When one flies back into Zimbabwe, it is like going back in time. It is depressing and difficult not be angered on how Mugabe has over the years destroyed opportunity and development of our beautiful country. The sad part is that most poor Zimbabweans have gotten used to this poverty and those who continue to support a Mugabe dynasty clearly demonstrate that they cannot even imagine a better Zimbabwe that some of us want.
I am amazed, intrigued and certainly disappointed that we are letting Mugabe treat Zimbabwe like his backyard. Now we have a very likely possibility that Zimbabwe will belong to the Mugabe's while we stand aside and look.
The exuberant support of the pending appointment of Grace Mugabe as the head of the women's league by ZANU (PF) provinces certainly demonstrates that constitutions and competence do not matter anymore and poses a huge risk to democracy in Zimbabwe.
Having said that, I guess members of ZANU (PF), like any other political party, have the choice who becomes their leader. I am still to understand their thinking and motives but poor masses hardly make informed decisions.However, we who are outside ZANU (PF) can only anticipate the impending self-manufactured leadership disaster which, unfortunately, will have a negative impact on our country.
Our only responsibility can therefore be to ensure that ZANU (PF) ceases to be a majority political party in Zimbabwe. In fact, it would be preferable with them completely out of the political picture because this organisation has destroyed livelihoods and continues to pursue policies that are arresting our potential as a country.
In order to achieve that we must only have fresh new elections after electoral reforms. These reforms must take away sole control of the voters roll from Mudede, reconstitutute the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) and as far as I am concerned Rita Makarau should go. We also cannot have a partisan police force which means that Chihuri must go. We must also see a totally free media.These are the tools of oppression that ZANU (PF) continues to use and as long as they control them, we are wasting our time and building unachievable expectations for those Zimbabweans who want change.