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[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

We need to plant more instead of ruining them all.

[EXPLOREREYES @Gary161718]

Save Valley, Zimbabwe: In true harmony with nature.
Wishing you a beautiful week ahead, everyone!

[#KickTotalOutOfAfrica @Polluters_Out]

Land taken. Promises made. Compensation that never comes.
This is the story on repeat wherever fossil fuel giants set up shop. No consultation. No consent. Just extraction and excuses.
Verdict: accountability isn't optional.
#KickTotalOutOfAfrica #KickPollutersOut

[Dhara Blessed Mhlanga @bbmhlanga]

You can listen to my speech in the House of Lords “Zimbabwe is burning but the arsonist owns the fire brigade,” Dhara B speaks in House of Lords https://t.co/PeaHkBDbo6 via @YouTube

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

I'm a cardiologist. A woman loses her husband. Two days later she's on my cath lab table — chest pain, EKG changes, enzymes elevated. Everything says heart attack.
I thread the catheter. Her arteries are pristine.
Her heart didn't clog. It shattered. From grief.
Takotsubo — broken heart syndrome. Stress hormones stun the ventricle so severely it balloons and stops pumping. 90% of cases are women. Your heart can literally break. Not a metaphor. Physiology.
But this is just one blind spot in a system built for men's hearts.
Women get microvascular disease — plaque in vessels too small for angiograms to see. Heart attacks with "clean" arteries.
Women get SCAD — leading cause of heart attack under 50. Most doctors have never diagnosed one.
Women present with fatigue, jaw pain, nausea, back pain. Medicine called these "atypical" for decades. They're not atypical. They're female-typical.
Half of humanity is not a variant.
Heart disease kills more women than every cancer combined. Fewer than half know.
Three things every woman needs to hear:
Say these exact words to your doctor: "I am concerned this could be my heart." That sentence changes everything. Don't soften it.
If tests are "normal" but symptoms persist — demand CT angiography or cardiac MRI.
If you had preeclampsia — your cardiac surveillance starts now. Not at 65.
Your heart can break from grief, from stress, from a system that wasn't built to see you.
It can also heal. If someone finally looks.
Share this with every woman you love.

[Science News @ScienceNews]

Early humans were using fire in southern Africa up to 1.8 million years ago.
https://t.co/qgKblGJrvr

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

The US has sanctioned a major gold refinery in Rwanda and two of its executives, accusing them of smuggling minerals from rebel-controlled areas of neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. https://t.co/3qPwdb90Ob

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Africa Is One Market, But Not for Africans

Africa has been treated as one big market for foreign goods, but Africans have been discouraged from treating Africa as one market for ourselves. The same people who tell us continental trade is too complicated have no problem moving their own products across our borders.

They want access to Africa’s market, but they do not want Africa to trade freely with itself. Because an Africa that trades with itself is an Africa that becomes stronger, more independent, and less dependent on foreign imports.

So when you see foreign products everywhere across the continent, while African products remain trapped inside their own countries, understand what you are looking at. Dependency by design.

[Dhara Blessed Mhlanga @bbmhlanga]

This country is gone shame - haaa and people have no shame. Very soon someone will say this is AI. Haaaa I give up. They are buying and selling souls and country for the sake of power.

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

Zimbabweans have been voting, and Pretoria has been facilitating for ZANUPF to remain in power by going around the world defending its post-election massacres in 2008, 2018 and blatant rigging in 2023 using deceitful pan-African narratives.

When the international community pressured Zimbabwe with targeted sanctions, all your presidents except the great Nelson Mandela asked for those targets to be unsanctioned.

Ramaphosa was the first to go and dance, celebrating Mnangagwa’s stolen victory in 2023, which he got after rigging brazenly in front of international television cameras.

Your ruling party takes money from ZANUPF, ask them why they do so. This is the right moment for you to ask the right questions because of this xenophobic and afrophobia crisis, but you are burying your head in the sand and engaging in denialism.

Our problems in Zimbabwe are authored by ZANUPF, and it is protected by YOUR government and the ANC. Chasing victims away shows a lack of understanding of where your problem comes from.

You have been shouting “Abahambe” since 2008. A serious adult would not repeat the same thing over and over without taking stock of why things are not changing.

In the middle of celebrating an election that was rigged, Fikile Mbalula was shouting “Viva Mnangagwa” from Harare in 2023. Do you think they were doing that for nothing? For free?
Ask yourself why South African politicians continue to side with ZANUPF while ordinary South Africans are left to deal with the consequences of Zimbabwe’s collapse.

Your leaders have been attacking our opposition, calling it Western-sponsored, and when our people become desperate, you tell them to go back and fight. That is silly. How do they fight when your government defends election rigging and takes bribes from ZANUPF?

It is like telling Oliver Tambo to go back to apartheid South Africa and fight. It would have been stupid to say so then, and it is stupid to say so to Zimbabweans who were shot in 2018 in front of international media and massacred in 2008.

