My analysis about Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe's problems go beyond political parties. I am 101% convinced that Zimbabwe needs a system overhaul and change of leadership. Change of leadership without a system overhaul will be useless. There is no rule of law in Zimbabwe.

It is sad and pathetic that this nation brags of the most educated people in Africa yet they are the most stupid, idiotic and docile beings under the sun. What is the point of being educated when you can not use your education to create sustainable development economically and politically? What is the point of bragging about intellectual capacities when your country has reached comatose stage with no meaningful change in sight?  Where are the legislators? Why are people being oppressed in a supposedly free Zimbabwe?

Zimbabwe is going through a systematic failure. This systematic failure is a result of lack of ethics. We are all responsible for this systematic failure because we all sat back and watched Bob create an evil regime which does not care about the welfare of the citizens of this once beautiful country. i hear and read people claiming
ng that Zimbabwe is a peaceful country. Peaceful my foot. People should learn to differentiate peace from fear. First define what peace is then we will start talking. Zimbabweans are butchering each other every day, domestic violence is the order of the day in most households, women are being raped left right and centre including toddlers, there is violence everywhere because most people have bottled up emotions. they have adopted to an artificial environment which is emotionally draining. All the frustrations which have been cultivated by this evil system are poured out at the wrong places and wrong people.

Zanu pf has nurtured institutions which are not only inefficient and incompetent because all state owned enterprises have collapsed due to massive corruption, lack of accountability and sound corporate ethics. We cannot continue watching our country being run like a tuckshop because we are afraid. Afraid of what and who?  
Millions of bright lives have been destroyed and why are we silent?

The problem in Zimbabwe is not the actual problem, the problem is our attitude towards the problem. We have to deal with the issue of political reforms, if this is not dealt with we are unlikely to see any meaningful economic turnaround. Zimbabwe's crisis is man made and everything that is man made can be reversed. We are suffering from a leadership crisis. We no longer have leaders in Zimbabwe. We now have one invincible dictator and little rulers under the dictator. Who is going to free Zimbabwe from black oppression? How long are we going to pretend that everything is ok when nothing is ok?

The first step is to advocate for the alignment of the of laws with the constitution of Zimbabwe. Since 2013, the laws have not been aligned with the constitution, police continuously abuse zimbabwean citizens because of this anomaly. Where are the legislators? Alignment of the laws with the constitution is not an option but an obligation. It is a serious violation of the constitution to continue having invalid laws in our statute books. Enough is enough. ZIMBABWE WILL NEVER BE A COLONY AGAIN LET US FREE OUR MINDS FROM MENTAL SLAVERY.

Stand up and fight for your rights
Stand up and be counted
Stand up and fight for justice
Stand up and be the hero you are
Life is meant to be enjoyed not to be endured

Iwe neni tine basa to make Zimbabwe a better place. To restore the dignity of this country and to give our children a happier, safer and habitable Zimbabwe.

Good day

Linda T. Masarira
ZWIPA Director

Cry my beloved Zimbabwe cry

I got a very disturbing call from my contact at Arnold farm saying the mothers and their babies in Mazoe are now sleeping in rain soaked blankets in open space.

This is really disturbing considering that yesterday we were celebrating independence day which is synonymous with Zimbabweans reclaiming their land which was forcibly stolen by colonists.

In the National Sports Stadium, the once revolutionaries who liberated us were lambasting the imperialists for stealing our land. But will we ever hear these pan African leaders condemning Grace Mugabe for stealing land and forcing fellow black Zimbabweans from their homes?

Double standards and glorification of strong egoistic personalities over institutions have proven to be our greatest undoing unto ourselves.

Zimbabwe deserves better and we are the ones we have been waiting for to transform our independence into freedom for the people.

We all need a Zimbabwe that is responsive to the needs of all its citizens despite economic class, political view, religious beliefs, race and tribe.

