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The Zimbabwe political topography has been a subject of apprehension, pessimism, sarcasm and disappointment. Metaphorically, the nature and type of Zimbabwean politics caused untold destruction of the national value system, weakening of all critical national institutions, undermining the country’s beneficial external relations, annihilation of the economic wellbeing of the country and engendering hate, ethnic conflicts and regionalism as a ploy to consolidate political power. This state of affairs has made those willing to engage into political activities (politicking) consider politics a ‘declared enemy number one.’ Any aspirations for political office at local and national levels is met with disdain and brute force by the existing players because many of them engage into politics to manipulate state institutions for personal gain. The country has degenerated to levels of a rogue state, with most global statistical indicators depicting Zimbabwe as a country worse than those at war. There is a nexus between bad politics and bad economic governance. Ugly heads of fraud, corruption, dishonesty, exploitation, bribery, generalised impunity, nepotism, endemic political indoctrination and state national economic decay are symptomatic of bad politics in a country. Accordingly, Zimbabweans continue to wish and pray for the integrity of those taking part in the sustenance of our national body politic with calls from right thinking citizens for a total l clean-up of our national political processes and systems. Muchadenyika (2015) The majority of Zimbabweans believe that de-risking politics will inevitably inspire and encourage those that are servant leadership material to participate in national political activities without fear of death, loss of wealth, freedoms and endangering immediate and extended family members. Deployments made into state departments are believed to be done on the basis of one’s political correctness which is in direct contradiction to the ethos of professionalism and meritocracy. A case of the ruling party’s legal affairs secretary automatically become minister of legal affairs or the economic affairs secretary becoming minister of economic planning etc. The eventual outcome of which is systematic destruction of confidence in national institutions, reduced public service standards, increased unprofessional behaviour and impunity substantially creating an uncompetitive Zimbabwean state. It therefore justifies undertaking study, analysing and comparatively evaluating the generally accepted, desired progressive and developmental politics with our model of Zimbabwe politics particularly as it provides a response to the pledges made by the current Zimbabwe government of servant leadership, pragmatism and democratic governance. (President Mnangagwa Inauguration speech 2018) Whilst, the public pronouncements appear to portray a progressive, accountable and futuristic state, activities on the ground give credence to volatile messy politics which has founded a culture of state structure manipulation needing among other forms, constructive criticsm. Servant leadership is subtended by tenets of care, empathy, all democratic principles, good governance practices, building of solid national institutions, creation of a just society that responds to the needs of all and sundry, Kirk Helliker & Tendai Murisa (2020)

Rhetoric of Political Servant Leadership- a review of Zimbabwe’s New Political Dispensation (NPD) Servant Leadership Pledge