ED’s statesmanship under spotlight

LAST Monday’s election was supposed to mark a new trajectory for the politically-fractured and divided Zimbabwean populace, but fresh rifts set in motion by a few trigger-happy State security agents, resulting in the death of six people on Wednesday — have literally washed away all the gains made over the last nine months under Zanu PF’s so-called ‘new dispensation’.

It would appear that we are back to where we were prior to the November 2017 political transition, if not worse off.

The ugly scenes witnessed in Harare and other cities just before announcement of the presidential results last week, specifically the unrestrained use of firearms on civilians, closure of the democratic space and witch-hunt on opposition leaders by State security agents, all serve to dampen the little hope that the world had placed on the emergence of a freer and democratic Zimbabwe.

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