I want to thank Zimbabwean dancehall star Winky D for the very insightful message in his new song, Chivanhu.
He touches on a serious topic that I have advanced on this page for years, respecting our past, respecting our ancestors, and refusing to be held hostage by foreign religions brought to us through colonial rule and missionary indoctrination.
A people who do not understand their past, who embrace other peopleโs ancestors while disowning their own, and who disparage their history are bound to struggle. Africa continues to face challenges because many of the things we consider important are not rooted in our own history, culture, and experiences.
You cannot be more Muslim than Muhammad, and you cannot be more Christian than the people among whom Christianity first emerged. Part of the success of the Chinese, whom Winky D references in his song, has been their authenticity, confidence in their own civilisation, and belief in themselves.
I am not a Christian because I hate Christianity. I am not a Christian because I do not believe my identity can be rooted in a foreign religion whose foundations were built by other peopleโs ancestors while requiring me to disconnect from my own.
Every people who have risen and prospered have done so by understanding who they are, where they come from, and what values define them. Self-respect begins with knowing your own story before seeking validation in someone elseโs.
Winky D has truly matured into an artist who does not follow the wind, but has become the wind itself, the one that others follow.
Consummate artists do not chase narratives, they shape them. They do not merely reflect society, they challenge it, provoke thought, and help direct the national conversation towards issues that matter.
That is what separates entertainers from cultural icons. The greatest artists leave a lasting imprint on the conscience of a nation.
Well done to Winky D and his team for producing work that stimulates thought and encourages introspection. More life to Gaffa Nation.
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It's not normal for a young person to just fall and die. It's not normal for young people to die in their sleep. It's a failure in primary healthcare. No one in Zimbabwe goes to a doctor for headaches or tummy aches anymore. It's not normal. A lot of these things can be detected and managed at primary health level. IT'S NOT NORMAL!!!!
There is a General who died some few years ago. He had $4 million in Mauritius and a mansion in Dubai. He fell sick in Zimbabwe from "Covid". The healthcare system could not save him. The same thing that happened to Makamba's son.
We once calculated the amount of money Mugabe used for his trips to Glen Eagles in Singapore, he could have built a hospital that took care of him, his cabinet and locals but NO, he preferred to use more than $10 million in Singapore.
Ginimbi was burnt in his expensive car for hours with no Fire Brigade in sight.
They flaunt their ill-gotten riches and smack on our faces but they fail to realize is that the basics that everyone needs are absent. When they need them, sometimes that money won't save them.
A functional healthcare system is good for everyone. We have to get rid of Mnangagwa and his cabal!!!!
The thing has been caught in flagrante delicto !
Too much hubris always thinking about "status" "stature" as if those are the prerequisites for anyone to exercise their agency & rights provided for in the Bill of Rights of our national Constitution.
Very dishonest & hubristic!
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I have spent the better part of my adult life in uniform. I have served this country from the days of the liberation struggle through the formation of the Zimbabwe National Army, through the regional deployments, through the institutional reforms, and through the years of quiet service that most citizens never see and rarely think about. I am not a politician. I have never sought public office. I do not speak in the language of party manifesto or campaign rally.
I speak in the language of the field. I speak in the language of command, accountability, institutional duty, and above all the welfare of the men and women under one's charge, and by extension, the welfare of the nation those men and women are sworn to protect. It is from that place, and only from that place, that I offer this assessment of General Constantino Chiwenga and why I believe his presidency would represent a genuinely different chapter in Zimbabwe's post-independence governance history.
I do not make this argument lightly. I have watched this country from the inside for five decades. I have seen what works. I have seen, at far closer range than most, what has failed. And I have reached the conclusion that Zimbabwe has not yet had a leader whose formation whose fundamental character as shaped by years of discipline, institutional loyalty, and command responsibility was suited to the demands of governing a broken state back to health. General Chiwenga is that leader. Zimbabwe has not yet had a leader whose fundamental character was suited to governing a broken state back to health. General Chiwenga is that leader.
I. What Forty Years of Civilian Political Governance Has Produced ?
Let me begin with the record, because the record must be confronted honestly before any forward-looking argument can be credible. Comrade Robert Mugabe led this country for thirty-seven years. I will not diminish what was achieved in the early years the expansion of education, the health infrastructure, the genuine progress of the 1980s that gave a generation of Zimbabweans reason for hope. I served during those years. I saw the state functioning with purpose. But I also saw and any officer who served through the 1990s and 2000s saw the same the progressive hollowing out of every institution that was supposed to hold the state accountable to the people.
The land reform programme, whatever its historical justice as a corrective measure, was executed without a management framework. There was no command structure for the aftermath. When you execute a major operation without a plan for the consolidation phase, you lose everything you gained in the assault. That is what happened to the land reform programme. The tactical objective was achieved. The strategic outcome was catastrophic. Farm production collapsed. Foreign currency evaporated. Inflation consumed the savings of every Zimbabwean who had worked and saved for their retirement.
And through all of it through the hyperinflation, the fuel queues, the hospital collapses, the mass emigration of our most educated citizens the political system never corrected itself. It rewarded loyalty over competence. It punished dissent over failure. It produced a culture in which ministers competed to praise the leader rather than solve problems, in which generals were expected to be political instruments rather than professional commanders. I watched this happen. I watched good officers compromised by the requirement to serve political masters rather than constitutional principles.When you execute a major operation without a plan for the consolidation phase, you lose everything you gained in the assault. That is what happened to Zimbabwe's governance.
Good morning 5am club. You leak energy when you overshare. Privacy is power and protection. Maturity is keeping your personal life private without explaining yourself and telling people more than they need to know, because those who get you don't need it, and those who don't get you don't deserve it.๐บ