Your former president Kgalema Motlanthe pocketed a six figure payout from the Zimbabwean government in 2028 for chairing a silly commission of inquiry that sanitised the killings of innocent citizens by the army.
More than 600 Zimbabweans were killed in post-election violence in 2008, yet Thabo Mbeki came to Harare and declared that there was no crisis.

For years, South African leaders have dismissed the concerns of ordinary Zimbabweans while embracing the very people responsible for driving millions out of their country.
Then, when those same Zimbabweans seek refuge and opportunities elsewhere, they are told to go back and fight the system that your government helps to sustain.

You cannot help shield the architects of a crisis and then blame the victims of that crisis when they cross the border looking for survival. That is neither logical nor moral.

When I am in South Africa, I am there legally. I do not need a single penny from your government when I live there. I could be like many others who live in the leafy suburbs of Johannesburg, as I do, and keep quiet.

But I will continue to speak on behalf of my people who have no voice, who live in fear of violence, who are terrified, and who have been reduced to statistics. I will speak for those who are insulted, abused, and blamed for problems they did not create.

Silence is easy when you are comfortable as I am. Speaking out is harder when you know you will be attacked for doing so. But the fact that some people are uncomfortable with the truth does not make it any less true.

The people I speak for are human beings with families, dreams, and aspirations. They deserve dignity, respect, and the protection of the law, just like everyone else.

Wake up and live!

[Roy T. Bennett @InspiringThinkn]

"The world is full of nice people. If you can't find one, be one." Anonymous

[BrightRock @BrightRockZA]

Change science expert, Gill Cross, believes that “this too shall pass” is one of the most powerful phrases to live by. She shares why time is the most important tool for growth, endurance, and wisdom.

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

The poor man's wisdom is ignored, But the rich man's joke is taken as advice.

-African Proverb

[mmatigari @matigary]

The xenophobes and tribalists behind mess in South Africa are now exposed. They are now coming out of their shells to explain to us that xenophobia is not xenophobia.

Uneducated fools dominate South African fools.

[𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐙𝐖 @CrimeWatchZW]

A frightening video shows criminals trying to break into a house in Mahatshula East. Fortunately, one of the residents heard suspicious noises and managed to record the face of one of the suspects during the attempted break-in.

Anyone who can identify this man is urged to report to the nearest @PoliceZimbabwe station immediately.

🎥 @Mathuthu

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

In 1969, the South African government forcibly removed the Makuleke people from their ancestral land in the Pafuri region to make way for the expansion of the Kruger National Park.

The Makuleke had lived for more than a century in a well-watered country near the Limpopo river. Their staple food was mabele and millet, which unlike maize, one could get at least a bag or so even in a bad harvest year. They had plenty of water, wild fruit, guinea-fowl, buck and river fish.

This was until they were uprooted to an arid, reclaimed game reserve, where only mopane worms flourish, where they learned to eat the worms.

They were not politely asked to move either. Government demolisher vehicles came while the men were away working in the cities and the women struggled to build houses during the harsh winter months with no poles or grass to even build makeshift shelters.

The winter months passed into spring and into rainy summer. They ploughed their gardens but the harvest from the arid soil was nil. In the second year, rain drowned the young crops and the third year heat scorched the crops so badly they could be set on fire.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, “For four successive years there was nothing to reap. Death ravaged the settlement. In the fifth year there was some promise of a good year. But wild beasts, especially buffaloes, baboons, monkeys and buck, as well as hares, caused complete destruction. Those who set traps to catch them were jailed for five years and more. They were told they should have reported and asked the white Bantu commissioners to go and shoot these beasts. The beasts ravage at night and the white commissioners are hundreds of kilometres away!”

At nearby Sibasa, people had been resettled in the “wrong” place and within a year they had to be removed again. Upon removal, grass for thatch was hard to get and reclaiming the old thatch broke the grass and meant a leaky roof. When journalists came, the women sat in front of their half-thatched huts with no fire, no shelter for their pit latrines and no privacy whatsoever.

Women and children had to walk as far as six kilometres for water, balancing 20 to 25 litres on their heads and carrying in their hands litres to drink along the way. Irrigation dams were restricted for watering government cash crops.

One community demonstrator organised women and old men to dig out the dry bed of a stream to reserve water when the rain came. After two rainy months the water was full in the dam. Then came the dry season, women were allowed to climb up the dam wall and then down to the water, but the dam was black with tadpoles. They had no choice but to carry the tadpoles along and strain the water before drinking.

All of this hardship was unleashed upon natives under the guise of “nature conservation”. People who had lived sustainably with their environment for generations, who knew how to weather bad harvests and draw abundance from their rivers, were seen as obstacles to “preserving” nature and uprooted to a landscape that offered nothing but worms and poverty.

Today, that same land is celebrated as the Makuleke Contractual Park, a “biodiversity hotspot” with walking safaris. The tourists are never told that the ecological richness that they fly across the world to admire was paid for with the humiliation of the people who once called it home.