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Zimbabwe: Let's join hands in the storm!
Student Christian Movement of Zimbabwe (SCMZ)
SCMZ Speaks, Volume 2, Issue 1
January 28, 2009

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The situation in Zimbabwe is graver than what meets the eye; all government hospitals are not functioning, private hospitals are crumbling, there is no provision of safe drinking water to the citizens of the country, there is no food - nearly half the population face starvation, the education system has come to a complete collapse, we may lose a whole generation, the economy is down, the list is endless. The greater plight of the Zimbabwean people, our plight as a people, our worst challenge as a nation; is that the Mugabe regime seem very reluctant to solve the political impasse. Instead, these political leaders seem very much eager to maintain and defend the status- quo at the expense of the Zimbabwean population. At whatever cost, the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU PF) is determined to hold on to power, even if half the population perishes, ZANU PF will unashamedly and arrogantly continue to sing their rhetoric mantra of sovereignty and territorial integrity.

When people went to the polls on March 29 2008, Zimbabwe was hopeful, people had hope that the election was going to bring change and signal an end to our untold suffering. But all that hope was lost in the few weeks that followed when ZANU PF unleashed a reign of terror in the entire country.

It was a campaign so brutal that it left the entire Southern African region in a state of shock. But to Mugabe and his henchmen it was a campaign against colonialism, or so they say! Nevertheless, when the political leaders signed the Global Political Agreement, Zimbabwe was hopeful again. Everyone was expectant; at least we expected to see the formation of a functional government. But with the events that unfolded in the following months, all that hope is gone! The greater problem is that we look for solutions in wrong places. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) cannot solve the Zimbabwean crisis.

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