ZANU PF DECLARES WAR ON DRUG ABUSERS WHILE PROTECTING THE DRUG LORDS
Wonders never cease indeed in the paralyzed state of Zimbabwe. The latest wonder—if not outright mockery of the oppressed, terrorized, and impoverished masses—is that the vile, terrorist, spectacularly failing, illegitimate, people’s welfare neglecting, supreme law of the land mutilating, violating, and assaulting, plundering, cancerous, extractive, tyrannical and authoritarian ZANU PF has declared war on drug abusers. But, as always, the relieved drug dealers and drug lords are untouched. Exempt. Immune. Protected. The war, instead, is to be waged against the victims—not the perpetrators—by the grossly incompetent, partisan, and heavily politicized police force, which really ought to be reformed into a police service, one that serves the people and not a thieving regime.
As usual, the vile, terrorist, spectacularly failing, illegitimate ZANU PF is focusing on the wrong target—hammering the symptoms while ignoring the root causes. If you care to do your research, in the SADC region—despite the deliberate ignorance of SADC organs who pretend the crisis doesn’t exist—you’ll find that Zimbabwe leads in youth drug abuse. It’s not just a statistic; it’s a daily reality. Our youth are broken. Addicted. Trapped. And what else can you expect in a country where youth unemployment is also the highest in the region? A country where despair has replaced hope and where the only thing more reliable than poverty is repression.
This is not a coincidence. The same paralyzed Zimbabwe that’s drowning in drugs is the same Zimbabwe that ZANU PF has turned into a graveyard of opportunity. And now, instead of accountability, instead of reform, instead of cleaning out the criminal networks that flood our streets with poison, the regime has chosen a new scapegoat—our youth. They are to be vilified, punished, imprisoned. Meanwhile, the cartels and their political handlers—the real traffickers—enjoy full protection.
What ZANU PF will never tell the people, the same people it rules instead of governs, is that it is solely responsible for the drug epidemic destroying our country. The looting of public funds, the plundering of natural and non-renewable resources, the destruction of institutions, and the obliteration of public welfare have all created a perfect storm. Instead of jobs, we have drugs. Instead of education, we have addiction. Instead of hope, we have hopelessness.
And all of this stems from political illegitimacy. This is a regime that stole the people’s consensus—consensus that was rightfully won by the only legitimate, accountable, transparent, resilient, and innovative opposition party. A party that actually listens. That actually delivers. That actually respects the rule of law—something ZANU PF continues to mutilate, violate, and weaponize with impunity.
While youth are arrested for carrying a sachet of meth, the real criminals continue to sit in air-conditioned offices, sipping imported whiskey, flying private jets, and boasting about their stolen billions. Those responsible for smuggling, for peddling, for laundering the proceeds of drugs—they walk free. Protected. Untouchable.
The state has failed. The economy has collapsed. The social fabric is torn. The police are tools of repression, not protection. And now, the latest insult to injury is a so-called war on drugs that conveniently targets the poor and shields the powerful.
ZANU PF is not solving the problem. It is the problem.
The people see it. The youth see it. The world sees it.
And history will remember it.
