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[Governance and Community Development Hub (GoCoDe) @GoCoDeHub]

In Harare, where do we go from here???? Whats next???? @cohsunshinecity @UcazOfficial @MthuliNcube @Wamagaisa @UNICEFZIMBABWE @mbilez24zw @nickmangwana @hwendec @LocalGovernme13 @advocatemahere @hrw @HarareResidents @zinwawater

[Dr. Yvonne Maphosa @Yvonne_Maphosa]

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[Mdara Gee @mudharagee]

This is a message to Mr Mnangagwa people are watching you as the learn through experience.Very soon your clowns will be leaving you a lover. You have destroyed everything that was good in Zimbabwe. Just like Ruto you have turned Zimbabwe into your personal property

[Cailah Tatenda @misscailah]

The average Zimbabwean girl doesn’t know who Maud Chifamba is or her story or how amazingly hard working she is but take a guess who they know and admire ?

Pokello
Lulu chivayo
Madam boss
Mai tt

Nahhh itai mega

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

This is a tale of four Zimbabwean men. Dr James Manyika is a Senior Vice President at Google, the global technology company owned by Alphabet, which also owns YouTube and several other major platforms. He is in charge of overseeing technology and society initiatives.

Emmerson Mnangagwa, Constantino Chiwenga, and Kembo Mohadi are in charge of Zimbabwe.

The whole Zimbabwean economy is worth around $30 billion.
Google, a single company, makes $350 billion a year and is valued at $2.9 trillion—roughly 96 times the size of Zimbabwe’s economy. A company started in a car home garage now outweighs an entire nation.

In a normal world, Dr Manyika is more important than these three men put together. But because we are socially wired to bow down to useless politicians, many Zimbabweans fail to recognise the importance of giving respect where it is truly due.
Dr Manyika deals with ideas and innovation, the other three Zimbabweans deal with slogans, deception and preside over one of the most corrupt countries in the world with 95% unemployment, dilapidated hospitals, failed service delivery and a ruthless regime.

In other words, this is the story of how Zimbabwe’s most important thinkers, doers, and respected professionals across the world are subjected to the rule of the inept, the corrupt, the incompetent, and the utterly clueless.

Zimbabweans get excited when politicians come with their gimmicks. They get fooled, and the whole Zim internet goes abuzz when a politician says something simply to win them over. Yet when a Zimbabwean achieves something significant on the international stage — breaks ground in science, or builds something remarkable in entrepreneurship — very few pay attention. Only a handful bother to engage.

But let a politician say something senseless, and thousands will rush to retweet the nonsense. It is a reflection of our collective national mindset, of what we have been conditioned to consider important. That is why if you ask schoolchildren whether they know Dr James Manyika, most will not. But if you ask them about Mnangagwa or Chiwenga or Chamisa, they will immediately know them.

In countries like America, it is the opposite. Children are more likely to know who Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos is than their local Member of Congress or Senate. Because societies decide what they value, and in doing so, they decide the kind of future they will create for today and tomorrow for themselves.

Today there is a succession battle between Chiwenga and Mnangagwa, and perhaps you could throw in Kudakwashe Tagwirei too as Mnangagwa’s chosen successor. This battle is not about vision, development, or national interest — it is about power, greed, and the privilege of presiding over a state machinery that exists to loot public funds and oppress citizens.

In all the noise surrounding this fight, I have not seen any one of these men share a single idea about why they are the right one to lead Zimbabwe. Beyond the usual rhetoric about corruption — which, ironically, all ZANUPF political elites in Zimbabwe are deeply involved in — there are no ideas about the economy, no vision for where the country should be heading, no explanation of purpose beyond the thirst for control.

It has become a politics of personalities, not principles. Just slogans like “support me” or “support our candidate,” with no substance behind them on why we should.
And this is what happens when a society values those who produce nothing over those who actually create, build, and innovate — people capable of providing something meaningful for national growth.

One wonders why we are in this state. Perhaps it is because of the quality of education in our country. Zimbabwe has never had an O-Level pass rate above 33% in the past 40 years.
At one point, it even dropped to 8%, meaning that 92% of the students who sat for O-Levels that year failed. They did not pass. Maybe that explains why we are in this predicament. I do not have all the answers, but it raises serious questions about how we got here.

