YOUR FEEDBACK

We appreciate reforms taken by the Government, but some of the demands from the opposition political parties and NGOs can weaken the State to expose the nation to offensive forces. It is important that opposition political parties and their partners be identified as nation builders. It is all our country, let us work to build it not destroy it. Finally, thank you ZDF for restoring our pride as Zimbabweans. — Richard Chauke. ****

The retirement of Commissioner-General Chihuri was the right thing to do, what is left is to sweep ZACC clean so that we will start afresh. — Citizen.

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In Rusape at Vengere Rank there are touts and thieves who give beer to blind people so that when they got drunk they can easily pick-pocket. God forbid and the police should increase patrols at the rank. — 0785188446.

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The disabled are divided into different groups like the deaf, blind, not able etc, so why can’t we have a ministry for the disabled and special needs. If women and youths are represented, why not the disabled? — Tonde ‘The Deafman’

Muchini.

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Allow me to wish all The Manica Post members a very merry Christmas and fantastic new year. I will continue to contribute worthwhile views to The Manica Post the rest of my life. Surely, this golden eastern family newspaper is there to stay. In the same breath, I like the way you publish your fully baked hot news. We want more columns in the Press next year. Keep up the good work. — Terrence Mwedzi.

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Thieves are so inhuman, they take away our valuables. I want to urge people who work in busy areas to help others by picking identity documents which thieves would have thrown to the ground. I have seen lots of identity cards on trees and some in toilets. Losing an identity card or driver’s licence disk is a nightmare. Hand these cards to the police, you will help someone. — Tawanda Mhlanga.

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A lot has been said and done on gender based violence, but are women and girls only the victims? No, is the answer. These days men are been abused in homes. This is so since in many homes women are now breadwinners. If a wife is working and the husband is not a lot of fighting happens. Many working women neglect their wife duties like cooking for the husband and bedroom duties. Please also help men, cooking sticks are being used on us. — 0777696915.

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There is this talk of the Truth Commission, but the glaring omissions on the atrocities committed by the Ian Smith regime are attempts to bend our revolutionary history. We saw this happening in South Africa where the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was set up to persecute freedom fighters like Winnie Mandela.

The truth was buried too deep for its chairman, Archbishop Desmond Tutu to dig. It remains a secret how Samora Machel was killed among other bloody acts executed during the dark times. Therefore, in pursuit of the truth commission, first this is a project to distract us and at the same time angling for donor funds than unearth the truth from past wrongs to heal the nation.

Finally, from which period will the Truth Commission draw its starting line? Africa should be careful not to be turned against itself by those who partitioned it for economic interests, not our welfare of course. — Richard Mahuhushe

Chauke.

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It is my sincere hope that the newly appointed Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Professor Paul Mavhima and his team will continue to instil confidence in the education sphere. Teachers, parents and students’ concerns need to be heard. In the same vein, there are some teething problems that need to be addressed as a matter of urgency. We are solidly behind Professor Mavhima. — Terrence Mwedzi.

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The festive season is upon us. I urge motorists to be cautious. Speed thrills, but kills. Kumhanya hakusiriko kusvika. Most of the roads are now slippery due to the rains, worst with potholes. — E. Pundo, Budiriro, Harare.

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One contemptuously underestimates our customs at his or her own peril; concretised to suggest, eventually learning the hard way if you do not take heed. No-one knows exactly what hits you when you defy our sacred traditions. Do you remember this story? When the traditional chief summoned the man to appear at his court for paying lobola in the forbidden month, he boastfully refused. He hired a lawyer and the chief was humiliated as his summons and rulings were dismissed as backward and infringements on the rights of the accused. We kept quiet to avoid making a hero out of nothing. What happened? Unfortunately, troubles have mounted on the man like debts and he is suffering alone, broke and ill and has no answers to what has hit him. Any disease has a spiritual dimension as negative energy. What is taboo cannot be taboo just because one is branded as more, what? Forewarned is fore-armed. — Mahuhushe.