Why do so many Zimbabweans find it difficult to help a Zimbabwean family in distress by simply reposting an appeal that does not cost them a penny?
If I post some stupid stuff on this page, it can get 3000 reposts. People will eagerly share nonsense, circulate gossip and spend hours arguing. Yet when a family asks us to help find their missing loved one, suddenly pressing the same share button becomes difficult.
This post has received 14,000 views, but only 214 shares, according to the latest count. A desperate family is asking us to help their appeal reach someone who might recognise this young man or know where he is.
They are not asking us for money. They are asking us to care enough to share.
Please stop for a moment and imagine that this is your child, your brother or someone you love. Imagine going to bed without knowing whether he has eaten, whether he is safe, whether he is hurt or whether he has somewhere to sleep. Imagine your phone ringing and being frightened of what you might hear, while desperately hoping that somebody has finally found him.
Then imagine discovering that thousands of people have seen your appeal, but very few have passed it on.
How would that make you feel?
Does this indifference not tell us something painful about the mindset that has helped turn Zimbabwe into the shithole we complain about? Does it not bring us back, yet again, to Dr Solomon Guramatunhu’s assertion that ZANUPF is a reflection of the people it leads?
We rightly demand a government that values human life. But that demand must also be reflected in how we treat one another. We cannot complain about leaders ignoring our suffering while casually scrolling past a distressed family asking for a few seconds of our time.
Our country’s problems cannot all be explained by the number of people who share a Twitter post. But our willingness to respond to another person’s distress says something about the society we are building. A country struggles to change when too many people regard another family’s pain as somebody else’s business.
I honestly struggle to understand how entertainment can move us to act so quickly, while an appeal for a missing person barely moves us at all.
To those who have shared this appeal, thank you. You have helped it reach further. One of those shares could put his photograph in front of someone with information.
Please help this family find Micheal Tiwande Mushanduri, whose appeal says he was last seen on 4 September 2026. If you have information, contact 0772246558 or 0715771946.
Share the original appeal so that his photograph and the contact details travel together.
Somewhere, a family is waiting for news of someone they love. Please do not wait until it is your family to understand why this matters.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has hinted that he will still be in power in 2035, barely two months after changing Zimbabwe’s Constitution to extend his second and final term from its original expiry in 2028 to 2030.
Speaking at the Sanganai/Hlanganani/Dzimbahwe World Tourism Expo in Masvingo, President Mnangagwa said the event would return to the province after rotating around the country for nine years.
He then declared that he would still be there in 2035, adding that he did not know whether everyone else would be.
In typical President Mnangagwa fashion, the remark was delivered half as a joke and half as a declaration of intent. Zimbabweans have seen this method before; an outrageous political idea is introduced through humour, loyalists begin repeating it, and it is eventually turned into state policy.
President Mnangagwa’s government introduced Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3, which was passed by Parliament and signed into law as the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 3) Act, 2026.
The Act extended the terms of the President, Parliament and local authorities from five to seven years, extended President Mnangagwa’s current term from 2028 to 2030, postponed the next general election to 2030, removed the citizens’ right to elect the President directly and transferred that power to Members of Parliament sitting jointly.
It also expanded the Senate through ten presidential appointees and made several other changes that further concentrated political power in the Executive.
The 2030 project also began as a slogan that many dismissed as political banter. Today, it is written into the Constitution. That is why President Mnangagwa’s reference to 2035 cannot simply be brushed aside as a joke. In Zimbabwe, jokes about extending presidential power have a habit of becoming law.
David Coltart has set the standard by announcing that he will step down in 2028, when his original mandate expires.
Many Members of Parliament and councillors have been lying to Zimbabweans that they opposed Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 and remain opposed to Constitutional Amendment Act No. 3.
We will discover who was telling the truth when 2028 arrives. The liars will refuse to leave Parliament and local councils.
