Zanu PF’s Disastrous Partisan Urban Land Distribution
26 July 2016
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BY DR MASIMBA MAVAZA| Our partisan predispositions affect not just what we think about candidates, or about policy proposals, but how we think about the objective facts of the world,”.
Since we started parcelling out urban land to our party youth we; “have been telling [right-leaning citizens] that our freedom hangs by a thread.” To gain support by abusing our national resources is an insult to our party and a false hope that we have support yet we only have land grabbers and not genuine members. Despite our political beliefs land is supposed to be a national and not party assert. We will get more voters if we distribute land to all regardless of our political differences. When it comes to land every Zimbabwean must benefit not as reward but as a right.
The lack of meaningful change in the policy and system of campaigning causes the land distribution in an un planned manner and totally embarrassing.
The next time you get an urge to say that the country is gripped by a belief that government is dangerously out of control and that it’s threatening our freedom, remind yourself that the country is not in fact gripped by those beliefs. Cowards are gripped by those beliefs, and the fact that they’re yelling them very loudly doesn’t mean they’re shared by everyone else. So dishing the land out without proper planning is not a campaign strategy but a decampaigning way which serves to embarrass the party and its members.
It will not be long before we see a soar sight of shacks mushrooming in our towns. This is a future problem to deal with. It shows the lack of focus and total bankruptcy of ideas.
This is not fair at all. But it would be equally fair to note that people are “gripped” by similarly impugnable beliefs that land in a particular party in government now, as a matter of fact, less of a threat to Zimbabwean citizens? The president’s stance on land distribution amount to a vigorous affirmation of the very policies he openly implored during the war he has, for example, asserted the authority to order land distribution to all Zimbabweans. The slogan was Land for all not for supporters. The first lady even stated that food must be given to all regardless of their political affiliation.
It is correct to suggest that today’s Urban land bribing is a partisan phenomena.
Likewise, the overwhelming majority of the youth who are at ease with the state of land affairs are profoundly misguided; one wishes they had been roused from their oblivious slumber for better reasons.
The graph is truly troubling because it shows us that each party’s base of supporters is more or less blind to land abuse and do not wish to see the evil side when their favoured team is in power. Which is to say, their dogged partisan team-spiritedness keeps Zimbabweans from unifying to perceive and combat very real threats to their liberties and lives. It’s hard to imagine that People would not have done something by now to make government account for this land. The situation is threatening to citizens if not for the delusive complacency currently gripping the country.
There is no planning for shops schools recreation space all we do is give land. This is will come back to haunt us in the near future. The victims will be the poor youth who will have invested their hard earned coins to erects the illegal structures.
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