Jacob Lawrence Sedze

Jesus is LORD

[Dr Walter Mzembi @waltermzembi]

Return to Harare Remand on Africa Day !Godfrey Karembera aka @MadzibabaV is one of my sons that I spend time counseling( kunyaradzana)
“inside”. Today I met him together with my butler team who supported my stay. We prayed , laughed and reminisced.

[Fadzayi Mahere🇿🇼 @advocatemahere]

🔸Imari dzedu dzaipfachurwa. Nothing impressive at all.

We need new leaders.🇿🇼

[Gift Ostallos Siziba @Cde_Ostallos]

No sane person within ZANU PF or the institutions of the state can genuinely find acceptable the level of extravagance and opulence displayed at the so called ‘wedding’ in a country bleeding from extreme poverty, collapsing public healthcare, unemployment and deep social despair. Such obscene accumulation of wealth is taking place while their own ordinary party members and the general citizenry survive on crumbs, abandoned by the very system they defend and campaign for. It’s a mess!
#NoTo2030

[Gift Ostallos Siziba @Cde_Ostallos]

Just been informed of the sad passing of Elliot Pfebve a comrade and a fighter who played a significant role in the formative stages of the democratic movement in Zimbabwe. Sending our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends, comrades and all those whose lives he touched.
Rest well mfowethu🕊️

[Gerrard Anko Ged Belts @MacBelts]

Chakunakidza chigame chacho. Bayanai ikoko. Temba v Mukuru wemazuva ava mashoma

[Nehanda Radio @NehandaRadio]

Open Letter to @NelsonChamisa

“If you do something once, it is a decision. If you do it twice, it becomes a habit. But when you do it more than three times, it becomes character.”

Dear Nelson,

I have known you for 31 years and have always — and still do — consider you a close friend and brother. Back then, there was no MDC opposition party to speak of, no @NehandaRadio, and none of the political prominence that surrounds us today. We were simply ordinary students at Harare Polytechnic trying to find our way in life.

Over the years, you have done exceptionally well in rising through the ranks of leadership — from Youth Leader, to Spokesperson, Organising Secretary, ICT Minister during the GNU, Vice President, and eventually President of Zimbabwe’s main opposition movement.

Throughout this journey, we developed a clear understanding of professional boundaries and mutual respect. I own and run a media platform that gives space to voices that may either criticise or praise you in equal measure. I have always appreciated the fact that you understood and respected this principle, and never sought to censor our work.

In return, I have respected our friendship and never abused our proximity for personal or journalistic advantage.

It is therefore deeply disheartening that, 48 hours after a defamatory article was published by Simba Chikanza on ZimEye falsely claiming that I recorded your conversation regarding Advocate Thabani Mpofu (@adv_fulcrum), you have chosen to remain silent and avoid setting the record straight.

You are the only person who knows who was on the other side of that phone call. While you have every right to protect the identity of that individual, it is unfair to remain silent while false accusations are being levelled against a long-time friend and colleague.

Unfortunately, your silence — as has happened in other matters which I will not get into here — creates a vacuum that people inevitably fill with assumptions and speculation. One cannot entirely blame those who may conclude that your silence suggests some level of complicity in the breeding of these claims.

I have engaged you privately and encouraged you to do the right thing because, apart from the interviewer, you are the only other person capable of authenticating the recording and confirming that the person you were speaking to was clearly not me. Yet despite this, you have chosen not to correct the record.

That is troubling — not just politically, but personally.

Over the years, Simba Chikanza has made defamatory allegations against several people associated with your political space, including @advocatemahere, @PedzisaiRuhanya, Hopewell Chin'ono (@daddyhope), @JamesonTimba and many others.

Allowing such falsehoods to continue unchecked has inevitably led many to question whether these attacks are random, or whether there is active encouragement behind the scenes regarding who should be targeted next.

There are currently two separate audio controversies being discussed publicly. The first was the Daily News recording in which you were heard criticising your colleague Jameson Timba.

