RETWEET for our music legend, the lion of Zimbabwe, THOMAS MAPFUMO, who is in South Africa for his last roar tour as he pulls down the curtain on live performance after more than fifty years on stage.
If you are in Johannesburg, go and support our music legend, the last living Zimbabwean superstar from his generation.
The show is happening tomorrow at the Newtown Music Factory (Bassline), 10 Henry Nxumalo, Newtown, Johannesburg.
The show will also feature Holy Ten and Kurai Makore.
Tickets are available via Computicket, with gen R300, gate R400, VIP R500, and VVIP R600. Wishing Mukanya well for this last show in South Africa.
Great initiative by #GreatmanMusic. RETWEET and help him reach as many people as possible!
You know what, my people? A retweet costs you nothing. And when you see somebody who is disabled, like Great Man, pushing this initiative, it should shame us who are able-bodied that we are not able to assist those who are disabled.
The least we can do is to RETWEET so that those who have the heart to help can actually support this cause.
So I ask you again, please RETWEET this initiative that Great Man, who is disabled, has started to assist people like him who are disabled.
It costs you nothing at all as a Zimbabwean or an African to simply RETWEET, or as any other nationality.
EPWORTH YOUTH SPEAK OUT FOR ROAD SAFETY!
Under the Safe and Inclusive Cities (SAIC) project, youth in Epworth have taken the lead in assessing road safety and disaster risks in their community, and the results are powerful...
Amnesty International strongly condemns the arrest and detention of Blessed Mhlanga (@bbmhlanga) for merely carrying out his professional duties.
Authorities must not misuse the justice system to silence journalists and clampdown on freedom of the media. Freedom of the media is important in advancing human rights. Responsible reporting on the issues that shape people’s lives is a key building block of any free society.
Amnesty International calls for the immediate release of Blessed Mhlanga and the unconditional dropping of all charges against him. Journalism is not a crime, and media practitioners should be able to carry out their work without fear of reprisals.
As we mark eight days of the detention of Zimbabwean journalist Blessed Mhlanga, I know he would want you to be aware of the mistreatment of prisoners in Zimbabwean jails.
This is their daily relish—boiled cabbage without tomatoes, without cooking oil, or anything else.
This is what Blessed Mhlanga is subjected to daily, yet he committed no crime.
Prisoners are locked up in dirty, filthy, and overcrowded cells at 3 PM and released the next morning at 7 AM.
This is the price that Zimbabwean journalists pay for exposing corruption and for being professionally courageous and speaking truth to power!
Without journalists, you won’t know anything about what is happening in your country, amplify the voices calling for Blessed’s release by RETWEETING and REPOSTING.
#FreeBlessedMhlanga
Dear Zimbabweans, RETWEET
Tomorrow detained Zimbabwean journalist Blessed Mhlanga will be in court at 2.30 PM to hear the magistrate deliver his ruling on whether he will get bail or not after being detained even though he didn’t commit any crime.
Please could those who are free to attend the bail ruling go tomorrow, Blessed is a journalist and if journalists are silenced, it means society have been silenced.
It is essential for a healthy democracy to protect journalists' rights and allow them to perform their duties without fear of retaliation.
Ultimately, the outcome of Blessed's case will have significant implications not only for him as an individual but also for the broader state of press freedom and democracy in Zimbabwe.
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This is a Mozambican professor who has dressed as a female Zimbabwean prisoner in solidarity with the pro-democracy women detained on June 16 for meeting to commemorate the Day of the African Child.
Prof. Adriano Nuvunga is the director of the Center for Democracy and Human Rights (CDD), an organisation that promotes democracy and protects human rights in Mozambique.
Among the pro-democracy women jailed without trial by Emmerson Mnangagwa is a woman with a one-year-old child at Chikurubi Maximum Prison.
Another woman activist was denied the right to bury her child, who died after Mnangagwa imprisoned her.
Another female activist, Namatai Kwekweza, was dragged off a plane and held incommunicado for eight hours and accused of committing a crime on a date when she was not even in Zimbabwe.
All this is happening in the context of the SADC Summit taking place in Harare this week.
The timing of these arrests and torture abuses of pro-democracy activists in Zimbabwe, coinciding with the upcoming SADC Summit, is ironic.
It is alarming to see the Zimbabwean regime seemingly cracking down on civil society and opposition voices ahead of a regional meeting that should, in theory, promote peace and cooperation.
Professor Adriano Nuvunga's act of solidarity by dressing as a female Zimbabwean prisoner highlights the international attention these issues are receiving.
Through your retweets and reshares of these posts, the world is waking up to the terrible situation in Zimbabwe today!
It is important for SADC member states to address these concerns and hold Zimbabwe accountable for upholding the principles of democracy, human rights, and the rule of law.
As the summit approaches, regional leaders must demonstrate their commitment to these values and work towards a peaceful resolution that respects the rights and freedoms of all Zimbabweans.
Failure to do so will lead to unintended consequences that will affect the whole region, as the immigration crisis in South Africa that has been created by Mnangagwa’s kleptocratic regime!
South Africa’s Democratic Alliance, which is part of the South African government, has called for the SADC Summit to be moved from Zimbabwe after the repressive crackdown by Mnangagwa’s corrupt regime using secret service agents.
Full statement 👇🏿
https://t.co/6FODkxTEWD
By abusing state machinery to violate the rights of Zimbabweans, the ZANU-PF regime has demonstrated that it is prepared to go to any lengths to entrench its authoritarian rule.
SA, and by extension the SADC, must hold the Zimbabwean government to account.https://t.co/6ZmYCZbEGO
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The Government of Zimbabwe bought 18 cars for the Attorney-General’s office from Byword Trading and Paza Buster for a total of US$907,930.
US$374,430 for 7 cars from Byword Trading and US$533,500 for 11 cars from Paza Buster.
NOTHING was delivered, and the government kept quiet!
In any country, this would be an outrageous massive corruption scandal, but not in Zimbabwe!
The Attorney-General's office is just another victim of the rampant looting of public funds in Mnangagwa’s corrupt regime.
The fact that not even a single car was delivered is just crazy but the norm in this corrupt regime, yet the government officials concerned kept quiet because they were part of the plot.
The staggering amount of money wasted on these non-existent cars could have been used to purchase much needed medical supplies, provide clean drinking water, or provide education and books for children in need.
It is truly heartbreaking to see public funds squandered like this.
The fact that these thieves would brazenly use the Attorney-General’s office of all departments to loot public funds just shows how deeply corrupt this regime is.
The pictures below are of Virginia Mabhiza who is Zimbabwe’s current Attorney-General and her predecessor, Prince Machaya who was in charge when this looting took place!
The fact that the Attorney-General's office, which is supposed to uphold the law, has been compromised in this way is a damning indictment of the Zimbabwean government's failure to root out corruption.
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