This is why I always support Wicknell in situations like this... @TembaMliswa , you are a fearless and respected elder, that's why I'm disappointed a person of your level cannot be posting cheap insults and low blows on social media we expect better from you , u know we as young people look up to leaders like you we want to see mature debates, not unnecessary personal attacks. If there is a problem with Wicknell, challenge him on facts and issues, not these cheap social media jabs plz .....I believe my brother @wicknellchivayo will show maturity and not give this any attention. Not everything deserves a response. Sometimes silence is the best answer ....As young as I am, I find everything wrong with this, Sabhuku. Zimbabwean youths are watching, and we expect our elders to set a better example than this , what are you teaching your grandchildren??
Good day I want to name and shame madam vanoshanda ku Central Vehicle Registry (CVR) office number 8. She is the one vanoita ma confirmation from VID. Shuwa munhu kubuda kubasa to do her personal errands na 10 am and up until day end vanga vasati vadzoka. She did not leave any notice even to her colleagues. Vanhu vangoswera vakamira in frustration hoping she would come back. Her colleagues tried calling her but she was not picking up.
Imagine the time and resources that you use by being in town, the parking stress, lunch etc only to be told towards day end kuti munozodzoka mangwana pamwe vanenge varipo.
The least she could have done is to notify her colleagues that she won't be around or even to delegate her roles for the day.
@EngDanielC@CrimeWatchZW no guys in business we use trust only, nower days Facebook is doing well me I market all my products on Facebook I deal with new clients everyday and they pay deposit of 70% and I deliver all products, only few ppl doing scammer, but truly speaking vanhu vane mari dzavo havanei
@BaShonaBaShona He is not a gentle man, why he is claiming compensation yet the real father wasn't away he has a child with the lady? accept defeat and move on
“CHURCHES in residential areas are now expected to have soundproof walls, while fuel stations will no longer be licensed to operate in residential areas in a bid to restore sanity in cities.”
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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.