The brain drain is such that there are only two people
The brain drain is such that there are only two people left in the entire country qualified to perform a post-mortem examination. Whenever there is a shooting or a killing the bodies have to join the queue to be seen by these two.There are more than 700 unemployed and virtually destitute people with HIV and Aids in Marondera, a farming town of more than 30,000, 90 miles south-east of Harare. Under these circumstances cricket is insignificant.People in my own town with HIV and Aids, when they are too sick to leave their beds, the families hire cars and take them out into the countryside to die They then bury them there to save on the cost of coffins. He said the bill “does not seek to regulate but to control, to silence, to render ineffective and ultimately shut down non-governmental organisations”.With the NGO bill we risk our people being arrested and our assets seized.
Welshman Ncube, the chairman of the parliamentary legal committee, described the NGO bill as a “pervasive attempt to curtail and extinguish the fundamental freedoms of the people of Zimbabwe”. NGOs are frantically making preparations as I write.Some say they will go underground, others will relocate to neighbouring countries and many more will simply cease to exist. Despite an adverse report by the parliamentary legal committee, which said the Bill contradicted the constitution on 12 counts, it now seems inevitable that the NGO bill is about to become law. There is this absolute paranoia in the regime that any funding coming in will give money to the opposition NGOs will be forced to close or relocate. The bill has gone to its second reading, It’s now a fait accompli and it will become law in the next week or two.The consequences will be diabolical. The situation is one thousand times worse in Zimbabwe than it was even four years ago.
This may well be the last week that a large number of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) operate in the country.This week parliament began forcing the NGO bill through the required stages. It’s sickening England are coming and that the issue was over money and players’ fees I don’t believe that the England players wanted to come.
Most of us who live here don’t give a damn about cricket: we’re worried about how to feed people and treat the sick. It’s totally inappropriate that the tour is going ahead. Each year, rather like the Institute of Strategic Studies in the Cold War, it could publish an audit of the balance of power between the legislature and the executive. Just think how many nostrils-in-authority it would get up! The public would love it. They care for Parliament more than they do the executive, particularly now when we have the most supine Cabinet since the war.. We really do need a War Powers Act which, except in dire emergency, requires a specific vote of the House of Commons to approve military action in advance of its being taken.Another thing that Westminster needs is a contemporary history of Parliament capability to conduct research along and around the jagged line between past, present and future. One prerogative exercised by ministers cries out for a statute to bring the matter into Parliament once and for all That is the prerogative of peace and war.