Nobel Prize winner, Albert Einstein, who is credited with explaining “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results”.
What the great man did not say is how, once they have panicked, the otherwise seemingly, sane people can behave with the certified insane.
It is most disconcerting when seemingly sane human beings panic and behave like panicked houseflies; sadly Zimbabweans have been doing just that.
In 1980, Zimbabwe was one of the top five rich countries in Africa, a middle-income nation; today we are the most impoverished nation in Africa. Zimbabwe’s economic collapse has been a relentless match to the bottom. What has been insane about it all is that the nation has been stuck with the corrupt and incompetent Zanu PF dictatorship throughout the last 38 years.
Ordinarily, the nation would have been able to remove the corrupt and incompetent Zanu PF; we have failed to do so in this case because Zanu PF has usurped the people’s freedoms and fundamental human rights including the right to free and fair elections and even the right to life itself. Zanu PF has rigged elections to stay in power against the democratic wishes of the people.
The root cause of Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown is decades of Zanu PF gross mismanagement and rampant corruption. The people of Zimbabwe should have focused on stopping Zanu PF rigging elections, the only sure way to remove the party from office. Zanu PF has used brute force to create and retain the de facto one-party state but instead of people keeping a cool head and fight for the individual freedoms and fundamental rights the people panicked into accepting the vote rigging and Zanu PF’s rule as fait accompli.
For the last 38 years, the nation has been caught up in this insanity of making the corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship work.
For the umpteenth time, Zimbabwe’s economic and political problems stem from the country’s failure to remove the corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical Zanu PF thugs from office. The thugs have just rigged the 30 July 2018 elections and instead of demanding that the regime step down the Zimbabwe Council of Churches are only after a solution that will allow Zanu PF to stay in office regardless their pathetic track record of economic blundering and failures.
It is not so much the politicians who have driven this nation right up to the edge of the precipice but rather the panicked clergy and such like who, even after 38 years, still support Zanu PF dictatorial rule hoping against hope that it will deliver freedom, economic prosperity, etc.
By Jeff Kurai Chakanyuka
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