This harrowing sin would make even the devil himself feel compassion but it went unchecked. While they are recovering in hospital the state insisted on a court hearing which they attended from their hospital beds some still attached to drips of very strong pain relief for brain injuries. Sadly the absurdity of what happened to these women failed to end there. In other words when next you see the words National Sanctions instead replace them with the blood stained clothes of Hon Joanah Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova because human rights abuses directly result in economic sanctions.
No sane investor wants to be associated to a government that supports brutality against its own female citizens. A huge telling off by other national powers such as EU and America put the country on the unofficial naughty step. This event alone left a huge dent on democracy while literally shutting the gateway to any potential investment.
This event deeply disturbing as it already was – reached greater depths of shamefulness when nations already grappling with the covid pandemic had to stop what they were doing to tell the Zimbabwean government to stop it and release the girls. The evidence of their ordeal heavily written by their blood and dirt stained clothes. Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse on 13 May to our great disbelief 3 young women leaders from the opposition were initially arrested by the police as confirmed by the spokesperson but went completely missing in broad daylight.įor more than 48 hours they could not be found only to appear at a rural homestead in Bindura. In other words your voice and that of your community is no longer represented in parliament. Beyond being comical in nature the implementation of this was to become the start of state orchestrated homicide on Democracy.įor Zimbabweans what that means is that we can hold an election select your legislator and somebody can randomly invalidate your vote by recalling your Member of Parliament. Infact instead of discussing the economic crisis and the country’s Covid preparedness that was all parliament met to do. This foolishness was allowed to pass and 4 MDC Alliance MPs were recalled including the party’s Secretary General. I can’t decide who in this scene is Baba Rwizi the announcing speaker or the one who wrote the letter in the first place.
However senseless and ludicrous as is appeared it happened in broad daylight. Trust me you could read the latter sentence a million times and it would still make no sense because there is no sense in it. The senate of the MDC Alliance wrote to the speaker of the house to recall legislators from the MDC Alliance but in his capacity as the Secretary General of the MDC-T as per 2014 MDC-T Congress.
Even the funniest episode of Only Fools and Horses couldn’t be scripted this well or rather Mukadota and friends !! Either way Baba Rwizi or Del Boy’s comic prowesses we trumped (no pun). On 6 May the bizarreness of the khupe judgement reaches a new depth of bizarre scenes. So bizarre was this happening it felt like a scene out of Star Trek. She somehow through the courts managed to return inspite of the 2017 Coup and the 2018 elections with the subsequent concourt decision. Quite literally shot of resurrecting the Democratic Movement’s icon Morgan Tsvangirai Khupe took a time hop back to 2014. The judgement as stipulated in Morgan Komichi’s prepared acceptance speech was to rebirth the MDC- T (Tsvangirai) party to its 2014 status.Īs bizarre as it sounds that anyone would want to reverse their lives to 6 years ago and then actually get away with so. This was announced on the first day of the national lockdown. The irony is, while the covid cases are increasing the country’s issues seem to stem more from government’s activities during the lockdown.Ī stronghold has gripped Zimbabwe that seems to have emanated from the Khupe ‘Corona’ Judgement.
This has rung true in the recent weeks an almost silently but deadly force has struck in Zimbabwe in relentless fashion guaranteeing a free fall inflation, a lock away of investors and a further plundering of government resources.