Give them enough rope
(No Ratings Yet)
Loading ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...By KENNETH NYOKA
Published: January 5, 2010
Kenneth Nyoka
As I write this my last piece for the year ,the yuletide season is fast drawing to its expensive conclusion around the world. In my adopted country(U.K) most indigenous people fall into depression at the advent of the new year because of the undue euphoria and excitement with which they treat Christmas and the New Year holidays. As a result of their overindulgence in purchasing unnecessary presents and intoxicants many of them find themselves mired in debt. Consequently they become despondent and depressed. I read an article the other day that the British National Health Service(N.H.S) is going to launch a Stress Assistance service to help some of its depressed citizens through the tough early January weeks. You see here in the Queen’s land they molly coddle their citizens and assuage their massive festive hangovers. I hope I will be forgiven for digressing a bit but is this not the season of giving and goodwill?
However let me not bore you anymore with the extravagant shenanigans of the British people at this time of the year. I have read elsewhere that the Zim$100 trillion note is fetching up to US12 in exchange in some remote corner in the USA.There is always a silver lining in any aberration isn’t there? On a more serious note I am quite and genuinely happy that my folk back home in Zimbabwe have this year managed to celebrate Christmas in something akin to the old “kisimusi”.This is because of the efforts of the inclusive government which has managed to drastically reduce inflation, keep prices reasonably low and ensured the availability of essential goods in shops. I have had chance to share the little that I have with my uncles in rural Zimbabwe and they were absolutely thrilled with a princely sum of a few USA dollars each. They probably managed to buy their families dozens of bread and crates of Coca Cola. And a bit of the traditional ale on top of that.(Based on previous experience of their festive celebrations I am surmising that is what they did.)They probably did something much better. Now that gives you a lot of satisfaction if you are thousands of miles from your loved ones.
It does not take a rocket scientist to point out who in this government has been responsible for this small but very essential transition. Suffice to say it was not those who have been in authority for the last 3 decades. It then brings me to the point I am trying to put across. Does this organisation which has presided over the misery of its own people have any future on the political landscape? Without resorting to atavistic and primordial means of violently clinging to power does Zanupf have a chance in a free political landscape to continue to be relevant? As I have previously averred, any organisation that does not reinvent itself to adapt to the external environment in which it operates will wither and die. This is aptly summed by Cameron and Quinn(1999)who postulate that conditions in which organisations operate demand a response without which organisational demise is a frequent result. There is therefore need to both change and maintain stability in the face of increasingly turbulent environments.Zanupf has not done that but chosen to remain in the past and cling to illusionary perceptions of invincibility which it created during the liberation struggle.
Where does its foreseeable future lie? It lies in its ability and propensity to be retrogressive and delay as long as possible the final resolution of the “outstanding issues”. It does not deserve to be lynched anymore, it is in terminal and perpetual decline. The people have seen what the other partners in the GPA can bring on to their tables and as such they do not consider Zanupf anymore relevant in their lives. It will therefore inevitably implode and kill itself. It will not need anyone to do it on its behalf. Therefore what all progressive people need to do is just let Zanupf have enough rope to hang itself.