Linda T. Masarira

Change starts with you

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the change that we seek. We are the ones we've been waiting for. I have no doubt that we, Zimbabweans, are the difference between what it is and what it could be.

We are the missing link in the struggle for positive change in our country. Zimbabwe's political and economic quagmire requires our participation. We know in painful detail and through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed.

No one gives up his priviledges without a fight and president Mugabe won't be brushed aside easily like dirt. We have to play our part as Zimbabweans. Zanupf will never reform themselves our of power. We have the generational mandate to reform them out of power. Only a united people with one common shared vision can remove this gerontocracy from power. We are the missing link.

You are the change you have been waiting for. What are you waiting for? Be part of the change you want to see. Together we can.

A new Zimbabwe is possible in our lifetime.

Zimbabwe will be there after Mugabe is long gone

In the midst of the political confusion that has gripped our country many people are wondering if we have come to the end of Zimbabwe.

The answer is simple: the thing called an "end" does not exist, not in relation to a country. Zimbabwe will be there long after Mugabe is gone.

What Mugabe has done is to make us come to the realisation that ours is colonisation by our own fellow brothers. From the frying pan into the fire.

Towards the end of March, innocent Zimbabwean citizens were illegally evicted from Arnold farm in Mazowe. ZRP acting on the first lady Grace Mugabe's instructions defied a high court ruling against the evictions at Arnold farm. Houses were demolished and the little property they had was ferried off the farm by police vehicles and they were dumped on the roadside of river farm.

These displaced families are surviving on wild fruits and sleeping in the open for nearly two weeks now. I am trying to understand why a mother and a woman would do that to other women and children? Principalities in Africa manifest in strange ways. This is an abhorrent violation of human rights.

We must all thank Mugabe for revealing our true African character; that the idea of rule of law is not part of who we are, and that
constitutionalism is a concept far ahead of us as a people.

How else are we to explain the thousands of people who flock to stadiums to clap hands for a president who has violated their
country's constitution? Such people have no idea of constitutionalism.

Now that we have reclaimed our place as another African country, we must reflect on and come to terms with our real character, and imagine
what our future portends.

In a typical African country, ordinary people don't expect much of politicians, because people get tired of repeated empty promises.

In a typical African country, people have no illusions about the unity of morality and governance. People know that those who have power have
it for themselves and their friends and families.

The idea that the state is an instrument for people's development is a Western concept, and has been copied by pockets of Asian countries.

Africans and their leaders don't like to copy from the West. They are happy to remain African, and do things "the African way".

The African way is rule by kings, chiefs and indunas in a setting of unwritten rules. Is there anyone who has seen a book of African
customary laws?

The idea that a commoner can raise questions about public money spent on the residence of a king is not African.

Asking a ruler to be accountable is a foreign - Western - idea. In a situation where there is conflict between a ruler and laws, Africans
simply change the laws to protect the ruler. This is why no single white person has called for King Dalindyebo to be released from jail.

The problem with clever blacks is that they think they live in Europe,where ideas of democracy have been refined over centuries.

What we need to do is to come back to reality, and accept that ours is a typical African country. Such a return to reality will give us a
fairly good idea of what Zimbabwe's future might look like.

This country will not look like Denmark. It might look like Nigeria, where anti-corruption crusaders are an oddity.

Being an African country, ours will not look like Germany. Zimbabwe  looks like Kenya, where tribalism drives politics.

People must not entertain the illusion that a day is coming when Zimbabwe  will look like the US.  What will become of our future when
one ruler is more powerful than the rest of the population. Even if  someone else were to become president, it would still be the same, if we do not change our mindsets.

The idea that a president can resign simply because a court of law has delivered an adverse judgment is Western. Only the Prime Minister of
Iceland does that; African rulers will never do that. The idea of an African president resigning because he is too ill to rule is for Doug Ferguson former president of Canada.

Analysed carefully, the notion of Zimbabwe coming to an "end" is an expression of a Western value system - of accountability, political morality, reason, and so on.