Compromise is needed in Zimbabwe
Ashley Mwanza
We are caught up in history. Zimbabwe is experiencing its biggest challenge in 30 years. The populace crying out for desperately needed reforms, asking for compromise and clarity from a government that is yet to resolve how it will function. It’s funny being caught up in such history.
The recent crackdown is complete and inconvenient; it will only seek to derail hope for a better Zimbabwe. There is not a person in Zimbabwe that does not want to see change. But there is fear, yes its still there. They know that they are dealing with a power that does not respond to reason and that reacts with disproportionate and oppressive force. A power that does not understand that the situation in untenable. But let us give it time, every brutal force has to fold....eventually.
This is not about democracy. In the end people care little about who rules them. They want to see their lives improving and they want to join the world. Democracy just symbolises the exact opposite of what they have now, mismanagement, ignorance, indifference to the wellbeing and progress of the whole country.
Everywhere, people take into their hands the basic institutions that the complete incompetence and corruption of the state does not fulfil, Education, Justice, Policing.
It is a complex place this Zimbabwe: intensely gifted, uncannily unique. It deserves better than it has. Let’s just hope that not another 30 years needs to pass before the regime do learn the language of compromise.
The recent crackdown is complete and inconvenient; it will only seek to derail hope for a better Zimbabwe. There is not a person in Zimbabwe that does not want to see change. But there is fear, yes its still there. They know that they are dealing with a power that does not respond to reason and that reacts with disproportionate and oppressive force. A power that does not understand that the situation in untenable. But let us give it time, every brutal force has to fold....eventually.
This is not about democracy. In the end people care little about who rules them. They want to see their lives improving and they want to join the world. Democracy just symbolises the exact opposite of what they have now, mismanagement, ignorance, indifference to the wellbeing and progress of the whole country.
Everywhere, people take into their hands the basic institutions that the complete incompetence and corruption of the state does not fulfil, Education, Justice, Policing.
It is a complex place this Zimbabwe: intensely gifted, uncannily unique. It deserves better than it has. Let’s just hope that not another 30 years needs to pass before the regime do learn the language of compromise.
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