🔸For anyone who has been arrested and jailed for a crime that they did not commit, you will agree that your biggest fear when you’re in confinement is that people will forget about you and your plight.
After just one week, you have contracted more infections than the uncountable sores all over your skin from gnats and lice taking turns to bite you. Your back is literally broken from sleeping on the concrete with no pillow and your nose is numb from the unrelenting stench of stale urine. You yearn for the dignity of freedom and you become a masterclass on why liberty is a fundamental human right.
For Sen Timba and those he was detained with, it’s been 20 weeks - half the duration of a pregnancy.
In this moment, I implore Zimbabweans, let’s not forget @JamesonTimba and all political detainees. Behind any political rhetoric and legalese is a human face and a human story. There’s nothing more painful than fighting alone for everyone to be free.
The minimum we can give is solidarity - human to human.
#FreeTimba
#FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners
He would never have deigned to do this interview when he was president. He had a total disdain for the media.
Only when he was on the outs with Masisi did he see fit to take all comers, and was rewarded with sweetheart interviews that accepted his version unquestioningly. SMH
I lived in Botswana during Mogae and Khama's time. My hope is that Boko will lead the way Mogae led. During Mogae's time, Botswana saw major infrastructural developments which included multiple first class hospitals like Scottish Livingstone, Lobatse Mental (Sbrana) etc. Roads were built and clean water pipes laid even in the most arid of areas.
For me it was not these major projects that convinced me that he knew what he was doing. It was his approach to HIV treatment. He destigmatized it and prioritized access to medication. At the time the prevalence was upwards of 30% esp in cities.
He also grew a program called Tsabana to a national program. This program provided weaning foods for free to infants across the whole country. Although it was started under Masire, it became a pillar in infant healthcare at a time when Botswana was being ravaged by HIV.
I also witnessed his desire to modernize the country for all. One project that caught my eye was the modernization of the Peleng settlement in Lobatse. This was a squatter-camp-like-settlement on a hill whose establishment is said to have been before colonization. He built roads, drainage and water & sewage pipes. The lives of those pple improved dramatically.
Sadly, I can't write much about Khama's accomplishments except his establishment of DIS, an intelligency unit more like CIO which in the early days was fingered in the killing of one John Kalafatis.
Under Khama, Botswana was sliding towards authoritarianism mostly because of his military style of leadership.
I hope President Boko will take some time to study why Mogae connected with the people and then put back Botswana on the path for greater glory.
29 people were hanged to death in Iran for opposing the Islamic regime, one of the deadliest single days of executions in recent history.
Where’s the UN? Where’s the university students and pro-Palestinian protesters? Where’s the so-called human rights activists?!
MY REPUBLICAN FRIENDS, some facts.
Trump had full control for 2 years. 2017-2019
POTUS
SCOTUS
HOUSE
SENATE
DOJ
Immigration bills passed—0
Border closures—0
Wall money—0
Actually immigration soared up to a record high in 2019
TAX CUTS FOR BILLIONAIRES—1
Sometimes we have to be brutally honest about facts on ground, do you know that the healthcare system in Zimbabwe is so corrupt? There are Medicine Cartels who make sure hospitals are DRY no matter how much the government tries to equip them, they then equip their private healthcare facilities and FORCE patients to go purchase medicine from them! Physicians & other healthcare professionals are as corrupt as the government and politicians in the country- Facts only !
Fake products are becoming a big lucrative business. 😡 We have fake toothpastes, fake rice, fake top alcohol brands, and of course, fake Mazoe. The authorities haven't been cracking down hard enough on this unacceptable behavior, especially in the informal sector.
Some of these fake products contain harmful substances. When in doubt, only buy from trusted sellers and consider small quantities for testing.
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"Living in Zimbabwe" is now a degree equivalent qualification on survival skills , perseverance, tenacity , patience and resilience.
It should be added on ordinary people ' s CVs !
Elon Musk spent $44 billion dollars to turn Twitter into a right wing echo hellscape.
So far he’s spent $77 million dollars on Trump’s campaign.
He doesn’t feed the hungry, he doesn’t house the homeless.
He’s trying to turn America into a fascist oligarchy.
He is a villain.
The former marketing head for NBC wrote an op-ed apologizing for helping to craft a fake version of Trump as a successful businessman on "The Apprentice."
