1] Once again, ZanuPF is exposing it's desperation
For this who may be unaware, @daddyhope is currently in Switzerland, at the Geneva Summit for Human Rights & Democracy
@daddyhope delivered a powerful speech on corruption, plunger & human rights abuses, by ZanuPF & its cronies
2] @daddyhope drew parallels between poverty/underdevelopment & corruption.
For instance, Zimbabwean gold worth US $100 m, is smuggled #monthly, at a time where ZanuPF has failed to built a single maternity ward in 42 years, contributing to death of 2500 pregnant women annually
3] Take this into context...
Our biggest hospital is Harare Hospital, after 42 years, it only has 2 maternity theaters (both build in 1977) and only one is working.
To build one maternity theatre, we only need US $37 k.
After 42 years, ZanuPF hasn't build any, at Harare Hosp
4] Currently, all state run public health institutions (hospitals & clinics), don't have a single radio therapy cancer machine, never mind how expensive cancer treatment generally is
A cancer diagnosis is an assured death in Zimbabwe, yet a single machine costs US $ 2million.
5] Whereas we've been socialised to think those costs are high, Zimbabwe is one of the richest country in the world, in terms of minerals
Zanu has failed to provide any development nor social services, yet its well within our national capacity
Where's the minerals money going?
6] @daddyhope's speech also narrated the historic treatment of journalists who report on corruption & human rights abuses, by the State.
Some have their accreditation taken away, some are blacklisted, harassed, arrested, tortured, while others like #ItaiDzamara are abducted.
7] Through his investigative journalists, since his #SaveOurHospitals campaign he launched in 2019, @daddyhope exposed the dire state of our hospitals
Our 6 Central Hospitals only need US $50 mlln, to run efficiently, yet we are losing US $100 mlln monthly, to minerals smuggling
8] Considered this context...
Forget about other sources of revenue (e.g taxes & exports), money being looted annually by ZanuPF through gold smuggling (US$100mlln) , can run all Central Hospitals for 2 years without shortage.
Currently, our hospitals lack gloves & basic pills
9] Truth of the matter is, its well within our capacity, to have a government that effectively runs the country.
Our dire national situation is a consequence of CORRUPTION, before anything else, yet the Mnangagwa ZanuPF government, prefers the unsustainable sanctions mantra.
10] Zimbabwean corruption exposes a web of systematic looting.
Remember who was fingered in the Draxgate scandal?
Who was caught with 6kgs of gold at the airport, enroute to Dubai
Dubai is also where the "step-son" Passion Java always flies to.
Put the dots together.
11] It's also troubling how we've been socialised to celebrate archaic things
At a time where @nelsonchamisa wants us to move to #SmartAgriculture, ZanuPF wants us to prioritise ancient #pvumbudza practises, while ZanuPF leaders get free loans & loot state of the art equipment
12] Where @nelsonchamisa speaks of revolutionising our transport system, ZanuPF wants us to celebrate their monopolised ZUPCO system with rain leaking ancient buses.
60 efficient modern trains cost US $1.2 billion.
The looted US $15 billion from Chiadzwa, would have bought 750
13] At a time where developing countries are modernising the rural space, Mnangagwa is ruralizing our cities.
A whole President in 2022 taking pride in introducing a "PRESIDENTIAL BOREHOLE DRILLING SCHEME" for urban cities, including the country's capital.
It's shameful.
14] Expectedly, Mnangagwa's regime is already reacting to Hopewell's address with their age old ostrich mentality.
They are calling for the speeding up of the draconian #PatroiticAct, to silence those who expose corruption & abuse.
They don't want their deeds to be exposed.
15] Varakashi ghost accounts, (most run by CIOs) are calling for @daddyhope's arrest.
They accuse him of "soiling the country's image"
In our society, families will conceal the raping of a minor by a reactive because it "soils the family image".
That's the mentality of ZanuPF.
16] When you loot, murder citizens, rig elections, etc, you're "soiling the nation's image."
Hopewell isn't the problem!
George R.R. Martin said:
"When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say"
17] Unless we register to vote, decisively vote for @nelsonchamisa & put our country on a recovery path, we are heading nowhere fast
It's nolonger a point of debate, fellow citizens, tirikutungamirirwa nevanhu varikuenda kwatirikubva
Come 2023, tombopinza mukomana,
🟡enkosi!!
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