A NEW ZIMBABWE BECKONS : ROME WAS NOT BUILT IN A DAY

here is absolutely no doubt that a good number of people,on both
sides of the political divide,will do everything within their power to
scuttle the operations of the all-inclusive government.

There are those
of our compatriots who had become hopelessly addicted to a life of
profligacy,gluttony,corruption,greed and kleptocracy.They had become
accustomed to obscene wealth accumulated through patronage and
corruption.

These people will spend sleepless nights trying to sabotage
the success of the new project.The Prime Minister and his team are not
naive and stupid people.They obviously are acutely aware of the
existence of a nefarious hard core element that will never accept the
dynamics of change.This cabal wiil,however,never succeed to derail the
experiment.

The New Zimbabwe that we all so desperately desire to live
in has ceratinly taken long in coming.For some of our collegues,the
gestation period has just been too long.They want a healthy baby to be
delivered today and not tomorrow.Well,this reminds me of something
that the Prime Minister told MDC Members of Parliament some few weeks
ago at a party caucusd in Harare.

He told us that some of our collegues
had come to his house literally crying before him; kusvimha misodzi
chaiko; crying that they had been left out on the list of ministerial
appointments.I was shocked by such a revelation because I had never
imagined that some of our collegues were so desperate to become
ministers.

The point I am making here is that this is an all-inclusive
government and quite honestly; it would be ridiculous for all Members
of Parliament to expect to be appointed ministers.Morever,the task
ahead is more agonising and we all need to strenghten the role of
Parliament so that it is not relegated to be a rumber-stamping organ
as it was under previous governments.

We would like to have a very
strong Parliamentary system that will put the Executive arm of the
State under intense and constant monitoring and surveillance.

As I stated in an earlier article on this forum,some of us joined the
MDC to serve and not to be served.What we would like to have is a
situation whereby our country is promptly rehabilitated.

We appreciate
that in a true mocracy,public office is to serve and not to enrich
oneself.This is the main reason why I will not trust a impecunious
person occupying a strategic public office. Alternatively,Iwill never
entrust my personal faith and hope in a politician who is a man or a
woman of straw.
I am not suggesting that poor and indigent persons
should not aspire to occupy public office.All I am stating is that a
poor politician wielding considerable political power is a very
dangerous person.Nine times out of ten,this type of politician will be
corrupt and corruptible.

All of a sudden he/she would like to relocate
from Mabelreign to Borrowdale.We really have to be careful with this
lot.But we are confident that the new all-inclusive government will
discharge its duties with honesty,diligence and integrity.Time will
definately tell whether we are coming or going.