Some publicly claimed to oppose the Bill while privately supporting it and holding discussions with their ZANUPF counterparts.
Any MP or councillor who remains in office beyond 2028 without resigning and triggering a by-election must be regarded as a closet supporter of Constitutional Amendment No. 3.
Do not listen to their excuses. Even if they claim to support Nelson Chamisa, their actions will expose them.
Anyone who refuses to step down in 2028 was never genuinely with the people. They were always Sengezo Tshabangu’s people and lied about their allegiance simply to survive politically.
The test is simple: if you opposed the extension of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s mandate, you cannot accept the extension of your own mandate. Anyone who stays beyond 2028 supported Constitutional Amendment No. 3.
Let me put it in simple terms: anyone who remains in Parliament or a local council beyond 2028 never genuinely opposed Constitutional Amendment No. 3. Under those circumstances, anyone who remains in office beyond the expiry of their original mandate must be regarded as a ZANUPF MP or councillor, regardless of the political label they use.
Anyone who cannot declare now that they will step down in 2028 is a political liar. Such people pretend to stand with the people while, in reality, they stand with the political elites controlling ZANUPF. You cannot claim to oppose the unconstitutional extension of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s mandate while quietly accepting the extension of your own. Your actions in 2028 will expose where you have always stood.
I have seen many people posting memorial messages about Robert Mugabe today and calling him a Pan-Africanist. This is exactly what I always talk about: for many people, Pan-Africanism is merely a fashionable label that they attach to someone or to themselves, and then suddenly imagine that they are Pan-Africanists.
Robert Mugabe was not a Pan-Africanist by any stretch of the imagination. He was the same man who insulted Zimbabweans of Malawian origin by describing them as totemless.
He was the same man whose government killed thousands of Africans in his own country during the 1980s, and the killing of his own people continued until 2008, when hundreds of opposition supporters were murdered during the post-election violence.
These victims were Africans. They were not strangers to Africa; they were Zimbabweans. Therefore, anyone who calls Robert Mugabe a Pan-Africanist must be profoundly ignorant of what Pan-Africanism means.
Pan-Africanism is not about wearing African shirts, delivering fiery speeches at international conferences, denouncing the West or shouting anti-imperialist slogans. It is about loving African people, respecting their dignity, defending their rights and improving their lives.
How could Robert Mugabe claim to love African people when he spent more than US$2 million per trip seeking cancer treatment in Malaysia and Singapore while leaving Zimbabweans to die in collapsing hospitals without medicines, working equipment or even basic supplies? He trusted foreign hospitals with his own life while denying his people a functioning healthcare system at home.
You cannot brutalise Africans, impoverish Africans, deny Africans basic healthcare and murder Africans, and then demand to be remembered as a Pan-Africanist simply because you delivered eloquent anti-Western speeches.
Your citizens, in the African country that you are running and looting, die from cholera, a medieval disease. Yet your supporters claim that you are a Pan-Africanist because you took land from white people and then gave 20 farms to your daughter.
Meanwhile, ordinary black people who can actually farm, have the money to do so and possess the necessary expertise do not have access to land. They have to rent it from your relatives or from people connected to you who are not producing anything. Yet the Africans who can produce have no access to land.
And you call such a person a Pan-Africanist. That is why the Pan-Africanist slogan is sometimes, unfortunately, laughed at by many people who know that, for many, it is merely a fashion label.
An African country wins political independence, only for the man who later impoverishes it and denies its African people the right to choose leaders of their own choice to be celebrated as a Pan-Africanist. What a sick joke!
Pan-Africanism cannot mean replacing white colonial oppression with black authoritarian rule. Independence is meaningless if Africans remain oppressed, impoverished and denied their democratic rights by fellow Africans.
Give us a break!
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Watching this video posted by HSTV really broke my heart because I simply put myself in this man’s shoes and imagined someone coming to my home and destroying it. Imagine spending your savings, perhaps everything you have worked for over many years, building a home for yourself and your family, only to stand helplessly and watch it being demolished. His anger is understandable.
