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On 1 August 2018, six Zimbabweans were gunned down by the army for protesting the delay in election results. The world watched in horror as it unfolded live on international television.
Many ask why Zimbabweans no longer take to the streets. The answer is simple—they once did.
And they were met not only with bullets from the regime, but with betrayal from the very man they were defending.
Nelson Chamisa, then the opposition leader leading the MDC Alliance, said of the protesters:
“It was very stupid even for people who demonstrated. To demonstrate for the results to be released, it was stupid… I am not insulting them, but… it was premature, it was unstrategic, and open to be manipulated by the enemy.”
Those words struck deeper, way-way deeper than many imagine because they came from the mouth of hope.
Unless this betrayal is acknowledged and those words walked back, Zimbabweans will not rise.
Not because they are cowards, but because the last time they stood up in huge numbers, they were shot down by the regime; and told they were “stupid” by the leader they thought they were standing up for.
When bullets kill the body and words kill the spirit, what then do you expect of the people left behind in Zimbabwe?
There is a long and painful history of betrayal by the opposition. In 2008, I was the first journalist to break the story of post-election violence on South Africa’s eNCA news station.
Over 400 lives were lost, yet the opposition; then led by Morgan Tsvangirai, did nothing meaningful to support the victims.
Instead, they entered government and enjoyed the perks of power. Nelson Chamisa even gave an interview to The Globe and Mail of Canada, justifying the need for expensive cars in the GNU because, according to him, such cars brought “respect.”
That one interview told the story of a movement that had shifted from the people to self-interest.
They forgot the very communities that had risked everything to vote them into power. And that is precisely why those communities will no longer put their lives on the line for politicians who abandon them at the first taste of comfort.
Until this betrayal is addressed—until opposition leaders begin to fight back with integrity and sacrifice; ZANUPF will remain in power, sustained not only by fear, but by the absence of a credible alternative willing to confront it.
The current government of Zimbabwe will never change; but Nelson Chamisa has an opportunity to fix the mess he created by calling citizens fighting for a fair election; STUPID.
He must confront the hard truth that real leadership begins with accountability.
He needs to publicly acknowledge that calling the 2018 protesters “stupid” was a betrayal of the very people who risked their lives for democracy.
He must campaign for the Motlanthe Report to be implemented and for the victims’ families to be fully compensated. One of the family members wrote to me, telling me they have no one helping them. After such deliberate betrayals, those around them will never take to the streets again.
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This is not a movie, this is one of Zimbabwe’s five biggest central hospitals, Chitungwiza Hospital, located about twenty kilometres outside Zimbabwe’s capital city, Harare.
It did not have electricity last night, something that has now become a regular issue, according to doctors at the hospital.
Patients, doctors, and nurses, as you can see, were using mobile phone torches last night to navigate the hospital’s wards and surroundings.
This hospital is a referral hospital for an entire province, Mashonaland East, and a town, Chitungwiza, with a combined population of 2.3 million people.
Yet there was no power, and this has now become standard practice!
This is the level of failure caused by incompetence and corrupt rule in Zimbabwe.
When we raise these things, we are called names for stating things that are obvious to an average mind, and demanding things that affect everyone regardless of political party affiliation.
How can a referral hospital for 2.3 million Zimbabweans run without power and the rulers continue as if there is nothing wrong with it?
How can a central hospital run without power when there is equipment that requires power 27/7 to keep patients alive?
I think uprising muZimbabwe ichatangira uku,how do you justify clamping munhu who is in need of help ?
Zimbabwe has been ranked as the most miserable country to live in based on an economic index that considers its 95% unemployment rate, the highest inflation in the world, bank lending rates, and GDP.
Does Emmerson Mnangagwa not get briefed on this, so that he understands what the world sees when engaging with Zimbabwe?
What is worse is that Zimbabwe has topped this miserable index chart for three consecutive years.
This has been driven mainly by state corruption which is central to Mnangagwa’s repressive rule.
Currently there are over 75 prodemocracy political prisoners in jail in Zimbabwe, imprisoned for just meeting to commemorate the day of the African Child and some like Jacob Ngarivhume for just speaking out against corruption.
It means Zimbabweans are being send to jail for exercising rights in their constitution, what a miserable place to live in where you get jailed for doing legal things!
