Zimbabwe: Nation At 32 - Toasting to Looting, Lies and Hunger

opinion

Zimbabwe's 32nd anniversary of independence is sadly no cause for celebration as it comes at a time of deeper crisis of governance and the rule of law. It is sad that Zimbabwe is toasting to "looting, lies and hunger" thanks to the self-seeking opportunists who are bent on a voracious primitive accumulation.

Of course, there were some achievements from the liberation struggle and from gaining independence such as one-person one-vote, the right to self-determination, sovereignty and the feeling of freedom. Those good old days are yearned-for by many including Mugabe's spin doctors who have dusted the former Prime Minister's 1980 Independence speech and uploaded it online.

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