Besides pulling down an outdated calendar and hanging up another on the wall each year in Zimbabwe, has anybody ever asked themselves if really we are going anywhere as a country? I say this with every sense of paradox because to each person, in high place or low, the more things change the more they stay the same, and it seems nobody rises any wiser from each cycle. Zanu PF has seen from the epicentre how toxic politics and corruption, among the biggest of culprit cancers have taken the economy to casualty status. Zimbabweans need to ask themselves if Zanu PF’s case is either that of whipping through everyone a painful, Pan-African, neo-colonianist economic emancipation revolution, or it is a text book case of selfish stone-cold resolve of benefiting from chaos and disorder. That question is fundamental to history and politics, there has to be something engraved about it for future generations. From Willow-gate, Zisco Steel Blast Furnace saga of 1987, Zesa-Soltran, GMB saga of Kangai, the Chikowore hands in the NOCZIM scandal, the Marange $15B loot, the Command Agriculture smoke, to the recent Zesa-Intratek saga. In most if not all of these and others far too many or too under the carpet to mention, the underlying denominator has been that the closer you are to the authorities the better chances you stand to walk away with hands dripping of soup or oil. Let us not be tempted to think nobody in the opposite political basket has not had their hands soiled at one point or another, and still walk away in full glare of the authorities. This is political dirty advantage, the trump card for game change, the politician’s favourite check-mate in a corrupt system, this is capital for control. Did we really expect anything better from the disgraced Health minister Obadiah Moyo? This is the same Moyo who then and still now presides over a critical ministry under international spotlight and condemnation due to the terrible infrastructural state of hospitals, drug shortages and persistent industrial action by critical staff. At such height of infamy, Moyo aborted a tour of Parirenyatwa, Harare and Chitungwiza hospitals halfway a few months ago, just because, I will quote his own words to the shock of the world, “Yes, we heard that you (media) were gone and there was no point for us to come, we are very sorry, the former Chitungwiza Hospital chief executive officer said at the time. My question and everyone’s still is, was the hospital tour meant to fact find the state of affairs on the ground, or it was a mere charade to look good in the news bulletin? Did Moyo think through before he uttered these words? Shame on him. In sane working democracies one is booted for such reckless utter. Mugabe’s political patronage craft and thirst for control and power could only survive on such travesties, and the tragedy of it all is that the cronies around him were paying attention very well along the trudge. This is the same system of rule that the government of the day inherited, perfected, continued, and is harvesting on since the tra
