"A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example." - Niccolo Machiavelli
#NHM
🔸We note this, Honourable Minister. However:
1. The affected schools and students fall under your Ministry. Can you realistically bury your head in the sand and ascribe the problem to someone else? Are you not concerned at the adverse consequences of these schools being incapacitated due to a lack of funding and resources? What explanation is being given for this irresponsible failure to pay school fees for BEAM beneficiaries?
2. What is the Ministry of Primary Educatiom doing to avert this crisis or have you shirked all responsibility because the Fund is administered by another Ministry? What are you doing to ensure a solution is arrived at?
3. I am aware that, in 2024, the portfolio committee on Budget, Finance and Economic Development recommended that the administration of BEAM be transferred away from the Ministry of Public Service to your Ministry to reduce bureaucracy. Have you taken any steps to ensure this recommendation is implemented?
We need new leaders.🇿🇼
Zimbabwe's downward spiral continues! After 80 years, Unilever is exiting the country. Decades of mismanagement, corruption, and broken politics have made Zimbabwe an unviable destination for investors. https://t.co/N81m1fUtkX
Our leader left politics. We don’t know if he will come back or not. We are willing to be part of any progressive movement.
We would like to know the deliverables of the government in exile & who is leading it in the interim.
We are not blind followers, we want to know where we are going and who is leading us. So we will ask questions.
🟣The unconstitutional conflation of state and Zanu PF must be condemned by all who are passionate about building a Zimbabwe that works for everyone.
The only “ideology” that should be forced down the throats of elected and unelected officials alike is respect for the Constitution, the rule of law and administrative justice. The shameless opportunism by some who are taking this opportunity to cross the floor and cozy up to a party that has caused mass suffering is regrettable indeed.
The absence of ethical, competent, people-focused leaders is sad to watch.
We need new leaders.🇿🇼
Good morning Mayor Mafume @JMafume ,I have found the total number of potholes in Harare and chitungwiza,be guided accordingly when you deploy resources
Herewith the attached video
Regards,,
IS IT A COMMUNITY OF VALUES OR A UNION OF VICES…As SADC, do we uphold set guidelines and agreed ethical standards?? A SADC without standards, values and principles is irrelevant and outmoded, dead and defunct. And a defunct SADC can’t be a trusted custodian of fairness, peace, freedom, justice and security of the African people. We must turn @SADC_News into a community of values and a bastion and institution of the oppressed, not a club of the oppressive and abusive. We have a generational mandate and duty to shift things. We will transform Africa. Fellow citizens of Southern Africa, we must shape this world!#NewAfrica
President @HHichilema is one of the morally upright leaders to have emerged within Southern Africa region. A leader par excellence, whose forte is to see a peaceful & united region guided by @SADC_News principles. When such leaders like Hichilema emerge, Africans must rejoice.
🟣Dear @nickmangwana,
Who was given the tender to procure these new Mercedes police cars? How much did each one cost? We want to see something.
We need new leaders.🇿🇼
🟣Good day @nytimesworld,
I’d like to let you know that one of your scheduled speakers at this year’s Athens Democracy Forum which you are hosting with @ForumAthens, @namataik_ was abducted from a flight she had boarded and tortured for over eight hours before being illegally detained. This happened on 31 July.
Namatai is currently detained at Zimbabwe’s Maximum Security Prison. She is not guilty of any offence but is being charged for participating in an alleged protest that happened at a time she was out of the country. Please raise your voice in solidarity with her and over 100 other innocent Zimbabweans who are political prisoners.
We need new leaders.🇿🇼
🟣Good day @ForumAthens,
I’d like to let you know that one of your scheduled speakers at this year’s Athens Democracy Forum, @namataik_ was abducted from a flight she had boarded and tortured for over eight hours before being illegally detained. This happened on 31 July.
Namatai is currently detained at Zimbabwe’s Maximum Security Prison. She is not guilty of any offence but is being charged for participating in an alleged protest that happened at a time she was out of the country. Please raise your voice in solidarity with her and over 100 other innocent Zimbabweans who are political prisoners.
We need new leaders.🇿🇼
ZIMBABWE MUST HAVE PROPER ELECTIONS AND FIX BROKEN POLITICS
Following the discredited, illegal and disputed 2023 General Elections, Zimbabweans have not known normalcy or peace.
As of now, 78 families and a one-year old child are without their loved ones. This is because the 78 political prisoners hold different political views and dared to express themselves and exercise their freedom of association. On the 16th of June 2024, these political prisoners were celebrating Africa Youth Day before being forcibly taken to prison where they remain 45 days later.
In addition, the families of Namatai Kwekeza (a human rights defender), Samuel Gwenzi (Civil society), Robson Chere (trade unionist), Promise Munkuli and Vusimuzi Moyo are without their loved ones for no reason other than their association with wanting a better Zimbabwe, advocating for women, young people, workers and speaking out against injustices.
Robson Chere’s family and friends are faced with the additional burden of fearing for his health given the injuries sustained during his arrest. Robson only wants better for the workers who sustain Zimbabwe.
The family of Bruce Moyo, a young Councillor from Bulawayo is without him because of exercising his political freedom of association as a young citizen and council representative.
Many other people (young and old) are spending nights in the prison cells after being taken abruptly and brazenly for no crime but being targets for simply exercising their constitutional freedom of association.
In Zimbabwe, being an active conscious citizen and being young has become a crime. The citizens, especially the young people, are persecuted for their beliefs and for wanting better lives.
In Zimbabwe, it has been turned criminal to be young.
This assault and onslaught on the citizens is a clarion call for unity across political divide to condemn and rebuke these violations, violence and injustice.
Fellow citizens of @SADC_News and all African countries, this can’t be civilized politics. This is bizarre, abnormal and must be condemned by all progressives across the world.
Zimbabwe must be free and democratic. We the citizens and Our #Godisinit will save us. #NewDawn #NewPolitics #FreeThemAll
There was a tree nearby with low V-shaped branches. They lifted my feet up and threw them over the V so that I balanced on the ground with my chained hands.
They picked up logs and sticks and started beating me, focusing mainly on my buttocks. The beating went on forever and finally, my knees buckled. I slumped to the ground. Every time I fell down, the beatings intensified and I would be hung up again.
Tired of hoisting me, they changed tact. I had to march up and down singing a popular MDC song, “Ndezve Change Nero.” Whenever I slowed down, the beatings would start. The singing and marching lasted for about an hour. They called it “rehearsals” for the demonstrations. My captors appeared under an impression that I was the coordinator for the July 31 demonstrations in Bulawayo, and possibly Matabeleland as a whole.
After the marching I had to lie down on the ground, and they took turns beating me. It might sound crazy to most, but at that point I had made peace with the fact that I was going to die. My only concern then was that like Itai Dzamara, missing since 2015, my family would never find my body while living in the cruel hope that one day I would walk through the door.
Tawanda Muchehiwa
#Zimbabwe
THE TEMPORARINESS OF ALL WICKEDNESS…I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a native green tree.
Yet he passed away, and behold, he was no more; Indeed I sought him, but he could not be found. Psalm 37:35-36 Nothing and none lasts forever. Sabbath blessings!