Building the Zimbabwe we want
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By Margaret Kamba
The call by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to build Zimbabwe has seen the emergence of numerous men and women, both young and old, across the country vying for different positions in the ruling Party’s primary elections.
From ward to senatorial level, various CVs have been received from those who feel they have the muscle taking part in the different races.
The Party intends to put its best foot forward for the Harmonized Elections and yet during this time, there are those who just want to try their luck regardless.
What I do not understand is why a man or woman will continue to submit his or her papers even when they have continue to be walloped left, right and centre.
They have hope you may say, but what hope when they continue to employ the same strategies that are not people centred?
People know and people remember. They are not fools. They know who cares for them and who doesn’t.
The problem with people who skip stages of refinement is that they think money talks.
Yes money does talk but it has its limits. It has its limits in buying you the stages of refinement you have skipped.
Your money cannot buy you the experience you would have gained had you gone each stage of refinement.
Imagine if you gave birth to a child today and in two days of giving birth the child begins to walk. Or he begins to talk and run? Would that not be quickly regarded as a bad omen?
This is however where we seem to find ourselves in this day in age. We have quickly decided to jump the ladder to try and reach the top.
Do we know what we want to do when we get to the top? What experience do we have to solve the problems that come with the top? These positions come with responsibilities and they are not child’s play.
Why am I blabbering on and on about this? The Party has principles which seem to have been long dumped by many.
One official some years ago once said “muchadya ideology”. With the position he held at that time, it was clear that the ideological principles of the Party would be lost totally and money would be made to talk, and unfortunately this did happen. Members began to think waiving the brown envelopes would get them places and jumping stages and unfortunately it did happen.
Years down the line now, someone is tasked and burdened with cleaning up that mishap in order to instill the ideology someone some years ago thought was not important.
What good is a Party without an ideology? What benefit to its members is a Party with no campus to guide it?
Joshua 24 verse 15 Choose ye this day…
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