ennie chipashu

Social Worker

[ennie chipashu @ChipashuEnnie]

@Ronaldo1572735 @pmkwananzi @daddyhope @nelsonchamisa It’s not about Hopewell but about the Zimbabweans whom Chamisa lied to

[ennie chipashu @ChipashuEnnie]

@daddyhope His bootlickers will give him the money

[Mukuru🏴‍☠️ @mukuru101010]

Hopewell is right

[buhlebenkosi @buhlewakobyo]

@nelsonchamisa @daddyhope Hopewell 2: Chapwati 0

[Sandra Mangwana @SandraMangwana]

@nelsonchamisa @daddyhope Right now, @daddyhope is demonstrating what responsible journalism should look like asking difficult questions, pursuing facts and holding power to account. A genuine truth-teller in action. 🎙️👏🏾

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

The real losers are the Zimbabwean people, who are constantly fed lies and expected to accept them without question. A journalist’s duty is to establish and tell the truth, regardless of who is embarrassed by it.

To demonstrate how confident I am in what I wrote, despite Nelson Chamisa accusing me of lying, I put my hand on my heart today and make this public commitment;

If Nelson Chamisa can produce the legitimate and duly adopted CCC constitution, together with the party’s official organogram showing who occupied its leadership positions, including the president, vice-presidents, secretary-general, chairperson and the rest of the leadership, I, Hopewell Chin’ono, will immediately hand over US$10,000 to any person he chooses for onward transmission to charities of his choice.

That is how confident I am about what I have said. There is no need for insults, excuses or political rhetoric. Simply produce the constitution and the organogram, and the US$10,000 will be paid.

[GarikaiGarwe @GarikaiGarwe]

@daddyhope @nelsonchamisa Publish the documents or stop calling journalists liars. Zimbabwe needs parties with real institutions, not one man shows

[Sandra Mangwana @SandraMangwana]

Chamisa built CCC as a personal vehicle with no real constitution and no proper structures just slogans and photo ops. A serious party doesn’t revolve around one man’s name and then pretend it had an organogram when challenged.
Zimbabwe already has a government that functions with clear institutions and continuity. We don’t need another chaotic opposition experiment that collapses the moment the spotlight is off its leader. Publish the documents or stop claiming they existed.
Truth over theatrics.

[NdobvaGweru @NdobvaGweru]

This is exactly the kind of scrutiny political leaders should be able to face. Hopewell has asked for two straightforward things: produce the CCC constitution and publish the leadership structure that allegedly existed.

If those documents exist, let Zimbabweans see them and judge the evidence for themselves. Political claims should be tested against facts, not protected by loyalty or emotion.

So, Mr Chamisa, what exactly is the problem with a journalist asking you to provide evidence?

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

Dear @nelsonchamisa,

Thank you very much for your note. Please identify the specific lies and misinformation you claim I have peddled. Point to the precise statement, explain what is false about it and provide the correct facts. Simply accusing me of spreading lies without identifying a single lie is meaningless.

You are a political actor and Zimbabwe’s leading opposition politician. You say that you are fighting for democracy, yet an essential part of democracy is the right of journalists to scrutinise, question and criticise political leaders, including opposition leaders. Criticism does not become propaganda merely because it makes you or your supporters uncomfortable.

You say that you have “tolerated” me for too long. A politician does not tolerate a journalist. Journalists do not require permission from politicians to do their work. The language of tolerance suggests that you believe journalists should operate with your approval and that criticism is acceptable only for as long as you permit it. That is not democracy. That is dictatorship.

I am aware that you have a powerful cultic following whose members may accept every word you say without demanding evidence. But as a journalist, I will not be intimidated or cowed by that following. I would rather stand alone telling an uncomfortable truth than join a crowd united by comforting untruths.

If any statement I have made is factually wrong, identify it and I will respond with the evidence supporting what I said. If you demonstrate that I made a genuine factual error, I will correct it because that is what responsible journalists do.
But if you cannot identify a single lie, then you should withdraw this blanket accusation and respond to the substance of my criticism.

