We Have a Date
So now we have a date. June 27th. This means the limbo is over. It also means that the violence is going to rage beyond belief. It already is. Over 40 opposition activists killed, thousands displaced, 87 year-old women beaten to death. It seems that life is the only cheap thing in Zimbabwe these days. Everything but death is beyond our reach.
The violence from the rural areas is now seeping into Harare. A comrade who I saw just days ago was abducted and is missing. The way things are at the moment it's more likely that his body will be found lying in a river bed than him being found alive. Death and fear have replaced the dollar as the currency of the day. The dollar died along time ago anyway. All we have left is a memory that gets passed from one hand to another.
But now we have a date. And we have a potholed playing field. Opposition organisers have been initmidated while voters have been chased from their wards where they are to vote. We have just over a month to overcome fear and death to make sure our dream is not stillborn but still born. Our most courageous month awaits us.
