Good Day Mr President

DEAR Cde Acting President Constantino Guveya Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga, I hope I find you well in these awful COVID-19 times.

It is my genuine hope that you and your family are keeping safe.

My heartfelt condolences on the passing on of some government officials and military personnel in the last week, some of them succumbing to the coronavirus.

That at least should be a wakeup call that the COVID-19 pandemic is real and it’s killing, but obviously not the time for your ministers to stoke diplomatic tensions by blaming China for the coronavirus.

Your Excellency, I note that you are acting in the stead of your boss, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, whose silence in the midst of the devastating second wave of COVID-19 has been deafening.

We have seen bits of him, sometimes doing something unrelated to what is afflicting the country now, COVID-19.

Yesterday, he was pictured signing and autographing copies of the Presidential Edition of The African Fact Book which will be despatched to Africa’s 54 heads of State.

I have no idea how that fact book is too important, way too important for his attention than the pandemic that has hit the country hard, claiming the lives of his own ministers and aides.

Your Excellency, there is no point, however, for me to continue highlighting where I feel he has erred or has been found wanting in these trying times in a letter addressed to you as the Acting President.

What makes it key to address this letter to you is that you are also the Health minister and the