it has resorted to using state machinery to crash those individuals who call for an end to this abuse.The continued illegal detention of Maguwu is that Zanu (PF) will use every means possible to deal with those who want to expose them for their looting and ruthless in dealing with dissent.

Maguwu had become a pain in the back for Zanu (PF) ministers who are busy stealing diamonds at Chiadzwa when the country is bleeding due to lack of resources. The Zanu (PF) ministers are failing to explain how they got filthy rich in just a few months after moving to Chiadzwa. And the only way to deal with Maguwu was to persecute him and his family so as to scare other likeminded people who would attempt to expose these Zanu (PF) looters.

From the day that Maguwu was locked up by the police, events have shown that his arrest is not criminal offence, but revenge on the part of Zanu (PF) for exposing their rising corrupt ways. How can one explain a situation where the Public Prosecutor in Maguwus case, Phyllis Zvenyika, angrily threatened that she would not return to court for the continuation of a bail hearing and that Farai would rot in jail?

How does one interpret a case where one Detective Inspector Henry Dowa, the arresting officer in this case, loses his temper during cross-examination and had to be warned by the court not to point a threatening finger at lawyer Trust Maanda, who was cross-examining him? How can police officers from the Law and Order section come and abduct at night a prisoner from Harare Central prison without the lawyers of the accused knowing?

It is the state and Zanu (PF) that are demonising Maguwu. The surroundings happening in Maguwus case are a sure sign that Zanu (PF) is using state security machinery to try and cow the nation. The people of Zimbabwe need to stand up and say no in the same way Maguwu did to Zanu (PF)s corruption at Chiadzwa. The diamonds at Chidzwa do not belong to Zanu (PF) but to the people of Zimbabwe. We must rightly claim what is ours. AGRIPPA ZVOMUYA, Harare

Save Madziwa Teachers College

EDITOR – This is an open plea to the politicians of Mashonaland Central Province and the entire Zimbabwean nation. Madziwa Teachers College, a new kid on the bloc, has gone for three years now without clean water for consumption and six months without electricity.

The College administration is quite inexperienced and in a quandary as to how to solve this issue. Furthermore, Higher & Tertiary Education Head Office is just doing nothing but playing cat and mouse with the college administration as to how this problem can be tackled. To make matters worse, the service providers, especially ZESA, are actually turning a deaf ear.

As we are talking, there are students on campus who really should be getting access to clean water as well as studying. Unfortunately, there is no electricity to facilitate that. Needless to talk of the coming World Cup! Are these really to be tomorrows teachers?

This is tantamount to genocide because if the situation is not attended to as a matter of urgency, then a humanitarian situation is looming. The lives of both the students and staff at this institution are going to die. Only a few options are there: either the college is going to close down (yet the opening of its doors to the public in 2010 was a real blessing), or lives are going to be lost (both, students and lecturers lives) since the place is a former nickel mine and there is no where to get clean water.

At present, both students and staff are using contaminated water from a disused swimming pool and some from the derelict mine tunnels which are contaminated with cyanide. My sole question is: Is this not an attempt at sabotaging government initiatives, or are we likely to witness another Chakari disaster? If the government is not willing to save this college then closing is the only option. TONGOFA SEDEMBA, by e-mail