🟡In a political environment where most opposition presidential candidates failed to even make it to the ballot paper because of Zanu PF’s toxicity and abuse of state institutions, it’s an incredible feat that President @nelsonchamisa did so, shook the system completely and won hundreds of seats against nigh insurmountable odds.
All observers, domestic and international, agreed that the election was a sham.
It’s hard to be a politician in a violent corrupt dictatorship that won’t hesitate to murder members, abduct key players, abuse state institutions to rig and use blatant fraud and an impostor to steal hard-won seats. They want to kill dissent and have all the state apparatus available to execute their wish. It’s dangerous, thankless and exhausting.
Nowhere in the world has an impostor decided he doesn’t like duly elected members and overturned the will of the people by the stroke of a fraudulent pen.
The depravity is globally unprecedented and hard to relay to those who’ve never lived under dictatorship.
Simply put, it’s theft and thuggery on full display.
Of course, the room for improvement in any Movement - including in vibrant, mature democracies, can never be filled. However, to blame a leader who is still standing where most have fallen and very many would never dare enter the ring is superficial and intellectually dishonest. It’s like blaming a victim of sexual assault for somehow causing their aggressor’s conduct instead of condemning the sexual assault.
Think pieces are good but must be aligned to Zimbabwe’s political reality. The regime is anti-people and wants to destroy the voice of the suffering masses at all costs.
Point your guns at those who are destroying democracy, not the ones trying to fight for it.
All this said, those who champion change and a better Zimbabwe will continue to do so - even as the temperature gets hot. This is why it is called a struggle and not ice cream. It’s deathly, lonely and hard.
But as in any boxing match, we keep punching at the regime. We never know which will be the fatal blow. For the sake of the next generation, progressives who imagine a free and prosperous Zimbabwe must remain in the boxing ring!
Zvese izvi zvichapera. One man once said - never in a thousand years.
Here we are! #ForwardZimbabwe🇿🇼
In the mind of Jonso;
1. Nero
2. Mazizi
3. Structureless
Things Jonso says make me question the wisdom of his PhD. If it was Linda or Mbalula, I can understand - because they've never been to school - they literally don't know anything !!!
@williamzambezi@nelsonchamisa The worst from this is that Zanupf affiliates won't pay this "hut tax". Muchinguri lamented this in ref.. to not paying toll gates. Not withstanding import duty Zesa on their expropriated farms et al. We have a cabal of crooking Mafioso. We need a new government. Pinda Chamza.
@joseph_kalimbwe Jose..by supporting democracy and taking a Pan-African stand you've ruffled ZANOIDS in Zimbabwe. Listen 🎶 to Bob Marley's"who the cap fits' lyrics🎵 If your night turns to day..a lot of people will run away. Aluta continua
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Those who say that Zimbabwe was not on the Agenda of the @SADC_News Heads of State and Gvt Summit (Extraordinary Summit ) in Angola are simply being economic with the truth. Zimbabwe is a delicate case for the region and you can't expect a hammer to straighten glass..
Please find herewith our statement as the Zimbabwe National Dialogue Forum(NDF), the alliance and voice of civic society in the face of the post-election crisis in Zimbabwe.
1/The SADC Final Report on Zimbabwe’s harmonised Elections is a powerful affirmation of the consensus that exists among the majority of Zimbabweans (both rural and urban) that the conduct of the August 23 Elections flagrantly violated the Constitution of Zimbabwe, Electoral Laws and SADC Guidelines and Principles on Elections.@SADC_News
My fellow comrades of the late seventies and the closing chapter of our struggle, you will be embarrassed to know that the Mozambique - particularly Maputo - that was such a god forsaken place has now ahead of Zimbabwe by 30 years or more.
Let’s get our act together!
During the japanese war, a boy carried his dead bro on his back to bury him. A soldier noticed & asked him to throw this dead child so that he would not get tired. The boy replied: He's not heavy, that's my brother! The soldier understood & broke down in tears. #UNITEDWESTAND
@fumugwe62 Ye Doc Ibbo. Got the worst shock in my life that Zanupf has sold such an iconic Dombo Rembudzi to the Chinese. This the worst abomination to befall our country. Next will be Great Zimbabwe. We'll support you to the hilt to preserve the Mangwende dynasty. Zanupf is a nightmare😫