sms letters

IN response to ‘Don’t bribe VID driving examiners, SHAVA says: It is unfortunate that Zimbabwe Driving Schools Owners Association president Onias Sanangure is urging prospective drivers to desist from bribing Vehicle Inspectorate Department ( VID) officials to get licences yet it takes two to tango. Firstly, corruption should be dealt with right from the top. Top government officials have been implicated in corruption, but the long arm of the law has not caught up with them. The few who have been arrested have petty charges preferred against them. A few years ago, the late former President Robert Mugabe said Zimbabwe lost US$15 billion in diamond revenue. While Sanangure is on point to castigate corruption, he is barking up the wrong tree. Corruption is endemic in Zimbabwe and the moral fabric is in tatters. It only takes political will to rid the country of the vice.

IN response to Council top brass in

US$8m binge, SHANGWITI says: The fight against corruption is taking an interesting turn. It is now being weaponised to settle personal scores. It seems local authorities where the opposition is in charge are at the mercy of the anti-corruption dragnet. Zanu PF officials have presided over the rot in State entities. Parastatals were central in driving the economy, but since government officials started appointing their cronies to their boards, these hangers-on have embarked on an assets stripping spree and the results are there for everyone to see. But nothing happens to them.

IN response to 45 Waddilove students test COVID-19 positive, ROMBE says: If 45 Waddilove High School students can test positive for COVID-19, what about in the countryside where there are no testing kits. This vindicates teachers' unions which have been advocating for the closure of schools. The government has shown that it had not capacity to test, isolate and quarantine pupils, so there is no need to expose children to the virulent virus. Imagine the trauma that this has caused to the affected children. How are they going to write their examinations? The government is playing Russian roulette with our children's lives.

MOTSI says: The government should be proactive rather than be reactive. This spike in COVID-19 cases, especially in schools, was bound to happen given the circumstances obtaining in the health delivery system.