The South African government does not hold the Zimbabwean government accountable for mistreating its citizens, as it benefits from the cheap labour, which in turn stirs tensions between the citizens of the two countries.
UNMASKED: The thug seen snatching lawyer Doug Coltart’s phone at the City Sports Centre in Harare has been named as Luckmore Tinashe Gapa, seen here meeting first lady Auxillia Mnangagwa in 2023. He is a Zanu PF central committee member @PoliceZimbabwe
📸📸 Zanu PF central committee member Luckmore Tinashe Gapa was caught snatching Doug Coltart’s phone wearing the very same shirt he wore to meet First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa at State House in 2023
🔸Good day @PoliceZimbabwe,
Are you going to investigate the alleged theft of @DougColtart’s phone? Or does the chief suspect get away with it because he belongs to @ZANUPF_Official?
We need new leaders.🇿🇼
A mobile phone of the human rights lawyer in Zimbabwe was taken when a mob started attacking him . This happened during the public hearing in Harare Zimbabwe. #sabcnews @
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During a press conference at a Southern African Development Community Extraordinary Summit in Harare in April 2015, the late former president Robert Mugabe specifically singled out Kalanga people from Matabeleland South in Zimbabwe for their migration to South Africa, saying they turn to crime because they were "not educated enough" to find decent jobs.
Mugabe said Kalangas were "notorious" for crime in South Africa and known to be "crooks" in general.
He remarked that young Kalanga men believed they hadn't seen the "good life" unless they had been to Johannesburg, regardless of what they do there.
These statements were made while discussing xenophobic attacks in South Africa, where Mugabe urged Zimbabweans to return home.
The remarks sparked immediate backlash, with critics calling them tribalistic and hurtful to Kalanga people, one of Zimbabwe's minorities found in southwestern Zimbabwe and across the border into Botswana.
Now about seven years after his death, Mugabe’s son Bellarmine Chatunga is currently in jail facing attempted murder charges for shooting his gardener, while he said to be illegally living in South Africa.
That's irony of events writ large.
Kirsty Coventry was a brilliant Olympic swimmer. She is not an administrator. She does not have the capacity to do the job. She is the worst Sports Minister Zimbabwe has ever had. When we said it at the material time, people thought we were politicking. We were not.
The evidence is right before you. For those who were in doubt, here is your answer. She is not capable of doing these jobs.
It is like people who are brilliant footballers but will not necessarily make brilliant football administrators. The problem with various societies is that they assume because you were a brilliant swimmer, you are going to be a brilliant President of the International Olympic Committee.
Just like a journalist, you can be a brilliant journalist, but it does not mean you are going to be a brilliant media owner. You can be a disastrous media owner and yet be a brilliant journalist because the two roles require completely different skill sets.
Kirsty Coventry was good in the swimming pool. She is an incompetent manager. She is an incompetent administrator. This is self-evident from the disaster she left in Zimbabwe. She presided over the Sports Ministry for one and a half terms from 2018 to 2025, during which Zimbabwe could not play football inside Zimbabwe.
Up to now, Zimbabwe’s home games are played in South Africa, sometimes in Rwanda. It is embarrassing, and it happened under her watch. She is simply incompetent.
The failure, even at a small level like Zimbabwe, to ensure that stadiums in our country are functional, and to go to Cabinet and fight for those stadiums to be fixed, simply shows how incompetent she is. She was a brilliant swimmer, we cannot take that away from her, but she has been a disastrous manager.
The tragedy is that many people are mesmerised by her past as a swimmer and then conflate that with the new roles she has taken up after her swimming career.
Zimbabwe’s inability to host international football matches on home soil during her tenure was not a minor administrative detail. It was a national embarrassment that reflected weak leadership, poor coordination, and a failure to prioritise basic sporting infrastructure.
Sporting excellence in the pool does not automatically translate into administrative competence in government or the international stage. The two require completely different skill sets, strategic planning, political negotiation, budgetary discipline, and institutional management. Being exceptional in one field does not guarantee effectiveness in another, and that distinction is precisely what many people refuse to make.
If Carrick beats Fullham, then I will be impressed
Arsenal and City, we can always beat them on our day.
It's the Fullham's and Brentford's that worry me
That's the real challenge