Tsvangirai Speaks

It has been a heart warming feeling to see the good old Chematama speaking on Aljazeera and being captured live on CNN. He is a man on a mission, Tsvangson to the rescue, Zimbabwe is saved!

They asked him what the unity government has achieved to date. He talked about the change in economic circumstances. Inflation has dropped from 500bn% to a paltry 3%. Zimbabwe is well on its way to economic recovery. (or so it would seem)

Prices have been going down. When I was home last, I could purchase a decent number of things (groceries to fit in two plastic bags at Arundel) for USD 35... awesome, no? In december, I could not get anything for the same amount, had to go down to Botswana and fill up the baby spacio to the rim...

They asked him about whether human rights issues had been resolved. Here I have a strong feeling that Tsvangirai was true to the age old adage of son of a king on your turf, groveler and serf in another man's land. He said that "the situation has improved, right now there are no political prisoners detained in Zimbabwe's prisons"

An attempt to paint a good record? to say that things are ok and Bob is making the sun rise and set on a harpy mazimbabwe?

I am not sure, I would need to hear about the situation back home. We are still to get out of the woods I think. there is a tonne to be done.

We need closure on a lot of issues back home. The meager allowances that our teacher parents are getting; the extended stay of the Reserve bank Govenor, now holding the whole nation at ransom because he is the chief's favorite...; the travails of community leaders and activists that have been forced to shut up because of politics...; the farmers losing land and property to new invasions...

Unless there is confidence restored in our people again, the shops awash with commodities will mean very little; the hospitals open now might just be until december 2009, and the grumbling stomachs of communities in travail will continue to sound.

I applaud Tsvangirai's efforts... the walls of Jericho were struck down with song and pomp, Samson hit the enemy with a donkey jawbone...

Our efforts, meager as they are, shall count on something.