Independence Day has lost its glitz

YOUR Excellency, President Emmerson Mnangagwa,

Sunday April 18 was Independence Day — a once-hallowed day that has since lost its glitz because the requisite freedoms associated with the occasion are glaringly absent in this cursed nation.

Coming in the week that Zanu PF had introduced Constitutional Amendment Bill No 2 which seeks to create an imperial President — the same week that the same analogue party sought to resurrect its terror troops popularly known as the Green Bombers — this year’s Independence Day was a hollow occasion whose emptiness just rendered it utterly meaningless.

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