Another trip, another wasted opportunity.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has once again jetted back into Zimbabwe following yet another foreign excursion — this time to attend the Liberation Movements Summit in South Africa. But for a country battling crippling poverty, collapsing public services, and runaway inflation, his return brought nothing but more frustration and unanswered questions.
Mnangagwa landed at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport on Sunday to the usual pomp and ceremony. He was welcomed by Vice Presidents General (Retired) Dr Constantino Chiwenga and Colonel Kembo Mohadi, Defence Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri, Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Dr Martin Rushwaya, and senior military officials — a grand show that, critics say, starkly contrasts with the daily suffering of ordinary Zimbabweans.
The summit, attended by leaders from six Southern African liberation movements and other international delegates, was meant to foster unity and cooperation.
However, many Zimbabweans are asking what tangible benefits such high-level gatherings actually bring to a country drowning in unemployment, corruption, and a failing healthcare system.
“Mnangagwa’s foreign trips have become nothing more than expensive political tours funded by the suffering taxpayer,” said a Harare-based political analyst. “The people are tired of photo ops and hollow speeches while hospitals lack basic medicines and civil servants can’t make ends meet.”
With each flight abroad, hopes for real progress at home continue to fade. Yet the president remains committed to globetrotting, while millions of Zimbabweans face deepening economic despair and a leadership that appears increasingly disconnected from reality.
As the nation reels from fuel shortages, erratic power supplies, and a collapsing currency, Mnangagwa’s latest foreign trip is being viewed by many as just another symbol of a government out of touch — and out of solutions.
Source: Zimeye
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