If Mnangagwa wants to know what ‘nyika inovakwa nevene vayo’ really means, he should learn from Rhodesians!

📅 Published: August 17, 2025

📰 Source: thezimbabwean

Curated by AllZimNews.com

It places the responsibility for national development squarely on the shoulders of citizens, particularly the leadership entrusted with guiding a nation’s destiny.

Yet, when one examines Zimbabwe’s reality today, one cannot help but notice the glaring contradiction between rhetoric and practice.

While the government continuously extols the virtues of ‘nyika inovakwa nevene vayo’, the nation’s streets tell a different story.

Industries lie in ruins—textile factories once employing thousands stand idle, and sugar estates produce far below capacity.

Agriculture, which should be the backbone of national development, struggles under mismanagement, with irrigation schemes collapsing and commercial farms plagued by corruption and debt.

Infrastructure crumbles, with roads, hospitals, and schools deteriorating despite repeated government promises.

Basic services such as electricity and water supply are erratic, leaving citizens to bear the brunt of systemic failures.

The human cost is equally stark.

Unemployment has reached shocking levels, forcing the majority of our youth into the informal sector just to survive.

Many operate street vending stalls, wash cars by the roadside, or run small backyard projects.

Yet, in a bizarre twist, the government portrays this forced improvisation as a sign of ‘nyika inovakwa nevene vayo’, as if survival under economic collapse equates to genuine national development.

The reality is far harsher: the country’s potential is stifled, and the very people meant to build the nation are trapped in cycles of precarity, struggling to make ends meet.