As we wake up this morning, the world needs to know that a school child has been in Zimbabwe’s maximum security prison since 16 June, 2024.
Nicolle Chabata was arrested along with 78 others at the home of opposition leader Jameson Timba, where they were commemorating the Day of the African Child.
She should be in school today, but instead, she is sitting in Mnangagwa’s filthy Chikurubi maximum security prison, despite having exams coming up.
Her right to assemble was taken away on 16 June.
The Zimbabwean constitution allows citizens to meet without needing permission at a private residence.
The Day of the African Child which they were commemorating is meant to celebrate the rights of children across the continent, and the fact that Nicolle was arrested while commemorating this day is both ironic and tragic.
She should be in school today, preparing for her exams and enjoying the freedoms that every child deserves and that are underwritten in the Zimbabwean constitution.
This is today’s Zimbabwe under Emmerson Mnangagwa, where human rights have been taken away, and society is living in fear!
Bail is a constitutional right, but it is also routinely denied by the captured, corrupt and unprofessional judiciary, which the Zimbabwean tyrant uses as his weapon of choice against prodemocracy activists.
As you go about your day, remember that there is a school missing an O’Level student who has been in jail since June 16.
Remember her name, Nicolle Chabata!
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Meet Vusumuzi Moyo, a renowned sound engineer who used to work with the legendary Oliver Mtukudzi.
He was abducted from a plane by Mnangagwa’s secret service thugs, tortured for eight hours at Robert Mugabe International AirPort, and thrown into prison without trial after being denied bail.
He was on his way to Victoria Falls to engineer a concert when he was wrongly accused of plotting protests.
He is one of over 100 Zimbabweans jailed by the tyrant Emmerson Mnangagwa in the past 60 days as part of his ruthless and senseless crackdown against pro-democracy activists!
Zimbabwe has become a very dangerous place for anyone perceived to be opposed to corrupt rule and Mnangagwa’s well known criminal network that loots public funds.
The president in Zimbabwe is a mafia don who runs a group of criminals that loot public funds meant for public services!
Mugabe was a repressive leader, but in Mnangagwa Zimbabweans now have a thief and political thug in the State House!
A dangerous tyrant who even kills his own colleagues to stay in power!
Sadly Vusi who has been locked up for two weeks has become just another statistic of this sadistic president!
A Zimbabwean police officer amplifying Section 59 of Zimbabwe’s constitution!
This should be RETWEETED for other police officers to see!
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As crookED Emmerson prepares to welcome regional leaders to Harare, he does so against a backdrop of violence, intimidation, torture, and repression targeting activists, trade unionists, and political opponents.
Some of his victims include:
- Robson Chere, a trade unionist who was tortured for eight hours at Robert Mugabe International Airport.
- Namatai Kwekweza, a young female activist who was abducted from a plane.
- A mother with a one-year-old child, who is currently in jail.
- Seventy-eight political activists, led by Jameson Timba, who are also imprisoned.
As crookED Emmerson rolls out the red carpet for the SADC leaders, beneath it lies the blood of pro-democracy activists who have been beaten and tortured over the past month.
The world and these SADC leaders must be aware of this!
The stark contrast between the pomp and ceremony of the SADC summit and the brutal reality of human rights abuses occurring in Zimbabwe is jarring.
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This is Jeremiah Bamu, the lawyer representing the three activists and a trade unionist who were dragged out of a plane last week and abducted by crooked Emmerson’s secret service thugs.
One of the four, trade unionist Robison Chete, was tortured so severely that doctors said his kidneys might be permanently damaged.
crookED Emmerson’s thugs have refused to let the trade unionist receive treatment.
In fact, he hasn’t been treated since the torture, this is how evil and cruel crookED Emmerson is!
It is important that the international community speaks out against these abuses and applies pressure on the Zimbabwean government to ensure the safety and release of these activists, and to hold those responsible for their mistreatment accountable.
Torture is an international offence, those responsible must be pursued and brought to justice in other countries if they happen to be in a country with a professional judiciary and not crookED Emmerson’s rag tag corrupt judiciary!
All these evil things are being done in the name of SADC, the regional board that should be promoting democracy, good governance and respect for human rights in Southern Africa.
