Source: The Zimbabwean
How did Zimbabwe end up with a shameless generation that praises those who have turned them into beggars?
The circus that Zimbabwe has become would be laughable—if the tragedy beneath it were not so overwhelming.
I have just watched yet another video doing the rounds on social media—a scene that has become depressingly familiar in today’s Zimbabwe.
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Once again, a Zimbabwean reduced herself to a spectacle before the entire nation and the world, begging convicted criminal and notorious tenderpreneur Wicknell Chivayo for a car.
In this latest display of national embarrassment, a nurse is seen kneeling in what she claims to be a prayer, asking God to bless Chivayo and to bless her, too, with a Toyota Fortuner GD6 this Christmas.
She supplicates herself as though Chivayo were a benevolent deity dispensing miracles from the heavens rather than a man who has helped sink this country deeper into poverty.
What pained me the most was not merely the personal indignity of her conduct.
As the son of a nurse, I have grown up with profound respect—reverence even—for this noble profession.
Nurses were people of integrity, discipline, quiet courage, and fierce work ethic.
My late mother embodied these virtues in full.
She carried herself with dignity everywhere she went.
She worked hard, stood tall, and provided for her family without ever grovelling before anyone.
I never once saw her degrade herself.
