P. Chris Sukuta

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Thousands of migrants are fleeing South Africa amid xenophobic violence and ahead of planned anti-immigrant protests on June 30. Malawi, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Ghana, and Mozambique are repatriating citizens following the events, with many camping outside consular offices.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

VDH on Kamala Harris: "She knows nothing, has no detail, no memory, a vocabulary of 500 words… I'm not trying to be malicious, but she does act inebriated."

[Retired Lt General Winston Sigauke Mapuranga @SajeniMapuranga]

"The Army Does Not Salute Money And Neither Does This Republic"On the Dangerous Ambitions of Kudakwashe Tagwirei and the Threat He Poses to ZANU-PF's Institutional Integrity.

I am a soldier. I was a soldier before most of the young men now whispering Tagwirei's name in provincial party meetings were born. I carried a weapon in the liberation struggle. I watched comrades fall in the operational zones of Mozambique and Zambia.

I served this Republic through the National Army, through the Defence Forces, through decades of institutional discipline that demanded one thing above all else that no individual, regardless of his resources, his connections, or his ambitions, ever became larger than the institution he served.

I write today because that principle the principle that kept this nation from the fate of others on this continent is under threat the source of that threat is not an external enemy.

It is not a sanctions regime. It is not a hostile foreign government operating through proxies. It is a criminal tenderprenuer from Harare who has mistaken the warmth of state proximity for the authority of state power.
His name is criminal Kudakwashe Tagwirei.

What he is doing to ZANU-PF must be named, must be documented, and must be stopped. In the operational theatre, we were taught to read the terrain before we read any map.

The map tells you what should be there. The terrain tells you what is actually there. The wise commander trusts the terrain.

I am reading the terrain of Zimbabwean politics today, and what I see is not what the official maps describe. The official map shows a ruling party with functioning democratic centralism, legitimate provincial structures, and a Central Committee that remains the supreme authority of ZANU-PF. That is the map.

The terrain tells a different story.
The terrain shows provincial officials whose political loyalty has been purchased rather than earned.

It shows senior party figures whose access to resources and therefore whose political survival flows not from the party's internal structures but from one man's commercial empire.

It shows a gravitational field that has been quietly constructed around criminal Kudakwashe Tagwirei, pulling party officials into orbit around a private citizen who holds no constitutional office, commands no liberation war credentials, and answers to no electoral mandate.

In military terms, this is what we call a parallel command structure. And in every military doctrine ever written, a parallel command structure is not a management challenge. It is an existential threat to institutional integrity.

Those of us who have served long enough in uniform have seen what happens when private power begins to replicate the functions of institutional authority.

We saw it in other African militaries. We saw it in other liberation movements that survived the colonial enemy only to be hollowed out from within by men who confused proximity to power with the possession of it.

The pattern is always the same. First, the private actor accumulates resources on the back of state contracts and state protection.

Second, those resources become a source of patronage officials begin to depend on the private actor for things the party or state can no longer reliably provide.

Third, the private actor begins to exercise influence over appointments, over political positioning, over who rises and who is marginalised.

Fourth and this is the stage at which history consistently records the damage as irreversible the private actor begins to believe that his position is permanent, that the dependency he has created is loyalty, and that the party exists to serve his interests rather than the reverse.
Criminal Tagwirei is between the third and fourth stages. The window to correct this is narrowing.

Protect what was built in blood.
Retired Lieutenant General Winston Sigauke Mapuranga.

[𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥 @SankaraDispatch]

The people who did this now pretend to lecture the world on human rights.

[Testosterone Maxing @testomaxing]

Most men don’t need antidepressants.

They need:

– Zinc
– Magnesium
– Vitamin D
– Protein
– Sunlight
– Resistance training

Check your blood before your therapist.

[Reuters Africa @ReutersAfrica]

Senegal kept their World Cup knockout hopes alive in dominant fashion on Friday with a 5-0 victory over 10-man Iraq, who were eliminated from the tournament. https://t.co/jujraa7Cg7

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Today is Friday. That means trump is sleeping on the job, again.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

BREAKING: It happened again.

Trump fell asleep during a public event in the Oval Office. Shame on his family and advisers for putting him through this. This is elder abuse.

25th Amendment now!

[Charles M. Blow @CharlesMBlow]

This is what has been unleashed in this country: a return to emboldened racism. They feel validated and vindicated. They no longer have to couch their bigotry in polite language. It can now, once again, be raw and visceral. This is what we are fighting people.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

BREAKING: VANCE AGREES WITH ATTACK ON IRAN

JD VANCE:

“Iran signed a ceasefire agreement. We have honored it. If they have disagreements about how the MOU is being applied, they can pick up the phone. But violence will be met with violence

[Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9]

Havana, Cuba, 1954

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Thousands of migrants are fleeing South Africa amid xenophobic violence and ahead of planned anti-immigrant protests on June 30, with Malawi, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Ghana and Mozambique repatriating citizens as many camp outside consular offices.

[The Instigator @Am_Blujay]

🇿🇦 “We are not foreigners!”

Hundreds of Vatsonga Machangani marched to the South African Human Rights Commission in Johannesburg, demanding an end to discrimination and being wrongly labelled as foreign nationals because of their language and culture.

[NewsDay Zimbabwe @NewsDay_Zim]

Zanu PF Secretary for War Veterans Douglas Mahiya and President Emmerson Mnangagwa's investment advisor Paul Tungwarara were captured having a tete-a-tete during the burial ceremony of national hero Victor Matemadanda at the National Heroes Acre.
📹: @stozvirevaa

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

MIKE JOHNSON: “If we lose the midterms, the Dems will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body. They will go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, and friends.”

This is actually the best case I’ve heard for voting Democrat.

[Fadzayi Mahere🇿🇼 @advocatemahere]

🔸Dear Mbinga dzemuHarare,

Hatisikuzobuda muroad for your illegal motorcades. We will not tolerate rudeness from tumamonya twenyu. Learn to respect the rules of the road and other motorists. You are not above the law. Makajaidzwa stereki.

We need new leaders.🇿🇼

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Arnold Schwarzenegger: “I was very fortunate that we didn't have a phone in our house. We didn't have a television in our house. At that time there were no iPhones, there were no iPads, there was no computer.”

[Jackson @jackson_rem]

Zimbabwean couple living in Ghana complains that Ghanaians abuse them daily telling them to go back to their country. The wife says they're mistaken for South Africans and have to explain to the people of Ghana that they're from Zimbabwe

[Giorgia Meloni @GiorgiaMeloni]

Io e l’Italia non imploriamo mai.

[The Tectonic @thetect0nic]

Meloni was the only European leader to attend Trump's inauguration in 2025. She flew to Mar-a-Lago to meet him before he took office. She defended him on the Iran war while other European leaders criticized it.

The woman Trump called "a real live wire" and "a fantastic woman" is now the latest ally to discover the limits of that description.

"He must remember one thing: Italy and I never beg."