Under ED, Zim sailing on clay boat

SINCE white settlers set their foot on the land now called Zimbabwe, the country has never had a terrible government like that of President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

The government is made up of a bunch of clueless people who are full of themselves.

The situation Zimbabweans find themselves in now is terrible and unbearable.

We are treated like Dalstroy prisoners of 1937, who were routinely clubbed, beaten or in many cases shot dead.

If Mnangagwa is trying to copy the Soviet Union way of treating citizens, he is fooling himself. Zimbabwe is not Russia, we are not prisoners and we are not in the 1930s. We have every right to be heard and treated according to the Constitution.

We have watched and seen the Mnangagwa-led government violating citizens’ rights, forbidding them to demonstrate and assemble while beating and abducting them.

No one ever imagined that 42 years after independence, opposition parties, among them the Nelson Chamisaled Citizens Coalition for Change, would be barred from holding rallies.

No one ever thought that more than four decades after independence human rights activists among them Itai Dzamara, could disappear, never to be found again.

These conducts are shocking, disgusting and dishonourable.

Parents can not afford to pay school fees, basic commodities have become unaffordable and retailers now refuse to accept the local currency. All people, employed and unemployed, are incapacitated.

Though we suffered during the late former President Robert Mugabe’s era, we have never seen this.

The health of an entire society depends on the ease with which its individual members can get medical attention.

Thus, in this government’s tenure, there has been widespread “mental illnesses”, neuroticism, hatred, alcoholism, drug abuse, violence and social disorder.

Personal worth is not something human beings are free to take or leave. We must have it, and when it is unattainable, everybody suffers.

The abuses by government should not continue any further. We have learned a lot from the past. We have matured.

Mnangagwa is sailing in a clay boat.