Why do so many Zimbabweans find it difficult to help a Zimbabwean family in distress by simply reposting an appeal that does not cost them a penny?
If I post some stupid stuff on this page, it can get 3000 reposts. People will eagerly share nonsense, circulate gossip and spend hours arguing. Yet when a family asks us to help find their missing loved one, suddenly pressing the same share button becomes difficult.
This post has received 14,000 views, but only 214 shares, according to the latest count. A desperate family is asking us to help their appeal reach someone who might recognise this young man or know where he is.
They are not asking us for money. They are asking us to care enough to share.
Please stop for a moment and imagine that this is your child, your brother or someone you love. Imagine going to bed without knowing whether he has eaten, whether he is safe, whether he is hurt or whether he has somewhere to sleep. Imagine your phone ringing and being frightened of what you might hear, while desperately hoping that somebody has finally found him.
Then imagine discovering that thousands of people have seen your appeal, but very few have passed it on.
How would that make you feel?
Does this indifference not tell us something painful about the mindset that has helped turn Zimbabwe into the shithole we complain about? Does it not bring us back, yet again, to Dr Solomon Guramatunhu’s assertion that ZANUPF is a reflection of the people it leads?
We rightly demand a government that values human life. But that demand must also be reflected in how we treat one another. We cannot complain about leaders ignoring our suffering while casually scrolling past a distressed family asking for a few seconds of our time.
Our country’s problems cannot all be explained by the number of people who share a Twitter post. But our willingness to respond to another person’s distress says something about the society we are building. A country struggles to change when too many people regard another family’s pain as somebody else’s business.
I honestly struggle to understand how entertainment can move us to act so quickly, while an appeal for a missing person barely moves us at all.
To those who have shared this appeal, thank you. You have helped it reach further. One of those shares could put his photograph in front of someone with information.
Please help this family find Micheal Tiwande Mushanduri, whose appeal says he was last seen on 4 September 2026. If you have information, contact 0772246558 or 0715771946.
Share the original appeal so that his photograph and the contact details travel together.
Somewhere, a family is waiting for news of someone they love. Please do not wait until it is your family to understand why this matters.
The @Zinasuzim president @HamauswaZW , with Dylan, Takunda and Richard are finally out of remand prison.
They have spent a whole month in remand prison for simply airing their views against #CAB3
Many more Zimbabweans are still in prison and living in fear of the regime @ProfJNMoyo
@TendaiChirau That's the danger of electing hooligans in parliament. How daftness are you to say ten presidential candidates are too much without questioning the rationality of a bloated 210 parliament and the proposed presidential senate appointments
Jessie Majome turned the ZHRC into a truly independent body and led it in its principled rejection of CAB#3. For that, the President has dismissed her. This is unconstitutional and void. We will fight it. It is the continuation of the silencing of every voice against CAB#3.
🔸MPs are not going to defend our constitution because they are already greased! It is up to us to defend the constitution! Listen to the citizen below 👇🏾 #NoTo2030
That debate must happen. But it must happen honestly, and it must happen with respect for the men and women who made this country's independence possible.
What Moyo has done is not constitutional analysis. It is a political attack dressed in academic clothing, designed to neutralise veterans who dare to raise their voices on a matter of national importance by branding them as ignorant and illiterate. It will not work. We have faced worse than Jonathan Moyo's pen. Air Marshal Henry Muchena served this nation with distinction for decades. He commanded the Zimbabwe Air Force. He earned his rank and his right to speak. Jonathan Moyo served himself in the academy, in the cabinet, in ZANU-PF, out of ZANU-PF, in exile, on Twitter always with extraordinary skill and always, ultimately, for Jonathan Moyo.
Let him write his papers. Let him cite his cases. But let him never again use the word "coward" in the direction of men who went to war while he was still in school.
Zimbabwe's liberation was not won in a lecture theatre. Jonathan Moyo would do well to remember that.
Retired Lieutenant General Winston Sigauke Mapuranga
Zimbabwe National Army (Retired)
@zanupf_patriots We as Zimbabweans are very much worried by brutality being perpetrated by the regime in Harare on its own citizens by simply opposing illegal constitutional changes.
For nearly two years, President @nelsonchamisa was not on the political stage. In that time, no one managed to command the people’s confidence. The so called alternatives proved hollow & directionless. His return, with clarity & mass support, settles the matter: President Chamisa remains the political centre of Zimbabwe’s democratic alternative. His absence exposed a vacuum, his return restores real opposition power & legitimacy. #FreshStart #Agenda2026
A letter wrote by Blessed Mhlanga in prison, lest post it so many can see it .Free @bbmhlanga he is not a criminal he is just a journalist and journalism is not a crime. Lest fight for our rights and freedom💪. #HumanRights#Zimbabwe#FreeDhara