Release the Zimbabwe report

Editor | Tuesday August 28, 2007 00:00

There is every indication that with every passing hour, the situation is becoming unbearable for ordinary Zimbabweans. Shop shelves are bare of even the basic foodstuff.
With the state bullying traders to operate under the most fiscal repressive environment, it is close to impossible for any business to trade in Zimbabwe. A four-digit inflation rate, which is said to be the highest in the world, has only compounded matters.

Zimbabweans do not talk of employment anymore. Employment has become the biggest sham. `Economic factors in Zimbabwe have turned gainful employment into an impossibility for the majority of Zimbabweans. Even for those that have still kept their jobs. 

The pay is worthless as ordinary people cannot pay their bills or buy essentials from the wages that cannot compete with the ever-ballooning inflation.

The biggest preoccupation amongst Zimbabweans is to quickly get away from the anarchy that is Zimbabwe. On a daily basis, able-bodied Zimbabweans jump borders at ungazetted points into neighbouring countries to eke out a living in foreign lands.
Outside their motherland, millions of Zimbabweans lead a life of begging and scavenging and many more are reduced to low lives of theft and prostitution.

Many more rot in prisons while some are buried in unmarked graves all over the world.
Under these sorry circumstances, Zimbabweans had put all their hopes on SADC leaders to at least ensure that the Zimbabwean problem is resolutely confronted.
Once again, the African leaders have proved what we have always known, that SADC like many other breast-beating bodies, is just a talk shop.

Leaders have no interest in the deteriorating conditions in Zimbabwe. All they are interested in is to validate the warped policies of their own brethren.
Once again, SADC leaders have failed the people of Zimbabwe. As they continue to sanitise and theorise the Zimbabwean situation, many more innocent lives are lost. Democracy and social cohesion is taking a heavy beating.

When Zimbabweans suffer this indignity, Robert Mugabe continues to hog all the limelight as the fearless African leader who can tell the West to take a hike.
At the minimum, we ask the SADC secretariat to release the Executive Secretary's report on the situation in Zimbabwe. People need to know what plans are in place to restore the situation to normalcy in Zimbabwe.

                                                Today's Thought

 Betrayal, though... betrayal is the
willful slaughter of hope.
                                                    -Unknown