But we must look beyond the heartbreaking images of this particular house being destroyed. The bigger issue is the culture of lawlessness that we have repeatedly spoken about in Zimbabwe. ZANUPF and the government have enabled an environment in which politically connected land barons can operate with impunity, selling land to desperate citizens, producing questionable or fictitious paperwork and leaving ordinary people to carry the devastating consequences when the authorities eventually act.
There are fundamental questions that must be answered. How was this house allowed to be built in the first place without council approval? If there was no approval, where were the authorities when construction started? A house does not appear overnight. Foundations are dug, bricks are delivered, walls go up, roofing is installed, electricity and other services may be connected, and people eventually move in. At what point did the responsible authorities intervene?
And if there was council approval, then an even more serious question arises: why is the house being demolished today? Who approved it, on what basis was it approved, and who must be held accountable if that approval was improperly issued?
That is why simply focusing on the demolition misses the bigger story. The real scandal is the lawlessness that has taken root in our country, where people can use their party political connections to do things they would never dare to do in a properly functioning state governed by the rule of law. When political affiliation becomes more powerful than the law, ordinary citizens inevitably become the victims.
The consequences go beyond illegal land sales. They destroy public confidence in institutions. People lose faith in councils, law enforcement agencies and ultimately the judiciary because, case after case, they see the enormous influence that political elites can exercise over institutions that are supposed to protect everyone equally.
A functioning state cannot allow land barons to sell people land illegally for years and then arrive at the end of the process to punish only the families who built homes there. Accountability must travel all the way up the chain. Who sold the land? Who produced the paperwork? Who authorised construction, if anyone did? Which officials knew what was happening? Who protected the land barons? And why were they allowed to continue operating?
I feel deeply sorry for this man. He may have spent everything he had building that house, and today he is standing among the ruins wondering what comes next.
The most painful question he asks in the video says everything: Where is he going to sleep tonight?
That is the human cost of lawlessness.
This video of the government-owned boat that sank in Lake Kariba, killing tens of people, is a reflection of Zimbabwe’s public infrastructure, which has been destroyed by incompetence, nepotism and, more importantly, corruption.
The video shows how the boat was allowed to pack passengers like sardines, how those left on land talked about how the idea of the journey was a bad idea and how the end started to unfold.
This is a 43-year-old boat owned by a government agency. It is battered and clearly in a terrible state. Nowhere in a functional country would a boat in this condition be allowed to carry passengers, let alone 153 people when it was supposed to carry a maximum of 45. This is negligence of the highest order. The government has sent these people to their deaths, and it must take full responsibility.
Again, in a normal country, and I hope that in this respect Zimbabwe can be a normal country, there would be lawyers willing to take up pro bono cases against the government on behalf of the families of those who died.
When you have a government agency operating such a battered boat, no government authority stopping it from being used, and apparently no effective system ensuring that basic passenger and safety limits are respected, then the state has catastrophically failed to discharge its duty to protect citizens.
This avoidable accident has now been declared a national disaster, but declaring it a national disaster does not bring these people back. It does not answer the fundamental questions about how this was allowed to happen.
Who inspected this boat? Who certified it as safe to carry passengers? Who was responsible for enforcing its maximum passenger capacity? How could a boat meant to carry no more than 45 people end up carrying 153 without being stopped by anyone? Who knew about its condition, and what did they do about it?
This tragedy must be used not only to hold those responsible accountable, but also to make sure that something like this never happens again.
There must be an independent investigation, and its findings must be made public. Those whose negligence contributed to these deaths must face consequences, regardless of their positions or political connections.
In a normal country, the Minister of Transport should have resigned before the end of today.
Let us not forget that RIDA falls under the President’s office, while the Transport ministry has responsibility for the regulatory framework governing the transportation of people and public safety.
