John Long

[Lewis Uriri @lewisuriri]

Dear Wicknell,

Thank you for your generous words about my professional work and for your kind acknowledgment of my wife. I appreciate your recognition of the dedication with which I discharged the briefs entrusted to me.

My wife and I have carefully considered your announcement and must respectfully decline the vehicle and both cash gifts.

For clarity, we last spoke in June 2024, and I have undertaken no professional work for you since then. The historical work to which your tribute refers was performed in my professional capacity and paid for in full. My remuneration was for services actually rendered.

Your announcement came as a complete surprise, without prior notice or discussion. Given the distance that has developed between us since our last conversation, the substantial nature of the gifts, and their express connection to past professional services, I must approach this gesture with particular care.

Zimbabwe’s Legal Practitioners’ Code of Conduct requires us to preserve our integrity, safeguard our professional independence and maintain public confidence in the profession. The International Bar Association’s principles and the International Commission of Jurists’ writings likewise emphasise that a lawyer’s professional judgment must remain independent and free from conflicting personal interests.

Applying those standards to these circumstances, I consider it necessary to decline benefits that could reasonably create a perception of personal financial obligation extending beyond a concluded and fully remunerated professional engagement. My wife and I attach great importance to preserving both our professional standing and public confidence in our independence.

The independence reflected in your generous tribute is a responsibility I must continue to uphold.

Please receive our decision in the respectful spirit in which it is conveyed. We appreciate the generosity expressed and your acknowledgment of my past work. Our decision is nevertheless firm: we will not accept the vehicle or either of the cash gifts.

We wish you well and trust that you will understand and respect our position.

Advocate Dr Lewis Uriri

[John Long @JohnLong_xcx]

@wicknellchivayo Ndosaka richichururuka madziwa nanhasi zibaba iri

[Mthwakazi independence @zondo_sikhumba]

Good morning

[Fadzayi Mahere🇿🇼 @advocatemahere]

🔸Under Mugabe, they unleashed Operation Murambatsvina. Today, they’re unleashing Operation Chenesa.

It’s always the same anti-people, anti-poor, anti-progress policies. Do you think anybody chooses to be a vendor? If this economy was conducive to job creation and one could get formal employment, do you think anybody would choose to sell bananas or plastic shoes on the side of the road? In other countries, the poor get social grants. In this country, the poor who are trying to make an honest living get swept off the street like dirt.

We need new leaders.🇿🇼

[John Long @JohnLong_xcx]

@Svikiro_Zw @Lloyd15000 Sticker iri. Ngwarira siki asi pane rimwe team

[TheNewsHawks @NewsHawksLive]

Dangote: I Had My First Private Jet at 22
Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote says he bought his first private aircraft four months before he turned 23.
"I’ve seen it all. Whenever I see people flying everywhere in private aircraft but they don’t own a factory, it means they aren’t contributing to the economy," he said. - Arise News.

[Fadzayi Mahere🇿🇼 @advocatemahere]

🔸I thought they removed Mugabe because he wanted to be life President?

We need new leaders.🇿🇼

[PATORANKING @patorankingfire]

🐐 x 🐐 🇿🇼 x 🇳🇬
The Kings Have spoken ✊🏿 @winkydonline x WB out now!!!

[ValarMorghulis @Kupangende]

Zvenyu President vanoona ma status enyu

[Fadzayi Mahere🇿🇼 @advocatemahere]

🔸Kana tashanya kana kutama kuenda kunyika dzevamwe, ngatingoteedzei etiquette yeikoko. Zvingatibatsira tikagona kuremekedza nekugarisana zvakanaka nevamwe. Mutube izvi hazviwanzodikanwa. Hatidi kuzomakwa kana kudzingwa taita hunhu husingashiriki zvakanaka.

We need new leaders.🇿🇼

[Fadzayi Mahere🇿🇼 @advocatemahere]

🔸Before election: “Vendors4ED, we love you. Vote for us. Hapana anokubvisai kusvikira Jesu adzoka.”

After election: “We have banned vending. Munetsvina. Murikutisemesa.”

I repeat, @ZANUPF_Official is the most anti-poor grouping you’ll ever find. They abuse poor people for votes at election time then treat them like dirt when the election is over. It’s a mess.

We need new leaders.🇿🇼

[nelson chamisa @nelsonchamisa]

VENDING IS NOT A CRIME.
Dear Zpf Politicians, never take citizens for granted. The lives, livelihoods and aspirations of citizens are far too important to be reduced to electioneering, sloganeering and political games.
For many citizens, vending is not a choice. It is a means of survival, a livelihood and a way of providing for families.
Leadership means compassion. Citizens deserve policies that protect dignity and livelihoods, not politics that makes their daily struggles harder.
Stop playing politics with citizens’ lives. Citizens first. Citizens always.

[John Long @JohnLong_xcx]

RT @advocatemahere: 🔸Somehow mari inovaramba. Hameno kuti chii.

