We successfully submitted our letters to @ParliamentZim objecting to #CAB3. If you haven’t yet, you still can at [email protected] or at the Parliament Building before 18 May 2026. I will post my full letter below. #NoToCAB3
I have never seen the American president, Donald Trump, bootlick someone like this, literally kissing ass, as he himself likes to say. This was Trump today with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and boy oh boy, Trump was praising him like crazy.
What I found interesting is what I did with this video. I first inserted a clip of Trump during his campaign days attacking and mocking China, then followed it with this latest clip of him praising and flattering the Chinese president in a way we have rarely seen before, today. It perfectly shows how power and economic strength change global power relationships.
This should be a lesson for Africa and African leaders who embarrass themselves grovelling for recognition to Western leaders.
In 1975, China’s economy was nowhere near where it is today. Back then, China was still a relatively poor developing country and nowhere close to being a global superpower. Today, depending on which economic measurement is used, China is either the largest economy in the world or the second largest after the United States.
What did the Chinese do? They did not spend decades begging the West for validation or recognition. They rolled up their sleeves and went to work. They industrialised. They built infrastructure. They invested in manufacturing, education, technology, and long-term planning. And because they built something powerful, the world had no choice but to take them seriously.
That is why today you can see an American president publicly flattering a Chinese leader. China now has something the world wants and needs.
African leaders waste too much time begging for approval, validation, and symbolic recognition from the West instead of fixing their countries and building functional economies.
You even hear leaders like Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe demanding a permanent seat or influence at the United Nations Security Council, yet he presides over a country that struggles to provide electricity for even 10 hours a day.
Zimbabwe has massive unemployment, collapsing public services, hospitals without medication, broken roads, a currency that cannot be freely exchanged internationally, and widespread corruption. The list is long.
The country’s biggest hospital has operated for long periods with severe shortages of equipment and functioning theatres. Citizens are heavily taxed while public services continue collapsing.
How do you expect the world to place you at the top table when your own country is struggling to provide the basics for its citizens? Serious nations do not hand out respect because of liberation war slogans or revolutionary rhetoric from 50 years ago.
Respect is earned through performance, stability, production, innovation, and competence.
You cannot talk about sovereignty and greatness while importing maize because you failed to properly utilise some of the best agricultural land in Africa.
You cannot demand global influence while your citizens depend on food aid and medical support and donations from the same international system you constantly criticise.
What we are seeing with Trump and Xi Jinping is a lesson in how the world works. Hard work, economic strength, production, and strategic planning force the world to respect you. Even the most powerful country in the world cannot ignore you once you become economically indispensable.
Zimbabwe has enormous potential. We have vast mineral wealth, fertile land, talented people, and strategic opportunities. We have over 80 different minerals and some of the best farming land in the region.
Yet millions of Zimbabweans live in poverty and struggle to survive because of corruption, poor governance, and misplaced priorities. We even import toilet paper and tooth picks from South Africa.
No serious global institution will fully respect leaders who cannot first build functioning societies at home. The world respects results, not empty slogans, rhetoric and childish propaganda.
What we have also learned from this video is that Trump has a domestic audience in America that he clearly does not fully respect intellectually. He says whatever he believes will win him votes, even if it means making exaggerated or hostile statements about countries like China during campaign periods. He understands the emotions and intellectual emptiness of his audience and plays to them politically.
And it does not end with his domestic audience only. Trump also has loyal but ignorant supporters and bootlickers across the world, including in Africa, people who treat him almost like a god. But politicians do not necessarily respect people simply because they worship them blindly. They respect power, leverage, influence, and results.
During his campaign, Trump spoke about China in derogatory and confrontational terms because it suited his political objectives at the time. But when he came face to face with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the tone changed completely. There was respect, praise, and careful language. In Trump’s own language, he practically “kissed ass”.
And that is the reality of how global politics works.
You do not get respect simply because you shout loudly, insult others, or demand recognition. You get respect when you build something powerful enough that the world cannot ignore you.
China earned that respect through decades of hard work, industrialisation, discipline, economic expansion, infrastructure development, and strategic planning. They built an economy and a system that the world now depends on.
