the striker

just here for the smiles.

[Tafi Mhaka @tafimhaka]

At about 4pm on 28 January 2002, 26-year-old MDC member Tichaona Katsamudanga walked out of Hatcliffe Clinic in northern Harare when a Mazda 323 pulled up beside him.

The men inside were ZANU-PF militia.

They bundled Katsamudanga into the vehicle and drove him to a ZANU-PF base in Hatcliffe, where they demanded to know where MDC meetings were being held and the identities of the party's local officials.

When he refused to give them the information they wanted, the torture began.

While the Mazda's engine revved, the attackers attached cables from the vehicle's battery to his inner thighs and beneath his fingernails, sending electric shocks through his body. They squeezed his diaphragm until he struggled to breathe before forcing him to swallow a herbal mixture and releasing him.

Doctors examined him the following day. They found him profoundly ill, more than ten per cent dehydrated, slightly disorientated and unable to straighten his legs because of severe spasms in his thigh muscles. He was rushed to a high-care unit suffering from a severe electrolyte imbalance caused by uncontrollable diarrhoea.

Katsamudanga fought for another week.

On 5 February 2002, he died at Avenues Clinic.

His family deserves justice.

Zimbabwe awaits justice.

ZANU-PF murdered Tichaona Katsamudanga.

[Rufaz--Jerera❤King❤ @Mavhure]

Sadza Eaters relate to this. From birth .... #Muchasvinura 🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🙆‍♂️

[Harry Potter @potterthedj06]

The fact that this lesson is coming from a Woman 😂

[Nqobizitha Mlambo @cdemlambo]

Ropafadzo's words ...

[Solomon Harudzibwi @S_Harudzibwi]

I know it’s too soon to be asking these questions.

I just wanted to know why the groups that tried to stop this failed, Including a whole army general.

Why didn’t they have a winning strategy?

Why didn’t they mobilise people to force the government to do the right thing?

Why didn’t they organise protests or guns or whatever tool of choice?

I’m not asking these questions to genuine people who tried cause that’s the normal thing to do.

I’m specifically referring to those who been blaming those who tried before them for not winning against the system.

I personally believe anyone who tries to fight the system must be applauded regardless of the outcome. It takes courage and sacrifices. Fighting a dictatorship is not easy. Hope we learnt from this.

[Fadzayi Mahere🇿🇼 @advocatemahere]

🔸Apa pataurwa chokwadi.🔥

We need new leaders.🇿🇼

[Ndues boy @ndues_boy]

If you live or stay in that area, it’s a good idea to drink paracetamol now 🤣🤣🤣while you have a chance n

[𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒕 𝑶𝒇 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒉 @Shadaya_Knight]

The easiest person to take for granted is usually the hardest to replace. Why?

Because they made loyalty look normal. Because they made consistency look normal. Because they made effort look normal

So normal that you start believing you can find that anywhere. That's why many people leave good partners NOT because they found better BUT because they assume that can be easily found

The person you get "bored" of is often the person you'll end up looking for in other people

If you have that person in your life, value them.

[FinleyFinn @FionnualaFini]

He wasn’t gonna get nowhere with those tools.

[Rerrboy🗼 @dfwrerrboy]

Let me tell you something 😂💔

[ChrisExcel @ChrisExcel102]

As Ronaldo fans the only thing that is keeping us on this Goat debate is a pride man…

That Argentine midget is too good…😭😭

[Ndues boy @ndues_boy]

They are also the only church that condemned The Gukurahundi genocide and documented it

[David Coltart @DavidColtart]

Mark this tweet #Zimbabweans. One day we will reverse all the undemocratic amendments to our beloved 2013 Constitution.

In future the only amendments to it will be those which enhance it - which build on its foundations- not those which undermine its very foundations.

When this will happen I can’t say but it will happen just as firmly as the end of white minority rule, the crashing down of the Berlin Wall, and all other events in history when tyranny ends.

As Barack Obama noted yesterday

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

Obama noted that although the phrase is often associated with Martin Luther King Jr., it actually originated with a Boston abolitionist preacher, Reverend Theodore Parker, in a sermon delivered more than 170 years ago.

Obama explained that Parker preached these words in the dark period following the Compromise of 1850, when the anti-slavery movement seemed to be losing ground and fugitive slaves were being returned to bondage. Parker acknowledged that justice often appeared absent in the world, but expressed faith that history ultimately bends toward justice.

The fuller quotation Rev Parker used was:

“I do not pretend to understand the moral universe. The arc is a long one. My eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight. I can divine it by conscience. But from what I see, I am sure it bends toward justice.”

So too in Zimbabwe. Ultimately there will be justice and the rule of violent, cruel, corrupt and unprincipled men will end.

[Freeman @freemanchari]

Tshabangu is not the story. He has no power as an individual. He is projecting the monopolistic power of the state. No one would have been able to stop him without firing a gun. We are lying to each other that citizens would have stopped him. The state has power.

If it were that easy, ZAPU and ZANU wouldn't have been banned by the Rhodies in 1962 & 64 respectively. When the state decides to use its resources to destroy opposition, there is nothing you can do that doesn't involve force.

ZANU PF is known to use small proxies to destroy and humiliate. Do you remember when Tsvangirai realized his blunder on Locadia Karimatsenga? Some obscure Chief Negomo was given prominence just so a score could be settled. It doesn't mean Negomo had any legitimate power, he was tortoise on a post.

We need to study how other movements survived even in the face of relentless state pressure.

[Brighton Mutebuka @BMutebuka]

One thing is clear @DavidColtart, Ziyambi Ziyambi would never have pursued the parliamentary route if he had been unsure of the outcome.

This was choreographed long back. They knew the number of those that had been captured via Tshabangu & Hwende, & even allowed for some potential betrayal in that matrix.

Tshabangu was unleashed exactly to solve that conundrum - to bridge the gap in support in ZANU PF.

Some Zimbabweans are still to wake up to this reality, even at this late stage.

The courts will not bring any respite for the very same reasons.

That's why those two cases argued by @ProfMadhuku didn't gain traction.

They were strategically temporarily immobilised or mothballed.

This is political skulduggery of the highest levels!

[David Coltart @DavidColtart]

The one great benefit to the Nation of #Zimbabwe today is that we will witness those Parliamentarians who are prepared to act in the best interests of the electorate by upholding the 2013 Constitution and those who are prepared to act in their own selfish interest and desecrate the Constitution.

There have been many hiding behind the fact that they were elected seemingly as opposition MPs dedicated to the promotion of democracy. Today's vote will reveal which of them are simply wolves in sheep's clothing.

Mark my words - today is a historic day when the public will be able to separate the wheat from the chaff.

[David Coltart @DavidColtart]

Zanu PF were only able to muster 181 votes today in support of #CAB3, less than the two thirds majority required.

Some 11 Zanu PF MPs didn’t vote despite no doubt the carrots and sticks presented to them.

Some other Zanu PF MPs possibly only voted yes because they had been threatened.

What this speaks of is a party which is seriously divided, arguably the most divided it has ever been.

[Doug Coltart ⚖️🇿🇼 @DougColtart]

As we have always said, ZANU PF does NOT have the numbers they needed. Only 181 ZANU PF MPs voted in favour of #CAB3 falling short of the required 187. The Bill only passed in the National Assembly because of the Tshabangu factor. History will judge harshly those who betrayed the people.

[MrBlack™ @KE_MrBlack]

"My husband met me when I was still a virgin"