COVID-19 and Zimbabwe: When an Irresistible Force Met an Immovable Object
COVID-19 has come at a really bad time for Zimbabwe Sooner or later, the day of reckoning was always going to catch up with the Zimbabwe government. Up until now, they have found a ready excuse for why they have failed on their mandate to feed every citizen in the country, why the formal economy has been practically decimated to the point that it is more costly to be formally employed than stay at home; why millions have been fleeing the country and risking their lives in foreign lands in search of greener pastures. Sanctions. It has always been the fault of sanctions. But the devastating spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has confirmed a few home truths about the quality of leaders in most governments of the world; Zimbabwe included. In the sea, they say a captain’s worth – or lack thereof – come to fore during the mightiest of storms; and so it has proved with a global pandemic that has crept on the world unawares. By the time it gets done, the Coronavirus pandemi