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Let’s eradicate selfishness

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SELFISHNESS is the root of all the problems that we are facing as a nation.
Honzero yenhamo dzedu dzose makaro, kurira kwengoma iya inoti pangu pangu.
The rampant mismanagement and looting in our institutions both private and public are symptoms of the deadly disease of selfishness that will destroy us if it continues unchecked especially at a personal level.
If we do not change our attitude and gluttonous behaviour at individual level, then it is a fallacy to think that the nation and our systems will work.
Just like the quotation ‘Peace begins with you, peace begins me, peace begins with all of us, the fight against corruption begins with me, with you, with all of us.
It is viewing things like selfishness and treating them as mundane and normal that is doing us damage.
We only have to go back in time to know what is right, our history is replete with evidence of serving the nation
Great Zimbabwe and the Khami Ruins are all evidence of a people determined to assert themselves as a productive people driven by the idea of the long-game.
Unfortunately, the idea of the long-game, which is generally about the nation, has been substituted by the short-game, which is more to do with the individual.
Makare vatungamiriri vaifunga zvemberi nekukudza nyika kwete kuguta kwavo voga.
We all can become affluent people for we have the resources, but the pursuit of wealth must not be at the expense of others and costly to the nation.
If we are to go forward and thrive as a nation, selfishness must be eradicated and not characterise the pursuit of wealth.
We should not seek to be better than the next person, but to improve our lot as a people.
Tose tikapfuma, tose tikafara ndiyo budiriro.
And the agro sector is a very good example of how we can all benefit, become rich and self-sustainable without prejudicing others.
All of us, on our pieces of land small and big, are thriving.
How the ‘new’ farmers help each other and support each other is a perfect example of how working together will see us all grow.
While competition is healthy in an arena there is absolutely no need to operate with the idea to outdo the next person.
We must not seek to be bigger just for the sake of being bigger or to win for the sake of winning, but our victories must have a broader impact, they must benefit the nation and if they do not, then we are doomed.
We must all work with the idea of improving and making better our various arenas driven by the desire to leave this our nation a better place.
All of us have a responsibility, not only to ourselves or immediate members of our families, but to future generations.
Our thinking, as we act in the various stations that govern our society, must be generational, vachauya vachati chii nemabatiro edu.
It is time we revert to our tradition, a tradition that valued the protection of families and the land as well as systems that govern our lives.
The taboos and norms we have discarded adopting foreign ones, which we do not understand, served a critical purpose.
It is these taboos that ensured that despite colonisation we were not annihilated.
There are nations and peoples that were decimated with some becoming extinct as a result of colonisation.
But we survived because our systems were strong and they withstood the onslaught of invaders vapambepfumi.
Those in positions of influence and power must appreciate the fact that there is no better way of empowering others than ensuring that subordinates develop and grow.
Those operating under us must feel they have opportunities ahead of them and must be optimistic and not be discouraged by our ways.

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