That is the lesson Africans and African leaders must take from this video. Stop wasting time begging for validation and recognition from the West. Stop thinking respect is something that can be demanded through slogans, liberation war rhetoric, or political noise. Respect is earned through competence, production, economic strength, innovation, and delivery to your own people.
When you build a strong country, the world respects you automatically because you have something valuable to offer.
When you have more than 80 minerals in your country and yet your citizens are walking on top of sewage, nobody will respect you. You become a laughing stock. The world looks at that contradiction and sees failure of leadership, not potential.
You can steal as much money as you want from your people, build mansions, drive convoys, and surround yourself with praise singers, but when a clown enters a State House, it does not become a palace. It becomes a circus.
Real leadership is not measured by slogans, propaganda, or how long you stay in power. It is measured by whether ordinary citizens have clean water, functioning hospitals, decent roads, electricity, jobs, dignity, and hope for the future.
A country rich in minerals but poor in governance will never command real respect internationally. Respect comes when national wealth is converted into prosperity for the people, not luxury for the political elite.
While you are discussing my case @PoliceZimbabwe, please could you update the nation on how far with your investigation of ZANU PF Central Committee member Luckmore Gapa and Nicholas Hamadziripi who were caught red-handed on camera assaulting and robbing me of my phone.
UK Citizens continue to denounce CAB3
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CAB3 undermines democratic legitimacy. It removes the people's right to elect their President. It violates constitutional amendment safeguards and weakens checks & balances. It threatens electoral integrity, politicised traditional leadership, suppresses public participation & affects the Gender Commission. Civil society reject CAB3.
Donald why do you lie like this? I’m literally always in SA every 2 months or so. There’s no white genocide going on.
Anyway, come November in the mid terms you’re gonna be jobless sir
This is how much this man hates South Africa and Africa. He lies that there is a white genocide in South Africa. He made this speech yesterday. He continues to lie that there is a genocide in South Africa. That is why I do not understand the African idiots who support this man.
You have to be a big black African idiot to support Donald Trump. South Africa is the biggest economy in Africa. It has taken care of millions of Africans, giving them an opportunity to pursue their dreams and to feed their families.
There are millions of Africans living in South Africa, and yet Donald Trump is trying to destroy that economy that helps many Africans to sustain a decent living.
And yet there is a black African who supports this man and sees Trump as a hero. Trump is an idiot. I do not care about him. But I am astonished that there is a black African somewhere in Africa seeing Donald Trump as a hero, and yet the same Donald Trump is trying to destroy the biggest economy in Africa for no apparent legitimate reason.
South Africa has done nothing wrong to America, nothing wrong to Donald Trump, and yet yesterday he made this shameless speech. This makes me absolutely angry, livid, to know that there is an African out there who supports this idiot.
He is running his racist refugee programme. He has blocked all other black nationals from Africa from seeking asylum in America. That is fine. We do not care about America.
But he is using his racist programme to try and destroy the very mainstay of African economics, because that is what South Africa is to Africans. There is no country in Africa that does not have its nationals in South Africa. It takes a certain level of ignorance and idiocy for any black African to support and hail this man as a hero.
This man wants to destroy our continent, and yet some African idiot is out there twerking for this guy.
This Independence Day, we WEAR BLACK to mourn those who died for the cause #OneManOneVote; to resist those who wish to entrench rule by the few over the many; and to stand in solidarity with all those in prison for standing up for the dignity of all. Join us!
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Our Transform Zimbabwe membership in the UK are attending this demonstration. We urge all Zimbabweans to support this call!
#NoToCAB3!
#NoTo2030Nonsense!
#NoToCorruption!
We are deeply concerned by the continued abductions and unlawful arrests of citizens opposing Amendment Bill No. 3. The abduction of activists for exercising their constitutional rights is unacceptable and must be unequivocally condemned.
These acts of intimidation will not silence dissent or break the will of the people. We will not be cowed into submission. The Constitution must and will be defended.
#RejectAmendmentNo3