Good Day Mr President
Moses Matenga
YOUR Excellency, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe, represented by you, became a butt of jokes on social media over your “peripheral” role in the Kazungula Bridge project after you initially claimed to be part of the grand project together with your Motswana and Zambian counterparts.
Government pundits were at pains to spin the narrative that Zimbabwe was already part of the Kazungula Bridge project, with some ending up confusing themselves in the process.
All we hear is that it was done to score points and portray your administration as championing huge developmental projects.
What a day it was on Monday when you attended the official opening of the project, albeit as a guest, to witness your counterparts Edgar Lungu of Zambia and Mokgweetsi Masisi of Botswana doing the ribbon cutting.
Your Excellency, there was absolutely no reason for your spin doctors to try and hoodwink Zimbabweans and the rest of the world into believing that the country is part of the great project when it is yet to and will only be after meeting some specifics.
What came out clear after a day of grappling is that Zimbabwe is not yet part of
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2021-05-12T07:00:00.0000000Z
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