It is now clear for all that Zimbabwe is being run like private property by Zanu. The country is being run like a bottlestore. Perhaps a bottlestore is too sophisticated for Zanu – so let’s say the country is being run like a municipal beerhall. The arrest of the journalist Hopewell Chin’ono is another example of how unhinged Mnangagwa and his regime have become. And he doesn’t even care who is watching! He doesn’t even pretend to be a proper government, or a human being with common sense.
As for the police and the courts, well, they are now the button stick that Zanu is using to beat up the masses – and they don’t even care who is watching!
No ethics, no professionalism, just a bunch of goons. Indeed, the police, all those judges and state prosecutors are now just a bunch of goons. All those people spent years studying law, but now they are sending people to maximum prison for literally nothing which they dress up as some kind of attempt at overthrowing the government. It’s completely disgraceful.
Now that the abuse of the state is being done in broad daylight in a very obvious way we can say Zimbabwe is now a proper banana republic where people get picked up at night by police for being good at their job, or for making the universal observation that the president of the country and his family are crooks. You could be working at the airport and the Zanu government can arrest you for stopping someone who was trying to smuggle precious metals out of the country.
This week, we also heard news of more examples of this crackpotness. Chiwenga, the Vice President, is said to have summoned striking nurses to a disciplinary committee. He made himself minister of health, with zero experience and zero scientific brain – another example of this crackpotness.
Until these idiotic but powerful men are gone, Zimbabwe is going to continue to be a banana republic. More arrests are going to be made of honest people who do they job well.
Written by
ALICE MAJOLA