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Today Zimbabwe has so many failures. Here and there you find admirable success stories of citizens who have remained focused and made it in life. Those that have made it invariably owe it to their resilient pedigree and the opening of competitive space that the Zanu-PF Government has provided for over the last 36 years.
Some of the success stories are truly amazing. And it is particularly the accomplishments of those that were born after Independence that are quite inspiring.
They were born into an independent and peaceful sovereign nation and over the years managed to identify opportunities that would escalate economic posterity.
Through hard work and dedication, these Young Turks utilised the abundance that this nation has to offer in respect of engineering, agriculture and salesmanship, to mention a few, and they have chosen to remain focused in spite of the many snakes amongst us.
I could give examples but I do not want to open them to unnecessary scrutiny by jealous and envious lazy-bones bent on blaming their own every failure on President Mugabe.
So rabid are these failures that even a flu, heatwave or drought is pathetically blamed on our Government.
Even when a reckless man sires a football team of offspring and then fails to pay school fees for the children, he ends up shamelessly blaming Government for failing to assist him in taking care of his brood.
You will never hear a single thank you to Government for providing the peace and space for them to enjoy those God-given reproductive moments they revel in.
This week schools will be opening their doors to the children of parents who were responsible enough to work for and save for school fees.
But in the mist and midst of the school rush a couple of myopic and parochial parents will invest their worthless energy in blaming Government for failing to provide free education.
What world would you be living in, really?
There is no such thing is a free lunch in this life – or the next.
There is nothing new about paying one’s way to the finer things that this life has to offer and that is why it is ridiculous to have one blame a lack of bonuses, lack of formal employment or President Mugabe for failing to pay for their desires.
In one social media group I belong to, a video was posted of a nine-year-old Zimbabwean girl who lives in a shack with her ailing mother and little sister.
She complains of hunger and sickness. Eventually the mother succumbs to the illness which the narrator does not give a name to and the nine-year-old is left to fend for her sibling.
There is no mention of who the father of these children is. There is no mention of how and who buried the mother and neither is there any mention of how this family found itself in such a situation.
And then conveniently at the end of the five-minute video, the whole agenda is laid bare.
The narrator says: “Why are we still allowing this man to be President? It is the people’s country and not Robert Mugabe’s. #ZimbabwesChildrenSuffer. Please share to all.”
The clip is by one Mthseparepa.
While the children’s plight is a sad predicament, it is blaming President Mugabe that leaves a very bad taste in the mouth.
In fact it leaves more questions than answers as to what stunt Mthseparepa is trying to pull by acting as if it is only in Zimbabwe where you find child-headed families, or illnesses or some people living in deplorable conditions.
There is nothing unique about the quandary of that family since all over the world there are situations like that. Some are even worse.
But to blame it on President Mugabe is to defy the holy grail of logical cause and effect.
President Mugabe is not responsible for your personal failures in life and if you find yourself blaming President Mugabe for failing your exams or choosing a wrong spoose, then you should be the very first one to seek psychiatric care.
President Mugabe has absolutely nothing to do with that!
If you choose to support the opposition led by that dunderhead called Morgan Tsvangirai and you find yourself always weeping about perpetual opposition, that is your own problem.
If you choose to support that non-existent cabal masquerading as a party called People First, and then you find yourself dying from false hope – please do not blame President Mugabe.
Those are your own miserable choices.
President Mugabe’s business is to provide you with the ideological direction and economic emancipation opportunities for you to make the right decisions.
If you cannot tap into the abundant openings for personal development in this country, please stop blaming President Mugabe for your lack of foresight.
Dubulaizitha!
Online Reporter