Thabi Muleya

I am a Human rights defender. I believe in the right to express my own views and the right of others to do the same. Views expressed on this account are my own.

[Thabi Muleya @MuleyaThabi]

#WeareOneZw @salaniCorner which makes it so painful when our fellow countrymen have to disappear just for having a different opinion. How do these people sleep at night? Surely we can fit in our motherland with all our diversity. Come on people?

[ZHRO @ZHRO_Zimbabwe]

Petition Handover to 10 Downing Street - the Office of the Prime Minister of the UK. https://t.co/VXItRRytjf @FelixNdiweni @ZapuPublicity @ZAPUusa @zapueu @CCCDiaspora @CccNap @ROHRZimbabweorg @FCDOHumanRights @USEmbZim @Tbiti_campaign @LynneStactia @NicolaWatson13 @zditrust

[ROHR ZIMBABWE @ROHRZimbabweorg]

The commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, General Philip Valerio Sibanda, has been appointed by @edmnangagwa into th politburo of ZANU-PF.
nevertheless“Members of th security services must not be active members of any political party or organisation.#Wecondemnthefalcification

[ROHR ZIMBABWE @ROHRZimbabweorg]

As Zimbabwean diaspora community we call for international solidarity against ongoing cruelty by Zimbabwe state forces #stopubductions
#NOtorture

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

When you see any Zimbabwean congratulating a ZANUPF appointment in the corrupt Government, such a person is the personification of what Dr Nkosana Moyo described when he said some Zimbabweans are not fighting for real change, but they are fighting to be included in the system so that they can also have their turn to “eat.”

That is why some shady people try to separate some crooked individuals from the system that they are working for and that they happily embrace when called to serve it.

If you walk into a corrupt Government and you stay there after seeing all the terrible things that the system is doing to our citizens, then you are also corrupt, because there is nothing to be congratulated about joining a corrupt mafia that steals from its people.

The same applies to people who sit on parastatal boards pretending to be the voice of reason in a filthy corrupt organization, no they are there to make money and they have zero integrity.

We should do away with the pretence that we see in some of our people who attempt to deceive us that anything good can come from a regime that can’t even buy paracetamol for grannies in townships and rural areas.

These people are enablers, without them the corrupt system would have collapsed and many of them have no competent skills to market abroad.

Let us have a clean moral standard and not pretend that there are aspects of the corrupt regime that are acceptable in being part of.

How can any sane person want to be part of a regime that allows 2500 women to die annually giving birth.

You have blood on your hands if you are part of that, it is a nonnegotiable reality!

And those who congratulate that, shame on you!

[Prof Jonathan Moyo @ProfJNMoyo]

Well done and kudos Prof Mthuli Ncube. With your statement tonight, you have reverted to the right toolbox and demonstrated that at least government is ready and willing to put its mouth where its money is, principally to shore up the Zim dollar, which has come under untold pressure characterised by precipitous price hikes and volatile exchange rates with the threat of shortages of basic commodities looming on the horizon.

So, this is a commendable policy intervention by Minister Ncube.

It is encouraging that the thrust of his intervention is to beef up the local currency, and not to go the dollarisation track that some quarters are clamouring for.

Full dollarisation should indeed be out of the question, more so given that unlike in the 2008 doomsday scenario, exports have breached the USD 12 billion mark. In any case, the experience of countries like Argentina with dollarization is ugly and provides bad lessons of what not to do. It’s therefore prudent for Zimbabwe to remain a dualcurrency or multicurrency economy, while building up and strengthening the Zim dollar to become the dominant currency in due course. 

While it is always a daunting task to mend a roof with multiple leaks in the middle of a pounding and blinding storm of the kind currently battering the Zim economy, along with the welcome measures announced by Minister Ncube tonight, the basket of other or additional options could include the following: 

*For the Zim Dollar to eventually become the dominant currency, it would be wise to bite the bullet and liberalize the exchange rate sooner rather than later, such that the value of the currency must – as reasonably possible – be determined by demand and supply.

*Serious consideration should be given to benchmarking civil service salaries to the wage bills in the region if not in Sub-Saharan Africa.

*Government should consider paying contractors in forex (or ZWL at market determined exchange rate at point of payment) at reasonable or competitive prices for goods and services. This could have a positive impact because, currently, national projects are funded by way of paying contractors in ZWL which they immediately take to the market to get value. In essence, they dump their currency at the point of receipt. Notably, over the years, Zimbabweans have become oriented to work and deal on the basis that the minute they get Zim dollars, they want to dump them for forex.

It seems that if demand is created for the Zim dollars, contractors would most likely keep the Zim dollars in their accounts and exchange them only on a need basis. After all, it is a normal global practice to promote savings, but if somehow a country cannot do that with its own currency, then it necessarily fuels artificial demand for forex.

*In order to create demand for the local currency, all not just some taxes should be paid in ZWL.

*Capital projects should be funded by long term financing from external lenders.

*At long last, there's now a clear and present opportunity to pursue privatization as a viable option for funding roads, dams, electricity, water and telecoms. And, taking a leaf from Russia’s recent experience, consideration should be given to sell some prized State assets in ZWL.

