Joseph Mushonga

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

A couple of days ago I promised young Zimbabweans that I was going to do a dancehall set from my home in Johannesburg, using the records that I own, specifically 7 inch dancehall reggae singles.

Unfortunately, because I have been travelling a lot, I fell ill. I had a terrible flu and my doctor advised me to slow down and ease up on everything. Today I feel much better, and I felt that I owed you something.

I have just delivered a one hour dancehall set from my home, played strictly on 7 inch singles only. No 45 inch records or LPs. I have thousands of 7 inch singles, but because of time constraints, I could only play 45 of them in one hour.

I hope you enjoy it. Tell me what you think.

[Flower @SarahLavK]

@mth38219 @hatiperi_wacho Exactly what I thought😂😂😂 initially knew his music because of the way Hatiperi would post it here I thought ndini ndega😂

[Joseph Mushonga @JosephMushonga7]

@ChrisExcel102 ,

[Fadzayi Mahere🇿🇼 @advocatemahere]

Good morning 5am club. Early risers take the lead. Rise with the sun, embrace the quiet moments and set the tone for a productive day. Your morning routine can shape your success.🌸

[_Sinikiwe🇨🇦🇺🇸🇿🇼 @Snicki_Katope]

Both are party spokespersons

Retweet for YELLOW and like for GREEN

May the best woman or man win💪

[Lastborn👤 @africannyoutt]

I want to see something here guys😭.

1 000 retweets for our grandma's or 1 000likes for Holy ten.
#TakaNoVoter

[Majaira Jairosi⚙️ @MJairosi]

1. I'm appealing to those who're happy to assist us in Murewa South Constituency to donate at least US$1 for posters. If we get 1000 donors from home & diaspora then we can raise US$1 000, for posters. I've designed posters with our plan for MS, including my pledge to see warwere

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

If an election was held today and there was only Robert Mugabe and Emmerson Mnangagwa on the ballot paper, who would you vote for between the two?

This poll seeks to see who you think is less terrible than the other.

Who would you vote for between the two?👇🏿

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

A very senior doctor in Zimbabwe has sent that to me👇🏿

“Our country is bewitched by the dead.
The dearth of leadership is astonishing.

A cousin of mine was due for elective surgery today at Parirenyatwa hospital.

All elective theatre lists for all disciplines/specialities of surgery were cancelled because the hospital has no water.

So they have been discharged to go back home.

Meanwhile the Annex/Parirenyatwa hospital Psychiatric Unit has had a blocked sewer problem and burst sewer that has seen patients being discharged from hospital before they are well because the toilets are not working.

For two consecutive days since yesterday no patients have been admitted even dire Psychiatric emergencies because of the sewer issue.

In the meantime I passed along Bulawayo road and witnessed the construction of The Museum of African Liberation and the monuments going on.

What makes our leadership so impervious to basic reasoning and conscience?.

They are busy prioritising the dead over the living.

The Water Ministry is busy banning the opposition from drilling boreholes for the rural communities yet they are failing to provide the country's biggest hospital with basic water!!!?.

Takatadzei sure?”

[GGOAT @hatiperi_wacho]

Saka zvandaitwa na Holy Ten hamunei nazvo ?

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

Inflation continues to shoot up in Zimbabwe with the local currency spiraling out of control against the US Dollar.

A tin of baked beans is now selling at Z$4000 or US$1 as of today, meaning that the local currency is now trading at 4000 to the US Dollar.

Inflation was at 666% beginning of the week.

There is no end of this bloodletting in sight as the Zimbabwean Government seems clueless on how to stem this bleeding of the local currency caused by rampant State corruption, incompetence and general cluelessness on how to manage a national economy.

[Prof Jonathan Moyo @ProfJNMoyo]

JUDICIARY CAVES-IN AS ZIM SLIPS BACK TO THE GUKURAHUNDI YEARS

It is existentially draining and disempowering that the leader of Transform Zimbabwe @NgarivhumeJacob, has been shockingly convicted and sentenced for an effective three years in jail – for some tweets posted in July 2020 calling for a constitutionally protected peaceful demonstration - by Mrs Feresi Chakanyuka, a Harare Magistrate who by the oath of her office is sworn to "uphold and protect the Constitution" and to "administer justice to all persons alike without fear, favour or prejudice in accordance with the Constitution and law".

