Decisions that change everything, yet change nothing

The title of this blog is a common cliche, but I will use it. I have seen Zimbabwe make so many decisions that change everything, yet change nothing. In February, people were happy to have this chimeric inlcusive government. They were hoping, as all desperate people are wont to do, that the IG will bring change. Well, it did. Every civil servant earns USD100 a month. The net effect of this sum is to shift civil servants from one category of obscene and desparate poverty to another. No point in calculating the Gini coefficient here! We no longer have the 'change-money' industry but we seem to have violent crimes and robberies increasing by the day. We no longer have extreme hate speech on TV, but journalists are still being jailed for quoting documents that are in the public domain. We even have visits from the most interesting quarters - North Korea! Very interesting friends at this juncture; well at least they built that colossal cemetery which we confuse with a heroes' acre. Then we have the Mutambara MDC formation suspending all and sundry making Job Sikhala totally Jobless! I liked the responses from both Sikhala and the youth leader. All I need to point out for the two is; pretending to resign from a party after being suspended makes you less credible critics of the same party. If there was something wrong with the party, you should not have waited to be suspended for you to write your erudite articles on the failures of the party. For the record, I have always viewed that formation (you included) with suspicion.