It’s 19:00 and it’s time for the e-tv news, well there is nothing too shocking looks like the world will still be rotating tomorrow. Except maybe for some Zimbabweans who are perhaps going through one of the roughest periods in their history of independence, e-tv had some very graphic footage of the atrocities that are taking place in our neighbouring country.

When I hear a gunshot coming from my neighbours house, I catch myself running to the door, stopping mid way to think, then I call the police and maybe a few other neighbours. Strength in numbers you know, maybe we’ll be brave enough to go over and see if we can help or catch a culprit or be witness. Then here comes along Mr. ANC president Jacob Zuma with this statement: “I cannot prescribe what to do in Zimbabwe…” Well something along those lines, I couldn’t hear very well over my own groaning as he started to speak.

Prescribe –“ to lay down as a guide, direction, or rule of action” or “to designate or order the use of as a remedy” according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

Now, I think we are way past “prescribing” when people are being brutalised only a border away, we are way past strategising and studying and watching.

It’s either our government acts or it doesn’t but they shouldn’t undermine our intelligence by throwing words like “prescribe” at us. Tell us are you going to do something or not? And if not then are you listening to the voices of your people at all?