via I remain a candle in the storm – Eliot Pfebve Nov 2009 January 10, 2014 at 11:31pm
When it comes to standing up for a cause, help me Lord that I remain a candle in the storm and no matter what it takes; no dark force shall obliterate my slow but powerful glow
Our greatest problem is that, much of leadership ages in Zimbabwe were once ZANU PF and see no need to depart from societal values they have been accustomed with. Many might have changed shoes but not clothes, what’s the point of bathing if you are going to wear the same dirty, smelly tattered clothes. Unless we change course we are likely to come back to where we started!!
People are born in a society and not society born in people. The problem with this is that, you are born in a world already with rules, which you have to obey, never mind you were never part of. Most often generation gap means you are in constant fight with the norms of society, its leadership and its institutions. Majority of people end up in conformity with the system because they have known no other society or simply lack of options. ZANU (PF) finds itself entrapped in a sociological basement, where there is no innovation, no new ideas, no new blood, no social inertia, no will to reform and stuck in a society of the 1980s. The hypothesis is that Zimbabweans born of the same society will see no need to change a government even if the societal values remains stale against a fast moving global economy and the fact that there are back with even greater majority in parliament means there are unlikely to change a system which is working, “If it’s not broken why fix” mentality. China has evolved fast than its critics, its economy liberalised and its politics democratised, there is always a generation leadership change to inject new blood, new ideas and fresh facial look. In Zimbabwe this is proving to be difficult because of tyrannical type of leadership, both in ZANU and opposition.
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This is the most is the most nonsensical article I have ever read.
Mr Pfebve, madii kurega vane zvipo zvekunyora vanyore imi muchingoverenga henyu sezvinoita isu tisina zvip? Ndaverenga ndavengazve asi musoro wenyaya ndaushaya. Kana kumboidza kunyora nerwa mai, pamwe zvingaita. Swerai nengirozi!!!
Well said Eliot. People have been born into an oppressive society and know nothing else but this. Corruption seems to be a normal way of life in doing business, and nothing will change the mind set of these people. By visiting a democratic well run society which is free from oppression will people realise how different we live our lives. Mugabe has successfully managed to brain wash the populace with evil propaganda over the years. Mugabe and ZANU PF are so full of bull$#@t they even believe it themselves. It will take many years to change the mind set of people born here. Mugabe and ZANU PF the most evil of evil.
Here is a man who sees himself as the light of the world around him, and who is praying to God to let him continue to glow slowly and powerfully in the powers the darkness. I wish I had such strong convictions about my self-worth. Very few men have. It takes a lot of humility to be a leader and the man has none of it. Eliot I am a pro democracy leader and must ask you to leave other people to praise you. Come to us at ZUNDE and we will help you. We might help. Visit us on http://www.zunde.org.