Governmental Annihilation – Cholera in Zimbabwe

The unfolding cholera outbreak, impending mass starvation and the current food deficit in Zimbabwe are wicked well-calculated humanitarian calamities designed and implemented by ZANU (PF). It is part of a depraved plan originally targeting the opposition gone astray. Initially created by the Politburo as a way of starving and denying medical attention to opposition supporters, this crisis has now engulfed the wider populace.

The systematic intentional and indiscriminate murder of innocent citizens is now taking place in Zimbabwe as ZANU (PF)’s deliberate policies of killing of the opposition take effect. The death threshold is about to be reached and Mugabe intends to declare a state of emergency, which will curtail the movement of people under the guise of controlling the spread of cholera.

In 2002, the Minister of State for National Security, Lands, Land Reform and Resettlement in the President's Office and the Secretary for Administration of ZANU (PF) Didymus Mutasa was asked how he felt about the serious problems confronting Zimbabwe. The question concerned the fear in that year that severe drought might result in the death of half of Zimbabwe's twelve million population, many of them supporters of the main opposition, MDC.

Mutasa replied, "We would be better off with only six million people, with our own (ZANU) PF people who supported the liberation struggle. We don't want all these extra people."

No citizen of Zimbabwe, a country endowed with abundant natural resources and was once a net food exporter only a decade ago should die from hunger. No citizen in the twenty-first century should die from hunger, no citizen in the twenty-first century should die from a seventeenth century disease.

Robert Mugabe’s hubris coupled with Gideon Gono’s incompetence, Joseph Made’s idiocy and ZANU (PF)’s voracity for power, has created a humanitarian catastrophe never before experienced in Southern African history.

All members of the ZANU (PF) Politburo and its Central Committee are now culpable for the deaths of Zimbabweans from hunger and disease. Their collective heartless contempt for human life, premeditated inaction and arrogant indifference warrants prosecution for mass murder.

Bright Matonga the junior Deputy Minister of Information, blamed travel restrictions imposed by the free world against corrupt politicians who subvert the rule of law for causing a cholera outbreak. Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal infection caused by ingestion of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Transmission occurs through direct faecal-oral contamination or through ingestion of contaminated water and food.

Cholera is mainly transmitted through contaminated water and food and is closely linked to inadequate environmental management. The absence or shortage of safe water and sufficient sanitation combined with a generally poor environmental status are the main causes of spread of the disease.

Individuals with lower immunity, such as malnourished children or people living with HIV, are at greater risk of death if infected by cholera.

On Wednesday 27 August 2008, Mugabe referred to his current government as the worst in history and this administration is exclusively responsible for the cholera outbreak.

The incompetent ex-Mayor of Chegutu, Willie Muringani whose tenure in Chegutu was characterised by perennial treated water shortages was appointed chairperson of the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA), which has since failed to supply and treat clean drinking water to all urban dwellers. Coupled with the breakdown of the country’s health delivery service, the cholera and other diseases are now embedded in our society.

The entire government of Robert Mugabe must be forced to resign and make way for a new assemblage of corruption free Zimbabwean politicians with a deep-rooted patriotic commitment to our country umbilically attached to a selfless compassion for the wellbeing of ordinary citizens.

The cholera outbreak is negligent homicide on the part of Robert Mugabe and voluntary manslaughter on the part of his government, a criminal act that must surely become his Achilles Heel.