HOSPITALS ARE FALLING WHILE THE RULERS GET RICH

Something very strange is happening in our country. Hospitals are falling apart. People are dying from simple sickness. There are no medicines. Nurses and doctors are tired and stressed. The whole health system is broken. But instead of fixing it, the people in power are using it to make money. Very big money. Almost one billion dollars is now in health tenders, and all the big deals are going to people close to Emmerson Mnangagwa.

It all looked innocent at first. Youth Minister Tinoda Machakaire wrote a Facebook post saying he visited a hospital and felt very sad. He said things were very bad and asked the President to go and see for himself. Many people praised him and said he was brave. But some of us knew it was only a show. It was a setup to prepare the country for what was coming.

Soon after this post, Mnangagwa started visiting hospitals. He went to Parirenyatwa, Sally Mugabe Hospital and NatPharm. People thought maybe he wanted to help. But behind closed doors, deals were already being planned. These deals were not for the people. They were for his friends.

One of the biggest deals went to Wicknell Chivayo. He got a huge four hundred and thirty seven million dollar contract to supply cancer machines. His company, TTM Global, is new and was started only months ago. It is linked to his expensive flat in Sandton. The contract was never advertised. No one else had a chance. That is corruption in plain sight.

Another deal came from Belarus. Mnangagwa met with President Lukashenko and agreed on a three hundred million dollar health project. It includes medicines, machines and fixing hospitals. But again, people close to Mnangagwa, especially businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei, are right in the middle of it. He did not even travel to Belarus, but he is said to be advising the President on this deal. Just days after Machakaire’s Facebook post, a meeting happened in Harare with Mnangagwa’s inner circle to talk about how to raise money for these projects.

There is more. Another friend of Mnangagwa, Tempter Tungwarara, got a contract to fix hospitals even though there was no tender. His company, Prevail International, has only worked on government jobs. He is known for fraud problems, unpaid loans and fake property stories. But Mnangagwa still gave him a diplomatic passport and full support. His company is also behind many other projects like boreholes, houses for war vets and the State House wall that cost fifteen million dollars. All this was done without any open tender.

These men are not fixing hospitals for the people. They are getting rich while patients sleep in dirty wards with no medicine. Mnangagwa is using the pain of the poor to feed his friends. Health care is now a goldmine for those close to power. Prices are pushed up. Deals are kept secret. And people keep dying.

The sad truth is the health system has become a business for the ruling elite. There is no honesty. No fairness. No shame. What we are seeing is not leadership. It is theft. The people suffer while the powerful smile and sign new deals. This is why we must speak up. Our hospitals belong to the people, not to a small group of rich friends. If we stay silent, nothing will change.