🔸Good day @nickmangwana,
When we say this Govt is anti-poor, this is exactly what we mean. If this was a functional country, this lady would be in decent retirement, enjoying a decent pension or have access to a social grant.
However, because public money is looted and spent on Gucci shoes, private jets and Rolls Royces, she’s on the street vending in order to try and make an honest living.
Daily, we see money spent on luxury cars and big cash donations to buy off the support of the rich and influential yet there is no money for the poor, vulnerable and aged.
Your declaration of war on the poor is disgusting and tells us everything we need to know about how selfish, insensitive and cold-hearted you political elites are. It’s a mess.
Stop attacking the poor.
We need new leaders.🇿🇼
Old@people in rural areas are not spared at all. They are trying to make a living through legal means authorised by the same government but today they destroy including destroying the food the had harvested . Kids are coming home to find no shelter
🔸Not quite hey. Remember circa 1995? See Exhibit A below. The city of Harare was pristine. People had no reason to be vending because they had jobs to go to. Everyone moved with purpose. There was order. In about 1997, @ZANUPF_Official tanked the economy. The rest is history.
You cannot address the vending crisis without addressing the economic crisis. It’s an exercise in futility. You’ll “clear up” today and they’ll be back tomorrow. It’s a matter of survival. Nobody chooses this indignity but they’re forced into it by poverty.
We need new leaders.🇿🇼
I have now listened to the whole @winkydonline album. Next week I will review one track per day.
In my humble opinion, Tete-A-Tete is the most consequential album ever recorded in Zimbabwe in the new millennium. I cannot think of any other album from this era with such deep social commentary, the kind that makes you laugh, reflect and, at times, cry. I did cry as I listened to some of the tracks.
He touched the raw nerve of our struggles, and he did it with remarkable depth. This is music for thinkers, music for those who seek substance.
I want to tell him that he has earned his colours. What this record needs now is international promotion. To his fans, spread the message far and wide.
He did the work, now spread the word. I want to end by saying this is not Zim dancehall. This is authentic reggae.
I hope and pray that Reggae Land gives him a slot. He deserves it.
Well done, Winky, you have made every ghetto yute proud, you have made every patriot proud. You are indeed one of the best of your generation in Africa. Please @DavidRodigan , listen to this album from Zimbabwe, you will thank me.
Last night I said that I usually read on long haul flights. Listening to this album was more than reading, it nourished the mind.
https://t.co/K8xX3duWNd
On a long flight, I usually read. Today, I am listening to Winky D's new album, and I am loving it. The messages are rich and deep, touching on Africa's need for honest leadership rather than hollow rhetoric, and on a hunger for truth over propaganda.
One track in particular stands out, called 2 Laws. It speaks powerfully to the divide between the wealthy and the poor, capturing the kind of social commentary that makes this album so compelling.
Bomboclaat, this yute maaddd you know! He is now beyond comparison among his peers.