By Hopewell Chin’ono (on Facebook)
I have a message for Zimbabwean youths: get a passport and leave. ZANU PF will be in power until at least 2033 because there is no structured and united opposition to fight it.
Munochembera makamirira change. Those who were 30 in 2000 when the MDC was formed are now 55 years old.
If they stayed, they would have wasted 25 years of their lives and most of them would still have nothing to their names.
I have high school classmates who are still living in their parents’ homes with their wives and kids who also have their own kids. It is painful to see three generations living under one roof. I left Zimbabwe in 1994 for England. If I had not left, I could have been a Reuben Barwe.
Zimbabwe will never recover economically as long as Emmerson Mnangagwa and ZANU PF are in power.
Even if America, Europe and Asia were to give Zimbabwe every product for free, Mnangagwa would sell it to us at exorbitant prices. He is a president a country should never have.
He has stolen billions of dollars through his criminal cartels. The problem is made worse by the fact that he is not only a thief, but an incompetent one.
Without a strong opposition to challenge the status quo, nothing will change.
The quality of mindset in our country reflects the leadership we have, they follow personalities not ideas and a cause, it has helped ZANU PF stay in power.
Unless we unite as Zimbabweans to fight corrupt rule and stop the internal divisions that have plagued the opposition movement since 2006, ZANUPF will not go away. And when nature comes, as it will shortly, he will make sure to anoint someone in his image.
The fact that some citizens still find nothing wrong with their leaders staying quiet means change is far from happening. So if you are young and can leave, get out on do you! You will thank me one day!
Walking on top of sewage and not having healthcare is not a flex!