These events in Zimbabwe, including the abduction and torture of activists, raise questions about the effectiveness of SADC's efforts to promote democracy and human rights in the region.
It is essential that SADC takes a strong stance against these abuses by crookED Emmerson and holds member states accountable for their actions.
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It hard to deny the parallels between the repressive tactics used by the Rhodesian regime and those employed by crookED Emmerson.
This reflects how many Black Zimbabweans feel today, fearful and extremely scared.
crookED Emmerson’s repressive actions are straight out of the Rhodesian playbook, where Ian Smith arbitrarily arrested Black Zimbabweans and locked them up.
At least Ian Smith had decent jails where people like crookED Emmerson received an education, had books to read, clean running water, and more.
Today’s Zimbabwean jails are dungeons worse than slave ships!
Yet that is where almost 100 activists are locked up as you read this.
crookED Emmerson is sending his secret service thugs to abduct, beat up, arbitrarily arrest, and jail pro-democracy activists, just as in the Rhodesian days when anyone fighting for their human rights was imprisoned.
We are living in a country worse than Rhodesia, because at least in Rhodesia, there were functioning hospitals, decent roads, and working public services.
crookED Emmerson is worse than Rhodesia, he is evil, and he is cruel!
Men:
One of the most important tasks for you as a father is to do everything in your power to set up your children for success
Give them every advantage you lacked. Think about this, if they start where you started it makes it that much difficult for them to supercede what you did
Don't listen to that bs about spoon feeding children, give them as many spoons as they need to succeed
"Getting it out of the mud" for what? When you already got out of the mud for their benefit
Your children should grow up bragging about you and the advantages you gave them in life
Not whine and curse you for leaving them with poverty
Learn OR perish!!!
More bad news coming out of Harare-Zimbabwe.
The corrupt and incompetent ZANUPF regime is now taxing blind and disabled Zimbabweans when they buy medical essentials to assist them read, write and in the case of the disabled, walk.
The regime put out a notice saying that Braille reading material, Braille typewriters, Braille wrist watches, motorised and non-motorised wheelchairs and even crutches will now be taxed 15%.
It doesn’t end there, even prostheses for those without legs and hearing aids for the deaf are now paying 15% tax.
This shameful and desperate move to fundraise after the looting of public funds and ongoing plunder of the country’s natural resources is a new low for the Zimbabwean Government.
How and why would you tax a blind person for material that assists them to read and write?
How and why would you tax a deaf person for hearing aids that assist them in their hearing?
How and why would you tax a disabled person when they buy crutches to help them walk?
Clearly taxing essential medical aids for disabled individuals including those for the visually and hearing impaired raises serious ethical concerns and will disproportionately burden vulnerable populations in Zimbabwe.
Such policies lack compassion and empathy.
It is sad and unfortunate that the opposition has no shadow cabinet to fight these evil policies in a structured way both in parliament and in public spaces.
Coordinated local and international awareness campaigns play a vital role in exposing and challenging such policies that disproportionately impact vulnerable populations in Zimbabwe.
This requires and highlights the importance of a strong and organized opposition to address these issues both within and outside the political sphere into places like churches because this is now a moral issue.
The Mnangagwa regime clearly has no moral compass and there is nobody in there to simply say, “…guys we can’t do this, it is immoral and evil.”
I hope that @ZLHRLawyers will take this corrupt regime to its courts to expose the evilness of these degrading and inhuman policies.
The sad thing is that all this money will buy Landcruisers and will be looted to build mansions and give the captured judiciary and MPs more unpaid loans.
Any human being with at least half a brain should fight against this act of evil against the blind, deaf and disabled.
If we can’t fight for the most vulnerable members of our society, who are we going to fight for?
Fighting for the rights and well-being of the most vulnerable members of our society including the blind, deaf, and disabled is a fundamental aspect of a just and compassionate society.
It requires a collective effort to stand up against such evil acts of injustice, this is the true definition of HUMAN RIGHTS!
Zimbabwe has a political prisoner called Job “Wiwa” Sikhala who has been in jail in what is called pre-trial detention for almost TWO YEARS!
This morning he woke up to go to court to hear the verdict of one of his long trials, trials that have become a legal charade defined by repressive politics and not the rule of law.
