Some Zimbabweans living like slaves

Dear Editor,

Zimbabweans are living like slaves through hardships caused by their Government.

It is painful that most Zimbabweans are still living like slaves in their own country exactly 40 years after gaining Independence.

There are no decent standards of living for the poor and weak. The educated and many graduates have become vendors in the streets of cities and towns of Zimbabwe. As we observe the International Day

Dear Editor,

for the Abolition of Slavery, let us not forget that Zimbabweans are still experiencing systemic slavery.

How on earth can you expect professional doctors, nurses, teachers, and other civil servants to live on less than US$45 a month?

Underage children are doing forced labour and get almost nothing under harsh and unbearable conditions in Zimbabwe.

Adults in Zimbabwe who work in tobacco production

This letter is in response to a column published in the Jamaica Observer on Friday, October 23, 2020 titled, ‘The Church, homosexuality and civil laws’, which sought to portray capitulation to the LGBT agenda and demonic world culture as a must for Jamaica. Not so!

Jamaica, as a sovereign nation, can swim against the tide of immorality, guided by the biblical world view. A world view is simply the way in which someone looks at the world It informs the beliefs on which an individual builds his/her life. Our world view, therefore, influences attitudes and actions. Everyone has one.

It is possible for one man’s world view to trigger the corruption of an entire society by changing its laws and customs, public policy, education curricula, and the minds of ordinary people, including the Church. Well-thinking Jamaicans and the Church must be able to recognise and expose such attempts, feeling no need to eat the fruit of that poisonous and perverted tree. We face serious health and safety risks, but the Government and tobacco companies are failing to ensure that workers have better working conditions, sufficient information, training, and equipment to protect them. Workers on tobacco farms said they are pushed to work excessive hours without overtime, compensation, sometimes denied their wages, and forced to go weeks or months without pay.

Zimbabweans are in bondage in their own country, and this is the reason an estimated 5 million Zimbabweans have swarmed South Africa, bringing a huge burden to the public services of a country with nearly four times the population of Zimbabwe’s.

Zimbabwe President Emerson Mnangagwa should act now or resign.

with their culture then she becomes weak, ineffective, and irrelevant; all those who follow Jesus’s call to discipleship are made by that call to be the salt of the Earth. The Church’s objective is always to lobby, defend, and preserve the freedom and truth of the gospel of Christ. She has a duty to expose lies masquerading as truths.

Every world view makes claims about the nature of truth. Francis Schaeffer, an American author, public speaker, evangelical theologian and philosopher, posits, “Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation, loving confrontation, nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation, regardless of the centrality of the truth, there is something wrong.”

We will not be silent in the face of evil for the evidence of the law is written on our hearts.