An opportunity for Zanu-PF to self correct has been missed
Our common enemy had fallen; it was the dawn of a new era. Or so we thought
No one will blame us for thinking we Zimbabweans are jinxed, and that whoever did the jinxing is long dead and cannot be reasoned with for leniency. We poured into the streets until the early hours of Wednesday November 22, celebrating the unceremonious ousting of long-serving dictator president Robert Mugabe. It mattered little to us how he had been removed and who had taken the burden of doing so. We had had enough: enough of joblessness, hunger and long queues for almost everything people in better-managed countries are lucky enough to consider basic. We had had enough of the trials and tribulations that were uniquely Zimbabwean. At the height of hyperinflation, our grandparents, with their little schooling, found themselves buying very little with a quintillion dollar note. Then, nothing was certain in Zimbabwe, price-wise. A taxi journey from the township to the city centre had no fixed fare. At any point in the journey, the taxi driver would just stop and tell all passengers —...
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