16/07/2025
We have lost a country
By Taruberekera Masara
I have lived for the last month . . . with the sense of having suffered a vast and indefinite loss. I did not know at first what ailed me. At last it occurred to me that what I had lost was a country.
At a bare minimum a reading of the on goings in Zimbabwe would say that citizens have lost their own country.
It is painful yet very real.
Just this last month we witnessed a jamboree of the opening of a road interchange code named Trababalas. A project that costed the nation a tune of 88 million. Almost double the amount a better bigger and more sophisticated South African interchange was built. Precisely 65 million was chuffed. Now when you think maybe we could forgo the deficit,just yesterday 10 July 2025 the minister of finance Mtuli Ncube announced that the actual cost was 114 million US dollars. It confuses, you are left in between asking of is this a scam or a bad dream whatever you want to call it the truth is that we the people have lost a country. No one cares to account. They can loot as much as they want.
The greatest heist in history is about to befall Zimbabwe if nothing else is done to stop it. What the revolution gave to it's people is on the verge of being taken away from them by the counter revolution. There is a master plan called Land Tenure Implementation Committee. It seeks to give beneficiaries of the land reform title deeds for a$500US per hactare if one can't pay the same land will be taken away and sold out at 10k US per hactare. It's being led by a non state actors, a private individual Kudakwashe Tagwireyi. Making people pay for land outside the constitution is illegal. The constitution of Zimbabwe section 72 (4) & section 290 (1) are clear that "ALL agricultural land ....continues to be vested in the state" and that " An act of parliament must prescribe procedures for alienation and allocation of agricultural land by the state" [Section 293 (3)]. Furthermore, the role of determini
