Open Letter to Hon. Daniel Garwe
Hon. Garwe,
Zimbabweans are watching their homes being demolished, and many are asking one question: where was the government when these houses were being built?
These homes were not built in a day. People spent years working, saving, borrowing money, and sacrificing to build them. Entire communities grew over time. Thousands of people invested everything they had because they believed they were securing a future for their families.
Today, bulldozers are arriving.
But where are the people who sold the stands?
Where are the officials who allowed these settlements to grow?
Where are the people who collected money from desperate home seekers?
Why is it that when things go wrong, the first people to suffer are always ordinary citizens?
Musatitora semapenzi.
People are struggling to understand how settlements can exist for years without action, only for demolitions to begin after families have already invested their life savings.
Nobody is above the law. If the houses were built illegally, then everyone involved should be held accountable. Accountability should not stop with homeowners. It should reach every person who played a role in creating this situation.
What Zimbabweans want is fairness.
The law must not only be applied to the powerless. It must also be applied to those with influence, authority, and connections.
Right now, many families are losing everything they worked for. Children are being displaced. Parents are watching years of sacrifice disappear in a matter of hours.
That pain is real.
That anger is real.
And the questions being asked are valid.
Zimbabweans deserve answers. They deserve transparency. They deserve leadership that accepts responsibility instead of simply shifting the burden onto ordinary people.
History will remember these demolitions. It will also remember whether those responsible for creating this crisis were ever held accountable.
The people are watching.
Thomas Chizhanje
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Honourable Mrs Justice Elizabeth Gwaunza is qualified for
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March 2018 and possessing extensive judicial experience.
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@DavidColtart This question is full of ignorance and at the same time you want to appear concerned. What's stopping you from engaging the gvt privately as Bulawayo city mayor are you guys aware of your roles ? Are we having the right people in public offices?