Hopewell Chin’ono@daddyhope
No, Kuda, we must address this issue holistically.
The cleanest city in Africa is not run by whites, it is run by black Africans in Rwanda.
Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda, is the cleanest city in Africa.
The Rwandan government has implemented various initiatives to maintain cleanliness, including regular community clean-up efforts and strict enforcement of environmental regulations, which we don’t do in Zimbabwe due to failed leadership.
It is about leadership skills and consistency, it has very little to do with being black.
Good leadership provides good outcomes.
If you have bad black leadership, it has nothing to do with every black person, especially when we all know that the leadership was rigged to be there, it has everything to do with ZANUPF not every black Zimbabwean.
Alex and Mbare are colonial constructs; the habits there are therefore a product of that colonial project, which mutated into what it is today due to bad ZANUPF leadership.
Don’t look at it at face value, look at the history.
Some blacks are part of that disaster, and I will explain how.
Post-colonial Africa inherited this crisis and sadly lacked decent leadership to resolve the colonial creations.
This is bad ZANUPF leadership!
We can’t blame all black people for the commissions and omissions of ZANUPF or the ANC in South Africa and other liberation movements across the continent.
Liberation movements were not prepared to lead the countries that they liberated, and this was initially good for the outgoing colonial regimes because they perpetually exploited that ignorance.
Look at the lead guys in real ZANUPF looting and plunder taking place.
At the heart of today’s corruption in Zimbabwe are many whites from the Rhodesian era, but they laugh at ZANUPF elites when they are in their homes.
MTN, Vodacom, Old Mutual, and many such companies are run by competent black people because they were hired on merit.
Politicians are not necessarily elected based on merit but euphoric nonsense and rigging, which is why we have struggled.
The complex interplay between colonial history, post-colonial leadership challenges, and the current state of affairs in certain African countries can’t be explained in simplistic analogies of black and white.
We need to analyse these issues beyond their current surface reflections and also look at historical contexts.
We need better leaders than we have today.
Today, we have crap leadership, and we can’t apportion the blame to every black person in Zimbabwe; it is much more complex than that.
We can fix all these things with the right leadership, we simply don’t have good leaders in charge at the moment.
Race alone doesn’t explain that, history contributes more to why we are here today.
