Paul Arituri Banda

Labour & Social Justice Activist| Inquisitive Mind| Leadership Activist

[Prof Jonathan Moyo @ProfJNMoyo]

#SundayReflection

"I have learned to live with what I can't change, and keep my peace with what I make."

Ditto!

[Dhara Blessed Mhlanga @bbmhlanga]

One day the POSB team must just call me and thank me for spending 73 days in prison just to save their jobs and a national asset from plunder. My interview with @mawarirej stopped the theft of a national asset.

[Joseph Kalimbwe @joseph_kalimbwe]

Yesterday I received this video of The President of Zimbabwe, ED Mnangagwa, talking about Zambia's contributions to his upbringing.

As Zambians, we are proud that our country has had an impact on atleast one or 2 Presidents in many SADC countries.

Long Live the Zambian spirit

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

Agency Gumbo represents the kind of opposition Member of Parliament that every democracy needs. We are all Zimbabweans, but people hold different political views, ideologies and visions for the country. Those citizens deserve representatives who can clearly, intelligently and fearlessly articulate their positions in Parliament.

His contribution during yesterday’s debate on the controversial Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 demonstrated exactly what an effective opposition MP should do, scrutinise legislation, challenge those in power, and give voice to the concerns of the citizens he represents.

Agency Gumbo showed the importance of having opposition legislators who are informed, articulate and prepared to defend the constitutional principles and democratic values they believe in.

A healthy democracy is not built on conformity. It is strengthened when different viewpoints are robustly debated, tested and heard.

Gumbo’s contribution to the Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 debate was a reminder of the vital role that a strong and credible opposition representative plays in any democratic society.

[Gerrard Anko Ged Belts @MacBelts]

Audio of the week.

[TheNewsHawks @NewsHawksLive]

Dr Tinashe Hofisi, a Zimbabwean human rights lawyer and legal scholar currently serving as a Research Fellow at the Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia, recently joined an interesting debate on Constitutional Amendment Bill N0.3 with Professor Jonathan Moyo.
The debate was organised by the Southern African Times and run in full by The NewsHawks.
Hofisi's work primarily focuses on constitutional law, judicial design, and enforcement of human rights in Africa.
He is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Virginia School of Law and the Karsh Institute of Democracy.
Previously, he was a Hauser Global Fellow at New York University.
Before his academic career in the United States, Hofisi spent seven years as a human rights lawyer with Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, specialising in constitutional litigation.

[GamaB💕 @LihleonX]

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[freelance @PhillipSibanda8]

He used to pass by my place saying mfana wangu kkkk , married to muusha's daughter who was a manager at national tyre services in masvingo driving a 323

[Newzroom Afrika @Newzroom405]

[WATCH] Bellarmine Mugabe and Tobias Matonhodze's lawyer, Sinenhlanhla Mnguni, says they are happy with the sentence.

#Newzroom405

[SABC News @SABCNews]

WATCH | Bellarmine Mugabe leaves the Alexandra Magistrate court after being processed. He is being escorted to OR Tambo International Airport where he is set to travel back home at his own cost.

[Wakurawarerwa Jonah @CitizenWakura]

The story of Extra Time is well explained in 2Kings 20v1-11, 2 Chronicle 32v24 and Isaiah 38. @TembaMliswa

[TheNewsHawks @NewsHawksLive]

🔴Zimbabwean academic Dr Nkululeko Sibanda, former opposition CCC leader Nelson Chamisa's spokesperson who studied Politics and International Relations at the University of Huddersfield in the United Kingdom, says it does not really matter whether a President is elected directly by voters or by the people’s representatives in parliament.
Sibanda also says electing a President through parliament does not disenfranchise voters or take away the one man one vote right - universal adult suffrage - because that is just a different electoral system not qualified franchise.
He says those arguing the one man one vote principle or the right to vote has been taken away have a "poor" argument that is not correct.
The real problem with the current constitutional amendments, he says, is that they seek to resolve Zanu PF internal succession politics using national institutions and dragging the whole nation into the vortex of a volatile party power struggle.
That is where is the problem is, but there is a silver lining in the dark cloud.

[ZimLive @zimlive]

📹 Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, speaking to a Roman Catholic congregation in Murewa on Saturday, narrates the story of King Hezekiah who, when informed that he would die, asked God for extra time and was given 15 years. But he says those extra years brought consequences

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

In Zimbabwe, even the pulpit has become a battlefield in the succession tussle.

When a retired general and Vice President walks into a church and speaks in parables, the message is not about scripture, it is about the power struggle to succeed his boss.
The story of a greedy king asking for more time as told by Chiwenga, only to be granted years he would never use, is not just a biblical sermon, it is a political warning.

History has always spoken in coded language when fear fills the air. Today it is sermons. But the message remains the same that power is never satisfied, and those who cling to it often misread the moment.

What we are witnessing is not just a political rivalry, it is a struggle over time itself, who controls it, who extends it, and who ultimately runs out of it.

[Takabatana Daily @takabatana]

Hezekiah, the new song and video produced by Takabatana Music of the Revolution captures the downfall of a 'king' who had too much pride he thought he needed more time to rule.

[THE OPPRESSED @BorisCde]

Morgan Tsvangirai unpacking the MDC-T’s manifesto during the 2008 election campaign Part 2. Land reform, Social Services & Reconciliation. #Re-membering President Tsvangirai.

[Praise Chekururama @praisechox]

Duma Boko appears to confront ED's 2030 agenda, but in a diplomatic tone. He defines revolution as 'an episode of convulsive political transformation compressed in time and concentrated in target.' The message lands. Listen 👇 #NoTo2030

[Bla B @bla_bidza]

Other than @Jamwanda2's utterances ndoda hangu kuita praise @HeraldZimbabwe for their digital transformation. They have transformed their business model very well.

[Paul Arituri Banda @ArituriP]

I have no confidence in the CAB3 just like the Zimbabwe Gold currency. The political will is lacking.

[TheNewsHawks @NewsHawksLive]

🔵Former Zanu PF Mashonaland West provincial chairman and ex-independent Norton MP Themba Mliswa responding to retired Air Vice-Marshal Henry Muchena and his colleagues' letter challenging the current constitutional amendments to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s term and reforms which change the political, electoral and governance systems.