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Corruption, a stone's throw away from being a norm!

It is quite sad to note that society is slowly condoning corruption as a typical way of life in Zimbabwe. We are getting used to watching a combi driver pay $3 to the police officers on the roadblock and well, life goes on! Yet if we look closely at how the rate at which corruption levels across the country are skyrocketing, it is evidently sensible to conclude that unless we are able to graduate our view of corruption from just the transaction between a motorist driver and a traffic police officer into the system that instructs the road traffic wing to deploy a road block then we remain ignorant to the root cause of that particular form of corruption. Principally, a roadblock is mounted for security reasons, crime detection, prevention and investigations. Theoretically speaking, that kind of regulatory intention makes sense right? But if we zoom in on the practical existence of roadblocks we will discover that this is just a cover up for what is actually happening on the groun