Emotional blackmail will not solve our problems

The Flip Side with Kuthula Matshazi

Increasingly, more and more Zimbabweans use emotions to try and get everyone doing what they want. Unfortunately, in public issues that is not exactly how we might want to approach issues because such an approach is not enough to solve the problems of Zimbabwe. Emotions are only relevant in so far as compassion goes but they cannot be substitute for reason and pragmatism. In fact, at worst these emotional pleas by some Zimbabweans have been stretched to a point of destruction where they have been used as blackmail. More...