Zanu PF must dig its grave faster

ZANU PF’S desire for self-destruction is breathtaking. The Zanu PF government has continually waged war against its own citizens since independence in 1980.

First, it was the so-called dissidents during the Gukurahundi era, then the white commercial farmers and their labourers, then the opposition, then all the people perceived to be outside of the ruling party, and now Zimbabweans.

Over the weekend, President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced a cocktail of measures aimed at halting the sliding Zimdollar.

He introduced a 4% tax on local forex mobile money transfers and a 2% withdrawal charge on nostros.

The government also suspended lending by banks and micro-financial institutions. This has a damning effect on small-to-medium enterprises, which have become the mainstay of the economy. These measures come a few weeks after government rushed the not-so popular Patriotic Bill through Parliament. How can you regulate patriotism?

And the Private Voluntary Organisation Bill is in the offing, obviously to silence perceived government critics.

All these laws are not necessary — they are anti-people. Surely Zanu PF is digging its own grave.

Our only desire is just that it should dig it faster because the nation is in agony.

The government has declared war on its own people. And the regional and international communities do not seem to care.

Pride prevents Zanu PF officials from seeing the error of their own ways and this pride is helping build barriers that block all chances for a reconciliation.

Many of us have tried, unstintingly, to minister wisdom and truth to Zanu PF, but it seems they are hellbent on their own self-destruction.

At one time, no one wanted to see that happen, but now, to the vast majority of suffering Zimbabweans, if only it could happen sooner than later.

And if anyone in the “ruining” party has ears, let him/ her hear: The cause has become the lost cause.