Journalism is not praise-singing, and scrutiny is not hostility. Democracy requires leaders who can answer difficult questions without labelling every critic a propagandist. I await your specific examples and will respond to each one with evidence.

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

Nelson Chamisa founded CCC and made himself its president, but refused to establish a constitution, elected leadership or accountable party structures. The only other publicly recognised national officials were spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere, whom he fired on the eve of the election, national organiser Amos Chibaya and deputy spokesperson Gift Ostallos Siziba.

Everything else revolved around him. He selected candidates, controlled decision-making and resisted every call to build strong democratic institutions around the movement, his supported defended those decisions.

That is why this statement is so upsetting and intellectually dishonest. You cannot deliberately centralise an entire political movement around yourself, personally control who enters its inner circles, refuse institutional safeguards, and then speak as though “infiltrators” mysteriously arrived through a door controlled by someone else.

If CCC became a snake pit, who built the pit? If infiltrators occupied the movement, through whose leadership did they enter and rise?

Infiltration thrives where there are no rules, no transparent records, no elected structures, no collective decision-making and no mechanisms for accountability. That was CCC.

These were not accidental weaknesses. They were the direct consequences of Chamisa’s chosen leadership model. Many people warned that a movement built around one man instead of institutions was dangerously vulnerable, but they were insulted and dismissed as enemies, sellouts or people who were “too slow to see how strategic ambiguity worked.”

Leadership is not merely about claiming foresight after disaster. It is about accepting responsibility for the decisions that made the disaster possible. Chamisa cannot claim sole authority when things appear to be going well, then distribute blame among “pretenders” and “infiltrators” when everything collapses.

Now Zimbabweans are being offered yet another “fresh start,” but there has been no honest explanation of what went wrong, no apology to supporters, and no acceptance of responsibility.
Starting again without confronting the leadership failures that destroyed the previous movement is not renewal. It is simply repeating the same mistake under a new name.

ZANUPF’s infiltration and abuse of state power must be condemned, but that cannot become an excuse for failed leadership.

A serious leader protects a movement by building democratic institutions stronger than any individual. Until Chamisa accepts that elementary truth and accounts for his own decisions, talk of infiltrators is merely an attempt to escape responsibility for a crisis created under his absolute control.

He might say that people like Hopewell, who criticised the entire arrangement from 2022, are the usual critics. But what about Dr Alex Magaisa, who pleaded with him to establish a constitution and proper leadership structures precisely to prevent these problems? That tweet is still there for everyone to see. He was not listened to either.

The first step towards any genuine renewal must be to accept responsibility and apologise. Only then can there be an honest conversation about starting afresh. Supporters who believe that renewal can happen without accountability will be complicit in what happened in the past and what will happen in the future.

All these serious leadership mistakes created the conditions that allowed the movement to be hijacked. It is not as if nobody warned that this would happen. The warnings were made publicly and repeatedly, but they were ignored, while those who raised them were insulted, attacked and labelled enemies.

Zimbabweans have a dangerous habit of choosing comforting lies over uncomfortable truths. Until that changes, they will continue paying the terrible price of repression. A movement that refuses to learn from its mistakes is not renewing itself. It is simply preparing to repeat them.

[ennie chipashu @ChipashuEnnie]

@tafadzwa73 @TereraiSithole Chamisa is not a saint

[ennie chipashu @ChipashuEnnie]

@tapiwa4 @NewsHawksLive That’s a valid point

[ennie chipashu @ChipashuEnnie]

@BrianTMandb960 There is something not right with you

[ennie chipashu @ChipashuEnnie]

@nickmangwana It’s called Mubaira not Mubayira
Heroes Gala fake

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

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[ennie chipashu @ChipashuEnnie]

@samueljomuel @ZimFirstLady @edmnangagwa @nelsonchamisa @Varakashi4ED @Varakashi4edByo @varakashiunited @ZECzim @ZimCricketv @NewsDayZimbabwe Don’t you dare involve me in your ZANU circles please

[ennie chipashu @ChipashuEnnie]

@zulukingggg Maponga and Moses you’re all mad

[ennie chipashu @ChipashuEnnie]

@FameFactoryZim @GIftCheva29 @nelsonchamisa Are you mad