THE BRUTAL SYSTEM HAS SLAUGHTERED ONE OF US
15 June 2026
When schools opened for the second term, an empty desk sat at Dune Primary School in Buhera. Progress Makamani, a dedicated educator, did not show up for duty. He wasn't skipping work out of negligence; he was deep inside a dark, unstable earth, panning for gold, desperately trying to scrape together enough money to feed his family.
A teacherโs government salary can no longer pay for their children's school fees, secure basic healthcare, or even put food on the table. This is the crushing "triple burden" of formal teaching, survival labor, and household responsibility carried by educators every single day, a painful reality laid bare in the Teacher Basket of Needs Survey published by ARTUZ.
On June 9, the earth gave way. A mining shaft collapsed on our colleague, burying his dreams, his qualifications, and his life under a mountain of rubble. For days, Mr. Makamani lay cold in a mortuary, reduced to an unidentified statistic, until his family made the shattering discovery of his demise.
This is not an accident. This is a cold-blooded murder committed by the structural violence of a brutal system.
Our educators are being systematically forced into life-threatening hazards just to avoid the slow, certain starvation delivered by their monthly paychecks. To survive, some flee to South Africa only to face xenophobic violence; others are driven into the dehumanizing desperation of begging and bootlicking the very elite who steal their wealth. We have been stripped of our dignity, robbed of our humanity, and left with nothing but the guarantee of a painful, premature death.
May the soul of Mr. Makamani rest in eternal peace, and may his family find comfort in this hour of unimaginable grief.
But to the teacher still sitting in the classroom: Are you going to wait until the earth collapses on you too? Will you wait until you are crushed under the weight of the triple burden you carry daily, or will we finally stand up, unite, and fight for a living wage?
To President Emmerson Mnangagwa, his government, and his cartel: While you obsess over extending your tenure in office, your leadership is killing the very people who build this nation. As you rubber-stamp corrupt deals and facilitate the illicit bleeding of our national wealth across our borders, remember the starving families of the working class. Think of Progress Makamani.
To society at large: Let this tragedy remind us that what divides us is not the political parties we support, but the economic classes we belong to. We reiterate that #WeThePeople #IsuVanaVevhu must unite and push back against this predatory capitalist class and their managers in government.
We only live once. Let us fight for a dignified existence.
Go well, Mr. Makamani. Your classroom will never forget you.
โTagwireiโs most obvious political weakness is his lack of a national grassroots constituency. He has no liberation-war credentials and has never subjected himself to a popular electoral test.โ
He is unelectable and does not wish to subject himself to an election. Arikungoda kungotonga chete because anemari, mari yekubira ruzhinji pfuma yenyika.
@KarenyiKore Thank you for rejecting this bill. We still have several outstanding issues to address which we can discuss at a later stage provided the opportunity for engagement remains available.
AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL ACTโฆ Great point made here by MP Mureri. This is the fundamental flaw with CAB3, Incumbents seeking to extend their own term of office. A gross illegality and brazen unconstitutionality. A classic case of conflict of interest, and unjust enrichment that unjustly benefits those promoting it. Even if they illegally pass it by hook or crook and without a referendum, it will be rejected by Zimbabweans. It simply cannot stand.
Utterly bizarre. There are pockets of our Nation which have truly lost their heads.
Since when does any sane community celebrate when foreign exchange is spent on a luxury jet when hospitals do not have basic medications and school children donโt have school textbooks?