Ngarivhume’s quoted pinned-tweet and video posted on 8 July 2020 – which is still accessible on #Twitter – need no interpretation.

Given sections 56, 58, 59, 60 and 61 of the 2013 Constitution, it beggars belief that any magistrate would be fooled by political prosecutors – some three months before a general election - into making a manifestly political decision to convict and impose a draconian sentence to knockout an electoral opponent of the sitting president, as a way of sending a chilling message to other presidential aspirants or voters.

The conviction and sentence make a mockery of the judiciary and leave it in utter disrepute.

Truth be told, the judiciary’s shocking mishandling of Bill of Rights cases these days is eerily reminiscent of the gukurahundi years, when the Rhodesian State of Emergency retained between 1980 and 1990 was ruthlessly enforced.

But there was an important difference then, now lost to the judiciary.

While government used a decade of the retention of the Rhodesian State of Emergency for political purposes against targeted political enemies – especially Zapu and the population in Matabeleland and parts of the Midlands – the judiciary then stood firm as the protector of the Bill of Rights and defender of human rights and freedoms.

Ironically, this was under a Lancaster Constitution whose Bill of Rights was in fact meant for the white minority and was entrenched only for 10 years precisely to give the white minority time to either take the gap to apartheid South Africa or the white Commonwealth countries, if not back to Britain itself.

The point here is that during the gukurahundi years – in which the order of the day was the Rhodesian State of Emergency whose effect was the obliteration of the Lancaster Bill of Rights – draconian convictions and sentences like the one imposed on Ngarivhume by Magistrate Feresi Chakanyuka were unheard of.

It is a sociological truism that individuals lose their freedom when they join or belong to any group, because doing so necessarily requires them to give up some right or freedom in exchange for the pursuit of some common good. Because of this, threats to human rights and freedoms typically come from the groups to which individuals belong.

The worst of such threats anywhere in the world come from the State in general and the government of the day in particular. This is because the State monopolises the use of violence through the government of the day.

Thus, every government is by definition a threat to human rights and freedoms.

In constitutional democracies with an entrenched and justiciable Bill of Rights, the guarantor of human rights and freedoms is the judiciary, not the government of the day but the judiciary, failure of which it has to be the people themselves.

In Zimbabwe today the judiciary has tragically abdicated its constitutional responsibility and duty to guarantee and protect human rights and freedoms; hence the tragedy now happening to the Jobs and Jacobs in the nation’s midst, which tragedy has exposed everyone’s constitutional rights and freedoms to jeopardy!

[Joseph Mushonga @JosephMushonga7]

@daddyhope Happy birthday mupfuiwa

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

Look at how @nickmangwana ignored the sanctions bit🤣🤣🤣

Chimuti chepropaganda chatizwa nacho!

Mr Mangudya vapedza masports🤣🤣🤣

[Majaira Jairosi⚙️ @MJairosi]

(1) "Zimbabwe is open for business" Yes, it is open for smuggling &money laundering business. The only time you see activities on Zimbabwe's air space is when dunderheads are in their business.

Genuine investors aren't interested because of our environment which is not conducive

[Joseph Mushonga @JosephMushonga7]

@leonardzhakata @cktzim Zviri sei baba, how can I get it, I'm based in South Africa

[Fortune Daniel Molokele @molokele]

Court Diary ...

Zimbabwe's most well-known political prisoner Hon. Job Wiwa Sikhala will be back at Harare Magistrates Court today for continuation of his trial

He will appear in court 11, at 11:15am.

Solidarity is our political culture!

#freewiwa
#solidarity
@JobSikhala1

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

2. I grew up with Tinopona living at Murehwa center where my father was a civil servant, and her dad was a businessman.

She was a little sister to me because her brother Rocky was my friend.

It pained me when she told me her story today.

It shouldn’t be like this in 2023.

[nelson chamisa @nelsonchamisa]

They are totally innocent. Their only crime is believing in a better, new great country and belonging to CCC. The darkest hour is just before dawn. It’s AM in Zimbabwe..and the sun will surely rise and shineIt shall soon be a beautiful morning in Zimbabwe! #FreeWiwa #FreeThemAll

[skilled rebhara @drjaytee87]

if @Wamagaisa was still here he would have done a BSR on winky d the goat.

if you think winky d is the goat pliz retweet like and comment