ZIMBABWEANS are best known for their resilient and innovative nature.
That is the reason America’s Chester Crocker’s tightening of screws in a bid to make Zimbabweans scream did not work.
Zimbabweans have found solutions to serious challenges and difficulties they face always.
I write this piece a proud Zimbabwean with full confidence in my country.
Despite the prevailing liquidity challenges, Government continues to ensure that basic services are offered to the people.
In a bid to improve the livelihoods of the people, Government has invested in machinery to carry out open heart surgery, resuming operations that stopped more than a decade ago.
We have said we will celebrate our achievements, we will not let them slide unnoticed.
Under difficult conditions efforts are being made to better the lives of the masses.
And there are some who will pretend and act as if these achievements are of no significance.
In recent years our people have had to fork out thousands of dollars seeking advanced medical care elsewhere.
And this has strained our people who have not been spared the effects wrought by the British, European Union and United States imposed-sanctions.
Most important is that we build upon this development.
Already the Koreans helping us have noted our vast skills and have said we can become a centre of excellence in the field of open heart surgery.
This is no mere talk, these are professionals and would never endanger lives by recommendations meant to flatter.
The message is very clear.
We have the skills and the rest of the region and continent could be trooping into the country seeking advanced medical assistance.
And what this all important message means is that if we commit ourselves to growing and further develop the cardio centre it will thrive and help sustain the whole institution.
Hospitals abroad are earning millions every year from what is now dubbed health tourism.
And Zimbabwe could in the not-so-distant future become a hub of medical tourism.
Our surgeons are renowned the world over, many have left to work in some of the best health facilities.
Let us heavily invest in this centre and we may in the very short-term begin to realise significant dividends.
I continue to congratulate and celebrate.
It seems the now ever-available electricity in the country’s residential suburbs has not been noticed.
Nobody is singing praise for these efforts to ensure that lights never go out.
For more than a decade electricity supply has been erratic.
Load-shedding of up to 18 hours had become the norm.
In most suburbs, load-shedding was last experienced in 2015 yet no one has commended the relevant authorities for guaranteeing us continual electricity supply.
What kind of a people are we who only speak when things are wrong and remain mum when things change for the better?
Surely the Minister of Energy and Power Development, Dr Samuel Undenge, deserves a thumbs-up.
A job well done Cde Minister.
Now that electricity is available 24/7 we should not waste it (ngatichengetedzei magetsi edu/ asigcineni ugetsi wethu).
These developments are significant strides we are making towards getting our economy fully functional.
I have a feeling that soon water will be gushing out of all taps.
Those we have been tasked to deliver are playing their part. Let us encourage them to do more.
Government is delivering on its promises.