Perhaps we are just an excitable people. Perhaps it is our mindset. I do not know. But when I look at all these ZANUPF candidates vying to become president, I ask myself what it is that they have said that should make anyone want to support them — beyond bashing each other and trading insults. There is nothing of substance.

What separates them in terms of their willingness to oppress or even kill citizens using the State’s machinery? Nothing. I do not see anyone among them speaking about the future of our children — about innovation, science, or technology as tools to rebuild the nation. All I see is political emptiness.

And they are surrounded by equally clueless people. Look, for example, at Zimbabwe’s ICT Minister, Tatenda Mavetera, who is aligned with Tagwirei and Mnangagwa. One has to ask; what kind of future does such a person envision for Zimbabwe? What can she possibly do to turn around the country’s fortunes? The answer is simple — nothing. It is all vibes, slogans, and hollow performances. Nothing more.

On the other side, Vice President Chiwenga has someone like George Charamba — a man whose name evokes the old order of arrogance, repression, and propaganda. What does he inspire in you when you hear his name? What image of Zimbabwe comes to mind? Does he represent a break from the past, or is he the very embodiment of it?

Does he symbolise the future that we dream of, the future that our children deserve, or does he remind us of the suffocating cycle of power, greed, and mediocrity that has crippled our nation for decades?

Does someone like Obert Mpofu who is on Chiwenga’s side represent the values of where we want to go as a country? This is a man who was at the centre of the looting of US$15 billion in diamond revenue, a man who practically owns half of Bulawayo and large parts of Victoria Falls through corruption and abuse of power.
Does the Vice President want us to believe that this is the kind of man who represents Zimbabwe’s future?

Does President Mnangagwa expect us to see hope in a man like Kudakwashe Tagwirei who is under US sanctions for corruption and the looting of public resources?
What has changed about these men that should make us believe they suddenly represent the future? When we look at their lieutenants — what they stand for and what they have done — there is nothing there but ruin, decay, and corruption.

So before we are asked to back any candidate, tell us what they stand for. Tell us what they intend to do differently from the past 45 years of corrupt and repressive rule. Tell us how they will break away from the rot they helped create, because all of them were part of that same past.

It is not enough to simply say, “support this candidate over that one.” We need ideas, not slogans; vision, not vengeance; leadership, not loyalty tests. Until then, the call to “choose a side” is meaningless — because both sides feed from the same trough.

As for myself, my litmus test is to ask what Dr James Manyika would have said about any one of those candidates. Would he see vision, competence, or innovation in them? Would he recognise the intellectual depth or moral clarity required to transform a broken nation?

If the answer is no, then they are not worth our time, our hope, or our vote. Because leadership should inspire progress, not recycle mediocrity.

In that case, it remains a ZANUPF affair — an internal struggle for members of ZANUPF to decide who they want to lead their corrupt party. It ceases to be a national affair for us Zimbabweans who are not part of ZANUPF, because none of the contenders represent a break from the corruption, repression, and decay that party has inflicted on our country for the past 45 years of its repressive rule.

A nation that crowns the corrupt, the arrogant and mocks its thinkers does not need enemies to collapse it to the ground; it simply carries its own ruin in its values.

[Thabani Mpofu @adv_fulcrum]

I'm compelled to share my genuine substantive concerns about the Winky D, Tagwireyi and HICC saga.

It appears that Tagwireyi, through his Bridging Gaps foundation, (which on the evidence has created more gaps than it has bridged), made a lucrative offer to HICC, essentially enticing them to abandon their long-standing partnership with Winky D. The offer according to ZIMLIVE included booking a massive 200 rooms for five days, which translates to accommodating 200 couples (possibly threatening the city’s entire supply of Congo Dust) at the expense of more than 8000 poor Zimbabweans who were eagerly awaiting Winky D's performance. Winky D’s performances are as we all know, therapeutic as they are emancipating and are for that reason not just a musical journey but constitute much needed balm for the bruised and broken souls of those trampled upon.

This situation raises serious moral concerns. It highlights how the financially powerful can exert their influence to get what they want, even if it goes against the public interest. Put differently, not only are they able to drive you to penury but they can also then use their muscle to rob you of your only source of solace. This sets a dire precedent and must drive fear into our broken hearts.

