We know you work hard. The effort yamakaisa kuti muise President muback pocket is evident. We know you have received favorable rates to convert ZIG to USD.
We know you have gone to great lengths to limit our general access to tenders.
We know you have drafted a new SI every other day, that's fine murikushanda. We are only saying make a fair and principled country, we don't want your money we just want our country back.
We want money that has value the same way you do, without the threat of being arrested for what we worked for. Shuwa shuwa Lecturer ndowanopa 300USD per month mototi higher education is thriving? You tell us you can't build 2 Dams for Harare but you have not stopped collecting taxes.
Look, it is clear you are not concerned with governing. Give us back our Zimbabwe so that we build it for all, not just for you and your concubines and children.
Simple.
I thank you, siyabonga, ndatenda zvangu
You reduce crime by eliminating poverty. The reason so called nice neighborhoods have lower crime rates is because people’s basic needs are being met. It is not because of police, alarm systems, or neighborhood associations. Poverty creates crime.
I fell in love with this scripture:
“There will come a time when your tears will fall, not because of your troubles, but because God has answered your prayers.”
— 𝖧𝖠𝖡𝖠𝖪𝖪𝖴𝖪 𝟤:𝟥
Paden pamwe pandaigara ndakambochiisa chibook ichi. Around 1AM ndakanzwa sound yechibook chichikweshera paFloor and I celebrated! That mouse had bothered me for a while. Ndakabatidza light only to see the gonzo walking rakaisa chibook muhapwa kunge teacher ane notebook🙌🏾
This sentences by Van Gogh hits hard:
“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”
Find audacity. There is nothing that will help you more in this life than audacity, find it, let it push you to do things , to silence the noise , to go back to school, to leave the country, to start a business, to do things . To fight for your life.
I don’t want a city on Mars. I don’t want AI in every app. I don’t want data centres in space. I don’t want humanoids or flying cars. I want clean water. I want a stable climate. I want bees to survive. And a habitable planet.
Jocelyn Chiwenga had also viciously beaten up my tiny friend Gugu Moyo, lawyer for the banned Daily News, when Gugu was trying to procure the release from custody of a photographer arrested for taking pictures of Harare residents protesting against the government. The event was recorded by the former editor of the Daily News, Geoffrey Nyarota, in his book Against the Grain. He wrote that when the police said they did not have the photographer, Philimon Bulawayo, Moyo said, ‘But I saw him in the cells”.
Then, Gugu continued, ‘An army Range Rover pulled up. A woman came in, talking on a cellphone. My own cellphone rang and I answered it. The woman shouted, “Who is that woman on the phone?”
‘I said I worked for Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe, and she went wild. She shouted at me: “So what if you are a lawyer? Your paper wants to encourage anarchy in this country. You want to represent our enemies.”
Then she twisted my arm and slapped me in the face.
“I am Jocelyn Chiwenga, the wife of the army commander. Your paper says that there is no rule of law in Zimbabwe. Well, I will show you the rule of law!” She said she was powerful and would kill me. She said she would shoot me. She kept hitting me. Policemen folded their arms and watched.’
Through the Darkness: A Life in Zimbabwe—Judith Todd