The last month has been one of the worst Zimbabwe has seen in recent years. Whilst leaders fidgeted and bickered around who gets what and how, ordinary Zimbabweans were at the war front facing death from a serious outbreak of cholera, famine and hopelessness. The cholera scourge is reported to have officially claimed more than 300 people in Zimbabwean hospitals but reports have it that thousands more have perished in rural areas after failing to access medication. The illegitimate government of Robert Mugabe has played down the extent of the outbreak and the causalities it is causing. That is the main reason, coupled with severe famine and poverty, that they refused the “elders” to enter Zimbabwe. During the 1950s, Chairman Mao attempted to industrialise China at the same time ignoring agriculture. The worst famine ever witnessed in the century occurred in China during the so called “great leap” but nothing ever came out until decades later. Horrendous stories of how people ate soil were only told as mythical bed time stories years later. This is typical of what is facing Zimbabwe at the moment. Potentially about 1.4 million Zimbabweans are at risk of cholera and that deserves to be declared a national disaster! Thousands are dying from a mixture of famine, poverty, HIV/AIDS, malaria and a host of other curable diseases and all this is being brushed under the carpet. I wish to say that the so called negotiations are holding the people of Zimbabwe hostage. In fact, I posit that the negotiations are the carpet under which these “genocide” events are being swept. I wish to hold all three parties responsible. But of course, i wish to reserve the greatest responsibility for Mugabe and his yes man who still claim to be ministers and a government at this point in time. I wonder if the ministry of home affairs can do anything to solve this calamity! I shudder to imagine what would be remaining of the sons and daughters of the soil in two months when the GNU is finally going to take off. Surely which public is supposed to scrutinise the draft amendment for a month! If three people and one foreign mediator can decide on the structure of a government, take five months to agree on something and it turns out to be nothing, why the people after all! Who would drag his running stomach to parliament to view the draft? Who would leave a queue for cash at inter-market to go and view a draft document? I probably do not understand or comprehend the ideas of democracy, its complexities or the concept has serious shortcomings. Or rather, the concept is just being used where it suits those who are in control of our society. Zimbabwe can’t wait a month of scrutiny. Last month I said how power games where leading us to more poverty, now they have led us to doom. As if the deaths caused by cholera, HIV and absolute poverty were not enough,I was shocked to see one Nathaniel Manheru celebrating the killing of more than a dozen people at Chiadzwa last week. To him Chiadzwa was reclaimed! Reclaimed by whom, for who? Surely I am not as ignorant as not to comprehend the need for sanity to prevail at Chiadzwa, but to celebrate the death of 16 Zimbabweans is evil at any rate. I will not be shocked if he celebrates these cholera inflicted deaths. He would probably, talk of sanctions! Or maybe lack of Pan African behaviour on the part of those who are infected! Noble causes bastardised by the likes of Manheru!" icho!"