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[zimDaily @ZimDaily]

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[Black @LilithBlack25]

This what former French Economy Minister Thierry Breton said that has already came through pass :

"It was Emmanuel Macron's stupidity that opened the eyes of Africans. One thing is certain if France loses its colonies our children and grandchildren will go to Africa in search of their livelihoods. Immigration will change direction. Macron needs to go or France will suffer. Europe need to unite to fight this new African vision Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and other countries will follow suit. If one of the puschists' heads falls, the others will abandon the vision. Africa has no history therefore, Africa cannot run the world.”

[BabaTee @Qgumbo]

You said brother!

[Dr. Denver @denvern3]

The worst thing that a Government could ever do is to push the idea that honest hard work is a losers game. By elevating these opaque-business corruption-laden characters who are only free & "unjailed" due to polirical patronage the Zimbabwean Government has effectively killed the idea that success and prosperity can be secured through honest means. The unfortunate part is that the Government keeps manufacturing poverty while creating a class of mbingas with exclusive access to wealth, soon the people will not have anywhere to obtain a decent living without either groveling at the mbingas and when that fails, violently taking from the same. It is a slow motion accident unfolding before our eyes.

[Fadzayi Mahere🇿🇼 @advocatemahere]

🔸Psyche yedu senyika ngaimboitwa PhD study. I think we keep moving but tine trauma yekupazirwa dzimba, kushaya mvura, magetsi anongoenda, kubirwa mari kubank, kurohwa nemapurisa, kuiswa mujeri, kutorerwa zvatinotengesa mustreet, CAB3, nzara, kushaya mabasa, kuona vebato vachisplasher mari - I could go on. Vanhu vakaremerwa. Kuita hurumende isina hanya nevanhu is an extreme sport.

We need new leaders.🇿🇼

[Marlvin Gudyanga @MarlvinGudyanga]

• Fellow Zimbabweans, let’s gather here and give this man the respect he deserves 👏🏼👏🏼.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

He said nothing but the truth about the AFCON final.

[Big Shumba @Chivi_Warrior]

@advocatemahere Are you saying she just tap and go?

[Ğhï§ĺãíñ⛑ IdipNebosh @Ghislaintweets]

Cameroonians aren't good people 🤭

[Miss Jilianne @MissJilianne]

As a self-described citizen journalist, I examined Tesla and the more than $3.2 billion in incentives funded by California taxpayers.

While pursuing that investigation, we arrived at a Tesla location to purchase a vehicle, only to find the facility locked and unstaffed in the middle of the day.

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

My heart goes out to workers of the government run National Railways of Zimbabwe, NRZ.
They have not been paid their December salaries, so they had a sombre festive season without money to buy groceries for their families and they don’t have money to pay school fees.

The document I have attached is not an administrative notice, it is an indictment of a failed government that has destroyed the once respected railway service.

History is repeating itself at the NRZ. Between 2013 and 2018, employees were owed 18 months of salaries, later paid as so-called ex-gratia at a punitive rate of 1:4 when the official rate was 1:40. Workers lost more than US$25,000 each, their sweat erased by cruelty disguised as policy. No one was held accountable at all.

Now the same script is being replayed. November salaries were paid without bonuses. December salaries are being pushed to late January. Another backlog is being deliberately created.
Children are being sent home from schools for unpaid fees. Loans are swallowing wages through double deductions. Rent arrears are piling up. Families are suffocating.

Yet railway workers continue to move more than ten trains a day, risking their lives on collapsing and derelict infrastructure, running obsolete equipment, holding together a system that management has already abandoned. Workers have died suddenly from stress. These are not statistics, they are human beings with families that looked up to them for survival.

All this while managers plead for “patience” while they share the spoils driving expensive cars and getting paid hefty board fees for doing absolutely nothing.

This is not just mismanagement, it is institutional abuse. Workers are not asking for favours, bonuses, or sympathy. They are demanding what they are owed, in full, on time, and without manipulation through exchange rate theft.

The President and his Cabinet must be ashamed about how their appointed managers are treating employees. Silence only guarantees that this injustice will repeat itself again, and again, and again.

This collapse cannot be separated from politics.
When ZANUPF took over the railways from the Rhodesians, the National Railways of Zimbabwe was one of the best-run systems on the continent, second only to South Africa. It was efficient, reliable, professionally managed, and respected across the region and beyond. Freight moved on time, passenger services worked, and workers were paid. The railway was a backbone of the economy.

What destroyed it was not sanctions, not fate, and not bad luck. It was the culture imposed under ZANUPF, corruption replacing competence, nepotism replacing merit, and party loyalty replacing professionalism. Senior management and board positions became rewards for political obedience rather than technical ability. Looting replaced maintenance. Silence was rewarded, honesty was punished.

The result is what we are witnessing now, a once glorious railway company reduced to a shell, kept alive only by the suffering and resilience of underpaid workers. Trains still move not because the system works, but because workers sacrifice their health, families, and dignity to keep it running.

This crisis is not accidental. It is the direct consequence of decades of political decay. Until corruption, patronage, and party capture are confronted head-on, the railways will continue to bleed workers dry while those responsible walk away untouched.

Zimbabwe’s political elites are not bothered by this suffering because many of them profit directly from the collapse. They own trucking companies that have replaced the very service once provided by the National Railways of Zimbabwe. They understand very well that a functioning NRZ would destroy their trucking businesses, so the collapse is not accidental, it is deliberate.

This decay is also fuelled by systematic theft. Public funds meant to revive the railways are looted. Money injected by government disappears. What should go into wagons, locomotives, signalling, and salaries is diverted into private pockets. The railways are deliberately weakened so that private interests tied to political power can thrive.

The cost has been devastating. Freight is now slower, more expensive, and less competitive. Industries suffer. Prices rise. Regional trade suffers. What used to be a strategic national asset is now an economic liability, not because it had to fail, but because it was destroyed.

It is therefore shocking, but also revealing, that politicians from both ZANUPF and the opposition would celebrate the transport minister as “minister of the year” while workers at NRZ are unpaid, stressed, and dying. When the national airline has collapsed, when the railways are collapsing, it tells you that the problem is not only ZANUPF as a party, but the political mindset of the elite across the board.

Even more disturbing is the silence. You hardly hear opposition politicians speak about this daily, structural destruction of national infrastructure. One is left to wonder why.

[Joanah Mamombe MP @JoanaMamombe]

Mtshabezi in Matabeleland South... 45 years after independence, we still have colonial bridges, busy spending money on cars, neglecting to build bridges.

The priorities of this government are warped.

Do not cross flooded rivers.

[Fadzayi Mahere🇿🇼 @advocatemahere]

🔸Imi nguri makangobvira kuisa bucket seat nekurenovator madressing room zvisingaperi. Ava vakaita izvi in 15 months. Apo vane akawanda. They mine phosphates. We mine gold, lithium, diamond, platinum, chrome zvese. The difference is leadership.

We don’t want luxury cars for a few. We want world-class infrastructure and a nation that works for everyone.

We need new leaders.🇿🇼

[BabaTee @Qgumbo]

Silly question but, uyu Stunner has no real friends?

[BabaTee @Qgumbo]

@georgia_tsetana The situation has reached a critical level. MAD!!!

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

🤣😂

[Tom Krzystek @tom_krzystek]

@RpsAgainstTrump

[B I G V I N C E 🫵🏿 @Vincemainia]

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[Native American History @_nativeamerica]

Love This !!!