ZIM TOPICAL 🇿🇼

We share and comment on things topical for Zimbabweans 🇿🇼

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ZIMBABWE 🇿🇼 was the 10th most visited country in Africa in 2022 🔥

[Africa Facts Zone @AfricaFactsZone]

Africa's Most Visited Countries (2022)

1. Egypt - 11.7 million tourists

2. Morocco - 10.9 million

3. Tunisia - 6.437 million

4. South Africa - 5.7 million

5. Kenya - 1.48M

6. Tanzania - 1.454M

7. Rwanda, Mauritius - 1M each

9. Ghana - 914,892

10. Zimbabwe - 895,338

[Scottland Football Club @ScottlandFC]

🚨🚨REST IN PEACE FIRE 🕊️🕊️🕊️

Scottland FC president, Hon Pedzai Sakupwanya and the entire club join the rest of the football community in mourning the death of former Warriors striker, Tendai “Fire” Ndoro.

Scottland FC extends heartfelt condolences to Ndoro’s family, relatives and friends.

May His Soul Rest In Peace🕊️🕊️
#Mabviravira

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@DupleixP @PoliceZimbabwe Well if you are Observant you would have noticed that the statement has a key word “confirms”.
This means ZRP were pushed into making that statement in response to countless inquiries on Bunjira and the accident, mainly from journalists.

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@FrankMawoza1 💯All the people who were making noise against Madhevere and other black batsmen suddenly want to look at the performance as a collective. No one is singling out any batsman.

Coltart has suddenly remembered he has a council to run because there are no black batsmen to attack😭

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Waking up to some squad numbers… 🤩

[Jamwanda @Jamwanda2]

I agree fully; public facilities have become tragic commons: consumption is non-rivaled; destruction is with impunity; the inconvenience is generalized. All that must change through penalties!!!!!

[Scottland Football Club @ScottlandFC]

🚨🚨ITS THE BIG ONE 🔥⚽️

We host the heavyweights of Zimbabwean 🇿🇼football, @HighlanderBosso on @CastleLagerPSL MatchDay 21 at Rufaro on Sunday.

All roads lead to Rufaro Stadium!

There will be NO other match on the day. Be there and witness fireworks 🎇.

#Mabviravira

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@Jamwanda2 Coltart was busy tweeting about cricket

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@chikomoho @TheAnswerMMA He is being Misled….and will regret very soon.

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@KMutisi Clear Mental Health issues

[mmatigari @matigary]

I am not a fan of @HHichilema but I see this as a very smart and strategic move by Zambia to guarantee energy security.

Zambia has entered a deal to acquire 26% Stake in Angola’s Benguela Oil Refinery Project.

This move, combined with the planned Lobito Zambia pipeline will deliver cheaper fuel directly into Zambia, eliminating the cumbersome tankers lifted fuel process fueling Zambia at the moment.

Currently Zambia lifts fuel from Beira and SA via Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe may end up importing fuel from Angola via Zambia.

[Prof Jonathan Moyo @ProfJNMoyo]

#NewYear2025
Happy New Year. In the run up to it, some Zimbabweans in opposition politics who narcissistically proclaim themselves to be the "new leaders" have been weaponising Rhodesia, in what they desperately believe to be a powerful attack on the status quo, which they hope to escalate in the New Year.

But it's a doomed proposition that, in fact, risks to be the political graveyard of its proponents.

This is because everyone knows that Rhodesia was a racist and inhumane system against blacks by imperialist design. Weaponising such a colonial system in the hoping to harvest political mileage in post-independence politics can boomerang badly.

The fact that the self-styled "new leaders' in the opposition have come up with a twisted and weird 'Rhodesian paradise lost' narrative that "Smith/Rhodesia was better", actually exposes their intellectual laziness and ideological bankruptcy.

The "Smith/Rhodesia was better" narrative can only be used by surviving "Happy Slaves" in Rhodesia or by today's fifth columnists in the opposition, who are running dogs of merchants of regime change; such as the Oppenheimer family who have become particularly busy in southern Africa, through their now notorious Brenthurst Foundation.

The specific target of merchants of regime change in the region are former liberation movements that have been governing parties since the independence of their countries.

In this connection, the comical noisy refrain that "Smith/Rhodesia was better" is not a surprising narrative of merchants of regime change in Southern Africa. The equivalent in South Africa is that "apartheid was better."

