INCAPACITATION: Striking without Striking

Desperate times call for desperate measures! This sums up the Zimbabwean story nowadays. It goes without saying that Zimbabweans have fought a losing battle against the establishment that has deployed its repressive state apparatus to good effect at the slightest sight of trouble. The story of police brutality against unarmed civilians raising their displeasure at elements of bad governance that have crippled the economy has been well documented. Since the Mugabe led administration, Zimbabweans who dared raise their ire against corrupt and inept or incompetent government officials through demonstrations have invited a beating with many ending in hospital, police cells, in prison or at worst in the mortuary, Such has been the brutal nature of the Mugabe's government.

The new administration, commonly known as the New Dispensation led by HE Emmerson Mnangagwa has not covered itself in glory either. Despite the early promise to observe several human liberties that had been criminalized by the previous administration, the new dispensation mask soon came off. Many remember how they brutally attacked and even killed unarmed civilians in that fateful 1st of August 2018 following a closely contested poll. Since then, the administration has gone back to the Mugabe rule book, which is beat the hell out of your opponents and subdue them. The establishment has increasingly become impervious to rational discourse. 

With many Zimbabweans now cornered, there can only be one solution. That solution has been passive resistance. Across all civil service, this has become the order of the day. A new word has even been conceived, that is INCAPACITATION. This to many is the default mode that guarantees everyone non-victimization. But the question it begs is, Until when will this government bury its head in the sand and refuse to listen?  There is no doubt that failure to address this problem will prove fatal to this government,