Sekuru Matemai

Very passionate about Africa and it's people

[Sekuru Matemai @kchikore]

@ArcUchenna What's the name of the movie?

[🌺 LOVE MUSIC 🎼 AND MOVIES 🎬 @DBichhang10958]

How the rest of the orchestra kept a straight face I don’t know 🤣🤣

[🌸🎵 Beautiful Melody 🎶💖 @Ducnghia16]

Loved this song by Neil Young but you guys have done it absolute justice by doing a cover of it 🎶❤️👏
🎤 Can you name this song?

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Hezbollah appears to have added thermal drones to its arsenal in its fight against Israel. It has also recently started using fibre-optic explosive drones to target Israeli troops.

Al Jazeera's @TheMikeAppel explains.

[🌸🎵 Beautiful Melody 🎶💖 @Ducnghia16]

This audience did not yet know that they were participating in one of the greatest performances in the history of music.

Deep Purple - Child In Time - Live (1970)

[MP10 @MusicPills10]

Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia

[Sekuru Matemai @kchikore]

@China_TVv Yes definitely why not

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

25-year-old Billy Joel performing "Piano Man" on the Old Grey Whistle Test (1975)

[Best English Songs @1BestSongs]

Do It to Me
Song by Lionel Richie ‧ 1992

[Martin's Music @XMartinsMusicX]

Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
(Live 1976) ▶️

the full 6:19min version is on my Youtube (link in bio)

[MP10 @MusicPills10]

U2 - With or Without You

[Vinyl Records🎱✝️🇧🇷👪🗽 @j_c_domingues]

Soul II Soul – Back To Life - 1989 🎤
https://t.co/depgYxD2qj

[Noel Pinckney @NappyNoel004]

NappyNoel004 - Prank Phone Tap) SECOND THOUGHTS.

[Emotion & Music @Emotion78687]

Still as stunning and emotional as ever. 🥹

[🌸🎵 Beautiful Melody 🎶💖 @Ducnghia16]

No sexy dance, no body show, just come out and singing sincerely...she's a pure real performer...beautiful lady with beautiful voice...it's Dido everyone!!

White flag - Dido 🎶

[Takudzwa Ngadziore @ngadziore]

May history always remember what you actually stood for. May the truth always prevail. 🙏🏽 The footprints you left were always visible to those who knew !

[Tasunungurwa Mufumiri @freemufumiri]

1. Linda Masarira has passed on today at 43. May she rest. But history must be recorded honestly. A thread on the public record, her own words, her own actions. 🧵

2. THE MOTHLANTE COMMISSION (2018)

As MDC-T spokesperson, Masarira testified before the Motlanthe Commission into the August 1 killings and used the platform to accuse the MDC Alliance of training its members to "engage in warfare" backed by the West.

Her own party's official, Obert Gutu, later publicly distanced MDC-T from her claims. Even her colleagues would not stand behind it.

3. SERBIAN TRAINING AND ARSON (November 2018)

When fires broke out at Siyaso Market, Mpilo Hospital, and elsewhere, Masarira took to Twitter to claim MDC Alliance cadres had been trained by Serbians in southern African countries and were behind the fires.

Jacob Mafume (MDC-A): 'She is hallucinating and has probably taken dangerous drugs.'

Obert Gutu (her own MDC-T): the party has 'no concrete information' and would hold no one responsible.

She was abandoned by all sides but the accusation was already out there.

4. FARIRAI GUMBONZVANDA AND MALDIVES ARRESTS (May 2019)

In May 2019, 7 civic activists were arrested at RG Mugabe International Airport returning from a Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) workshop in the Maldives.

Among them: Farirai Gumbonzvanda, daughter of Nyaradzai Gumbonzvanda, then head of UNIFEM/UN Women Africa. Farirai was a girls' rights defender with the Rozaria Memorial Trust.

Their charge sheets literally cited attendance at a workshop on peaceful resistance as subversion. They were held at Chikurubi Maximum.

Masarira's sustained framing of civic activists as Western-funded saboteurs gave the state's narrative oxygen. Words have consequences.

5. TAKUDZWA NGADZIORE'S ABDUCTION (November 2023)

When CCC MP Takudzwa Ngadziore was grabbed by armed men on camera, on Facebook Live, tortured and dumped naked in Mazoe, Masarira's response was to suggest it was staged to embarrass Zimbabwe ahead of a SADC summit.

'Is it a coincidence that these abductions always happen before a regional meeting?'

ZimLive subsequently unmasked the abductors: Nicholas 'Big Daddy' Kajese, CIO agent, Harare Central. Abraham Pasi. Both members of the 'Ferret Team' commanded by CIO Director Internal Ishmael Mada.

She owed Ngadziore an apology she never gave.

6. JACOB NGARIVHUME AND THE US$300,000 SMEAR (2020)

When Ngarivhume and others were organising the 2020 anti-corruption protests, Masarira went to the state-controlled Herald and told them Ngarivhume had received US$300,000 from American sources.

Ngarivhume noted this publicly today. He and his wife had supported Masarira's family during her own imprisonment. She repaid that solidarity by feeding state propaganda against him in a newspaper used to justify his arrest.

7. The tragedy of Linda Masarira is that she was genuinely brave once, 84 days in Chikurubi, hunger strikes, fighting for women prisoners to have sanitary pads. That record is real.

But the record also shows that, after a certain point, she turned those same rhetorical skills against the people still in the fight.

That is also part of the record. May she rest.

[Takabatana Daily @takabatana]

Former South African President Thabo Mbeki has delivered one of the clearest regional warnings yet against attempts by African leaders to manipulate constitutional limits to remain in power, in remarks that now resonate sharply with Zimbabwe’s deepening debate around Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 (CAB 3) and growing concerns over President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s long-term political ambitions.

Speaking at an event commemorating the legacy of NEPAD, Mbeki recalled how former Zambian President Frederick Chiluba once sought to secure a controversial third term in office, despite constitutional limits. According to Mbeki, regional leaders within @SADC_News quietly moved to stop the attempt in defence of constitutionalism and democratic order.

His reflections come at a moment when Zimbabwe is gripped by mounting controversy over CAB 3, which critics argue is part of a broader political strategy aimed at restructuring constitutional safeguards and creating conditions that could ultimately extend Mnangagwa’s hold on power beyond the spirit, and potentially the framework, of the current Constitution.

Mbeki is simply posing an uncomfortable question to today’s SADC leadership: if regional leaders once found the courage to confront Chiluba over a third-term agenda, why should Zimbabwe’s constitutional controversy be treated differently?

Mbeki’s remarks are a deliberate challenge to the region itself, a call for Southern Africa’s leaders to rediscover the political will, institutional courage and moral authority that once defined the bloc’s defence of constitutionalism.

[Marcus Origa @Iya_Livity]

45 years ago today... on May 21, 1981, Bob Marley was laid to rest.

In keeping with tradition and the artist's personal passions, five symbolic objects were placed in his coffin:

A Gibson Les Paul guitar – his favorite, iconic musical instrument.

[Music is Life!!! @Mr_HUMA]

Earl Klugh - Tropical Legs