Brian Sibanda

Bulawayo born dreamer.

[Brian Sibanda @BrianMSibanda]

Very enlightening talk from @DavidColtart
Thanks your words, I hooe moe people hear them.
#Bulawayo #Zimbabwe

https://t.co/N9heOdFJ1x

[Machi @machioluoma]

Critical thinking people will understand you 🤦🏿

[Brian Sibanda @BrianMSibanda]

This is the type of low tech we need to implement around #Bulawayo
@CityofBulawayo @DavidColtart
https://t.co/bQAqnD7SMK

[Brian Sibanda @BrianMSibanda]

https://t.co/P5sQypMRlF here's an interesting video for those interested in history. #Zimbabwe

[Brian Sibanda @BrianMSibanda]

#Zimbabwe

[Brian Sibanda @BrianMSibanda]

This is the type of low tech solutions we need in #Zimbabwe to be our short term plans for the country's water problems. Particularly places like #Bulawayo would benefit massively from.
https://t.co/7uDUMNtPsf
@DavidColtart @CityofBulawayo

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

In Northern Rhodesia they want the corpse back, in Southern Rhodesia their 86-year-old president wants to extend his term of office, and in Nyasaland they are asking youths to elect an 85-year-old man,.
These three countries were once run by one man called Roy Welensky, the former Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland!

Sixty-five years ago, the three countries which were led by one man; built the Kariba Dam for Northern and Southern Rhodesia, and it still remains their main source of power.

Sixty-five years later, the topical issues have certainly changed, from building the biggest dam in the world to digging political graves—what a spectacular fall from ambition! 🤣🤣🤣

I am reading Welensky’s 4000 Days, a biography of the man who led these three countries.
It makes you realise how today’s leaders lack ambition and have very little understanding of how to transform these nations and deliver a better life for their people.

Where the whites of these countries could work together to build things, today we have idiots driven by tribalism and sectarianism.
You hear a fool on either the Zambian or Zimbabwean side saying, “focus on your country,” whereas the whites said, “let us work together and become better together.”

If the whites had the same demented tribal mentality, Kariba would never have been built—they would have been telling each other to focus on their own patch and not talk about anyone else’s.

The way Black Africans pray so hard bordering on ridiculous, yet they hate each other so much!

This is a necessary inconvenient reflection on the collapse of visionary leadership in Southern Africa that we should all engage in to move forward.

We need this necessary discomfort especially for those who read as it compares the grand, ambitious regional projects of the colonial era with the pettiness, mediocrity, and tribal stupidity that dominate post-independence politics. I hope our kids or their grandkids will do better than some of today’s ignorant bigots.

Imagine that the leaders of Zambia and Zimbabwe have failed to implement better and modern power upgrades to sufficiently meet demand; yet the colonials thought of this in 1955 and completed it by 1960. Today, you have cadres in Zambia, Varakashi in Zimbabae, and in Malawi you have the Boma Ndilomweli crew or cadets, people singing slogans for old men with zero vision.

This is the tragedy of modern African leadership; we went from federation to fragmentation, from builders to beggars, from damming rivers to drowning in mediocrity.

[Brian Sibanda @BrianMSibanda]

🤔 this is interesting.
#Zimbabwe #Mthwakazi #Bulawayo

[Brian Sibanda @BrianMSibanda]

https://t.co/QdiiCEDHJx
This is the type of creativity needed to solve water issues in #bulawayo

[Chike @XeeChike]

@african_stream Africa needs it's own internet and satellite infrastructure on which platforms can be built independent of foreign interference till that happens we'll always be at their mercy in terms of information dissemination.

[Brian Sibanda @BrianMSibanda]

@Sulamit_Wegahta @african_stream We need this like yesterday. Our own social media platform just for Africans would help unleash us from censorship.

[Brian Sibanda @BrianMSibanda]

@Lexy_230 @african_stream Agreed 👍🏿

[African Stream @african_stream]

WHO WERE THE CIVILIZED AND WHO WERE THE SAVAGES?

They said they came to civilise. But what they brought was nothing but savagery.

From Haiti to Australia to the Pacific Islands, this video unpacks the brutal truth behind Europe’s so-called ‘civilising mission.’

The Taíno and Arawak peoples of Haiti, once thriving communities with deep spiritual and agricultural systems, were nearly wiped out within decades of Columbus’s arrival. They were enslaved, mutilated, and hunted like animals all in the name of gold and empire.

In Australia, British colonisers declared the land ‘Terra Nullius’ - or nobody’s land - while thousands of Aboriginal people were massacred in cold blood. In Queensland, it’s thought over 24,000 Indigenous lives were taken by government-sanctioned forces. This was not law and order. This was ethnic cleansing, dressed in European uniforms.

Across the Pacific, the lie of civilisation took the form of ‘Blackbirding’ - kidnapping tens of thousands from Melanesia and forcing them into backbreaking labour on plantations. Meanwhile, imported diseases erased entire communities.

This is not ancient history. The scars are still fresh. The descendants of these communities are still here, still fighting, still remembering. Because colonisation was never about civilisation, it was about extraction, domination and the silencing of Indigenous voices.

This video is not just history. It’s resistance. It’s about reclaiming the narrative from Columbus and Cook and all the myths they stood on. It’s about asking, in the face of genocide and greed: Who were the real savages?

[Brian Sibanda @BrianMSibanda]

@Realbeefactor That's a weird caption. Where do you think they'll start these 'campaigns'?

[Brian Sibanda @BrianMSibanda]

@citezw I think, if formalisation is just for tax collection. Then the government needs to jump the gun and tax people via transactions and forego the constant need of adding more taxes. But to do that they would need to fully digitise all modes of payments both formal and informal.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

The governor of Eritrea 🇪🇷 has announced a ban on all opposition parties, asserting that Western colonial forces, notably General Michael Langley of USA 🇺🇸 , are exploiting them to gain control and loot the state's mineral resources.

He has instructed the expulsion of all individuals cooperating with Langley, including Langley himself. Africa is currently witnessing a revolutionary movement led by Captain Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso 🇧🇫

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Here is how the evil France 🇫🇷 steals billions of dollars wealth from Africa decades after colonialism.

[Brian Sibanda @BrianMSibanda]

This hits hard 😭 #Africa #Zimbabwe

[Somto Okonkwo @General_Somto]

How They Keep Africa Under Control:

[Brian Sibanda @BrianMSibanda]

@1BongoIdeas Its an organisation by white people, for white people. Why would people expect anything else.

[Brian Sibanda @BrianMSibanda]

https://t.co/Kb22gFVWO9
#Bulawayo #Zimbabwe