Letter to my people: What now that we are no longer Sadc chairperson

📅 Published: August 26, 2025

📰 Source: thestandard

Curated by AllZimNews.com

Under Scarfmore’s chairmanship, Sadc prematurely withdrew its peacekeeping mission from the war-torn DRC after it failed dismally in its efforts to bring about stability and hastily retreated in meek surrender to the M23 rebels.

That it was the United States that brokered a peace deal between Rwanda and DRC is a damning indictment of the incompetence and the waning relevance of Sadc.

That this happened under the chairmanship of the Scarfed One, only shows how nonsensical it is to claim that his leadership of the organisation was successful.

The handover of the chairmanship to Madagascar was refreshingly different from the handover to the Scarfmore regime a year ago, which was characterised by the arrest and torture of civil rights activists and monumental waste of taxpayers money to build villas that were never used for the conference it was intended for.

I can assure you that Madagascar will not make such a fuss of taking over the chairmanship as it was by the Ngwena regime which at times appeared to be a desperate effort at validation especially after the chaotic 2023 harmonised elections that was panned even by Sadc for failing to meet the regional benchmark for elections.

All in all, the Sadc chairmanship by Ngwena was a largely forgettable affair.

It was a cruel coincidence that during the week that Zimbabwe’s chairmanship of Sadcended some activists that were arrested ahead of the Harare summit were set free by the courts.

The country’s education sector that had become the pride of the African continent under Gushungo, the fountain of wisdom is rapidly deteriorating under the Scarfed One.

Revelations that more than 1200 teachers are quitting the profession every month is indicative of how the education sector of the country is going down the toilet since Ngwenabarrelled into power on the back of guns and tanks.

That even headmasters are also contemplating to go on strike when schools open exposes the bankrupt leadership of the so called second repubric.

Under this dispensation of poverty, darkness and confusion even the Basic Education Assistance Model meant to pay school fees to disadvantaged children is not immune from the shameful levels of pilfering as corruption has become the mainstay of this regime.

Despite the admission by the Scarfed One that university lecturers have been reduced to paupers after their wages were eroded by more than 80% due to the regime’s currency gymnastics, there is still no resolution to the impasse as the strike by University of Zimbabwe lecturers which began in April this year.