Dear President Emmerson Mnangagwa
15 September 2024
We join the nation in wishing you a Happy Birthday. On the 15th of September 1942 you were born to a peasant family of Mafidhi and Mhurai Mnangagwa.
We understand that because of your peasant background you really appreciate the impact of drought on working people.
Zimbabwe is in a serious drought as you are aware of, but we are worried that your government seem to be doing very little to address the Crisis. Beyond declaring a State of Emergency we hardly notice any interventions on the ground.
We expected to see you rallying your business community to contribute towards drought relief efforts but alas there is no movement on that front.
We expected you to introduce austerity measures on elite expenditures to save resources for food relief. Shockingly we see you blowing millions towards hosting SADC Summit and now your birthday Shindig.
Mr President you participated in the liberation war guided by the conscience of engendering β Gutsaruzhinjiβ an egalitarian society. A society in which the fruits of the Republic are equitably distributed.
Today Children are collapsing in class because of hunger but you are not moved. Your government continues to demand fees for accessing education and healthcare from the drought ravaged families of Zimbabwe. Is it so difficult to declare a moratorium on fees for all basic services as a way of handling the drought Crisis?
Cde President when did your revolutionary conscience depart from you?
On this birthday of yours, please President Mnangagwa we appeal to you to reflect on the values you used to hold then and the person you have become. Do you think Mafidhi and Mhurai would be proud of you? You have become cold hearted and an enemy of the people you claim to have liberated.
If you die today what will you be remembered for?
For presiding over deploying the judiciary to persecute dissenting voices. For cutting salaries for civil servants while your family accumulates massive wealth. For torturing those who do not subscribe to your politics of oppression and exploitation.
There is no other day other than today, for considering dropping your third term ambitions. A smooth transition from your military dictatorship to a democratic civilian administration is a legacy you can still salvage.
Happy birthday President. Your birth is now proving to be a curse on the people of Zimbabwe. We know you wish to decimate ARTUZ as an organization punishing us for speaking out against your bad governance. We donβt wish you ill. We wish you a longer life hoping you will be revisited by your conscience at some point and begin to care more about the wellbeing of the people you lead.
Yours sincerely
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