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Where is our faith and belief?

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IN my time I will see roads wide, smooth and beautiful, roads that will make travelling a pleasure and not a hazardous act.
Electrical lights will light at any time I flick the switch, without fail, 24/7, 365 days a year, 365 ¼ days in a leap year.
Water will run from the taps of every household, even the hilly suburbs will have water, everyday.
This I do not doubt, this I believe wholeheartedly.
Maybe it is because I have seen the attainment of things that were said would not be attained in a thousand years.
I have seen my people go against the odds and prevail.
I have seen them scale walls regarded unassailable.
As a country we have clinched major deals and are discussing more deals that are set to revamp and transform the country.
But there remains a very disturbing general lack of faith and belief.
It is that lack of belief and faith that has seen some people fail to grasp the fact that the country in a decade or less, will be the place to be, not can, but will be.
I sincerely hope that the element lacking belief and confidence is made up of a few individuals.
Even during the liberation struggle we had kith and kin that collaborated with the enemy, but still we prevailed so we cannot afford to lose sleep over them or allow them to spoil things for everyone.
But it will be scary to have patriotic Zimbabweans lacking belief and confidence that our country will prosper in the very near and not far off future.
Words such as naïve, myopic, clueless and sympathisers, whatever that means, are used to describe the daring and the believers among us.
But we must continue believing that we can achieve our dreams, our plans and that our designs work.
All the projects we intend to carry out will not yield fruit or successfully take-off if we have no faith and belief in them.
Simple logic states that if we lack belief and confidence then we will not expend the necessary energy to achieve our desired results.
And without expending our energies to achieving desired results, all these noble aspirations and plans we have will not come to fruition.
We cannot afford to be a people folding hands, holding breath and waiting to exhale and confirm that, “we said it, that it was impossible”.
We all must be positive, pushing and contributing to rebuilding the economy.
Zimbabwe ndini newe/ Zimbabwe yimi lawe.
Iwe neni tine basa/ Mina lawe silomsebenzi
I recently came across a book, Zimbabwe is Our Country, it was one of the books used to educate our children, the Vatoto during the liberation struggle in the camps.
The book drove home the point of our Zimbabweaness and that we had no other country, but Zimbabwe, it was used every day as a reminder, maybe we need that, to consciously remind each other every day that, according to the book:
“Zimbabwe is our country.
It is our country.
Zimbabwe is a good country
It is a good country.
Our country is good.
Our country is rich.
Zimbabwe is a rich country.
It is beautiful and rich.
Our country is Zimbabwe.
I am fighting for a beautiful country.
We are fighting for a beautiful country.
I am fighting for a rich country.
We are fighting for a rich country.”
This is a powerful message that will greatly benefit us if we take it to heart.
Zimbabwe needs you and you, it needs all of us.
I repeat, iwe neni tine basa/ mina lawe silomsebenzi.

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