Election campaign messages that date back as far as 2005 can be seen on Chiremba Balancing rocks in Epworth. Due to limited advertising space in public media various political parties resort to putting their campaign messages on national monuments. Chiremba Balancing Rocks were declared a national monument in 1994 and are located 13 km southeast of Harare. The granite balancing rocks lie within a natural breathtaking scenic environment. These rocks were a famous feature on some of  Zimbabwe’s bank notes before the currency was changed to American dollars.

With another round of elections on the cards more graffiti is expected to besmirch these magnificent rocks since the site has been turned into a mere billboard. One would wonder if the ideas and energy taken by the people who spray painted these rocks is put to action we wouldn’t be having problems in marketing our country  to the outside world. Instead of showing their advertising and marketing skills by bringing more tourists to this place they decided abuse the place with political party messages.

This entry was posted on February 10th, 2011 at 1:30 pm by Lenard Kamwendo and is filed under Governance, Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.