That moment when a ZANUPF Speaker of Parliament suddenly cannot contain or defend the ignorance and incompetence of a ZANUPF ICT Minister.
The appointment of people like Tatenda Mavetera into cabinet is a stain on Zimbabwe’s history; a national embarrassment that will be remembered for generations.
ZANUPF could have governed without resistance had it respected competence, appointed capable ministers, and delivered essential public goods such as hospitals, good roads, electricity, and jobs. But it cannot, because it is driven by greed, mediocrity, and cronyism.
You cannot entrust a ministry as critical as ICT to someone like Mavetera who is a former money changer and an actress from a low-budget television series, Studio 263. It is shameful. I am glad that even the Speaker of Parliament has realised the depth of rot, decadence, and incompetence within his own regime.
When you see a cabinet minister lying about her academic qualifications, falsely claiming to have a PhD and degrees she was never awarded, it is tragic. Compare her to her counterparts across Africa — some studied Information Technology at MIT, some at Oxford, and others at top universities with solid academic and professional credentials.
But in Zimbabwe, you can dance dramatically, shake your body on television, and that will be enough for you to be appointed a cabinet minister. Mavetera is a living testimony to that.
And then we wonder why the world disrespects us and calls us a shithole. It is because of such disgraceful appointments. The Speaker of Parliament has simply echoed what many of us have been saying for years.
The only difference is that he has become the first senior government official to now say it publicly. But nothing will change, and that is precisely why ZANUPF will always struggle to govern.
There are dictatorships around the world that manage to govern without resistance because they provide their citizens with the basic necessities of life.
But when you fill key ministries with incompetent, clueless people like Mavetera, every day becomes a battle.
You spend your time fighting citizens who are simply reminding you of the obvious truth, that you have no business governing a country when you continue to appoint people like her.Good points from the elder, I wonder if the minister was listening, all she thinks of is 2030