But we all know that in Zimbabwe, ministers are too often not appointed on account of their competence. They are appointed on account of political loyalty and how much they are willing to bootlick the President.
When competence, accountability and professionalism are replaced by patronage, this is the result you end up with. Disaster!
These were human beings whose families expected them to come home. Declaring a national disaster and issuing condolences are not enough.
There must be accountability, there must be justice for the victims and their families, and there must be fundamental changes to ensure that Zimbabweans are never again sent to their deaths because those entrusted with protecting them failed to do their jobs. The fact that nobody has resigned simply shows how Zimbabwe is not a Banana Republic.
If this is true, then it is truly shocking. Only in Zimbabwe could a 22-year-old side chick of the President’s son end up with properties reportedly worth around US$7 million, with no publicly traceable sources of income to explain such wealth and no evidence presented that taxes were paid to the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA), yet nothing happens.
The only reason the public has apparently learnt about this extraordinary accumulation of property is because she has been caught up in a fight involving members of the President’s family. Otherwise, we might never have known about it.
Now, the critical-thinking question Zimbabweans should be asking is if a 22-year-old outsider allegedly connected to the President’s son can accumulate properties worth around US$7 million without any publicly known business empire or income streams capable of explaining such wealth, then how much wealth are the principal figures around this government accumulating?
If someone so young and so far removed from the centre of political power can allegedly accumulate US$7 million worth of property, what does that tell us about the scale of wealth being accumulated by those who actually control the levers of the State?
These are precisely the circumstances in which institutions such as ZIMRA and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission should be asking basic questions. Where did the money come from? What legitimate income generated it? Were the appropriate taxes paid? And can the acquisition of these properties be reconciled with declared and lawful sources of income?
That is what functioning institutions are supposed to do in a functional country, but we all know that it will not happen, and the opposition, which is supposed to be doing this, is busy chasing its own crumbs.
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The South African Foreign Minister is correct that the discussion about immigration should be holistic and not piecemeal. By piecemeal, I mean talking only about what is happening inside South Africa without discussing the root causes and the wider problems that drive people out of their own countries and into others. In the case of South Africa, and even Côte d’Ivoire, these countries end up carrying migration burdens that are disproportionate compared with normal migration patterns.
However, the big problem that the South African government and many South Africans must understand, and which many refuse to confront whenever it is raised, is that South Africa itself, particularly its ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), must stop taking bribes from failed regimes that rig elections, use violence against their own citizens, and plunder their countries’ natural resources. The ANC does this. That is why they never come out and say these allegations are false, because the evidence is there.
Once you leave your own country and travel to Zimbabwe two days after an election has been stolen, and at one o’clock in the morning you post on your Twitter page, “Viva Mnangagwa,” you are emboldening the rigging of elections and everything that comes with it, including illegal immigration.
South Africans must understand that if their government and ruling party stopped speaking on behalf of failed regimes and lionising them, they would have a much stronger case when they march and protest in the streets of their own country, something that their Constitution fully entitles them to do.
Our Constitution in Zimbabwe also gives us that right, but we are not able to exercise it. We get beaten, arrested, tortured, and even killed for attempting to do so. Yet, when that happens, it is ANC leaders who travel to Zimbabwe to defend the actions of ZANUPF.
When Zimbabweans protested after the disputed 2018 elections, they were killed. And who came to sanitise those killings? It was former South African President Kgalema Motlanthe. He chaired the commission that sanitised the murder of six people by soldiers in the streets of Harare, in full view of live television cameras.
When the most recent Zimbabwean election was declared flawed, even by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Election Observation Mission, it was the Secretary-General of the ANC, the Deputy Secretary-General of the ANC, and the Chairperson of the ANC Youth League who travelled to Zimbabwe and publicly declared their support for ZANUPF. They even insulted Zimbabweans by calling those demanding democratic change Western puppets.
