VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga has called on civil servants to remain ethical and committed to national development, warning against corruption, lethargy and disunity, which he said undermine Zimbabwe’s progress.
Speaking at the launch of Matenda Andries Rukobo’s autobiography An Itinerant Social Scientist: Memoirs of a Public Servant, Chiwenga emphasised the need for today’s public servants to build on the foundations laid by early independence-era leaders while avoiding past mistakes.
“Our generation has run its own race. There is a tangible record of the good and the bad we did,” he said.
“Now your task is to carry on and develop the good we set and to never repeat the bad attributed to my generation.”
The Vice-President urged emerging intellectuals and government workers to contribute meaningfully to Zimbabwe’s development by fighting poverty, disunity and corruption.
“Let your intellectual worth be accounted for in terms of our fight against poverty, disunity, the lethargy to serve, corruption and all vices which undermine the core essence of our national revolution,” he said.
Chiwenga praised Rukobo’s career as an example of academic patriotism, highlighting his role in shaping Zimbabwe’s early governance structures.
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He bemoaned the decline of institutions like the Zimbabwe Institute of Development Studies, which he said were weakened by neo-colonial forces opposed to their Afrocentric ideologies.
The Vice-President’s remarks come amid ongoing concerns over corruption and inefficiency in the country’s public sector.
His call for ethical governance aligns with recent government efforts to restore accountability, though critics argue more concrete action is needed.
Chiwenga stressed that the responsibility now lies with the current generation of leaders and civil servants to uphold the values of the liberation struggle while driving sustainable development.
