If we can only break down that barrier, we will be free
We have had beautiful rain in Zimbabwe recently, and I thought of the thousands of derelict farms where over twenty thousand commercial farmers were evicted from their homes, and over two and a half million people, many of Malawian origin, have lost their livelihoods and their futures. It was a beautiful sunny day, and there was something really eerie about it, as the main roads are getting quieter and quieter, and the workers walking to work get fewer and fewer.
It struck me that I was living in one of the richest countries in Africa with vast Mineral resources, and yet, most of us live below the poverty line. Every month even those with jobs leave the factories and go to neighbouring Countries where they can earn well over five times the wage they get in Zimbabwe. It seems as though we are steadily grinding to a halt, and yet, there was a strange calmness about the day as it unfolded. It was eerie in that just below the surface lay a relatively simple solution to this stagnation and decline, and yet it eludes us. I then thought of what a reasonably sound National Management program could easily do to turn Zimbabwe into land of smiles, freedom, and prosperity.
I thought of just how simple the equation, and yet, a country is being forced to endure, through circumstance, and selfish exploitation by a miniscule minority whose only means to retaining power is through the weapon of fear. If we can only break down that barrier, we will be free and be able to take our country back and share it again when there will be enough for everyone to prosper and guarantee their children a secure future.
December 5th, 2006 17:30
I cannot help thinking of Romania, and the gouvernment there. And most of all of the people there - who one day had enough, even though they all lived under fear. Maybe our circumstances can get to a point where the weapon of fear becomes useless.