Anybody who is sober, sane, and reasonable must understand exactly what the Minister says in this video: the root causes must be addressed. But if that is to happen, then the ANC and the South African government must stop supporting failed regimes across the region. They do so, and they do so in exchange for money.
It is not as though Zimbabweans or Mozambicans simply do not want to go back home. Many cannot go back home because the political and economic conditions in their countries have been destroyed by governments that continue to receive political protection from regional leaders.
Imagine if, at the height of apartheid, neighbouring African governments had supported the apartheid regime. Imagine Robert Mugabe, Samora Machel, and Kenneth Kaunda turning up at the headquarters of South Africa’s National Party and shouting, “Viva P.W. Botha! Viva Pik Botha! Viva F.W. de Klerk!”
How would South Africans have felt? How would they have viewed those leaders? That is precisely what many Zimbabweans feel today when ANC leaders openly embrace and celebrate regimes that oppress their own people.
South Africans need to be reasonable and examine these issues honestly if they genuinely want to resolve their own immigration challenges. You will never solve your immigration problem if you are selective with the facts. You will never solve it if you refuse to acknowledge the burden placed on Zimbabweans by the actions of your own political leaders.
You can spend every day on Twitter complaining about illegal immigration. You can march until your legs are sore. You will never solve the problem if you are either too frightened to confront the ANC and your own government, or if you are simply not serious about solving it.
The problem has been partly authored by your own leaders. Why do they travel to failed regimes and declare solidarity with them when they know very well that such solidarity strengthens the very governments whose failures force hundreds of thousands of people to flee? Every stolen election, every act of political repression, and every endorsement of those responsible creates conditions that push more people across South Africa’s borders, where they compete for jobs, use hospitals, and place pressure on public services.
You have got to be honest with yourselves.
I know many of you enjoy insulting me whenever I raise these issues. I do not care whether you insult me or not. What I care about is the truth. I have more than two million followers across my social media platforms. Perhaps five hundred insult me. The overwhelming majority are serious people. They understand exactly what I am saying. They are what I call the silent majority.
We need honest discussions. We must stop lying to one another. Otherwise, we become intellectually bankrupt because we refuse to discuss issues for what they really are.
If the South African government stopped defending ZANUPF and other failed governments in the region, Zimbabweans would have far greater political space from which to hold their own government to account.
SADC produced a report highlighting serious concerns about Zimbabwe’s election. And who was defending ZANUPF? It was the ANC.
So let us not be duplicitous. If we are going to talk about the root causes of migration, then let us talk about all of them, honestly, consistently, and without political convenience. Only then can we begin to address the problem rather than merely complaining about its consequences.
What a Prime Minister Andy Burnham is. Britain has spent years with politicians pandering to the far right, vilifying foreign workers who are here legally and who dedicate their lives to caring for elderly British people.
We have had politicians such as Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch, and even some within the Labour Party who chose to echo anti-immigration rhetoric rather than defend the dignity and contribution of these essential workers.
The cruelty of those policies reached a point where newly arriving care workers were no longer allowed to bring their spouses and children to Britain. Imagine asking someone to leave their family behind in order to care for yours.
These are people performing one of the most demanding and compassionate jobs in society, looking after Britain’s elderly and vulnerable, yet they have often been treated as though they are disposable.
It is therefore refreshing to hear a British Prime Minister who understands the importance of these workers and is prepared to acknowledge publicly the contribution they make to British society. Leadership is about recognising reality, not pandering to prejudice.
I hope Prime Minister Burnham will go further and reconsider the decision taken by his predecessor to prevent newly arriving care workers from bringing their families with them.
If Britain values the people who care for its elderly, it should also recognise their humanity by allowing them to live with their husbands, wives, and children; instead of breaking up families.
A country that depends on their compassion should also show compassion in return.
Surely, the Zimbabwe Republic Police @PoliceZimbabwe, you have proved yourselves to be one of the most useless police services in the world. Senior Zimbabwean lawyer Doug Coltart is violently attacked in front of television cameras.
