This is a message to those who currently hold power in Zimbabwe. I do not really care about how you got into this position but now that you are there we need to ask you what you are going to use that huge power and influence on? We as a Nation have been patient and forgiving, but what you are asking of us now is just too much and we simply cannot tolerate you continuing on the path that you seem to have chosen.
We watched as the ruling elite here stole the diamond bonanza of Marange from us as a Nation. We stood by when you crushed Zapu and in the process murdered tens of thousands and starved the people in Zapu controlled areas. We silently watch as your children flaunt their wealth and privilege in front of us. We are carried to our work in second hand Kombi's and we pass the massive houses you have built with money stolen from us. We have experienced the failure of one State controlled and managed organisation after another.
We live in Cities and Towns where garbage collection and clean water are a privilege and not a right. We cannot afford a doctor or even get into a medical facility if we have a health crisis, unless we pay money up front. Our roads are either impassable or so potholed it is only time before we will need a 4x4 to get home. Our wages have gone up by perhaps 50 per cent in two years, but prices have risen 5 fold. We go home in the evening and sit in the dark and our diets are now so controlled that we cannot make any more cuts without actually going hungry. Do you really understand how a father feels when he cannot even feed his children?
You fly around in a luxury private jet and when on the ground you move with a convoy that not even the President of the United States enjoys. You are surrounded by hard eyed men who protect you and keep you in isolation from the people who long to be able to talk to you and explain how tough things are on the streets and in the villages in our rural areas. You take what you want just because you can and your colleagues emulate your actions and also abuse their positions and their power over others.
You think I am being too tough? Just ask the ordinary men and women who live under your leadership and government. You will be shocked and dismayed, but we ask will you do anything even if the truth is told to you. We no longer have any faith in our political class or the elite that feasts off the system of patronage that seems to embrace everything that goes on here.
The real tragedy is that there are solutions to every problem that faces us. We have experienced how quickly the problems that we think are insurmountable simply vanish when we do the right things. We know what has to be done and yet we fear that if we did do the right thing that we would lose power and control. The reality is the very opposite - if you did the right things you would be a hero to all of us and would be able to enjoy the spectre of your country going from being a basket case, to success and growth.