The feeling you get as a Dr after requesting an urgent MRI scan , CT scan or so and just get it done without having to wait for a family meeting to call the relatives in chivhu or in the diaspora to ask for money before anything can be done ka 🤞🏽🤞🏽🤝🙌🏽🙌🏽that time it’s urgent but you can tell there’s no money 💰 🥺👐🏽
A healthcare system that works is a NEED ! Not even a luxury
In November 2008, a police officer shot and killed a young boy suspected of panning diamonds in Chiadzwa. He ripped his head open with an avalanche of bullets. When he had killed the boy, the officer was condemned by some of his colleagues. He became afraid. He just sat quietly for the greater part of the day, not knowing what was going to happen when his superiors came later in the day. No one touched the body of the young man. Later in the day Officer Commanding Mutare Rural, O. C. Govo — a war veteran — arrived. When he saw the corpse, he asked, ‘who has killed this animal?’ The officer who had committed the crime stood up and claimed responsibility. Govo asked why he had killed only one. He said lets go to the panners hideout and I will demonstrate what I want all of you to do. When the panners saw the officers they started running away. Govo pulled the trigger and killed two on the spot whilst several escaped with gunshot wounds. Govo said that was a demonstration of how to handle illegal diamond panners. When the public outcry grew concerning Govo’s slaughter of diamond panners he was transferred to an obscure location in Lupane, Matebeleland.
Operation Hakudzokwi – What happened in Chiadzwa?
Gordon Mpofu was a child at the time of Gukurahundi and described what the dreaded Fifth Brigade did to his parents.
"They came to our village and accused my father of helping the dissidents. He denied it, and so they assembled us all in the area between our huts and made us sit on the ground. Then they took my mother and tied rope around her ankles and hoisted her, upside down, into a tree, so that her head was maybe a metre off the ground. As we watched and cried, one of the soldiers gouged out her eyes with a knife, while others made a fire underneath her and baked her head until she was dead. I can still hear her screaming for help."
"My father was tied to the next tree, from where he was forced to watch.‘When my mother was dead, they beat my father with their rifle butts until he vomited and finally passed out. By the time they left our village, he was dead."
Battle For Zimbabwe: The Final Countdown (2005)
June 2000. Mberengwa West. ZANU-PF warlord Biggie Chitoro and party militia abducted James Zhou and his brother Finos, an MDC candidate. For two nights, they stripped them, beat them with an iron bar, and burned them with melting plastic. Finos died an excruciating death. James crawled through the bush, flayed and burned, barely alive. Ordinary Zimbabweans were tortured, brutalised and killed by ZANU-PF terror.