The second recording (attached here for purposes of clarity) — the one now falsely linked to me — was not released by the Daily News. It was allegedly leaked by the very person whose identity you appear resolutely determined to protect.

That naturally raises difficult questions about why you are prepared to protect that individual at the expense of long-standing friends and comrades.

This situation mirrors closely that of another dear friend of mine, Luke Tamborinyoka @luke_tambo). He gave you years of dedication and service, often at great personal sacrifice, yet in 2023 you quietly imposed another candidate in Goromonzi West after Luke had emerged victorious in the much-criticised “Bereka Mwana” voting exercise.

Luke narrated his painful experience in an open letter to Domboshava residents, circulated in polling-station-based WhatsApp groups in Domboshava, which we later published on the Nehanda Radio website in July 2023.

One could conclude you have a perchant for sabotaging your own friends and comrades, even when they would not in any way have sought any benevolence from you.

While your friends and comrades are left exposed, you appear comfortable briefing and confiding in a publisher whom many Zimbabweans consider deeply reckless and unstable. The day you eventually fall out with him, you may come to appreciate the importance of choosing and screening confidants carefully.

Should he one day find himself before a court of law (given the many people he has defamed) he may be required to substantiate his allegations and there is every chance he will seek to protect himself by pointing in your direction.

You have been warned repeatedly by many people about his conduct and disposition, yet it increasingly appears that you may have found utility in that recklessness because it can easily be weaponised politically against both friends and perceived opponents alike.

I could easily have used this letter in anger to retaliate or reveal matters shared in confidence, but I have deliberately chosen not to do so because I still believe in conducting myself professionally and responsibly for the greater good.

In 31 years, our phone calls must number in the thousands, and not a single one has ever been recorded by me — something you know better than anyone else.

If you ultimately choose not to correct the record, so be it. I am more than capable of defending myself publicly and politically.

I am not particularly concerned about what Simba Chikanza writes because, quite frankly, very few serious Zimbabweans consider him credible. My greater concern is your apparent unwillingness to tell the truth on a matter that should be straightforward.

What irks me the most is that I never expected this from a friend, a comrade, and a Pastor.

God is definitely not in this.

Lance Guma
Managing Editor
Nehanda Radio

[The Pep @GuardiolaTweets]

Pep “On behalf of Man City we congratulate Mikel, the staff, players, fans and Arsenal for this Premier League. Next season we will be back." #Pep

Journo “The fans said one more year Pep”

Pep “They love me so much, I love them more” #Pep

[Trevor Ncube @TrevorNcube]

Day 4. Reject CAB3.

Don't be afraid. Stand up. Speak up.
Not by another coup. Not by the gun. Not by blood.
By a written submission.

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#RejectCAB3 #Zimbabwe

[Rutendo Matinyarare @matinyarare]

𝗗𝗜𝗗 𝗭𝗔𝗡𝗨 𝗣𝗙 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗦 𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗙𝗬 𝗖𝗔𝗕𝟯 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗢𝗟𝗨𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡? 𝗗𝗜𝗗 𝗜𝗧 𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟴-𝟯𝟮 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗧? 𝗜𝗙 𝗡𝗢𝗧, 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗜𝗦 𝗖𝗔𝗕𝟯 𝗦𝗨𝗣𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗕𝗬 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗬?

How can a decision that came from a Conference and not a 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 be said to be a party decision, when the party, through its Central Committee, is only entitled to execute policies or programs that are made by the 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲’𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀? Was CAB3 okayed by The People’s Congress for you to say that it enjoys the support of the party? No!

Secondly, President ED has not been elected by Congress and should be serving his final term, which ends in 2028 according to the party constitution. So how can the current President be deemed to have succeeded to 2030 when he hasn’t won at Congress for him to be the ZANU PF leader from 2028-2032?

You go on to say that Chiwenga has no support in the party. It’s too early to say that because at Congress next year, someone can nominate him and structures could vote for him as the new leader of ZANU PF, considering that the current President will have served his two terms is inallegeable to run again. Unless of course if ZANU PF has dumped its processes or it changes the constitution.

