As Zimbabwe concentrates on and hurtles towards two-year term extensions for President Mnangagwa and his Parliamentarians, Chikwanda Governmemt Primary School, just 45km from the glitter of Masvingo City has 136 pupils and 4 teachers sharing a one squat hole toilet. The bushes around the school are littered with human waste. This kind of squalor is not uncommon in Zimbabwe schools but the irony is that Chikwanda Primary is not only housed on the same place with one of Zanu PF’s most powerful politicians, Lovemore Matuke’s company but dozens of Matuke’s workers are exacerbating the problem by lining up to use the same one toilet. Matuke runs a brick moulding company, Sando, a stone throw away from the school. Parents complained bitterly about adults, particularly men using school toilets. They also questioned Matuke as a Cabinet Minister for having that kind of situation happening under his watch and doing nothing about it. Matuke refused to comment. The buildings at the school, a homestead of a former white commercial farmer are dilapidated posing serious safety risk for children. There is no accommodation for teachers, forcing them to commute from Masvingo at a cost of US$4 per trip. Student teachers attached to the school share accommodation with vegetable vendors who sell their wares at Roy-Zaka turnoff. One teacher at the school takes at least three different classes i.e.; the teacher for ECD A is the same for ECD B and Grade 1 and all three classes are taught from one room. Education analysts said the arrangement where a teacher takes those three classes concurrently is a disaster for the kids’ education.
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@BBCWorld@HeidiGiokos Sounds like a decisive move towards a dictatorship and the final death of democracy. Not that elections were either free or fair under Mugabe, but this moves them from allegedly being rigged into being completely abandoned🎪 The poor people of Zim.
There was a moment when Vincent Kompany was asked a simple question:
If you could spend a day with any person, past or present, who would it be?
His answer was immediate: Nelson Mandela.
Then he added a sentence that carried enormous weight:
“His crime was being Black.”
Kompany was speaking to children at the time (Manchester City), and the way he explained Mandela’s story was powerful in its simplicity.
He told them about a man who went to prison for a crime he didn’t commit, who spent decades behind bars, and yet when he walked free, he chose forgiveness instead of hatred.
For the children listening, the lesson wasn’t political. It was human. Kompany told them something deeper: be grateful for the life you have, wherever you come from. Whether your beginnings are comfortable or difficult, what matters is what you build from them.
Kompany knows that truth personally.
His father arrived in Europe as a refugee from Congo. There was no golden path waiting for Vincent Kompany. Everything had to be earned. Step by step. Through discipline, education, and relentless work, he carved his way to the very top of football.
That journey shaped the man we saw leading Manchester City as a captain.
He wasn’t just a captain. He was a standard. A voice of authority. A leader who understood responsibility, who carried the weight of the badge with pride, and who delivered when it mattered most. When City needed calm, he gave it. When they needed courage, he stepped forward. When they needed belief, he embodied it.
Some leaders inherit authority.
Kompany earned it.
That is why, when people talk about the future after Pep Guardiola, his name inevitably returns to the conversation.
Because succeeding Pep will not only require tactical intelligence. It will require character. Identity. Authority in the dressing room. Someone who understands what Manchester City is, what it became, and what it must remain.
Kompany is more than a former captain. He is part of this club’s soul. A legend. The greatest leader the club has known.
Sometimes, the person best suited to guide the future is the one who helped build the foundation in the first place.