ZIMBABWEANS ARE TOO INDIVIDUALISTIC, HENCE WE WILL SUFFER LONGER

 

I always remember this scenario, from 2000 onwards Zimbabwe started experiencing fuel shortages due to the continued devaluation of the Zimbabwean dollar. Around 2005 we were renting a flat next to Marlborough Civic Centre. So petrol was expected to be delivered at a fuel station along Harare Drive not far from home. We spent almost two days queuing in an orderly way. One of the guys in the queue I discovered was my sister’s boss at Red Star Wholesalers head office. We sort of became friends with the group and we got along very well. On the day petrol was delivered there was chaos those people you thought were your friends didn’t care whether you got fuel or not, cars got scratched in the process. During that time is when corruption got entrenched in the Zimbabwean psyche. As long as zvangu zvaita I don’t care about you became the attitude.

This week at our complex in Pretoria there was a police van on a purely civil matter within the body corporate. Our white controlled body corporate fired cleaners and they appointed a white company to provide cleaning services. We opposed the move to no avail. We have a long running dispute with the body corporate and they are using tactics to delay the AGM where we want to vote them out. In true South African style the only route left is protest. Protest is the language of the unheard and South Africans use it effectively🙏🏿 When I first arrived in South Africa, I never understood why people protested so much but now after nearly 13 years in South Africa, I now realise it is very effective. I remember last year driving into Cape Town along N2 traffic was at a standstill at Paarl for almost 4 hours as community members were protesting. I am sure Zanu-PF is nervous as thousands of Zimbabweans who have lost their jobs due to COVID-19 are making their way back home.

In Zimbabwe the government banned minibus taxis for the last 7 weeks, just imagine if that had happened in South Africa there would be mayhem. Even the lockdown in South Africa people are no longer complying. The problem in Zimbabwe is that we are not united and we look at our problems in isolation and we are easy to be divided and then be ruled. Taxi drivers, vendors, farmers etc don’t realise that they have the common enemy in the misrule of Zanu-PF.

If opposition supporters, taxi drivers, farmers, vendors, workers, students etc united under a proactive leadership, Zanu-PF would not last a day. The truth is that Zanu-PF cannot put everyone in prison.