We need new leaders.🇿🇼

[ᗩl wᗩdᑌd_tᕼe sIᗰᑭ @_MakdShelby]

So that “Tangai Neni” song was written for the President and not what we were thinking about ? Hate that we are so slow to process things 😂😂😂🚮

[ᗩl wᗩdᑌd_tᕼe sIᗰᑭ @_MakdShelby]

Heaven is only the goal for poor people maan 😭your prophet , church elder / apostle/ gospel singers dont give a fvck about going or not as long they live a comfortable flamboyant life here on earth . Whether the masses are crying or not . Whether the congregants got food at home or not . Imi chenyu is milk and honey then meet and greet nana Mozisi 🚮🚮.
Utter woke nonsense !

[Fadzayi Mahere🇿🇼 @advocatemahere]

🔸As an artiste, ukatora mari kana mota dziya, unopera sesipo. Zvingori nemunyama.

We need new leaders.🇿🇼

[willard shoko @WillarShoko]

Gideon Gono - 2013

At the height of Lunar Chickens , a Uganda Delegation visisted his farm

“I have been doing chickens for the past 40 years. I started in February 1973,” the maverick economist and top ally of President Robert Mugabe said.

Gono is excited about his future as a possible chicken magnate and is serious about this stuff.

“By 2020, I must be the first chicken billionaire in Africa,” he says matter-of-factly. “Oh, yah,” he adds.

In a way, we play God,” Gono said.

The May 2013 visit by the Ugandan delegation to Dr. Gideon Gono's poultry venture (Lunar Chickens) in Harare was organized to showcase industrial agricultural automation and demonstrate how quick-return livestock models could drive economic empowerment in Africa.

[Fadzayi Mahere🇿🇼 @advocatemahere]

🔸Mbudzi Roundabout - hamuna kuona devil.

🔸Mbudzi dzaana Mike - hamuna kuona devil.

🔸Mbudzi school fees dzaDokora - hamuna kuona devil.

🔸Mbudzi Cemetery - hamuna kuona devil.

Gaffa kungobata mic, maakuzviita vaoni.
Miswai!!!

We need new leaders.🇿🇼

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

This is Zimbabwe’s Minister of Local Government and Public Works, Daniel Garwe, at the scene of Friday’s accident, which killed 27 people in Zimbabwe on the Harare to South Africa highway.

I have the utmost respect for the culture, traditions and customs of any society. But appealing to our ancestors to solve problems that require human intervention is foolish. Cultural observance cannot substitute for practical action and accountability.

Police say the truck was attempting to overtake another vehicle when it collided head-on with the minibus. This demands a serious conversation about dangerous driving, road design and the enforcement of safety rules. ⁠

A two-lane road, with one lane in each direction, should not be the limit of our ambition for a major international highway linking Zimbabwe and South Africa. Zimbabwe needs properly engineered dual carriageways, with central crash barriers separating opposing traffic.

These barriers help prevent vehicles from crossing into oncoming traffic and can significantly reduce such collisions. Federal Highway Administration⁠

Alongside those improvements, we need proper vehicle inspections and strict enforcement against overloading, speeding and dangerous overtaking. Drivers, transport operators and public officials must all take responsibility.

We cannot expect our ancestors or God to compensate for our refusal to address preventable dangers. No ritual will widen a road, install a crash barrier or make an overloaded vehicle safe. Those things require planning, investment, enforcement and competent leadership.

The further tragedy is that our black children are growing up believing that only things managed by white people work because they repeatedly see us failing to manage even the basics, including maintaining and expanding infrastructure we inherited in 1980.

That would be a false and damaging lesson. Competence has no race. But we must demonstrate that through the quality of our leadership, our institutions and the services we deliver.

Our children should grow up seeing that we can build, maintain and manage a country that works. They deserve more than explanations for failure, and bereaved families deserve more than condolences after every disaster.

Respect our ancestors, certainly. But honour the dead by taking responsibility for protecting the living. Asking them to protect us when we can do it ourselves is the greatest sign of disrespect to our ancestors!

[Freeman @freemanchari]

GDP per capita in a country like Zimbabwe where just a few own & enjoy the mode of production is very misleading. Imagine a village with 1000 people and 1 mine owned by 1 person. The mine produces $1 million worth of minerals. GDP per capita for that village is $1000.

If we take GDP at face value, it means each person is probably having an economic output & subsequently an income of $1000.

In reality, the other 999 could be working for that 1 person at exploitative wages. They may be getting $100 instead.

This then takes us to where Zimbabwe is:
Nominal GDP/capita - ~$3000
GNI/capita - ~$2600
Median income = ~$1200

These numbers tell a very different story than our operatives want us to see. They show high inequality. A small percentage of ultra-wealthy individuals or corporate profits inflate the average (GNI), making the country look richer on paper than the typical citizen actually is.

This is the reason why we need to consider other indicators. Specifically the Gini co-efficient and all the other metrics that ZimStats readily provides but we generally ignore like the Poverty Datum Line etc.

I also think we should not overlook the subjective feelings of the people of the country. Are they happy? This is where the World Happiness Report