Covid 19 has wreaked up the world

Covid 19 has wreaked up the world

Ezekiel Morake

The Corona Virus which suspected to have originated in china has wreaked the world and the leaders don’t know what to do.

This is like the end of the world more than when the year 2000 was coming into play because the world even then was delivering messages that the world was coming to an end but we are still here. Many people who were rich squandered their riches to make sure that when they die when the clock hits 0000 in 1999 they would have finished them without any question. So Covid 19 as is sometimes called has wreaked the world and even economists don’t know what to do because world leaders are closing certain industries inorder to save lives.

Many people don’t know what to do to end this pandemic but others are saying let’s work as if there is nothing but wearing of masks and clothes should be made normal.  Economies of certain countries is falling and its even worse in the African countries that were already poor. Zimbabweans are fighting for the freedom so that they could make life easy for them. Their president Emerson Mnangangwagwa is like living in his own planet as he does not care for the lives of his people. ED as he is sometimes called is a person that toppled Robert Mugabe who stood beyond his welcome. He is now repeating what his predecessor was doing to cling to power despite massive cry from the people.

Many people had thought that Mnangwagwa would be different from Mugabe but it looks like they are cut from the same cloth. Some reporting’s claiming that Mnagwagwa was the right handman of Mugabe and that he was working behind the scenes to do the dirty work of Mugabe. Many Zimbabweans that I came across would tell you about Krurukandi whereby 200 000 Amatebele were killed during Mugabe is forever etched in their minds. Most of these people are living in Bulawayo where they killed like flies and this is something that most Zimbabweans hate Mugabe for.

Mugabe was one of the founders of ZANU-PF which is forced down the throat of the people because the people are tired of it and want MDC to take over the power. Many people think that in 2002 MDC had won the elections deceivably enabling Morgan Tvsangirai to rule but Mugabe stole the elections for him to be in power. Mugabe had apparently said that he would rule until he dies because he was made to rule the people by God.  Mugabe was strong and did not care about his people. During his time farms belonging to whites were taken by force and the owners fled the country to other African countries to continue their farming. Beneficiaries of such bad decision were countries like Zambia, DRC, South Africa and Nigeria as those farmers were sold or given large treats of land to farm producing much needed food.

Zimbabwe instead of benefiting from the bad decision continued to safer more and generations to come because Mugabe hard argued that there was Lancaster decision which was not put in place considering that the world was stolen Zimbabweans under the rifle of a gun. Many Zimbabweans and other Africans still argue that the land was taken from the people by force so there was no time to seat down with the thieves. I believe that Mugabe was in power and stood for a long time instead doing what was required of him while he was still energetic. Demanding justice for people was right but he stood for a long time or whites thought that the issue would just passed away like that. Mugabe was a shining example to African leaders who were weak to act and did something different. However the present president Mnagwagwa is now doing something different agreeing to pay the billons in American dollars for the stolen land which was taken back by some Zimbabweans hoping to make their lives better.

Devastating as the decision is Zimbabweans have left their country to settle in South Africa, Botswana and even Lesotho running away from their country of birth. Others still love their country as they usually go home when time allows still working in those countries. Others are business people in those countries as is the case in Lesotho. Unlike Oscar Oskido Mdlongwa, Shasha, Peter Ndoro, Tendai Mtangawira and many others have settled in South Africa because the country is giving them an opportunity to make life better for them.

So the resumption of Corona Virus in the world has changed how people live as many countries including Lesotho restrict movement of people. Unless you are in possession of a permit you cannot move from one place to another, for instance from Lesotho to free State even they are close to each other like that. Lesotho is an amazing country that is inside another country and is totally land locked. It means that things are worse as people are confined in their areas like that but more difficult for Basotho because their country is too small for anything.

Even though some people do not want to admit it, Lesotho depends on South Africa for anything but such people think that Lesotho can be self reliant. Corona Virus has exposed the fallacy because all borders are closed and the movement of people is restricted especially people who are in business can no longer frequent Gauteng province and Cape Town to make a purchases of clothes, shoes, blankets and cars from Durban.  People who buy cars from Japan and China are now affected as they can no longer buy goods in China or any other world because shipping has been stopped now.

