ONE can easily deduce from the internecine fights that are happening in the ruling Zanu PF that everyone in that party is busy fighting to line their pockets.
They are all in it for the money.
No one is making noise about the economy, job creation, ending hunger or ending the power crisis.
Instead, it’s those in the private sector who are in the cockpit steering the country’s development.
Those who are supposed to be doing the job are fighting to extend someone’s stay in office beyond their constitutionallymandated period.
Companies are reducing staff numbers.
Some are doubting that they will open next year.
They are citing a punishing operating environment.
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Several others are closing altogether.
There is no hope in this regime.
It is clueless and there are no signs that it will improve.
In the mix of things, the fighting for positions continues in Zanu PF unbated.
The ruling party has fast morphed into a ruining one.
“The Matabeleland region provinces wish to highlight the issues that have been overlooked in that process, but have far-reaching implications in the whole body politic of the youth league and that of the party in general,” three Matabeleland provincial chairpersons Freedom Murechu (Bulawayo), Moses Langa (Matabeleland South) and Lundy Sinzeka (Matabeleland North) wrote in a letter addressed to the party’s leadership as they revolted against a recent youth league reshuffle.
“Firstly, the reshuffle has left the whole Matabeleland region without a full-time person at the headquarters since Cde Zonde was stationed there before being affected by the process.
“Secondly, it has also altered the regional balance of power by removing the Matabeleland region entirely from the administration of the youth league.
“In the same spirit of leaving no one and no place behind, we feel excluded in the decision-making process, which will demoralise our youth structures.”
The Matebeleland region youth leaders summrd it up: We are in trouble.
There are those who are supporting the extension of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s stay in office beyond his constitutionally-mandated period.
Then there are those opposed to the move, citing a potential breach of the Constitution.
The energy expended in undoing what the other has done is too much.
The protagonists are burning the midnight oil thinking of new ways to outdo one another.
The wheels are moving back and forth and yet it’s the ordinary person who is bearing the brunt of the brutal fights that are tearing the party apart.
In all this, there is no talk about funding new power plants across the country.
Private players are covering that gap.
There is no talk about adequately funding the health sector.
The authorities know that health development partners will chip in.
Unfortunately, some of the development partners are waiting in the wings to see what will happen with the Private Voluntary Organisations Amendment Bill, to see if Mnangagwa will sign it into law.
Job creation, housing crisis, upliftment of lives and livelihoods, you name it, the regime is quiet.
It’s fixated on the ED2030 agenda.
There seems to be no respite.
Those who are making more noise about extending Mnangagwa’s tenure are benefiting from his rule.
Many are stealing from the government through inflating tender figures.
Sadly, if we don’t speak out about it, the situation will be like this for the remaining four years.
The honest truth is that the regime needs to grow up and act like mature politicians.
It is wasting our time and that of future generations.
