Comments on: Dead by the road side

By: Vanilla Ice

Vanilla Ice — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:16:38 +0000

You cannot be serious. You did nothing. We have a duty as adults to protect and nurture our children. They are our future. How we treat them reflects on who we are as a people and a nation. You abandoned her, and left her to the whims of fate. Just like your countrymen have done to Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe has no future, and never will as long as attitudes like this prevail. Zimbabwe will forever remain a failed state, just like Somalia, until you are recolonised by the Chinese. You have no compassion for your own, and yet deeply despise foreigners at the same time. What a mess. I shudder to think what happened to that child.

By: Gashirayi

Gashirayi — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:18:48 +0000

Fungisai you tried but u should have gone the extra mile in getting food for the young child coz mybe the mother died of hunger. If you did may God bless you because we could have lost another life in the little child. May God Bless our beloved Zimbabwe and let’s leave it to Him to identify the culprits and He Himself will do justice accordingly.
Take heart

By: goldwinger

goldwinger — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:24:32 +0000

This was always going to happen from the minute Smith left power. This person would be alive (and thousands more) if Mugabe and his dispicable rabble had not been handed power by the so called free world. They didn’t win the war and never would, results spoke for themselves. I remember many black people telling me that at least under smith they had food, jobs and a life. Get rid of that Animal and all his followers any way you can. It’s the only chance that country has. Only fools never saw this coming back as far as 1977

By: Gerry Jackson

Gerry Jackson — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:02:57 +0000

The socio economic crisis is to blame for the destruction of the country but all Zimbabweans should take the responsibility to help where they can. I cannot believe anyone could just leave a child in this situation, and on Christmas day. It has blown my mind.

By: Tsitsi

Tsitsi — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:09:58 +0000

It also breaks my heart that zimbabwean children have to go through such horrific experiences because our leaders have abdicated their reposnsibility. I am sorry too, that Fungisai – I am sure herself struggling to make ends meet has to bear that responsibility.

Thank you for your story and take heart – our country and its people will be free someday.

By: Fungisai Sithole

Fungisai Sithole — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:59:43 +0000

Thank you very much. Your comment at least removes the blame off my shoulders. I guess I did all I could and the blame should be put where it lies – the socio economic crisis destroying our nation.

By: Light

Light — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:42:19 +0000

You did all you could and more than many would have. I will pray for peace for your mind. I will pray for the little girl. I continue to pray for the end of suffering for all Zimbabweans.

By: Global Voices Online » Zimbabwe: Left to die by the roadside

Global Voices Online » Zimbabwe: Left to die by the roadside — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:47:31 +0000

[...] by the roadside,” writes Fungisai on Kubatana blog, “A pitiable sight of a young girl aged around six to seven years, seated by the roadside, [...]