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IN response to Informal traders challenge lockdown order, LANGTON GOLAZ says: I support the COVID19-induced lockdown, but the biggest problem is the government, which is not helping with anything. COVID-19 is real, it is there in our communitie­s, but then we are always in need of basic things in the house. People are striving to get that while the pandemic is on. If the so-called new dispensati­on is good at planning, then by now we could have witnessed people being given mealie-meal and other basic commoditie­s as well as municipali­ties being instructed to stop demanding payment of water and electricit­y bills.

IN response to ‘Illegal farmers damaging city sewage system’, TONDE SIGA says: When people fail to maintain old pipes, they always blame someone for their failures. Maize farming has nothing to do with those pipes. People have been doing peri-urban farming for many years, even during the former late Rhodesian Prime Minster Ian Smith, but we never heard of these issues. Council must know that it’s critical to maintain infrastruc­ture and make sure from time to time, they are replaced. Hiding behind the finger is not the best way to solve a problem, council must only admit that it has dismally failed to maintain anything that was left by the Smith regime.

IN response to Nurses down tools, RUVIMBO CHAKANYUKA says: Why did Vice-President Kembo Mohadi lie to the nation that all is in order? Even Informatio­n minister Monica Mutsvangwa did the same. Why? These leaders should know that lies and propaganda have short legs. One thing which is clear though is that our government doesn’t care and has failed. It is led by selfish people. What happened to the personal protective equipment that was donated by China? We can’t put our frontline health workers at risk and expect them to work.

IN response to Trump dents US democracy claims: ED, MEMORY NOMA TEKESA says: President Emmerson Mnangagwa is the last person to open his mouth and speak on democracy. It beats logic that the Zimbabwean government always seeks comparison­s with America and the West even in worst cases. When it comes to good deeds, they speak of sanctions.

IN response to Govt warns defiant businesses, JACOB MARINGE says: All talk and no action. Our government is corrupt to the core. The Mashwedes of this world are still operating, but nothing is happening to them. These threats are for ordinary poor Zimbabwean­s who are hungry. Please, the law must be applied equally to everyone no matter their positions in society.

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