Otherwise, the measures in the statement by Minister Ncube are an appropriate, significant and timely step in the right direction. But of course the devil is in the cooperation challenge: measures like these have the best chance of success where and when everyone in the economy and across the political divide is ready and willing to play their part!

[ROHR ZIMBABWE @ROHRZimbabweorg]

We call for the release of political prisoner @JobSikhala1 @NgarivhumeJacob who are facing persecution due to their political beliefs
Jacob's crime is calling for a peaceful protest in 2020
344 days today of Sikhala's pre-trial detention for advocating for justice 4 Moreblessing

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

Zimbabwe’s economy was bigger than Kenya’s economy in 1992.

Zimbabweans could walk in and out of a job because the economy was working.

The looting and plunder started to gain momentum coupled with State enterprise corruption.

Today Kenya’s economy is 5 times bigger than Zimbabwe’s economy not because Kenya has something special, but because Zimbabwe’s political elites are looting and hiding their loot in foreign countries like Dubai and South Africa.

Today Zimbabwe’s potential workforce of graduates is scattered in streets selling trinkets to survive.

Workers Day, what workers day many of them are asking!

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

Dear Africans,

As Zimbabweans and Africa reflect on the jailing of Zimbabwean political activist, Jacob Ngarivhume @NgarivhumeJacob for 4 years for arranging a peaceful anti-corruption demonstration in Zimbabwe in 2020, these are the conditions of the prison where he is kept in Harare.

Prisoners are living like Africans did on a slave ship!

Jacob’s crime is demanding the ending of corruption in Zimbabwe.

The whole of Zimbabwe has no single working radiotherapy cancer treatment machine.

Central also known as referral hospitals don’t have IV paracetamol or working MRI machine yet Gold worth US$166 million is smuggled every month to Dubai by ZANUPF elites!

For demanding an end of this State theft through a peaceful protest, Jacob was sentenced to 4 years in these filthy prisons, and will serve an effective 3 years!

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

I would like to salute the outgoing MP for Mutare Central who has chosen to retire from parliament even though he had been nominated.

These are the people that Zimbabwe needs in our politics, people who serve and remember that leadership means training new leaders and resting!

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

One of Zimbabwe’s leading academics, Prof Ibbo Mandaza @ibbosnr says that the Zimbabwean opposition should stand up and be counted on the #GoldMafia corruption scandal and not rely on issuing press statements.

Speaking on @Newzroom405, Prof Mandaza asked why Chamisa was quiet.

[ROHR ZIMBABWE @ROHRZimbabweorg]

They steal from us
When citizens speak against it they will use their political muscle to unleash violence on citizens
Meet George Charamba presidential spokesperson, Uebert Angel ambassador-at-large & a presidential envoy, Henrietta Rushwaya the president's niece &
Passion Java

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

Discredited Ambassador at Large, Angel brought Dexter Blackstock @dexblackstock23 to meet President Mnangagwa in 2021.

They said they were building a cancer hospital.
What happened to the plan?

Zimbabwe doesn’t have a single working radiotherapy machine in all public hospitals.

[Nontokozo Malaba @Noe_MalabaNcube]

“What is happening to Job Sikhala is unfair & inhumane!” @MutsawuVengai in his speech yesterday during the handing over of the petition. #FreeJobSikhala #FreeMRP9 #FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners #JusticeForMoreblessingAli

[ZHRO @ZHRO_Zimbabwe]

Free Job Sikhala - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/Ws51hBBtdw via @UKChange @DavidColtart @CCCDiaspora @CccNap @CCC_SouthAfrica @CCCZimbabwe @CCCNAmerica @CCCMasvngoYth @zimbabwe_free @CCC_Europe @cccchina01 @ROHRZimbabweorg @jonny_oates @FelixNdiweni

[ROHR ZIMBABWE @ROHRZimbabweorg]

The #NoToPoliticalViolence Campaign kicks off. Vongayi Mufara, the Information & Publicity Secretary for the UK Chapter of ROHR Zimbabwe recorded this short video.

[ROHR ZIMBABWE @ROHRZimbabweorg]

Bad governments like ZANU-PF are elected by good citizens who don't vote
If you don't vote you indirectly lose your right to complain
Play your part Go & Register To Vote, Vote & above all play a part in protecting your Vote
Don't give up on your inheritance
#RegisterToVoteZW

[ROHR ZIMBABWE @ROHRZimbabweorg]

Doing the same thing & expecting a different outcome is the definition of insanity
Voting in our numbers will make it impossible for ZANU-PF to rig elections
Play your part by registering to vote & going to vote on the day
Don't give up on your inheritance
#RegisterToVoteZW

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

Very sad.

Drugs are being brought into the country and introduced into schools and communities by people connected to powerful political families.

A well known infamous music producer holds what they call Passa-Passa concerts to sell drugs.

A woman socialite is also involved.

[ROHR ZIMBABWE @ROHRZimbabweorg]

225 days today in Pre-Trial Detention
His crime is legally representing Moreblessing Ali a murdered victim by ZANU-PF thugs
We demand his release
#FreeJobSikhala

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

LOOTING ALERT!!

The Government of Zimbabwe said it built 516 rooms for students accommodation at a cost of US$17 million.
That is US$33,000 per room.

The cost of a whole maternity theater is US$37,000.

The biggest hospital in Zimbabwe only has one theatre built by Ian Smith!