VaChirape Musina

[VaChirape Musina @CoChiraped]

@hwendec You are an EDhiot and nothing else.

[VaChirape Musina @CoChiraped]

@ChibayaaCitizen @VaRapisa Happy birthday Chibaya

[Thabani Mpofu @adv_fulcrum]

Chamisa is a grown man and must defend himself. However, we are obliged, by honour, to defend the space in which he operates because this is also the space in which we all exist. It is unacceptable for anyone, let alone a publication, to manufacture a story in order to besmirch a person’s name, subject him to scrutiny, and call his reputation into question. It is equally unacceptable for a publication to threaten to release evidence merely to keep its story relevant. If you have the evidence just release it. In any case, Nelson says he has said nothing negative about fellow democratic actors. That is the position that will detain us. Every sane person knows that CAB3 is to be resisted.

[VaChirape Musina @CoChiraped]

@LLP_ZW @nelsonchamisa @cde_simba Are you on the streets?

[Team Pachedu @PacheduZW]

In the 37 years Mugabe was President, never did we see his Ministers kids out in public or in front of cameras flashing money at state events.

They enjoyed all the loot out in private, they had the dignity not to rub it off in front of the poor people. They were no saints but we hardly know if Nicholas Goche had kids, same for Chindori Chindinga, Mai Mujuru, Amos Midzi etc.

To put it well 'pane kamwe kachibharanzi kana Mnangagwa and his Ministers'. How does a father allow his daughter to do such? Its not show off but 'Chibharanzi bharanzi'.

To top it all there are soldiers holding guns yet their pay cannot allow them to buy new underwear.

What a mess we are in. If this does not motivate you to stop Zanupf then what will?

[Kennedy Wandera @KennedyWandera_]

A fiery speech by South Africa's🇿🇦 EFF leader Julius Malema, over xenophobic attacks targeting foreign nationals.

“You say Zimbabweans take your jobs. Nigerians take your jobs.

You march, close shops and beat up people. Tell us after doing that how many jobs have you created, by beating up these Nigerians, Zimbabweans and Ghanaians?

You beat people because they took your jobs.

You close a shop that hires people. How many have you created after beating and chasing them?

Unskilled men, with no skills, none whatsoever, say somebody took away their jobs. I don't want your votes if you behave like that. Take them away.

Pushing out of school an African child that looks like you, I will never do that. You can take your votes. Make me die with my conscience very clearly.

I will never refuse a pregnant woman of African descent to give birth in the clinics of South Africa. Never!”

[Fadzayi Mahere🇿🇼 @advocatemahere]

🔸There is absolutely no shame in seeking solidarity when a country is going through a crisis.

Remember how President Mahama gently schooled South Africans the other day about how many African countries gave solidarity to South Africans in the fight against apartheid? Imagine if these countries had said, we don’t care - just sort yourselves out? It is important to stand together in times of hardship.

If you don’t see the importance of external solidarity, why are you out on a limb supporting Palestine? International solidarity matters and you know it. Or is it something you reserve for non-black foreigners? How else does your curious stance make sense?

We need new leaders.🇿🇼

[Freeman @freemanchari]

Her crime was to say No to Constitution Amendment 3 in Bulawayo. Now they are hunting her down. There should be personal cost to all who consciously enforce the suffering of our pple.

[Tomi Rikhotso @TomiRikhotso]

We didn’t sign up on X, we signed up on Twitter, this is for every fool who thinks we can’t criticise Elon. He found us here!!

[Prime Minister of RSA @John_Mphatsoe]

Ekše, @elonmusk there are your 143 race-laws

[Cde Knox M Chivero @CdeKnoxChivero]

George, sovereignty isn’t a shield for shutting down legitimate concern. When you say “Zimbabwe doesn’t take lectures,” who are you speaking for? Are you suggesting that the Emmerson Mnangagwa family and allies are Zimbabwe? What’s being said there resonates with millions of ordinary citizens who live the reality every day. Sovereignty belongs to the people, not a political circle. The question is: are you listening to Zimbabweans themselves?

[knick @Knick_RSA]

When you get a Chance post this 😭😭

This guy owns the App so the more of Us- Campaign against this Propaganda the more he will be exposed.

[Mbuyiseni Ndlozi @MbuyiseniNdlozi]

We defeated your racist apartheid parents & their government. We defeated the US & UK regimes that stood with them. With the full might of the people behind the most glorious global human rights campaign in history: the anti-apartheid movement.

We will defeat you too, with your robots & dollars!

[knick @Knick_RSA]

South Africa 🇿🇦

Time to campaign for ourselves against Elon Musk. He’s literally Bullying all of us as a Nation and we can’t allow it.

#ElonStopBullyingSouthAfrican

[VaChirape Musina @CoChiraped]

@PoliceZimbabwe Cowards

[Fadzayi Mahere🇿🇼 @advocatemahere]

🔸What kind of a public hearing is this? Imika?

It’s a farce.

There will be no country left in 2030 if we continue like this.

We need new leaders.🇿🇼

[Thabani Mpofu @adv_fulcrum]

Highway to nowhere

I must deal with the rigged and choreographed ongoing town hall meetings. I do so in order to add a perspective and by no means as a way of weakening the hands but nonetheless alive to the fact that working without thought is labour lost.

The law

The constitution provides in s328(4) that upon the Speaker (ZANU PF’s Mudenda) giving 90 days notice of a Constitutional Bill, Parliament must invite members of the public to express their non-binding views on the proposed Bill.

After members of the public have given their non binding views, the Bill is then taken to Parliament for a vote (by a ZANU PF & an ED reconstructed Opposition).

By subsection 6, a Bill that requires a referendum will then at that stage be submitted to a national referendum. This is where the public hearings—in the circumstances of this matter—become a charade.

The charade

The Bill through the non obstante ‘notwithstanding’ has already evinced that it will not be taken to a national referendum. The fact that there will be no referendum is therefore intrinsically part of the Bill and takes front and centre in my view. The question that arises then is, what is the use of the town hall meetings, this circumstance considered?

The town hall meetings have been designed to be a substitute to a referendum; a performative exercise and not a genuine thought gathering process. This is because participants in that process have already been told that their views notwithstanding, there’s NOT going to be a referendum and those views are accordingly subservient to the vote of a corrupt Parliament.

The effect of the town hall meetings is to give a facade of participation. It is to chlorinate the process of the amendment at the end of which ZANU PF will argue that people participated when they knew that there would be no referendum and their views have for that reason been taken on board.

In addition, the town hall meetings afford ZANU PF a medium through which the people can remain focused on its unavailing processes as they fail to pursue their own strategies. We surely can’t spend all our time on a ZANU PF engineered and self service process. We must instead pursue strategies aimed at countering this offense.

A fool’s errand

There’s absolutely no strategic value in attending these meetings. A formal rejection of the process must be given without us strengthening the hand of the oppressor. At the present moment, we have allowed ourselves to be sidetracked from the real issue of the day. The issue is that ZANU PF must not mutilate the constitution and it has no right to do so simply because Mai Welly twerked her buttocks off at its Conference. That issue cannot be meaningfully confronted by attending these sh*t shows.

Let’s reject CAB3 with all its incidentals otherwise we are on a highway to nowhere. We need to pursue our own processes; processes that are not controlled by ZANU PF.

Eyes on the tomato 🍅 otherwise we will lose our fingers.

[VaChirape Musina @CoChiraped]

Citizens Petition for Vote, Voice and Rights in Zimbabwe - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/0zRMsX8WpQ via @ChangeAUS

[VaChirape Musina @CoChiraped]

@LysonJnr @MacBelts My thoughts as well