HARARE – Nelson Chamisa, former opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) chief, has expressed concern over the huge mind drain Zimbabwe is experiencing, citing the quite a few calls he receives each day from professionals searching for to go away the nation seeking higher alternatives elsewhere.
According to Chamisa, this development has been ongoing for the previous 20 years, with Zimbabweans pleading for help and steering on how you can exit the nation.
“My each day agony is waking up daily to the lived nightmare of receiving yet one more name from a fellow Zimbabwean determined to go away the nation trying to find what’s believed to be greener pastures.
“This is a story I have experienced repeatedly for the past 20 years,” Chamisa wrote on his X deal with.
“Often, these calls are usually not simply conversations; they’re pleas for help, requests for steering on discovering a strategy to exit and escape to a perceived higher life and future.
“The sheer scale of mind drain we’re experiencing is staggering.
“As a nation, we are hemorrhaging talent and gifts, losing the very citizens we have invested in and educated (with meager resources for that matter), to other economies, where they go to build and strengthen economies elsewhere.”
Chamisa attributes this disaster to an absence of efficient management, stating that these in energy have failed to handle the difficulty. He emphasised that any critical management wouldn’t enable this mind drain to proceed unchecked.
He added that penalties of this development are far-reaching, with Zimbabwe’s financial system struggling as its greatest minds are exported to different international locations.
The mind drain phenomenon has been a longstanding problem for Zimbabwe, with varied research highlighting its implications for sustainable improvement. The nation’s medical sector has additionally been severely impacted, with many healthcare professionals searching for alternatives overseas.
“We cannot continue with a situation where all of us, as a people, are perennially preoccupied with finding a way out of our own country. I am yet to see a nation that thrives when the bulk of its best minds are outside it. It can’t,” the previous opposition chief stated.
“It has turn out to be a typical disposition for residents to go searching for alternatives in different international locations. The motivation being that the grass is greener elsewhere.
“Granted, the grass always seems greener elsewhere, but it should be greenest wherever we are. Yet, right now, that green grass is benefitting no one here—except a select few.”
Many individuals are leaving Zimbabwe attributable to a mix of financial hardship, political instability, and restricted alternatives, main to an enormous mind drain.
In January 2024, Chamisa resigned abruptly from the opposition CCC he had based two years earlier than in January 2022.
In a 13-page assertion Chamisa resigned saying his occasion had been “contaminated” and “hijacked” by the federal government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa and that “I will have nothing to do with sewer politics.”
“The original CCC idea has however been contaminated, bastardized, hijacked by ZANU PF through the abuse of State institutions,” he stated.
Over a 12 months after his resignation the charismatic opposition chief has confronted rising criticism for taking too lengthy to announce a brand new occasion or sign which path he intends to pursue.
Instead he has devoted numerous time to sharing bible verses and giving biblical analogies a lot to the annoyance of his loyal base.
