Online Reporter
Stephen Mpofu, Perspective
IS it not a tragic irony that while the first lady and mother of our nation is out there in “the sticks” — a racist colonial name for our country side — away from the comfort of her home, promoting cookouts for families out there to live better lives, smart Alecs prunts around behind her back at institutions of higher learning brandishing their reproductive organs in sweaty hands and coercing female students with: “Your sex for higher marks from me!” et cetera.
Poor girls, desirers of passing their final exams and going back home to their parents and siblings or getting jobs and getting married to raise their own families, fall prey to the vultures.
Zimbabwe is reputed to be among African countries enjoying a top literacy rating of around 70 percent.
Literacy must be utilitarian/functional, meaning it must boast skills, otherwise it passes as a dump squib.
Which therefore means in the subject in point above that students whose passes are artificial or fake will not run with our incumbent Government’s mantra, ‘Ilizwe lakhiwa ngabanikazi balo/Nyika inovakwa nevene vayo/ A country is developed by its owners’.
Radio is an important open tool that helps anti-corruption gurus to zero-in on corrupt elements such as the ones in point above in this discourse and so patriotic Zimbabweans no doubt expect the anti-corruption societal-cleansers to have listened to the radio that went viral earlier this week on the rampant sexual demands at the educational institution in point above.
Add to the above complaints to the same local radio station by female vendors in Harare not long ago to the effect that the traders were coerced by officers who seized the women’s merchandise in undesignated trading areas to succumb to sexual demands for offences against them to be quashed with their goods restored to them.
It is also this communicologist’s honest belief that our country’s tireless anti-corruption advocates’ ears did not miss the vendors’ radio complaints and threw or will throw the rope around the necks of corrupt elements in our society.
As the mantra above indicates, only we the sons and daughters of mother Zimbabwe, and not foreigners, bare the sole mandate of cleansing ourselves of any and all rots.
Londile Moyo
Let’s expose these caricatures. Writing about them is not good enough. These low lives don’t even give a hoot about we are saying. They must be known and must be isolated from society.