Your Excellency,
33 years ago we entrusted you with the privilege of inspiring and transforming our beautiful country and the lives our wonderful people for the better. However instead of the ‘elevation of lifestyle’ we all yearned for our people and once prosperous country, you have managed to mutate it into a land of misery and unending suffering.
You rig elections, you punish dissent and imprison opponents. You threaten, harass and even shut down media or any organisation that is there to defend human rights and our right to self-governance. You are bigoted.
To establish and maintain your power, you and your cronies practise rampant corruption both in our courts and our economy. You continue systematically terrorize your own people. You do not respect our dignity!
You then criss-cross the world screaming and shouting about how the West has tried and failed to bring you and Zimbabwe down, and how our natural resources are now enriching real Zimbabweans. Since you came in to power you have managed to turn our economy to one based almost entirely on a few natural resources whose value will continue rise and fall based on the prices of world commodities. The resources you speak off are all in the possession of the corrupt and powerful few. These rich few take their profits and out of the country the same way the international companies did. They (you included) have set up base abroad. They (you included) have foreign bank accounts, their children (yours included) all attend foreign schools and universities, and even their health (you included) issues are dealt with abroad. Talk about a lack of faith your own building work – you built your house but sleep outside in-case it collapses.
Meanwhile we as a country are still considered too risky for investment due to our lack of transparency, shortcomings in rule of law and an almost non-existent economy. Mr President, the diamonds will not last forever, yet you still give your army and the Chinese free reign over what could have been our only way out of this ZANU PF and Robert Mugabe inflicted predicament.
You have destroyed our beautiful land and brought shame and pity to our proud people. You rule by repression and corruption. We have languished and lamented enough at your hands.
Your Excellency – you are tremendous disappointment!
Melusi Sibanda
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