It is all very well to announce, from soap boxes, “let's rebuild together” but economic rebuilding can only occur once government creates an enabling environment. Just recently, President Mugabe made an embarrassingly racist outburst – whites cannot own land in Zimbabwe – which is at odds with government's attempts to attract foreign direct investment.
MP Tionei Dziva refused to be outdone by Mujuru. The Zanu (PF) women's quota MP for Midlands Province says there is no poverty in Zimbabwe. If there was poverty, she firmly believes, we would have “dead bodies all over.” It is worrying that Dziva is a member of the parliamentary portfolio committee on youth, employment and indigenisation.
He refutes claims that unemployment is higher than 65% and gave examples of taxi drivers and airtime vendors who she asserts should be classified as employed. Airtime vendors earn 7cents for each dollar sold and spend the greater part of the day playing drafts or whistling at passing women.
The so-called taxi drivers are unregistered and spend half the day ducking cops and the other half asleep with the seat rests pushed back. Airtime vendors and “taxi drivers” are people waiting for actual jobs. It just happens that the unemployment line has moved from the labour office onto the streets.
After two weeks behind bars, Sunday Mail editor Edmund Kudzayi is out on bail. In exchange for his freedom, the boy editor paid $5,200 bail and surrendered his passport and the deed to daddy's house.
The Jukwa story is yet another Zanu (PF) diversionary trick and, as such, should not be permitted to take up valuable newspaper space. While Jukwa or Amai Jukwa shampoos the prison lice from his or her hair, the potholes still remain and Zanu (PF) is still 1,999,999 jobs short of fulfilling its target as set out in its 2013 election manifesto.
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Three years ago I was privileged to be invited along with a group of local and international travel journalists to State House for lunch. For anyone who has never been within those high walls, I was astonished at the beautiful lush gardens surrounding that historical building. When it came to my turn to be introduced and I, wearing my local traditional robes, shook hands with H.E. who then said to me, “Donette, I do not hate ALL the Whites, but, I do hate the British for what they have done and to my country!”
Again, it reminded me of that scripture, “The sins of the father shall be visited upon the children…”
It is such a tragedy what has happened to the land we were all born in because of the history of our nation since CJR invaded…
Its all so sad. We always seem to be in a spiralling vortex of one step forward and two steps back. Sometimes its a good move and other times its difficult for some. So sad…
to hell ne zimbabwe irikutongwa nembavha