Even If We Can’t Change the Government—We Must Break the Momentum of Looting.
The idea of political change in Zimbabwe feels like chasing a mirage. We’ve watched stolen elections, dead-end reforms, and opposition parties muzzled into irrelevance. But while change at the top may seem frozen, the bleeding hasn’t stopped. In fact, it’s speeding up.
Every day ZANU-PF stays in power is another day of looting dressed up as "development." Gold smuggled. Diamond proceeds vanished. Multi-million-dollar tenders handed to shell companies run by cousins and cronies. State land parceled out like sweets at a party. It’s not politics anymore—it’s organized theft wearing a liberation war medal.
But here’s the kicker: even if we can’t unseat the looters right now, we can still slow them down. We can break their momentum.
How?
1. Expose the Networks.
Corruption thrives in darkness. We need to drag dirty deals into the sunlight—name the companies, trace the shell accounts, connect the dots between minister and money. Digital whistleblowing, open-source sleuthing, and people who aren’t afraid to speak can gum up the gears.
2. Target the Enablers.
Every looter has a banker. A lawyer. A quiet civil servant who signs the papers. A businessman who plays middleman for stolen resources. If we can’t touch the powerful directly, we can disrupt their supply chains—call out collaborators, boycott their businesses, make silence a liability.
3. Empower Local Voices.
When people understand how the looting affects them—why clinics have no painkillers, why roads are pothole galleries, why their savings turn to dust—they stop being passive. We need to translate the billions stolen into the bread and blood ordinary people lose.
4. Use Digital Firepower.
Forget waiting for a newspaper headline. Social media is the new frontline. If 10,000 people share one dirty tender. If a viral video names one corrupt deal. If an exposé forces one apology. That’s momentum broken. Even for a day, it counts.
5. Preserve the Evidence.
One day, this will end. And when it does, justice will depend on what we remembered. Keep receipts. Archive stories. Record testimony. The day of reckoning needs a paper trail.
ZANU-PF's looting isn't just a result of power—it is the reason they cling to power. They’re not afraid of elections. They’re afraid of accountability.
We may not hold the keys to State House yet. But if we let the looting continue unchallenged, we’ll have nothing left to rebuild with when change finally comes.
So let’s fight. Let’s document. Let’s disrupt. Let’s break their rhythm.
Because while we wait for change at the top, we can still stop the rot below.
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