Temba Mliswa is right, others steal from the people

If we are serious about the anti-American stance, we should shun everything American. It does not help us pretending not to like America when we aspire to be like them.

One good example is how those who travelled to the UN last week wasted little time to go shopping.

We all want American money. We use American currency. We receive American aid for HIV/Aids. We sulk when such monetary programmes skip us.

That makes me think that Temba Mliswa's association with Americans for money to develop his area should not be a big deal. After all who is not doing it?

Those who are saying Mliswa is receiving money from the Americans are among those whose utterances were quoted in the Wikileaks reports a few years ago. They secretly met the US ambassador to talk about their country, party and president. What is that called? And for whose benefit did they do it? Not for a poor rural child.

With the poverty and desperation pervading in the rural communities, what is the colour of clean money? Yes, Mliswa took Americans along and one school now has a new block of classrooms. That block will not be used by American children but Zimbabweans. The Zanu-PF government has failed the people. Schools are decaying. Crumbling. There are no textbooks. Teachers poorly paid. Nobody could have built that new block of classrooms yet what we do is complain and talk.

For starters, why don't we do away with the US$. And get back to our Zim$. America is bad. Very bad. So let us show them that we don't want their money. That we don't want anything to do with them. Let's break clean. And stop playing double standards.

Nobody eats slogans. Slogans do not build classrooms. Money does. Zanu-PF has long given up on infrastructure development because they are concerned with their own self-enrichment. The poor rural child gains nothing. They can't break the vicious poverty circle.

If the US spies can be used to build classrooms, so be it. It's better than singing praises to a useless leadership that has turned its back on the people. It's better to sellout and eat with the poor than to sellout secretly for self-gain.

At least Mliswa is not stealing from the people. He is using spies to make the lives of the people in his constituency better.