In essence the business has been turned upside down because nothing is moving because of the fear of Corona Virus that is now in place. People are no longer shaking hands because they fear Corona Virus and hugs are no longer in fashion but people who don’t care about the decease are still doing it. Corona Virus is an everyday word and has become too popular for my liking. And it seems like the word of the century because there is nothing like it in the world. We were only in a month when President of South Africa said that it would take almost two years to recover but now ever since it has taken almost 8 months being in place and  its going to take centuries for countries to recover from.

Even the small country like Lesotho is feeling the pinch of Corona Virus. In Lesotho the schools were closed in the beginning of March when South Africa introduced the lockdown and this country followed suit even when there was nothing in place to fear it. Former Prime Minister Tom Thabane introduced lockdown a week later but did not talk strongly about behavior change even his successor did not make a required noise but changed the minister who was already doing it without giving an explanation.

Only in June the country had experienced the first Corona Virus and deaths followed afterwards. A new minister of Health was appointed whereas Nkaku Kabi the former health minister was doing well and did not have to be changed to be water minister. But what I had witnessed is that Communications minister Thesele Maseribane had taken over Nacosec and he was speaking on behalf of it yet health minister was there. I wondered what got into Dr. Moeketsi Majoro for appointing Thabo khasipe as the manager of Nacosec yet he was the commissioner General of Lesotho Revenue Authority (LRA). The Prime Minister was now showing signs of Corruption in his gig as prime minister. Khasipe was already earning a lot of money as LRA boss and now to get two fat cheqeus. It was unbelievable that Majoro ignored the health workers and that according to him no one could lead Nacosec yet there are so many Doctors and Nurses at the ministry.

Once again Lesotho is again cursed to have a prime minister who does not care about the country but his friends will eat money for generations to come. The health workers engaged in a strike demanding money to be increased. Instead of paying them the minister of health Maqelepo talked nonsense saying that they want to enrich themselves when they demanded an increase to their salary. Ever since Maqelepo was appointed the minister of health he revealed his pettiness and weakness by saying wrong things to the public about health workers demanding better pay, PEPs and tax holiday like it is happening to other countries.

It is if the money is coming from his pocket or anyone he knows. Nacosec was created with the purpose of people befitting from Corona Virus and they wanted health workers not to benefit yet they put their lives in danger like that. Yet when Lesotho government seeks the donations from donors they mention the health sector. At health PS was removed and a new one khothatso was put in place. Khothatso trained as a police officer in 2007 and climbed the ranks so quick because he had Masters Degree in Philosophy. I don’t about his appointment but he is not health worker or trained in health a matter again that is why the country is not moving forward. Majoro might have good intentions but he wrong most of the time.

I don’t want to spend time discussing Khothatso but Majoro is forcing my hand to talk about him because he has proven that once again that government is not his thing. He is failing dismally and the time I think would be possible to judge his performance was December but he is doing it himself. He is not fit to lead the government because he is failing a lot. So much was expected from him because he had worked at IMF and knows a lot about money. He was the finance minister but he achieved nothing from being the minister of finance. While he was the finance minister, Majoro infamously increased the salaries by 0 percent but the following year when he was chosen as the prime minister he increased the money 5 percent as if he was different from Thabane.

Majoro became the prime minister when the world faced difficulty in Corona Virus but we will judge him because he had been government for a long time. He was once the governor of Lesotho Central Bank but still he performed no miracle even now as the prime minister he is failing a lot. It was winter recently and Corona Virus was expected to affect many people but Lesotho has been ill-prepared to deal with the issue.

The much talked about building of another hospital in place of Queen 2 took time to be rebuilt by Chinese government as if Lesotho is the province of china. There are significant buildings which were built like the parliament and Manthabiseng Convention Center by the Chinese.

Lesotho is facing a difficult time now of preretoriosing money but it cannot do so because it does not have luxury to do so. The only proper town that has almost everything a person might need is Maseru but is very down compared to other town in South Africa. A testing place for Corona virus has just been build in Lesotho after the government played marbles with the donations it received from well wishers. There is Sam Matekane a Mosotho business person who donated the machine to government and was almost frustrated at the manner in which the government was responding to Corona Virus.

WHO had been donating essentials to the affected ministry but the government decided to store those donations at the army until the health workers stroke demanding them. Really the Lesotho government is poor in administration. Even donated things are a problem to distribute them accordingly. Another issue is Basotho who work in South Africa and when they return into the country, cross at unsigned borders bring with them disease almost all the districts that borders South Africa. Majoro has no convincing answer for that.