The concomitant progressions that give the illusion of regression

Living on a credit card burgeoning towards its limit does occur flowingly and easier than the cutting out of the extravagances of this yet unearned expenditure. Facing up to the consequences of borrowing on a steep repayment rate is the harder part especially when lucidity is improving on one's lack of liquidity and capacity to repay. So here we are, the country Zimbabwe and government awaken and now pick up the longtime-kicked-down-the-road cans; the bitter pills now have to be swallowed whole. The prescription packet was written boldly: mazuva ese katatu pazuva! Everyone agrees; vowawa mushonga uyu, umm!

In the same environment before, was a dominant man and woman who neither tolerated curtailing the extravagant manners nor their being the discussion furnishing our daily public discourse. There was around them elements who would even obliterate media houses for attempting to do so. Now that munhu aisachema nekuvharwa muromo ozhakarara, zvonzi nhamo yatanga kupinda nhasi. No! Disease enters in moments of more joyful sighs with the required surgical treatment needing anaesthetic influence to save you from wailing to death! Tiri kuchema nekuti tarwara! But, we are on the treatment table for the time that is required for safe surgery. Prof. Ncube cures the disease without killing the patient.

It is now very permissible to express yourself freely, it is now permissible to oppose freely and it is now permissible as it should have always been, to campaign everywhere freely in this environment. Ndokuchema kwacho even when speaking to the clinicians. The democratic space has been opened up! You can seek second opinion but the doctor who is operating, is the doctor who is operating.

Pane gotokoto rinomeya richiti reform:

The economy has to take the formula to stabilise and make a strong base for an upward trajectory. No patching up, no feja feja, but the requirement is professorial adherence to the practical, competitive, disciplined and safest steps that make up both effective fiscal and monetary policy. Adherents to this are needed as heroes of today and tomorrow. Mind you, this is in a system that has remnants of poisonous agendas in the markets, be them black be them clear of colour! These markets! The happenings here as done by the government are examples of reform and in this environment they require tact, timing and time. The environment is changing, and for sure, those who want to see more that assures, they will wait before they make positive contributory moves. But the environment is being......... reformed!

So there is a lot of wailing. Yes indeed. Austerity spelled out as in the TSP is not in the form of a non-perturbing, quick and forgettable pinch. It is a harsh season of an adverse wind that shakes even the Boababs! For those that stand on rotting connecting fibres, surely a fall is not unexpected. It is a strong reforming and testing wind. Good crop of our economy and society however finds favour at being cultivated and firmed at the roots for the seasons and further reasons to come. Chero isu povo; when we see waywardness, this austerity will teach us to make sure tomorrow the Mugabe chete chete false starts are not repeated. Hatizvibvumire futi!

I always speak of the importance of understanding and contributing towards transformation when it is still a plan, and later as well, buying into the effectiveness of its transactions. What we are pained by was clearly spelled out and time-lined. If we cry with shock from our inattentive existence, it is a shame for we are woefully disengaged. If we cry because we want to change the plan, we need a clear alternative that provides the improved sustainable cure and not blind transfer of executive power. Kufurirana nekufurirwa taramba. Our cries should be communicative in dialogues and in policy thinking. Street chaos is a cry that never delivers comparable and commendable outputs. Fellow citizen, it is time we cry both instrumentally and constructively but not obstructively. If even we wish to cry prescriptively, we need to show deep understanding and improvements in the proof of our proposed concepts. Let’s go deeper!

Our expressions of despair need too to be well studied. What level of understanding (not acceptance or comfort) do they have in economic recovery? Giving an example; IMF advise against increments versus fair salary adjustments versus internal and external political forces affecting both IMF and the teachers. How does such a situation read in the mind of the general person? How far are they realistic in their idea on characteristics of our required economic reform and the timelines of succeeding against issues like corruption? How compatible is any alternative with a Zimbabwe that retains, controls and optimises its current resource capacity? What influences are due and which are undue? How long did the ordinary man and woman expect for a deal to move from signing to safely running factories, mines and industries providing well paying jobs? How long does this take in the mind of the ordinary person? "Huchi nemukaka mangwana chaiye"? The weighing of psychology and cost opportunities within pursuance of instant gratification are for another day, but they do need integration into reviewing some mental schemas in and on Zimbabwe. Kuchemera zvine tariro! Kuchemera zvine musoro! And this is pursuance of reasonable empathy. It is important that as a country  to understand that beyond mastery of the complexities and sophistication of statecraft, we will find ourselves in a better place where we cry, or cry not, on reform that is seen or going unseen.

When parliament is not a target of protest but just a fallow field bereft of progressive ideological combat

You would know how the sitting members are there post election results that are largely uncontested. You would also appreciate the freedom of expression our representatives enjoy in and outside the house. Chero paTwitter kana paFacebook! You would also know how much their expressions everywhere are weighted on sharing feasible plans against the weight of mere political posturing. Pane chiri too heavy, hationi here isu? They are free to express themselves, free to prioritise and free to lead in showing clear examples of what they cry against or to show how what they stand for works! Here I repeat, urban councils are a shambles financially and governance wise. The choice of focus is there but amongst options some choose posturing! All this to pollute the atmosphere through which the country is transiting. Backing power horses not solution horses. The alternative they ignore is an environment of iron sharpening iron. Current steps measured in yards and time and analysed against the claimed leaps from an engaged opposition. I tell you, they are now so much enjoying their freedom to the point of freeing themselves of their duties! Ko why not, “Mthuli I am better at economics and finance and this is what I would do with Pogba's money!”?  Is someone refusing to take a penalty here? Asi anoziwa harimwe goal bhora?

I see the concomitant existence of a free people who are voicing their pain of the current transient economic hardships together with being in an environment they can say what they want. They are also in an environment they are seeing a freedom to abdicate on what they should be doing! Here I remind you, freedom has never been about doing what you feel is right for yourself and upon others. It is about living within the confines of the agreeable social contract of rights in a shared space such that despite other variances, your own ways will be acceptable where and when tables turn. So we can’t argue for a freedom that allows us precedence setting;changing government by protesting the known milestones of its necessary actions as is mandated for it to deliver. Yet no one argues within their own freedom for RELOAD together with SMART to be argued toe to toe against the TSP and Vision 2030? Why not extending the freedom to then demand that these public servants argue their positions and we cream off! It is dialogue irikutaurwa ka iyi? Pane anosara? Anosarireyi? 

There is progress in Zimbabwe despite those who deny it and those that want to deny it to us or even to themselves. The difference in the events in the environment is telling. These concomitant elements are evidence. It is clear despite even some alleged abductions or staged abductions here and there by those that want to implicate on a history of a dispensation put to bed. This is despite their focus and modus operandi of relevance by scandalising! This is no longer Bobbi naGire of Zvimba's type politics! The country is reforming and it will continue doing so no matter how hard this is denied by condescending approvers.