DEVOLUTION- A solution to Zimbabwean crisis?

The centralization of power seems to be an issue of concern to the whole Zimbabweans. Power is centralized in one city, all government head offices are centralized in one city, which is a threat to democracy, fairness and impartiality. What can be the cause? I can argue that the fact that one race outnumbers most of the races in this country is one of the causes.

Because of this, our mothers, sisters and brothers there at the periphery of the peripheries are being disadvantages their right to identity, i.e. they cannot apply for identity cards or long birth certificates because they have to go to Harare. Why Harare all the time? You need a passport, go to Harare, finger print verification-Harare, ZIMSEC-Harare, War vets- Harare, everything-Harare. I believe people from as far as Plumtree cannot manage to travel all the way to Harare to apply for all this and later on sleep on the street when they are there.

In my opinion, the best way of dealing with these problems is to decentralize power. Each and every province needs its own registry office, active police headquarters and head offices for all government offices. It is a waste of time, resources and energy for a person from as far as Binga to go all the way from Harare, dragging his or her aged grandparents and make them sleep in the street just for application of a birth certificate while this can be easily done there in Binga without harming anyone.

The capital city

Devolution needs to take place before our marginalized cultural groups are totally “colonized” by the ‘supreme’ culture. I solely believe that as Matebeleland, Manicaland, we can effectively manage head government offices with minimum ‘help’ from the ‘supreme’. It is really painful to be treated as a minority in everything, treated as empty vessels who can only be fed by the superior who only enjoy the nation cake alone and only feeding the so called minority with crumbs.