Hopewell Chin’ono lashes out at Zimbabweans for letting down Sikhala
Zimbabwe journalist Hopewell Chin'ono
By Hopewell Chinono
This is an example of what many Africans mean when they say Zimbabweans are all talk and NO action.
Many are pushing for Chamisa and his team to act.
When they are arrested and need help from those asking them to act, it doesn’t come.
Families suffer, kids are kicked out of school because of school fees and we do very little to help!
Job Sikhala is my good friend, when he comes out of prison, I am going to strongly advise him not to put his family in trouble whilst pursuing national goals!
Zimbabweans are selfish, he should put his family ahead of anything else until we are ready to play our part.
We can’t expect our leaders to sacrifice for us, and yet we can’t help their families when they are in prison.
Job is a lawyer, he has a decent life if he focuses on his Law practice, but even his Law practice suffers because of fighting for us daily neglecting his work.
He loves Zimbabwe and is patriotic, but we can’t love him back.
The war for liberation was fought and won because everyone contributed something, goats, chicken, mealie meal, clothes and many other things for the fighters.
“When Mugabe and his colleagues were in prison during the 60s, blacks of that time helped look after their families. Something we have failed to do,” lamented Chin’ono.
Today’s generations are not yet ready for that, they want freedom, but they are too stingy to assist in making their freedom a reality.
Today Job and Godfrey Sithole’s wives have to drive to Chikurubi Prison daily with their food to protect them from poisoning, they need fuel, and to buy the food daily.
They have been in prison for 2 months, no income, little help.
And yet we demand action, we call Chamisa and his team cowards.
What have we done to assist them except insulting them?
These opposition politicians must protect their families until the citizens are ready to play their part.
If it means ZANUPF will continue ruling and looting, so be it because that is what the majority of citizens want by not playing their part in the struggle against corrupt rule.
Nelson Chamisa must not risk his life for a cowardly, selfish and talkative citizenry that won’t come to assist not because it can’t, but because it is simply selfish.
Even the fat cat activists are as useless, loads of talk, no action.
Aiwa mucha muka zvenyu!
—Hopewell Chinono is a respected human rights journalist
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