Failures should not be honoured
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa made a shocking decision to declare February 21, a public holiday in response to a request by Zanu PF youths and other Zanu PF structures in remembrance of the late former President Robert Mugabe.
The fact that this was in response to Zanu PF structures shows that Mnangagwa started his reign on the wrong footing. A decision to honour a dictator should not have been made by a party, but as a national decision in consultation with the people of Zimbabwe.
Mugabe caused so much harm to the country that the best thing Zimbabweans want to do is to forget about him completely. The best Mnangagwa should have done was to bring the request to Parliament for debate followed by a national referendum. Forcing victims of Gururahundi, Murambatsvina and other acts of madness (political violence) by the Mugabe-led regime to remember the dictator traumatises them, and I wonder if Mnangagwa ever thought about the consequences of his decision on the victims of Zanu PF brutality.