🔸Nonsense. Garwe was at the forefront of the demolitions together with Muguti. He should also be fired. The cruelty and malicious damage to property break all records of previous @ZANUPF_Official driven cruelty and unconstitutional conduct. All their policies are calculated to inflict maximum pain on the masses. They are anti-people, anti-poor and anti-progress.
We need new leaders.🇿🇼
It is even truer today than it was in 2023. Zimbabweans are not cowards. What they lack is leadership.
No revolution in history has succeeded without leaders. The leadership vacuum is now so severe that journalists are being asked to lead, while career politicians, whose job it is to lead, are nowhere to be found.
The opposition died with Morgan Tsvangirai. Only someone demented would defend what happened after his death.
Whoever eventually leads must understand this. Political leadership does not require public consensus. It requires a moral compass, not a desire to be liked or loved. Read about leaders like Lee Kuan Yew. He was never loved at first. The love came only after his vision became visible.
He said he believed Machiavelli was right that being feared mattered more than being loved, and he pushed through unpopular policies regardless. The deep national affection came later, as Singapore prospered.
That is why I tell those who taunt Zimbabweans abroad, daring them to come home and lead the charge, that they miss the most basic truth of every revolution.
The masses follow leaders. They do not lead themselves. As Dr Martin Luther King Jr put it, "A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."
Zimbabwe does not lack courage. It lacks leaders willing to shape the consensus rather than wait for it.
If the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) had waited for the people's consensus, the liberation struggle would never have been won in 1980. We might still have been under colonial rule long after South Africa won its freedom in 1994.
By its nature, mass decision making breeds disorder. It opens the door to infiltration, and infiltration soon becomes the order of the day.
So I repeat what I said in 2023. Zimbabwe needs fearless leaders, and they must come from those who call themselves politicians and ask for our votes at every election. They must deliver action, not words. If they cannot, and if they have not been bought, they should stand aside for others who can.
Mass decision making is the problem. The ordinary voter is politically dumb. He will follow whoever he has been told is his leader, until someone comes along and forcefully removes the stumbling block.
For the avoidance of doubt, Zimbabweans have never refused to take to the streets. It is the opposition leader and those around him who have said they are not prepared to march.
The citizen is not the coward. The cowards are the leader and the people around him.
The people have always been ready to march. What they have never had is a leader willing to march in front of them.
You cannot call someone a leader, or a group of people leaders, when the moment their performance is questioned, they tell you to go and form your own political party.
That is not leadership. It is the clearest sign that they were never leaders in the first place. A real leader answers to the people. A fake one shows them the door.