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The siege of Zimbabwe’s girl-child

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ZIMBABWE’s girl-child has become a pawn in the hands of abusers, unscrupulous dealers, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and their kith and kin.
No one stops the rabidly sexually explicit songs that blare across the airwaves and the lurid dances of the brothels which appear on television day-after-day, which hurt the children in the spirit, damaging their psyche when they are still so tender, so innocent.
This type of wound cuts very deep.
It is not easy to heal and alters the course of a child’s life.
Apparently everyone is so eager to give statistics of child sexual abuse, especially the physical violation of the girl-child, but no-one wants to go beyond the symptoms.
Every day, children watch obscene dances on television, at social gatherings and imitate these dances among themselves and with adults?
Is it so difficult to see what this does to them?
Is the rape of these children not so obvious?
This happens in so many places, over and over again.
Where are those who have appointed themselves Pontiffs over the lives of our girl-children?
This is so lethal to the children because it suggests social approval.
It seems acceptable because it is staged openly and yet people remain silent about it?
If one says he/she cares about girl-children but does not protect them from what harms them, then it defies logic.
What is the point in publishing statistics on child sexual abuse when ‘popular’ musicians and their dancers perform as if in a brothel and the children watch this on television and hear the lurid lyrics?
Who and what do you want to impress?
Children are being abused every day.
The physical act is only a culmination of so much that is so evil that children see and hear every day
Where is the sincerity in leaving all else to go wrong and only protesting the symptoms.
Where is the love and care for these children?
What is the real issue?
Is it not to ‘prove’ our ineptitude to govern our own affairs as a people?
In Zimbabwe’s true norms and values, no-one can say, sing, or act obscenities in public, but in the so-called freedom of expression super-imposed from the West, so much that is inimical to us is allowed and this damages those who are most vulnerable, the children.
And the ambassadors of this foreign value system are those who are most vocal about our girl-children.
They promote a value system that damages our girl-children and they are the first to publish statistics about child sexual abuse in our land.
We are not blind to the arithmetic of it.
How can unbridled licence (permissiveness) work hand-in-hand with the protection of the vulnerable?
The two are incompatible.
If you love children, there are no frontiers that are too harsh to confront.
You will do what it takes to protect them.
There is no need to holler so much about the girl-child while leaving so much that attacks the girl-child to flourish.
The latest craze is about Zimbabwe’s girl-children missing school because they do not have sanitary pads.
Our people wake up every morning, work, and earn a living.
From their earnings, they buy whatever they need.
They are not welfare cases waiting for someone to give them something although there are agents who work round the clock to prove that we are welfare cases.
What mother, father or guardian with a modicum of pride and self-respect can allow this to happen in his/her family?
Not a Zimbabwean!
They have too much self-respect to accept donations of sanitary pads.
It is too personal and private an issue to be handled by those outside the family.
What is in those sanitary pads that you want to donate to our children?
We are worried?
If our people can feed and clothe themselves, what stops them from buying sanitary pads?
It’s too humiliating to our people to be made to feel we cannot look after our personal hygiene.
Tingatsvakirwa mazitye ne-emapads here?
This has serious health implications.
Many people around the world can deal with menstruation, so what does it say about our people if they cannot manage such a natural situation?
No-one is so abnormal that they cannot deal with this natural situation.
Are Zimbabweans then subnormal?
So the girl-children stay out of school until their ‘period’ is over because they have no sanitary pads?
What do their mothers do?
They stay in bed until their period is over?
There is something too pernicious about stories that are spread about our girl-children, about our people.
Is it a sane nation, a sane people who run out of ideas of managing the menses?
How does someone so normal fail to deal with something so simple and natural?
Is it not a way of taking a snide at us, churlishly challenging us: “How can a nation that cannot deal with the menstruation of its girl-children purport to govern at all?”
It is important to note that we have the means to solve our own problems without any mitigation from outside.
In each person is the power and resource to solve their own problems and Zimbabweans are no different.
This desecration and denigration of our people is sinister.

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