My Dear People Up to now, I cannot understand why our not-so-wise government continues to pursue a foolish path of opening schools in the face of a global pandemic. As I warned earlier, rushing to open schools without any proper plans to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus would result in a further increase of Covid-19.
letter to my people:BY DOCTOR STOP IT
Turns out schools have become what Americans are calling “super spreader events”.
Starting with the first major outbreak at John Tallach School, other schools have subsequently witnessed further outbreaks of the virus.
What this simply means is that there is no need for pupils to be in schools, especially those not writing public examinations.
Emmerson Mnangagwa and Cain Mathema can hardly be accused of being the brightest bulbs in the room.
Not that we expected any bright ideas to come out of a discussion involving ED and his Primary and Secondary Education minister Mathema on how best the welfare of our children can be catered for in the face of a global pandemic.
As one legislator suggested, these people don’t care about what happens at local institutions because their children attend schools in Europe and America. Only the children of their “small houses” attend local schools.
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The same applies to the health sector where we have a vice-president, who is also the minister of health, who is famed for being a patient of doctors in South Africa, India and China.
How is he expected to superintend over local hospitals if he has no clue of what happens there and has a disdain for local health facilities?
Pfumvudza, Covid-19 and being Zimbabwean Last week I overhead a conversation about what being Zimbabwean can mean.
One person suggested that being Zimbabwean was better explained by how we were expelled from a regional junior football tournament for fielding over-aged players.
Another word for that is “cheating”.
How can our football develop if we are going to be cheating at junior tournaments?
From Asiagate scandals of match-fixing to fielding over-aged footballers and other untold scandals and that points to a bleak future in football.
Obviously the spectacular incompetence and high levels of corruption are replicated across the spectrum.
Even a noble programme like Pfumvudza has witnessed a lot of corruption as rural farmers are being deprived of farming inputs or being made to pay for goods that they are not supposed to pay for.
So while other countries are busy creating sustainable jobs, the Zimbabwean government, through the misruling party, is making people dig hole throughout the country in pursuit of the Pfumvudza/Intwasa dream.
Reminds us of the time when former Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono announced that some of our long forgotten coins were still legal tender, an announcement which sent people scurrying all over the country in search of the old coins.
So, if Zanu PF officials are not using strategies like command agriculture (ugliculture) or Pfumvudza to steal from Zimbabweans, then they will be plotting to come up with laws such as the upcoming Patriot Act which will further entrench dictatorship and make the lives of Zimbabweans even more difficult.
At the rate at which misruling party officials are mortgaging the country to foreigners, one is tempted to ask the question: Who are the real sellouts?
When nobody praises ED Zimbabweans have become so used to poor governance and misrule that occasionally, even when something good or very close to good happens, nobody praises them or says anything positive about them.
I am referring to how those gangsters in government have managed to stabilise the local currency versus the US dollar.
This is despite the other negative developments or steps taken to achieve the so-called stability.
Biting the bullet Many people have often refused to entertain certain questions in order to remain politically correct.
This week I would like to ask the following questions: Are we better off under black majority rule as Zimbabweans or the new black ruling class is more oppressive than the colonialists?
After 40 years of suffering, would Zimbabweans prefer to be governed by the current goons in the ruling class or would they prefer to go back to colonial rule? Just asking.
Munopengaaaa! Dr Amai PhD (Fake)
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