BREAKING NEWSโผ๏ธ
His Excellency President Dr E.D. Mnangagwa @edmnangagwa is set to launch the "Citizen Engagement and Scoring Platform" Thursday 18 June 2026 at the Rainbow Towers, HICC Grounds .A new platform for citizen participation and feedback.
Dear Cde @CMukungunugwa it's a shame that in this era you still wish to rule by axe. Why should he be barred from enjoying National Airplay??
Nonsense!!!
Is Winky D a musician or a politician? ๐คท๐ฝโโ๏ธ Feels less like art and more like heโs pushing an agenda at this point. If he wants to lead, fine but donโt disguise it as entertainment. Time to ban his airplay in Zimbabwe. ๐ซ
Parliament received 300 000 submissions on #CA3 with the window for contributions closing tomorrow.... Only 300 000?? The majority of which are from @ZANUPF_Official while Opposition people are shouting on social media๐ฎ๐ฎAs you know,no country is run on social media opinions๐ฅฑ๐ฅฑ
WHY I, AS A WOMAN AND A SCHOLAR, AM ENDORSING CONSTANTINO CHIWENGA FOR PRESIDENT. I do not make political endorsements lightly.
As a political scientist I am trained to analyse, to interrogate, to hold all positions at arm's length and subject them to the cold discipline of evidence. Endorsements are for activists, I was taught. Scholars observe. But there are moments in a nation's history when the scholar's detachment becomes its own form of complicity. When silence in the face of a clear and urgent choice is not neutrality it is abdication.
This is one of those moments.
And so I am setting down my analytical framework for a moment and speaking plainly as a Zimbabwean woman who has studied power, who has watched this republic navigate its most consequential crossroads, and who has arrived through evidence, not emotion at a conclusion I am no longer willing to keep to myself.
Zimbabwe needs Vice President Constantino Chiwenga at the helm. And it needs him now.
I want to be precise about what I mean when I say evidence.
I do not mean proximity to power. I do not mean party affiliation. I do not mean the performance of patriotism that our political culture has elevated into an art form the loudest voice at the rally, the most extravagant praise song, the most theatrical declaration of loyalty.
I mean demonstrated conduct under pressure. I mean institutional behaviour across time. I mean the record that remains when the noise is stripped away.On every one of these measures Vice President Chiwenga's record is remarkable and remarkably consistent. In November 2017 he was offered the presidency. Not metaphorically. Not as a distant possibility. He was offered it directly, by the man whose removal he had just facilitated. He declined. He deferred to hierarchy. He said it was another man's time and stepped back.
In the years since he has watched that decision be repaid with marginalisation. With the gradual contraction of his access and influence. With the quiet rearrangement of the inner circle to exclude the man who made the inner circle possible.
He has not responded with bitterness. He has not responded with public theatrics. He has continued to engage. To speak on substance on health policy, on the exploitation of Zimbabwean workers abroad, on the structural challenges facing this nation while others perform.That is not weakness. That is the rarest quality in African politics:
Discipline in the face of provocation.
I want to say something that my male colleagues in political science rarely say, because it requires a kind of vulnerability that academic culture does not always reward.
Zimbabwe's women are exhausted.
We are exhausted by leadership that performs strength while delivering chaos. We are exhausted by the big man politics that fills stadiums and empties hospitals. We are exhausted by the patronage culture that builds mansions for the connected while our mothers deliver babies in under-resourced maternity wards.
We are exhausted by Zvigananda. By the brazen, unapologetic looting of a nation's resources by men who have confused proximity to power with entitlement to everything the nation produces.
When I look at what Vice President Chiwenga has said about the exploitation of Zimbabwean health workers abroad nurses, our nurses, leaving not because they want to but because they have no dignified option at home I hear a leader who understands that governance is not abstract. It is the ward that is staffed or understaffed. It is the mother who delivers safely or does not. It is the child who receives treatment or waits.