In
a
post
on
X,
formerly
Twitter,
Chamisa
revealed
that
he
receives
daily
calls
from
professionals
who
are
planning
to
leave
Zimbabwe
in
search
of
better
opportunities,
a
trend
that
has
serious
implications
for
the
country’s
economic
development.
He
wrote:
Just
this
morning,
I
received
four
different
calls
from
some
professionals,
all
planning
on
leaving
the
country
to
seek
opportunities
in
other
countries.My
daily
agony
is
waking
up
every
day
to
the
lived
nightmare
of
receiving
yet
another
call
from
a
fellow
Zimbabwean
desperate
to
leave
the
country
searching
for
what
is
believed
to
be
greener
pastures.
This
is
a
story
I
have
experienced
repeatedly
for
the
past
20
years.Often,
these
calls
are
not
just
conversations
they
are
pleas
for
assistance
and
requests
for
guidance
on
finding
a
way
to
exit
and
escape
to
a
perceived
better
life
and
future.The
sheer
scale
of
brain
drain
we
are
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.
According
to
Chamisa,
it
is
nothing
short
of
devastating
that
Zimbabwe
has
consistently
haemorrhaged
its
most
precious
and
strategic
resource:
its
talented,
skilled,
and
highly-educated
young
professionals.
He
added:
This
is
plainly
heartbreaking.
Leadership
is
the
missing
link.
Those
in
leadership
have
let
the
people
down.
By
leadership,
I
mean
everyone
within
the
ecosystem
of
governance
and
influence.
Any
serious
leadership
would
not
allow
this
hemorrhaging
to
continue
untamed
or
unchecked.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!It
has
become
a
common
disposition
for
citizens
to
go
seeking
opportunities
in
other
countries.
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.
The
former
opposition
leader
urged
Zimbabweans
to
come
together
to
revamp
the
country’s
economy,
creating
an
environment
that
fosters
growth,
opportunity,
and
innovation,
and
put
an
end
to
the
crippling
brain
drain
that
has
plagued
the
nation.
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