My Dear People
There will be huge sighs of relief that the Scarfed One’s tenure as Sadc chairperson has come to an end after having been told ad nauseam how the octogenarian has transformed the moribund regional body.
Ngwena’s tenure as Sadc chairman has been a huge disappointment despite the futile attempts by the usual praise singers to describe it as a roaring success.
Nothing illustrates this more than the dismal failure of the toothless body to try and end the raging war in the Democratic Republic of Congo and tensions that have escalated between that country and Rwanda.
Under Scarfmore’s chairmanship, Sadc prematurely withdrew its peacekeeping mission from the war-torn DRC after it failed dismally in its efforts to bring about stability and hastily retreated in meek surrender to the M23 rebels .
That it was the United States that brokered a peace deal between Rwanda and DRC is a damning indictment of the incompetence and the waning relevance of Sadc.
That this happened under the chairmanship of the Scarfed One, only shows how nonsensical it is to claim that his leadership of the organisation was successful .
The handover of the chairmanship to Madagascar was refreshingly different from the handover to the Scarfmore regime a year ago, which was characterised by the arrest and torture of civil rights activists and monumental waste of taxpayers money to build villas that were never used for the conference it was intended for.
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I can assure you that Madagascar will not make such a fuss of taking over the chairmanship as it was by the Ngwena regime which at times appeared to be a desperate effort at validation especially after the chaotic 2023 harmonised elections that was panned even by Sadc for failing to meet the regional benchmark for elections.
All in all, the Sadc chairmanship by Ngwena was a largely forgettable affair. It was a cruel coincidence that during the week that Zimbabwe’s chairmanship of Sadcended some activists that were arrested ahead of the Harare summit were set free by the courts.
Munopengaaa!!!
The country’s education sector that had become the pride of the African continent under Gushungo, the fountain of wisdom is rapidly deteriorating under the Scarfed One.
Revelations that more than 1200 teachers are quitting the profession every month is indicative of how the education sector of the country is going down the toilet since Ngwenabarrelled into power on the back of guns and tanks.
That even headmasters are also contemplating to go on strike when schools open exposes the bankrupt leadership of the so called second repubric.
Under this dispensation of poverty, darkness and confusion even the Basic Education Assistance Model meant to pay school fees to disadvantaged children is not immune from the shameful levels of pilfering as corruption has become the mainstay of this regime.
Despite the admission by the Scarfed One that university lecturers have been reduced to paupers after their wages were eroded by more than 80% due to the regime’s currency gymnastics, there is still no resolution to the impasse as the strike by University of Zimbabwe lecturers which began in April this year.
This is what happens when you remove telescopic foresighted leadership and replace it with a clueless and probity deficient regime.
Munopengaaa!!!
The delayed payments to those contracted by the regime in an embarrassingly desperate attempt to avoid the depreciation of the funny money known as Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) has resulted in Bitumen World, one of the major construction companies having to retrench workers.
Bitumen World chief executive Andre Zietsmann said the tough decision had been necessitated by the need to remain viable.
“The tragedy of these layoffs is that they impact the very people who built this prestigious brand- a brand that was wholly created by Zimbabweans,” he said.
The loss of jobs as a result of the regime’s efforts to keep the Zig afloat is testament to the callousness of this regime.
Such devastating developments makes the Ngwena slogan of Nyika inovakwa nevene vayo (The country is built by its citizens) sound like utter hogwash.
The failure to pay local construction companies has brought about poverty, despair and joblessness which takes the gloss off the various infrastructure projects that are usually carried out at inflated costs.
Surely a country cannot celebrate infrastructure projects that worsens the country’s levels of unemployment which is at unacceptably high levels as evidenced by the increased level of informal activity to 76%.
If a book is ever to be written about this shambolic Ngwena regime it would surely be titled “ How not to run a country” or “How to turn a country into a banana republic”
Munopengaaa!!!
The country’s national team will next month play their World Cup qualifiers in South Africa despite the undertaking by the regime that the country’s National Sports Stadium will be ready to host the country’s home games after having met the standards required by the Confederation of Africa by then.
It once again exposes the failure of this regime in that it prioritises building VIP Airport lounges and splurging top of the range vehicles to chief and political charlatans over renovating the country’s stadiums.
That the country’s citizens need a passport to go to another country to watch their national team’s ‘home’ games is indeed a national disgrace.
Munopengaaaaaaaaaa
Stop It!
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