http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/fix-this-please-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fix-this-please-3 Kubatana.net speaks out from Zimbabwe Tue, 03 Dec 2013 13:53:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/fix-this-please-3/#comment-233176 Bev Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:14:37 +0000 http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/?p=8345#comment-233176 Ok Lloyd so the next time you see a non-working traffic light in your area, or a broken sewage pipe hope you’re gonna get out your tool kit and go buy all the stuff that’s needed to fix the problem. Or maybe you can take time off work to direct traffic so accidents don’t happen. Zimbabweans are paid low wages, they pay high tax, multiple levies (think of where the road toll tax is going … fixing potholes?) never mind vast unemployment. City councils and governments have a responsibility to maintain public infrastructure. As citizens we have a responsibility to pay tax to help them do this. I don’t expect the council to come into my home to fix my plumbing but I do expect them to provide, for example, regular clean water so that disease is kept at bay and quality of life is maintained. In real terms Zimbabweans are fixing a lot of their own problems in community. Its a lot to ask, as well as being resoundingly unrealistic to suggest that citizens can fix, for example non working traffic lights.

]]> http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/fix-this-please-3/#comment-233172 Lloyd Ngwenya Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:35:23 +0000 http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/?p=8345#comment-233172 Thank you for the info, but is this really a solution? When are we as Zimbabweans going to realise that its not enough to point fingers at someone and say “fix this”? What is needed are solutions, and active involvement by the residents in fixing the problems. Lets, for a while, forget whose responsibility it is and get our country functioning.

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