IT reeks of egotistic ambitions.
It is sadistic and nefarious by all means.
It is called the new dispensation.
It is macabre and selfish of them to insist on taking charge of Zimbabwe’s affairs beyond 2028 on the lie that we, the people, want the sitting President so much and there is no one else who can do half the bad job.
For the sober-minded, in the coming years, everyone who is part of the hatchet job aimed at mutilating our sacred document for self-preservation must be held to account.
The ruling Zanu PF party has become an albatross around our necks.
Forget what they say about loving us so much that they went to war to fight for us and to deliver us to the land of milk and honey.
Not that the land is devoid of milk and honey. No!
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Apparently, there is a lot of it flowing, but only for them — their families and cronies.
The rest of us can only watch the milk and honey river from a distance.
The honey will not even reach our mouths and gloss over our lips.
We did not fight the liberation war enough to be allowed to sit on the high table.
Not even enough to allow us a place under the table and gather tiny crumbs for supper.
Even the university professors cannot qualify for the crumbs, hence they earn paltry slave wages — a far cry from what the late former President Robert Mugabe’s regime paid them before he was unceremoniously ousted.
Forget what they tell you that they badly care for you and that is why they literally “died for us” in Mozambique, Zambia and in the bushes elsewhere where they fought for us.
Do not believe them when they say they removed Mugabe for us. They did it for themselves.
Unless your name is mentioned in the same line with theirs or you are their acolyte, you are a nobody in the mechanics of wealth distribution.
Otherwise, you do not belong to the table. You will not get the lofty and lucrative government positions, tenders and the loot.
Even if you facilitate their looting projects, you only qualify at their benevolence.
That is true of those doling out unsolicited gifts to our hitherto upright citizens who have now lost moral standing.
The table is not even big enough for the blind praise singers (varakashi) and proponents and enablers of the regime’s sinister activities, including the nefarious 2030 agenda.
Agenda 2030 has become a lucrative enterprise for anyone willing to eat the cake, albeit, its crumbs from under the table, if only they can sacrifice their souls to the devil.
Many have since sold their wailing souls for heaps of metal called cars.
But what is in a car honestly?
An assembly of metal that takes one from one place to another has become enough for anyone who seeks to transact at the marketplace of souls.
Uncouth opposition leaders, our Members of Parliament for whom we broke limbs election after election and lost our houses — burnt to rubble for supporting them, for the Toyota Fortuner GD-6 and the Hilux GD-6, they have abandoned us.
They have decided to side with the regime and vote for the immoral extension of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s tenure beyond the constitutional stipulation that should see his second and final term end in 2028.
And the regime is willing to pay for the cheap souls of the opposition snitches on this orgy marketplace.
And our shameless shepherds — the pastors, preachers, prophets, they too have abandoned us for material things.
They have abandoned the straight and narrow path and have started dishing out “prophe-lies” instead of prophecies to please the discordant 2030 choir.
But who needs the 2030 agenda? Definitely not the citizens. Definitely not us.
Since they built us the spaghetti flyover aptly called Trabablas, they think we owe them 2030?
That exorbitant bridge, another testament of how to loot, is not enough to make us carry the albatross of 2030 around our necks.
It does not justify one more day beyond the stipulated constitutional mandate.
In fact, war veteran Blessed “Bombshell” Geza and the rest of the citizens are not convinced that the President deserves a day more than today.
Earning a meagre US$250 per month from a high of US$2 200 in November 2017, when the “stockholders” decided to remove the criminals around Mugabe on that “night of long knives”, before they eventually removed him as well, the university lecturers agree, too, that our owner must not own us anymore.
They always ask what happened to their earnings under the “new dispensation”.
Who needs the “new dispensation” when it leaves you poorer?
Let alone, a further two-year reign bonus. For what?
To strip us of decency, the only thing we are still trying to hold on to as a people?
Well, unless you are one of them — zvigananda — with loot to protect, 2030 is not attractive.
It’s not an option. It’s immoral.
There are 16 million potential presidents in Zimbabwe and the diaspora, most of whom can make even better presidential material.
Free us from this sadistic, nefarious 2030 albatross.
- Farisai Kapepa is a political activist, social justice and change proponent involved with the Citizens Coalition for Change and its predecessor, the MDC. She writes here in her personal capacity. She can be contacted on Fariekapepa @gmail.com.
