This week, the U.S. voted against a call for reparations for descendants of the international slave trade between the 15th and 19th centuries. Letโs talk about it. (1/7)
๐จ OFFICIAL: The Premier League has appointed Stuart Attwell as the referee for Bournemouth vs Manchester United, with Craig Pawson on VAR.
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This is the same duo who wrongfully disallowed Martรญnezโs equaliser against Burnley in January.
Looks like Naledi Apihwe is apologizing for her comments on Zimbabwe a few months ago
Yes what she said then was not sober minded, but at the end of the day if someone can see their wrongs and try to do good, we can move past it
And I think it's a good thing considering she's going to be the South African act for the Ama2k Festival
Shows you it's a serious event that's going to be happening on the 4th of April
@VMusinachirevo People that think Zimbabwe was wrong are the reason why countries like USA keep exploiting African countries , Zimbabwe can easily make $350 million with its resources and minerals , they can attract a better deal that benefits them. Trust the process.
Kirsty Coventry was a brilliant Olympic swimmer. She is not an administrator. She does not have the capacity to do the job. She is the worst Sports Minister Zimbabwe has ever had. When we said it at the material time, people thought we were politicking. We were not.
The evidence is right before you. For those who were in doubt, here is your answer. She is not capable of doing these jobs.
It is like people who are brilliant footballers but will not necessarily make brilliant football administrators. The problem with various societies is that they assume because you were a brilliant swimmer, you are going to be a brilliant President of the International Olympic Committee.
Just like a journalist, you can be a brilliant journalist, but it does not mean you are going to be a brilliant media owner. You can be a disastrous media owner and yet be a brilliant journalist because the two roles require completely different skill sets.
Kirsty Coventry was good in the swimming pool. She is an incompetent manager. She is an incompetent administrator. This is self-evident from the disaster she left in Zimbabwe. She presided over the Sports Ministry for one and a half terms from 2018 to 2025, during which Zimbabwe could not play football inside Zimbabwe.
Up to now, Zimbabweโs home games are played in South Africa, sometimes in Rwanda. It is embarrassing, and it happened under her watch. She is simply incompetent.
The failure, even at a small level like Zimbabwe, to ensure that stadiums in our country are functional, and to go to Cabinet and fight for those stadiums to be fixed, simply shows how incompetent she is. She was a brilliant swimmer, we cannot take that away from her, but she has been a disastrous manager.
The tragedy is that many people are mesmerised by her past as a swimmer and then conflate that with the new roles she has taken up after her swimming career.
Zimbabweโs inability to host international football matches on home soil during her tenure was not a minor administrative detail. It was a national embarrassment that reflected weak leadership, poor coordination, and a failure to prioritise basic sporting infrastructure.
Sporting excellence in the pool does not automatically translate into administrative competence in government or the international stage. The two require completely different skill sets, strategic planning, political negotiation, budgetary discipline, and institutional management. Being exceptional in one field does not guarantee effectiveness in another, and that distinction is precisely what many people refuse to make.
@mukudzeimlambo_ Thatโs the problem , younger people have ideas but most marketing directors in Zimbabwe are very old people that need to retire and never accept new ideas.