As Job left Chikurubi prison this morning, he was wearing leg irons and handcuffs as if he is a murder suspect, yet all he has ever done was call for a better country for all, one that gives ordinary citizens a dignified opportunity to life.
Job was a student leader in the 1990s, he became an opposition Member of Parliament and a legal practitioner opposed to corrupt rule and the abuse of political power.
This picture below is a true reflection of how Job Sikhala and many other Zimbabwean prisoners are living in Africa’s worst prison, Chikurubi Maximum Prison.
They have no running water, their open toilet is next to where they sleep with no running water, there are no showers, they get water in buckets once a day when water is available.
The food they eat is only fit for animal consumption and not human beings, I know this because I was jailed at this prison three times inside six months for practising journalism.
I upset Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANUPF political party elites when I exposed how they were stealing public funds, plundering the country’s natural resources and abusing state institutions.
On two of those three occasions I shared a cell with Job Sikhala, a man with unshakeable political consciousness and love for his people and country.
Job Sikhala is being punished for speaking out against the murder of his client, Moreblessing Ali, calling out corruption and the regime is even using laws that don’t exist in Zimbabwe’s constitution to do this.
More importantly, the regime is extremely terrified of Job Sikhala’s ability to galvanise young people and his fearless approach to politics.
Instead of running the country well so that people like Job Sikhala are not a factor, the regime chose to detain him.
He has been arrested 67 times without a single conviction, his journey personifies what Zimbabwe needs, fearless citizens opposed to corrupt rule and abuse of political power.
Job should be at the top of every sane and decent Zimbabwean’s mind because he is in jail for speaking out for all of us and not just himself or his family.
His kids struggle and suffer living from hand to mouth through sporadic public donations, his wife is looking after 11 children without a father to support them both financially and emotionally for almost two years.
Job Sikhala's suffering and persecution highlights broader and deeper issues in Zimbabwe about political repression, legal injustices, and harsh prison conditions in Zimbabwe.
International attention and pressure is crucial in ensuring not only fair trials, but the respect for human rights, the right to speak against corruption as enshrined in Zimbabwe’s constitution and as I said earlier, improvements in the conditions at Chikurubi Maximum Prison.
Today as the world awaits Job Sikhala’s fate which will be delivered sometime today by what the world knows already to be a captured and unprofessional judiciary, his suffering underscores the importance of upholding democratic principles and the rule of law.
If Job Sikhala is not released from prison today, Zimbabweans must stand with his family and the opposition political actors must think about better ways that will ensure that we are all safe from political persecution, corrupt rule, abuse of state institutions, plunder of the country’s natural resources and the looting of public funds.
Pretending that Zimbabwe is a democracy when you are having your MPs illegally recalled from parliament will become an act of active participation in the corruptness of this regime.
Zimbabwe needs more Job Sikhalas, men and women who don’t fold when faced with an evil regime!
Job Sikhala is a Zimbabwean HERO!
The average Matama rapper fan:
- broke
- unemployed
- lives with parents
- in darkness due to constant load shedding
- fetches water from a borehole
- there is cholera in his hood
- lives in a hood ravaged by prostitution & drugs
- complains about goods & services skyrocketing
- can't access basic medical aid healthcare
But will go on to bark "politics aside he is my favorite"
See, the average youth isn't poor but simply stupid
Politics can never be put aside, it affects everything
The inability to see that what this little fat shithole endorses (a certain party) has a direct connection with your everyday problems highlights peak stupidity
Learn OR perish!!!
Again it must be said, the average African youth is not poor but stupid
You will see them behaving like women, praising the very same men responsible for their misfortunes
Men who have amassed unimaginable wealth stealing from public funds and plundering national resources are their "bosses"
They're willing to do everything & say anything to be in their good graces, so they can be given crumbs
This is what happens, when you're stupid, your mental capacity is unable to connect between your "bosses" and your problems
The money your "bosses" throw around building mansions, buying cars, travelling the globe, spoiling baddies
Is money that was supposed to reduce unemployment, build infrastructure, equip medical institutions, fund education etc
See, the African youth's problem isn't ordinary poverty but poverty of the mind
Learn OR perish!!!
A nation of sheep breeds a government of wolves.
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