Challenges trigger creativity in a people.
Of course, this is no reason to crave or look for hardships in the hope these will provoke creative responses which build great civilisations.
We could do even better without challenges, especially where these come from sheer spite and meanness.
But it cannot be denied that the course to national prosperity, and to building a great and resilient economy, derives from overcoming hurdles.
Indeed, it is such hurdles — natural or man-made — which ultimately define our achievements and greatness as a nation.
While we continue to challenge those nations which decided to impose and punish us with spiteful, illegal sanctions, we must, in equal if not greater measure, seek creative ways around those sanctions, so we prosper our nation in spite of them.
We cannot wring our hands in despair; or break down and cry. We meet challenges head-on.
We have God-given resources in abundance; we have the brains which we continue to develop and sharpen; indeed, we have the zeal and will to work and prosper our nation.
All those attributes are encapsulated in our ageless mantra: NYIKA INOVAKWA NEVENE VAYO!
It is a mantra we temper with patience, perseverance and persistence we summon and cultivate as a people.
For steadily, slowly but surely, we will build our country, brick by brick, stone upon stone!
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