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[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

Today I had the privilege of attending the launch of Hard Truth: Investigations That Shook The World, And Why They Matter Now, the new book by the veteran BBC HARDtalk presenter and journalist, Stephen Sackur, at Daunt Books in London.

The book takes readers to different corners of the world, and one of its chapters, titled "We come from a broken country", tells the Zimbabwean story through my journalism and my documentary films.

Stephen revisits Pain in My Heart, which documented the devastation of HIV and AIDS, A Violent Response, which exposed the brutal violence that followed the 2008 presidential election, and State of Mind, the first feature-length documentary by an African filmmaker to examine mental illness disorders and the collapse of mental health care in Zimbabwe. I produced and directed all three films.

These films were never about me. They were about Angelina, Peter, Beauty, Rumbi and the many Zimbabweans who trusted me with the most painful moments of their lives, so that the world could see what was being done to our country.

The chapter also tells of the persecution that followed my journalism. I was arrested three times in just five months, spent weeks in overcrowded jail cells sleeping on filthy floors, and was charged with crimes designed to silence me, including one that a judge found did not even exist in Zimbabwean law.

It documents how websites and social media accounts run by adversaries turned to character assassination, falsely branding me a fraudster and a predator, without a shred of evidence.

Some of the most vicious lies have come from a jealous colleague, who has spent years using Twitter and Facebook to repeat these falsehoods. None of it has stopped me.
When they cannot defeat the evidence, they attack the messenger, and that tells you everything you need to know about the truth they fear.

I am grateful to Stephen for taking the time to tell our story with care, and for reminding the world that Zimbabwe's crisis is not a debating point, it is the lived reality of millions.

I am deeply humbled and honoured that the story of my country has been told through my work. Governments come and go, and lies eventually collapse under their own weight, but the record we leave behind endures.

One day, when Zimbabwe is truly politically free and our children ask what happened to their country, the truth will be waiting for them, and that is why journalism is important. Silence when repression violates nations has never protected anyone.

The three documentary films through which the story was told are Pain in My Heart, A Violent Response and State of Mind. The last piece of work through which Sackur examined the Zimbabwean story was my 2020 COVID-19 investigation.

That investigation won the 2021 African Journalist of the Year Award (People's Award) and, in 2022, the US$250,000 International Anti-Corruption Excellence Media Award.

Pain in My Heart received the 2008 CNN African Journalist of the Year Award, the 2008 Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Award for Excellence in HIV/AIDS Reporting in Africa, and the 2009 United States Agency for International Development Communication Award.

A Violent Response won the nomination for the 2010 Rory Peck Award in London, and the 2010 BANFF World Television Award in Canada.

State of Mind was selected and screened at several film festivals in Europe, America, Africa and the Caribbean including the Festival International du Film Pan-Africain de Cannes in France.

It was nominated for Best Documentary at the Heart of England Film Festival and is now used as a teaching resource by various Western universities. You can order the book online from tomorrow. It is also coming to South Africa soon.

Video and document links;
Pain in my Heart; https://t.co/KKYCz3d7nE

A Violent Response; https://t.co/HAv8pRfKYu

State of Mind; https://t.co/V4fNCtI3Zo

A documentation of my political persecution by the American Bar Society; https://t.co/n8kLLrlfmD

[Donna Mugoh @Eddie_Mugoh]

Only in Africa does a billionaire and owner/CEO of multiple investment groups crash in a helicopter and dies and the stock markets are not affected.

[Morris Monye @Morris_Monye]

Imagine dying and the entire African continent is jubilating.

Such a a bad boy!

[Faffie-dzashe @Faffiedzashe]

even the World Cup didn’t unite people like this😂🙌🏾

[Baba Ramero @mi62206]

The first man to travel from USA to Zimbabwe for a funeral before the person died

[Street Hustler_Gri7zmann 💊🇿🇼🇨🇳🇪🇸💵💴 @Munyah_Wacho]

Yes, death will come for us all, but for today let me celebrate Wicknell’s. Kwese kwamuri ikoko piwai maZambezi ndouya ndichibhadhara

[SAY MY NAME! @ngonidzashe__]

We need to have a common African language for times like these, english sometimes doesn’t allow us to fully express our emotions

[M A L O Y M E🐐 @byo_memes]

Seshlangan ngenhlupho

[Fashion Entrepreneur🇿🇼🇸🇳 @Bakari_sibanda]

In Ndebele we say “ingungu ingakhala kakhulu sizadabuka”🥹

[Namapenti - the Transporter👙👠🚚 @georgia_tsetana]

Rest in peace uncle the evil you have done in this world is enough 🙏

[Cindy Imani😘 @Ndiee9]

Victor kala nkani lapho akhona.

[ChrisExcel @ChrisExcel102]

Zimbabweans at Sir Wicknell Chivayo funeral… 😭😭😭

[1Chihoro🐆🍒🎱 @kundaiiiiii]

If you know, you know 😂

[Savheya VeFashion @Savheya_Happie]

Which side are you on?

Shadhaya. Vs. Ngoni Mujuru
🔁. ❤️

[miss_bintaa @Timah77727]

"awww you remembered"
of course i did i'm a manipulator

[🥷 @_iamhabeeb]

telling others could jinx your plans.

[Ajibola @4jibola]

my prime ends at my funeral

[🥷 @_iamhabeeb]

the day you die is your time, there’s no such thing as dying before your time

[Ginger @Gboye_Rave]

Last borns are good People .

[𝓡𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓲💋 @ohyessratii]

Nobody can come between a toddler and their rain boots🤞🏽