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Prosperity Mzila
Correspondent
This year’s harmonised elections will present Zimbabweans with an opportunity to showcase their maturity by demonstrating an ability to go beyond political affiliations to patriotism.
The desire to see all manner of development occurring in one’s motherland should be the single most factor to spur people to vote beyond political affiliation and go for proved and tested candidates.
Any candidate seeking a vote should earn it and be in a position to show their achievements in the socio-economic, infrastructural and political developments of this country during the past five years.
Candidates should show their love for the country by highlighting the work they have done for the alleviation of hunger and famine, and in this area, President Mnangagwa has been the leading force.
Many nations have been destroyed for lack of political knowledge and readily believing falsehoods from those that have the gift of glib.
Libya is one good example of a nation that was sold a dummy and is now suffering the consequences of ignorance and acting blindly, while the liars continue to siphon that country’s resources with reckless abandon.
Libyans were tricked by the West to remove their leader, Muammar Gaddafi, on the pretext that he was a dictator, but 12 years on they are in a worse position than they were back in 2011.
Zimbabwe has a
constitutional democracy
Since the advent of the New Dispensation, Government opened up the political space to all and sundry who may want to contest in elections.
However, the existence of democracy does not mean that people should vote blindly.
Democracy should present a platform for the selection of leadership based on the capabilities and fulfilled promises of the election candidates.
Unfortunately, for a long time, people have allowed opposition candidates to stir their emotions using falsehoods, hence blinding them to the real issues that affect their lives.
A clear head is necessary when choosing who to cast one’s precious vote for. It enables people the clarity that is required to discern what is at stake and to vote wisely.
Our land, resources, peace and socio-economic, infrastructural, political development are all at stake as we cast our votes, therefore, no one should do it blindly, but go for those who have already made achievements in these areas.
If one lives in the urban areas as I do, then they should wish for a better city or town that what is being offered by the opposition CCC councillors.
Each morning people in the urban areas that are dominated by CCC councillors are faced with piles and piles of uncollected garbage, blocked sewer and dry tapes.
Flies carrying deadly and disease-causing bacteria afflict our homes.
The only source of water are some unsafe wells that contribute toward water-borne diseases that can kill people because even the council clinics do not have medicines and proper healthcare.
Whose vote can continue to support this kind of inept leadership that has been demonstrated by the opposition CCC?
The opposition councillors who dominate the country’s 28 out of 32 urban local authorities have failed the residents. In Harare, at some point last year the CCC mayor Jacob Mafume admitted that his party had failed the residents.
Since the year 2000, urban councils have been run by the country’s opposition party.
Since then nothing has been done to improve the lives of the urban dwellers, despite the huge amounts of money that they collect from people as rates payments.
Where does all that money go if they fail to fix the drainage, equip council clinics, collect garbage and fix the sewer reticulation issues?
These are some of the issues that as voters we should question and seek clarity on.
Surely, how can we allow the future generations to inherit potholed roads when we have a council that collects revenue from the numerous parking spaces across the city and even receives revenue from ZINARA for the upgrade of roads, but does nothing useful with the funds?
Today we drive on the streets that have no street lights. As citizens, it is time for us to shun blindly voting along partisan lines, because our country should come first.
This year’s elections present an opportunity for city and town dwelling electorate to use the ballot box to kick out the useless opposition councillors.
Our city cannot go to ruins on our watch. We have to take charge of the radar and steer the ship in the right direction through our votes.
As I mentioned before, Libya is a country that had everything and its people failed to appreciate what they had. They chose to believe leftists who came with false promises, blinding the people to the privileges they had.
Libyans had peace, shared income from resources, free education, free healthcare, family start up packages and a greenbelt in the desert, which they enjoyed during Gaddafi’s time.
The people of Libya behaved like a dog that saw its image in the water holding a bone that seemed bigger than the one it had due to the magnifying effect of the water, only to drop its bone in the water and lost out.
Now they have nothing, their peace is gone, their land is now rubble, their country is broke; no healthcare, no education, just people fighting each other day and night.
As we cast our deciding vote in the upcoming elections, we will be different and refuse to be misled by a Western mirage in the form of CCC and lose what we already possess.
We will acknowledge and preserve the peace that is prevailing under the leadership of President Mnangagwa and appreciate his efforts to tirelessly ensure a stable economy despite the constant attempts by the detractors to derail his efforts.
We will further appreciate through our vote, his endeavour to augment resource ownership to the people by supporting farmers through the introduction of smart farming Pfumvudza/Intwasa which has witnessed small scale and subsistence farmers managing to produce enough for their consumption as well as to contribute towards the country’s poverty alleviation strides.
This year the country managed to produce grain to last up to a year and a half and wheat to last up to the next season, significantly reducing the country’s import bill.
It has become imperative that we advise each other not to vote for garbage, sewage and lack of clean water just because of allegiances.
It is time to consider protecting a legacy that your children can be proud of by voting for development, peace and resource ownership.
The fact that the West has vested interests in our country does not entail that they have interests to develop it, this is the reason they created the Gwayi and Shangani reserves those many years back to separate the black majority from progress.
Unlike President Mnangagwa whose mantra is leaving no one and no place behind, the West will indeed come and develop only those areas that lead to the places they will be siphoning mineral resources and those leading to the exit points while the rest of the country and people can remain where they are for all they care.
The 2023 harmonised elections should assert and confirm that we are all Zimbabweans with one agenda of building our country brick by brick because “Nyika ino vakwa nevene vayo”.
No one will come and do it for us.
We should not allow ourselves to be misled. We should not allow ourselves to be lied to during the election campaigns.
Donald Trump, who CCC leader Nelson Chamisa claimed would financially bail out Zimbabwe if he won State power, is busy building his business empire and saving his hotels from bankruptcy.
He has no money to spend on Zimbabweans.
He has no time for political events in Zimbabwe.
Online Reporter
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