Why wasn’t an extraordinary Congress held to allow Congress to pronounce itself on the CAB3 resolution and to select a new leader before CAB3 was pushed through? Because as it is, CAB3 is ultra vires.

Finally, what made you feel that Chiwenga was taking aim at the President through his allegorical sermon which does not mention anyone’s name?

[Rutendo Matinyarare @matinyarare]

Was the Lancaster House Conference our constitution in the first place for us to use it as a benchmark? No it wasn’t. It was a colonial constitution, hence we had to amend it so many times because it wasn’t the people’s constitution. How do we compare a colonial constitution with a constitution we wrote on our own?

[Rutendo Matinyarare @matinyarare]

𝗔 𝗪𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗘 𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗩𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗢 𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗔𝗕𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗔 𝗕𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗘?

It’s a travesty that a whole Minister of Finance flew from Harare to Matabeleland with bodyguards, to commission a borehole and a garden, in a country where every Zimbabwean has a borehole at their home. How does a Finance Minister in a country that aspires to be a middle-income economy and the breadbasket of Africa, celebrate the commissioning of a mere borehole and garden on a continent where Libya under Gaddafi (30 years ago) built the world’s biggest irrigation system known as the Great Man Made River, to make Libya the biggest dessert farm in the world?

How does Zimbabwe become an advanced middle-income economy when our Finance Minister spends his day commissioning boreholes instead of commissioning hundreds of kilometers of canals from Tokwe-Mukosi to turn the whole of South West Zimbabwe into fruit and sugarcane plantations?

[Doug Coltart ✊🏼🇿🇼 @DougColtart]

“We are wearing black, why? Because we are mourning the reversal of the gains of the liberations struggle, particularly one man one vote.” — @OMasaraure

#OneManOneVote #NoToCAB3

[Dominic Nyakudya @VaNyakudya]

Gen Chiwenga and the army owe Zimbabweans an explanation and an apology. Ndoozvamakabvisira Mugabe here izvi? Mapostori get 12 ma GD6 and our elderly get bikes.

[Saviour Kasukuwere @Hon_Kasukuwere]

@Julius_S_Malema The entire African race was on trial, and the outcome did not surprise us. In the final analysis they won’t break you but will strengthen you. Africa is behind you brother. You shall overcome!

[Hosia Mviringi @MviringiHosia]

According to @TembaMliswa, President Mnangagwa is the Chief Corruption Officer in the Zimbabwean government. He said it is time to call a spade by its name.

[Gerrard Anko Ged Belts @MacBelts]

You may furnish us with a cooked statement but the Jessie statement is on record and now a widely referenced statement

[Kate Hoey @CatharineHoey]

The proposed Constitutional Bill in Zimbabwe is an attack on democracy by @edmnabang Rule by terror and threat of terror from ZanuPF Opposition and civil society leaders attacked,imprisoned. Our Gov must speak out
Question in Lords !

[ᵈʳ 𝑼𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒐 🧐 @tonnie_montana]

Mwana wa Tungwaz ane G-wagon plus kupihwa den reku borrowdale se birthday present kuno kughetto tikuunganidzwa tiri 4896 kuti tipemberere kuisirwa chibhorani 1😭😭

[Fadzayi Mahere🇿🇼 @advocatemahere]

🔸Honourable Minister @TateMavetera,

I just want to understand, vision yeparty yenyu ndeyekuisa zvibhorani muHarare here? Ndoyamungapembedze kuti vision shuwa shuwa?

United in donating a communal wells/borehole to a whole urban community that used to have clean, potable, piped tap water?

Regai vanhu vazoti #NoTo2030. Munomakisa ndati.🙌🏽

We need new leaders.🇿🇼

[Rutendo Matinyarare @matinyarare]

It was an embarrassment listening to George Charamba citing colonial charter laws and apartheid laws made without the inclusion of the majority, as rationale for CAB3.

He actually decampaigned CAB3 by equating it to apartheid laws that were categorized as crimes against humanity by the UN.