The incident is captured live on camera and broadcast around the world. His phone is stolen in full view of the public. The whole world sees the phone being grabbed from him, sees the suspect, and the suspect is known. Reports and widely circulated videos have identified the alleged suspect as Luckmore Gapa. Yet you fail to arrest him, even in a pretentious way. You do not even pretend to investigate or act.
The suspect is freely moving around Zimbabwe as if nothing happened, and yet you expect citizens to take you seriously as a professional law enforcement institution. You have become a complete joke.
Even in brutal dictatorships elsewhere, authorities at least pretend to uphold the law when an incident so public and embarrassing takes place. But you are so compromised, so captured by ZANUPF, that you cannot even maintain the basic appearance of professionalism or impartiality.
What message are you sending to ordinary Zimbabweans when a violent attack, witnessed live by the entire world, produces no visible action from the police?
You are effectively telling citizens that political affiliation determines whether the law applies or not. That is not policing. That is the collapse of public trust and the collapse of the rule of law. Shame on you.
You have effectively become a ZANUPF militia service used to arrest, harass, and persecute anyone perceived to be against ZANUPF. That is what you have essentially become. You have ceased to function as a professional national police service that protects all citizens equally under the law.
People no longer have confidence in you. I have read countless stories of Zimbabweans who experience serious criminal incidents at their homes and do not even bother to call the police because that is how useless and ineffective you have become in the eyes of the public. Citizens now believe that unless a matter is political or linked to protecting powerful people, you either will not act or you simply do not care.
A police service that loses the trust of ordinary citizens has already collapsed morally, even before it collapses institutionally. The tragedy is that Zimbabweans fund your salaries through their taxes, yet many no longer believe you exist to protect them.
Zimbabwean Member of Parliament for Chinhoyi, Leslie Mhangwa, was speaking at a Workers’ Day event when the microphone was rudely taken away from him by ZANUPF thugs who are part of the intelligence infrastructure. He was saved by members of the public who were listening to his address.
Now, if a Member of Parliament is not allowed to speak at a public event addressing issues that are affecting workers, and the microphone is violently taken away from him simply because he has said that the inflation rate is not matching wage increases, and that is seen as a threat to the government of the day, what kind of society has Zimbabwe become?
What about an ordinary person like myself or others? What would happen to us if this can happen to an elected official, a Member of Parliament who is speaking to the constituents who elected him, yet is not allowed to do so?
These are the things that have turned Zimbabwe into a banana republic. These are the actions that continue to delegitimise our country’s standing internationally. You cannot have mob justice. You cannot have a mob turning up at an official event where a Member of Parliament has been given the floor to speak and is then treated like this.
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The attack on human rights lawyer @DougColtart during public consultations on Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 is part of a systematic crackdown on dissent. Critics argue the bill seeks to unconstitutionally extend Emmerson @edmnangagwa rule, says Jealousy @mawarirej on @SABCNews.
Many people have read how Western commentators have said that Donald Trump is using the Iran war to distract the global public from the Epstein files.
His partner in that war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has also been accused of using the conflict to mask his corruption and fraud cases in Israel.
This documentary, The Bibi Files, which has been widely discussed this week, lays out what those cases are about, drawing on leaked police interrogation footage and insider accounts to expose the allegations at the centre of the scandal.
The Bibi Files is a hard-hitting documentary directed by Alexis Bloom that uses leaked police interrogation footage to expose the corruption cases surrounding Benjamin Netanyahu.
Built around never-before-seen video recordings from Israeli police interviews between 2016 and 2018, the film shows Netanyahu, his wife, and close associates being questioned over allegations of bribery, fraud, and abuse of power.
Benjamin Netanyahu is currently on trial in Israel on charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust.
Donald Trump has pleaded with Israeli President Isaac Herzog to pardon Netanyahu if, as some speculate, he is convicted.