In the circumstances, former liberation movements, which are governing parties in the region, need to pull up their socks and stay vigilant in solidarity with one another in the New Year and beyond.

Meanwhile, the self-proclaimed "new leaders" in the opposition who are barking the "Smith/Rhodesia was better" narrative are their own worst enemies.

They are stuck in the past with no new ideas. They are beside themselves, at the end of their wits, and not fit for purpose.

The "Smith/Rhodesia was better" comical noise has short legs. It will not have politically significant takers in the country, the region, or anywhere. It is dead politics.

All told, the important issue of the day about the colonial past is the growing demand for colonial countries to pay reparations for their plunder, underdevelopment, and impoverishment of the African continent.

On this, the majority of Africans everywhere, at home and in the Diaspora, will speak with one voice.

Otherwise, today is, of course, by definition, better than yesterday; only tomorrow can be better than today. It is never the other way round.

The past can only be in your head, while the future is always in your hands.

Happy and Blessed 2025 Everyone, and a special welcome and Happy Birthday to the newborns since the New Year, the first Gen Beta babies, whose generation starts today!

[Advocate Ruvimbo @Chimbwananaa]

@TereraiSithole Zhakata has been supportive of democracy in his songs but no one in the opposition has given him even a penny. MPs collect cars every 5 years and you don't complain. Let him be. @leonardzhakata is a hero. His music is topnotch and he deserves even a House.

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@EdmundKudzayi @TereraiSithole Well said Edmund. Can you repost this, even by mistake

[Edmund Kudzayi @EdmundKudzayi]

It seems you do not understand the difference between bootlicking and expressing gratitude. Among cultured people, even a crate of eggs warrants a thank you. A suit given as a gift requires more acknowledgement, and a vehicle worth $80,000 might even deserve a 20-minute speech.

I am unsure what you thought was appropriate—perhaps taking the keys and driving off without a word? This would be preposterous. You allow your political interests to take prominence at the cost of your decency. Imagine a person of significant stature like Zhakata being labelled a sycophant by someone of your standing. This is bad behaviour.

[Mono Mukundu @MONOMUKUNDU]

NZIRA DZEMASOJA-Monolised:
I grew up listening to this song on the radio and was always curious how it would sound with instruments, so I monolised it.

[Jamwanda @Jamwanda2]

LIKE I ALWAYS TELL EDITORS: Never bring into the newsroom activists under the pretext of journalism; they will always embarrass you and drag your paper’s reputation in thick, smelly mud. Now we are being told by two activists-turned-journalists that the new President of Mauritius is called TSURO HOPE, roughly translating to THE HOPEFUL KALULU!!! Goodness me!!! Of course TSURO HOPE could never have confirmed participation in SADC SUMMIT as the Head of State of the Republic of Mauritius!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Mayor of Harare, Jacob Mafume @JMafume]

@matigary These are built on schools , clinics, open spaces & sports ground.We stopped because of elections and the SADC .Children are forced to move 8 kms to school .Clinics are non existent.Houses are flooding .It has to be corrected .we leaving out 100000 that pay nothing to anyone .

[Scottland Football Club @ScottlandFC]

THE AQUAs COMING HOME🔥🔥🔥⚽️

The branding exercise on the 20 Aqua vehicles for Scottland players, courtesy of businessman (@wicknellchivayo ) Wicknell Chivayo, is almost complete✅

An eventful, dramatic 2024 Northern Region Soccer League (@Division1Soccer) season comes to an end this weekend.

Scottland host in-form Black Mambas at Rufaro while MWOS are at home to Agama at Ngoni Stadium in Norton.

Three points will take Scottland to the Premier Soccer League (@CastleLagerPSL ) on their first attempt.

[Scottland Football Club @ScottlandFC]

THANK YOU SIR WICKNELL 👏👏🔥

Scottland Football Club players acknowledge club sponsor, Sir Wicknell Chivhayo (@wicknellchivayo ) for the bonuses they received following victories over Harare City and Herentals in the tight @Division1Soccer (NRSL) race.

Wingback, Ronald Pfumbidzai said players are grateful for Sir Wicknell’s generosity.

Goalkeeper Panashe Nyabunga personally thanks Sir Wicknell for the Aqua vehicle he received on Monday for his heroics in goal.

Scottland take on Black Mambas on Friday needing three points to win promotion into the Premier Soccer League (@CastleLagerPSL )