“This dissertation is at PhD level” 🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼. A few months later an external examiner recommended it for PhD with corrections. Didn’t pursue the matter though because I wanted to do something else. 😂
It begins with Phuza Thursday, the warm-up that spills into Friday and Saturday, the official binge drinking days. Sunday, once a sacred day for family and rest, now stands proud on the drinking calendar. Then comes Mogodu Monday, stretching the weekend binging.
By Tuesday, the cumulative five-day hangover sets in; Wednesday is shaky. Come Thursday, the whole cycle starts again. We joke about it, but I doubt our children are in on the joke. They grow up watching us parents lost and submerged in bottles. In the process, their emotional needs are met half way, productivity in workplaces suffers under the weight of exhaustion and alcohol-induced brain fatigue.
May we all remember that each binge steals hours from our selves and our children. Each binge weakens our homes and chips away at our dignity and the future we claim to be building.
PS. Don’t mind me. I’m just a grumpy, boring old fart. Where do I get off writing this nonsense. Rha sies! Uzenza ‘bhetere’ la Lupi. Xa eqale wangubani yena. O nagana o gore o mang- kgosi ya lefatshe
Last night at Anfield will stay with me forever - not because of one person's words, but because of how the entire football family stood together.
To my @afcbournemouth teammates who supported me in that moment, to the @LiverpoolFC players and fans who showed their true character, to the @premierleague officials who handled it professionally - thank you. Football showed its best side when it mattered most.
Scoring those two goals felt like speaking the only language that truly matters on the pitch. This is why I play - for moments like these, for my teammates, for everyone who believes in what this beautiful game can be.
The overwhelming messages of support from across the football world remind me why I love this sport. We keep moving forward, together. 🙏🏾⚽
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#FootballFamily #OnwardTogether #AFCB
#BreakingNews
Seventy Zimbabwean MPs from different parts of the country are currently at the Mabelreign District Office in Harare, receiving pieces of land as a bribe not to vote against Emmerson Mnangagwa in an impeachment vote.
These MPs are from both the ruling ZANUPF party and the purported opposition, CCC.
The land they are receiving is also part of the payment they were promised in exchange for supporting Mnangagwa’s bid to extend his term of office to 2030.
The land is being taken from greenways in Ward 16 in Mabelreign and in Westgate.
The allocation of this land was done by Mnangagwa’s 2030 supporter and trumpet, the Local Government Minister, Daniel Garwe.
Media houses—rush there now, they are still at the Mabelreign District Office.
* Greenways are strips of natural land, within urban or suburban areas, that are preserved for environmental and recreational purposes.
They include parks, walking paths, cycling trails, or undeveloped natural corridors like woodlands or wetlands.
They help manage stormwater, protect biodiversity, reduce urban heat, and provide communities with access to green space.
When governments seize or allocate greenways for development—especially for political favours—it must spark public outrage because it destroys communal, environmental, and recreational assets.
PART 1
Letter from Prison
Blessed Mhlanga, Harare Remand Prison
7 April 2025
Dear friends and fellow Zimbabweans
As I write from this discomfort of my overcrowded cell, I am suffering from a serious bout of flue which has drained my strength and now threatens my inner peace. Sleep hardly comes as deep thoughts and lice battle for my attention at the most undesirable times. Such is the life I have lived for the past 41 days.
The State has unleashed its worst to keep me here and mostly in total disregard of the Constitution.
I know I will be staying here longer for the sins of freedoms, particularly that of expression. I stay in the D class section with the most dangerous criminals.
My friends the journey has not been easy and it remains extremely difficult as we nudge forward; it’s a marathon, not a sprint. It’s very uncomfortable but unavoidable.
It’s a journey filled with frustrations and pain which at times overwhelms me to tears, anger and pushes me to the edge of emotional breakdown.
During these times of near emotional breakdown, I have fought with everyone around me. I have fought with my fantastic legal team, and my fellow colleagues in the media who have been standing head and shoulders in my defense. I have fought with my employer of choice and even with my own family.
Prison dear friends is a dark place it taints the soul and clouds one’s judgement, for when in pain, alone and closed out to the world life is not the same. We begin to see friends as enemies and all good efforts towards us as insufficient. I tell you friends, these walls of punishment built by Smith and abused by our own carry with them a curse that needs a strong heart and mind to survive.
Dear friends, I am in pain, lost and sadly broken. This experience is not just a today event, but it will traumatize me for the rest of my life. It’s a terrible battle which however I can’t afford to lose. It’s not easy to keep going but I have no choice to quit nor the desire to stop.
Honestly I can’t imagine how I would have survived without your voices of solidarity and love. Your donations towards my upkeep in this dark place will never be forgotten or taken for granted. My lawyers bring me all your encouraging words and deeds of compassion. I say this without fear of contradicting myself - it is you who have carried me.
As I write, shaking, not from the strong violent bouts of cough, which have erased my smile over the past week and at worst have rocked this pen out of my hands. I am overwhelmed with tears, not from the pain of pre-trial punishment. It’s tears not from the moving songs of worship sung by fellows in my cell, some who have killed and some have robbed others at gun point no. These are tears of joy and determination to go on, all this watered by the blood of your sacrifices and support. I wish to thank you all from the centre of my being, which center remains solid even in the face of adversity.
I am told that you have raised 4000 pounds toward my welfare through a GofundMe organized by fellow journalist and brother Hopewell Chin’ono appointed by family and myself to so lead. My heart is humbled by this act of love, which I have no doubt that I have not earned in anyway. There are many who have donated through other channels. These efforts have kept my kids in school and fed. They have also spared me the pain of of eating the sad story of food fed to fellow prisoners here. These rations which hardly pass the definition of meals are not even pleasing to the eye, I honestly wonder what extent of assault the tastebuds of those who eat this food endure. I thank you for not forgetting me or my family.
Although in pain, I remain unshaken and committed to my profession of choice. I strongly believe that it’s the ordinary people who matter more than those who control the levers of power.
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I really think you have entirely lost your left brain: a typical spoiled brat and direct beneficiary of Apartheid whiteness. I know black people look the same to you, typical racist. Look closer, and you will realise those are two different people. America is exposing us to its stupidity. I don't care about your sanctions; I will never stop fighting for black people to be equal to white people, and if that makes me an international criminal, I am proud to be one.
We should be angry at Trump for irresponsibly cutting off aid. But you know who should receive our hell? Our respective aid-dependent governments. They are now exposed to the world to see how useless they are. You drive big cars as a government but no ARVs?
Ladies and Gentleman. I have been invited to the upcoming UNITED NATIONS WORLD FOOD PROGRAM SUMMIT. I’m grateful. This is worth a celebration to the people who believed in my journey. @WFP_SAfrica I can’t wait to speak and represent. Thank you God🙏🏿❤️
1. I have just been awarded the International Anti-Corruption Excellence Award in Doha, Qatar.
I received the award from the Emir (King) of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in the presence of the United Nations @UN Special Advocate for the Prevention of Corruption.