What then is to stop the financially powerful from buying off lawyers representing their opponents, bribing judges or adjudicators in public procurement or generally exploiting vulnerable individuals simply because they can and because it makes economic sense for the person(s) receiving the money to take it? Indeed, what is to stop them from taking your wife simply because they are able to offer more? This is more sinister than the superficial commentary on these streets makes out.

This disregard for principles is alarming. In a civilized society, right must triumph over might, and we must respect the soft territory of others even if they are financially weaker than us. This does not require written rules or concluded contracts. It is a matter of common decency.

Winky D has an obligation to satisfy the expectations of his fans. For an entire year, the fans have been eagerly anticipating this annual celebration and solace, only to be deprived of it because someone with greater economic power has swooped in. This is unacceptable and has no place in a fair and just society. This is why it is wrong. This is why all civilized sentiment must rage against it. This is why I condemn it without equivocation. And a religious organization must never get entangled in this kind of nonsense. Wapusa Wapusa was able to avoid it for the entire duration of its phantom existence!

[The Mirror Masvingo @TheMirrorMsv]

The argument for conservation of wetlands and green belts in order preserve waterbodies in the country and in particular Lake Chivero has been reiterated over the years but ignored. The 'war' is now lost as the Zanu PF Government gave an open cheque for party-connected land barons to willy-nilly sell residential and commercial stands around Harare. A brazen example but just a drop is Longchen Plaza (run by people connected to top Gov officials) built in the world famous Monavile Wetland running adjacent to the National Sports Stadium. Lake Chivero has become a big headache for Harare Municipality as a source of water... Zimbabwe is a signatory to the Ramsar Convention to conserve wetlands but it violates the law with such impunity?
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[Dr. Misheck Ruwende @drruwende]

Time we deal with these diseases crisis: heart diseases, diabetes, obesity, cancers.

Let's start by stopping the following things, "zvechirungu"

[Freeman @freemanchari]

Over the past 48hrs you guys retweeted this fundraiser about 4K times, we raised $600 from 24 people. This means every retweet was worth $0.15. That is how important you are all in this. We will change lives together. We need just $125 to cross $6K https://t.co/zzhyeRYe5M

[Governance and Community Development Hub (GoCoDe) @GoCoDeHub]

Transforming Health in Africa: The Social Change Approach.
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[Gerrard Anko Ged Belts @MacBelts]

VENE here is Masisi dropping some knowledge and wisdom. Gather here and learn.

[CVN News @ZwVoice]

We sat down with O'Level student, Nicole Chabata who was among the 65 Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists arrested in June this year on allegations of unlawful gathering missed her examinations.

She shares her prison experience #CVN

Full video on: https://t.co/TRvuXG8uf2 @agencygumbo @advocatemahere @daddyhope

[Governance and Community Development Hub (GoCoDe) @GoCoDeHub]

The Unseen Contract: Local Authorities and Residents.
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[newZWire @newswireZW]

The President uses his temporary powers to protect the Ruwa Local Board from having its equipment auctioned. This is after a creditor won a court order to have the council’s movable assets sold.
Govt says allowing the sell-off would put 300,000 residents at risk

[George @BehizyTweets]

BREAKING: JD Vance just said the polls showing Kamala Harris leading are FAKE and are only released to help Democrats RIG & STEAL the 2024 election by "manipulating" voters

Tucker: "So those polls are fake?"

Vance: "Oh, absolutely, they're FAKE."

Everything Vance said is true. Think about this: Trump has improved in virtually every category of voters, from Blacks to Hispanics and even women, yet somehow, they claim it's a 50/50 race. That's the definition of FAKE.

Video: @TuckerCarlson

[OpenCouncilZW @OpenCouncilHRE]

"Shelter Zimbabwe and Pure Gold Housing Trust are selling unserviced stands with the blessing of the council's housing department officials", says Cllr Duma.

@MunyaBloggo @OpenParlyZw @ChraHarare @JMafume

[OpenCouncilZW @OpenCouncilHRE]

Harare City Councilors are concerned about the hiring of grounds by Harare City Football Club to use during home games, while the council owns a number of grounds in around the city.

@OpenParlyZw @JMafume @DenfordNgadzio1 @ChraHarare @MunyaBloggo

[LynneM 💕💝💎 @LynneStactia]

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[Governance and Community Development Hub (GoCoDe) @GoCoDeHub]

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[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

Simon Sinek on leadership👏👏👏