The commission revealed that several investors purchased stands in wetlands and close to Zesa high voltage cables and recommends that those affected should be resettled on Dunnotar Farm, Manyame. Chombo said he needs time to study the report. And then veered off on a tangent, criticising MDC-T for suspending councillors who voted against party instructions in the mayoral elections. ‘The fired councillors are being fired for voting freely.’ Diversionary tactics. An elephant is running madly in Chombo’s living room but he chooses to discuss the neighbour’s dirty driveway. The city council and the minister himself were aware of construction taking place in the midst of a swamp. Keen to win votes, they turned a blind eye.
Revolution has begun
The suspended CEO of loss-making broadcaster ZBC, Happison Muchechetere, earns over $40K of public funds in a country where the majority eek a living on $1 per day. ZBC license inspectors, trundling about with ashy lips of hunger, unpaid for 6 months earn $300, while their boss is literally bloated on his astronomical pay package. The Harare Residents Trust has joined MP Jessie Majome’s publicised refusal to buy a TV license and urged a boycott.
Permanent secretary for broadcasting services (and presidential spokesman), George Charamba, is howling at the December full moon, gabbling about ‘illegal boycott.’ Charamba should try very much to be invisible right now because, as permanent secretary, he was well aware of Muchechetere’s obscene pay package and most likely approved it.
Listeners should not fatten Muchechetere any further. Maybe the revolution has begun.
Apart from having awful programmes like Tafataona Mahoso’s talk show, ZBC is monopolised by Zanu (PF). The party should fund its own propaganda.
Those that have licenses should burn them like Nelson Mandela did to passbooks during apartheid. Zanu (PF), combining their meagre intellectual resources, have suggested the issuing of motor vehicle radio licenses through Zinara. It is hard to understand what jurisdiction Zinara – the authority on roads – has in collecting radio license revenue.
More victory
Victory generates the thirst for more victory. A successful license boycott will encourage the masses to take a stand against any other forms of injustice.
If Jonathan Moyo’s overhaul is to yield lasting results, the salaries of all public servants, should be made public. Chances are there is a similar thievery at other parastatals. Muchechetere’s excessive salary goes beyond the moral issue of a skewed wage structure at ZBC. It is also a reflection of Mugabe’s determination to cling to power. One then begins to see why Muchechetere, an unabashed bootlicker of Mugabe, blocked all MDC campaign adverts.
Information is crucial in winning an election. $40K per month is a lot of money but it is nothing, if your aim is to stay in office and avoid prosecution for crimes against humanity.
Vanished diamonds
Mines minister, Walter Chidhakwa, has dissolved the ZMDC board, after $130M worth of diamonds vanished. Among the board was media mogul-turned politician, Supa Mandiwanzira and a little boy called Psychology. One would be hard-pressed to find even one carat of mining expertise between Mandiwanzira and Maziwisa. What remains to be seen is if Chidhakwa’s new board will be any better.
The sad truth is that the culprits in the Chitungwiza land furore will go scot-free. The diamonds looted at ZMDC are already on the wrist of some dictator’s concubine and the Six Million Dollar Man, Goodwills Masimirembwa is wagging his tail triumphantly after intimidating the Ghanaian complainant into silence, yet 2 months ago Mugabe made a public show of his corruption case. Under Zanu (PF), corruption is rewarded. Frederick Shava was disgraced after his involvement in the Willowgate scandal. He has bounced back as Zimbabwe’s envoy to China.
Chiyangwa still lives a lavish life, despite accusations of selling state secrets, which is the true definition of ‘sell-out,’ a label that Zanu (PF) attaches to the opposition. To kill a snake, you strike the head. All these dismissals are cosmetic changes – body blows, rather than the head shot – and will solve nothing.
Bootlickers
At the Zanu (PF) annual congress, two old fossils with nothing more to offer than the noisy sounds of their lips kissing presidential boots, Didymus Mutasa and Webster Shamu declared that the party only praises Mugabe and no-one else. ‘Even when we return to our constituencies we say forward with Mugabe and forward with no one else.’
If a man’s occupation is to sing praises to another, his job is only one notch higher than a prostitute. ‘I’ll give you a dollar to sing my praises. Louder! Sing louder or else I won’t pay you.’ – Till next year, my pen is capped. – Jera@workmail.com
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