The truth? Almost every business Trump’s touched, he’s driven into the ground.
His political career is based on a lie.
Just in case we had any doubt about Donald Trump - today he said LINCOLN caused the Civil War and should have appeased the South, allowing slavery to continue.
Trump is one of the vilest figures ever in our history - a racist, fascist, anti-republican, anti-democratic dictator.
Even if it's the Chinese doing mining in the hilltops or the riverbeds, they aren't the problem; rather, it is those who authorize such activities. Now, who are these people and their names?
No Chinese national will just wake up and go to a mountain or riverbed and start mining!
Missing Person | Alisha Bvuure, she is 14 years of age.Last seen around Glen Norah A Chitubu area on the 2nd of October around 16hrs.She was wearing a maroon floral dress.
If you've seen her please contact +263773821563 or +263785985772
The lessons l have learnt from the Tuku Family issues:
If you choose to be married then be in it for real,you can't be in a marriage and also chase after other women and have children out of https://t.co/XmO0s84Bwf can't have 2 women in your life and expect things to flow smoothly.
In short men should learn to be content with the choices they made in life when it comes to choosing a life partner.A wife is someone who is there to either make you or break you and the same applies to a husband.
I have made many Tuku like mistakes in my life,l have cheated,l have lied to suit my own needs and l have seen the consequences of all that and how things explode in your face,how you can easily become a useless man because you think being a man is proven by having so many girlfriends.
I think it's high time as men we all admitted our own shirt comings,Tuku was not the first or last men to act in this manner.Most men are guilty of the exact things they are bashing Tuku for today.
Men pretend here on this platform to be very innocent when discussing other men's failure yet most of us are all the same,we are cheats and very promiscuous,we don't even think about the implications of what we do,we leave children all over the place ,if we have a contract in Beitbridge we leave a child there,Bulawayo same thing,Gweru same we have children that are even unaccounted for because we behave like Bulls.
Now these situations are all over in most families and the sooner we begin to admit we have a problem and stop all that the more such stories we will come across in future.
Men we need to be content with our choices,most are guilty of creating such family problems as faced by Tuku but it's something we are not ready to talk about.
There is nothing Macho about bed hopping,there are no trophies to be achieved but just a pile of problems.
In one of his sermons Ubert Angel speaks about this habit of bedding multiple partners and he says when you lie down with a person you are not married to you actually tie yourself spiritual to that person and l believe what he said there imagine kutora Mhepo dzekwaMafukidze wosanganisa nedzekudzimba dzevakadzi 4 vaunorara navo?Effectively what you are doing is destroying yourself,very few successful men have stayed afloat after bedding various women.
You get drained of your power by being a serial bedhopper,you become powerless and eventually always give in to the various individuals you have sex with.
I am not going to pretend to be better than other men but l am saying it as it is,when you cheat your wife what do you think the girl or woman you are cheating with is doing?Nekuzara kweN'anga nemaPorofita she is going everyday and saying l want this man to marry me and what does that do to your wife when these N'angas do their thing?It creates problems for your wife,they get spiritual attacks,they can even die as a result of that or they can live but you will divorce them for the other woman.
Men,we now need to tell each other the truth,our irresponsible acts created massive problems for other people even worse for children.
Stop pretending to be holy,manzwa nekutsvaga vakadzi right here on Social Media these women just don't say it but murikutsvaga vakadzi imi mine vamwe kumba whom you don't allow to use Social Media too.
Let's Men up,Let's be responsible we are our own enemies if we can't be faithful.
Tuku anzwa nekutukwa pano as if all of you are perfect.
Ndapedza but #HandirimeNedzakaneta
Some Zimbabweans assume that tuck shops are generally cheaper, but at what cost?
This is rice being prepared in Mbare and sold as Mahatma Rice to unsuspecting consumers.
Cheap is not always cheap; it could end up being very expensive.
Children are being scolded at home for not cooking the rice properly, yet it is not Mahatma Rice.
There are fake toothpastes on the market, this is what happens when an economy collapses!
Purported solutions appear yet they won’t be based on honesty and full disclosure.
The root cause is failed governance!
@MDNnewss Sad to witness this.
But if he was married to an American or European, they wouldn't have hated that overseas woman, but just because she is from Zimbabwe, they perceive her that way. Black on black hate is serious.