@nickmangwana What value when more than 60% live as paupers? People are dying due to treatable diseases. Accidents taking lives due to lack of emergency services and bad roads. Children dropping out of schools. No proper housing. No safety net. Talk about medical aid & life assurance. Hell no!
@zanupf_patriots The beauty about life is that there are certain moments that will arrive when you did not budget for them. Only then will you realize the folly of getting excited over tragedies that ruined lives and you are asked to pay for celebrating them.
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 teacher’s 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.
@OMasaraure We are emotional beings and this should certainly bring out tears but we have evil men & women under the banner of @ZANUPF_Official who have taken it upon themselves to open graves & bury our fellow citizens through an unprecedented predatory culture.
Help us, Lord God!
@matinyarare The other day it was a 300series, yesterday 200k for Rue, today it is 180k for @Varakashi4ED and then you wonder what kind of business someone does that churn out such super profits.
Zimbabwe is being milked dry imiwoye.
@KMutisi Shameless bunch of merry go round characters who have no principles only fighting for the crumbs from the Mafia Don & his close consiglieris.
@DivhaAfrica@matinyarare What is there to defend if you know things are being done above acceptable standards? You are simply disposable tools used to prop up bottom of the barrel thieves plundering this country.