An Open Letter To President Mugabe
Dear Mr President,
I hope this letter finds you well since your recent pronouncements about the fatigue already building up day-in, day-out. I just hope God can make you recover as quickly as possible as there is no other that heals the sick and opens the eyes of the blind.
Mr President, its obvious from your other recent announcement that the controversial land grabs have yielded nothing but poverty. Its also obvious that white Zimbabweans had their citizenship and rights taken away by their fellow citizens with the endorsement of a black president and the connivance of the securocrats. It is unfortunate that a Zimbabwean black president is racist towards whites, whereas US Vice President Joe Biden, a white man himself, proudly champions the rights of black people, to un shackle them and remove them from the historical cotton fields.
Apparently, the fatigue that is sickening you is neither loss of memory nor ageing as some different quarters suggest, but a state of mind that has finally grasped the reality that there is no solution to Zimbabwe' s problems with you at the helm.
Zimbabweans have gotten used to unemployment and sleeping on empty stomachs. Innocent citizens have become used to banks being forced into liquidation. Mobile subscribers have finally accepted that no matter how Forbes Africa' s strongman Strive Masiyiwa strives to ensure flawless communication across the country, marriages are falling apart and partners splitting due to the government' s incapacity to support telecommunications companies.
Having participated in, and being one of the authors of the GNU in 2009, I think you should by now have done your homework, Sir! Compared to the disastrous 2008, the GNU era proved that Zimbabwe' s failure to forge ahead is because of ZANU-PF' s egocentrism. You will obviously agree with me that politics of power has been the ruling party's stumbling block instead of placing the interests of the people first.
Human capital, when combined, can change Zimbabwe' s fortunes for the better. Do you remember the likes of Professor Welshman Ncube, Tendai Biti, Nelson Chamisa, Morgan Tsvangirai, Priscilla Mushonga-Misihairabwi, Joyce Mujuru, to mention but a few, working together during the GNU? Wasn't that 'so' admirable Mr President?
However, Zimbabwe's ailing economy won't be resolved by the firing of Amai Mujuru, as we have just witnessed. A Grace Mugabe succession will not put food on the table for starving Zimbabweans either. Worse still, arresting peaceful demonstrators will further erode our democratic rights as enshrined in the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights(UDHR).
Mr President, I challenge you to call upon all opposition parties to the drawing board in order to draft a road map for our country' s future. Many children have stunted growth because of the effects of hunger and poverty. Zimbabwean women have a bleak future, as they cannot make ends meet with regards to their needs. Many men are heading for the diaspora, leading to disintegrated families.
We need all political parties to start working together as soon as possible as it is clear that the 2018 elections will just be a formality of retaining ZANU-PF control, as you are fully aware. We need to set aside our differences as you have mentioned on numerous occasions concerning the Unity Accord of 1987. If we choose to preach about the 1987 peace agreement but fail to make peace in the current arrangement thus we render the treaty with the late Dr Joshua Nkomo null and void. But if we can use that piece of agreement as a stepping stone for further such pacts, then surely Zimbabwe shall become a bread basket again.
Russians will tell you, "Ба́ры деру́тся -- у холо́пов чубы́ треща́т," loosely translated, "When the rich make war it's the poor that die." Literal: Masters are fighting, servants' forelocks are creaking.
Now the ball is in your court President Mugabe. If you adopt my plan of action, you will rewrite the history books and repair your tainted image. If you listen to me, you won't lose sleep over Itai Dzamara having to petition you to step down as he, his family and friends will be happy!
As Helen Keller plainly states, "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." VIVA to another GNU!
by Fanuel Nsingo
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