Coffee Cabinet – Becoming The Muse
If you were having coffee with me, I would be happy to have you join this, my tangle of words. Make yourself at home, grab a cuppa… Maybe you prefer ice cold water, the weather has been rather hot.
Temperatures have been uncharacteristically high of late, it feels like we are in an internship for hell. Soaking in a bathtub full of ice would be a wonderful thing about now except, well, the electricity seems to have gone back to its regular old tricks, where its like a spouse that comes after you go to sleep then leaves before you wake and some nights doesn’t return at all. Long story short the fridge might as well as be a storage cabinet.
The power utility company hasn’t given any official update as to the state of electricity generation and distribution. The official website for the Zimbabwe Power Company has been down for ages now and unconfirmed sources suggest that part of the reason why the website is down is because the power company got hacked by a gang of cybercriminals that call themselves the Everest Ransomware Group.
My guess would be that when they re-notified their demands back in August, the country was in election mode and there might have been no government officials to make decisive decisions. Zimbabwe had its harmonised presidential elections on 23 August 2023, and the out-going president got re-elected for a second and final term that has begun under a lot of scrutiny and controversy on credibility and transparency concerns.
If you were having coffee with me, I would tell you that people expected the main opposition party to fight the election results in the constitutional court. Instead they seem to have quietly gone into that goodnight with their strategic ambiguity.
Word on the street suggests that part of the reasoning being that the courts are captured and if they went to the courts and lost the case they would have then have legitimized the election results and there can be no further appeal when the highest court of the land makes a judgement. So here we are.
The president got inaugurated on the 4th of September and the members of parliament were sworn in on the 7th of September. On Monday the 11th of September the president announced the new cabinet which is a remix of old and new blood.
The cabinet has been the subject of talk this past week. There are ministers who are still hold the same positions from previous cabinet despite an unflattering track record and others with questionanable qualifications for the offices they hold. The president has faced criticism for appointing family members and his cronies into senior governemnt positions.
If you are having coffee with me, I would tell you that it feels like we are holding our breath waiting for the other shoe to drop. Tempers are rising just like the weather and if someone throws a match a fire might erupt.
A week ago a football match in Bulawayo’s Barbourfield Stadium was ended prematurely due to fans invading the stadium, which would have you wondering if it was still about football or they were venting pent up energy.
The rioting fans achieved a certain notoriety for clahing with the riot police with people even cheering them on saying that sort of energy could change the country.
Small surprise police are on high alert and making a clampdown on any action which can be interpreted as an incitement to public violence but then like a self-fulfilling prophecy the more they clamp down on perceived unruly behaviour the more it raises the boiling point and people ask if we can survive five years of this…
The new cabinet has its work cutout to calm the storm brewing in the teapot shaped country. I wonder if aliens are watching our antics and laughing at our pretences of civilisation.
Hey, so aliens? What are your thoughts do they exist??? Whats been going on in your neck of the woods?
~B
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Becoming The Muse 
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