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[Wu Wei @thonjea]

@SunguraCentral Greetings my elders. Any chance you recall who was the artist on the song part of whose lyrics go, "ndoita hwembwa yekunzi yadya munda washe kunge ndanga ndarima nyama." Sing title could be Rombo Ndinaro

[Wu Wei @thonjea]

@TheGautrain @TheGautrain ,I have received yet another bank notification of a charge despite not travelling. Kindly attend to this with urgency.

[Wu Wei @thonjea]

@TheGautrain Please check your DMs. I used one bank card to and from Pretoria and yet...

[Wu Wei @thonjea]

@arisaqz1 .

[Wu Wei @thonjea]

@CrimeWatchZW It is time to litigate against foolishness. This zig-zagging cannot prevail because some excitable civil servant found a platform to utter a few words.

[Melody @BluesOfBirds]

@AdameMedia Hind rajab - 5 years old - 355 bullets
Never forget.

https://t.co/z5dcieF4kY

[Wu Wei @thonjea]

@DanielSson85 @ZimCricketv My oh my! Some choice of word there. Hmmm!

[Wu Wei @thonjea]

@Rb__sa @FNBSA I submitted documents for my account to be activated (I'm told it was suspended) last Friday & had hoped that my matter would have been attended to by now.
I've tried the FNB app but no interaction has worked out so far seeing as I keep getting stuck in a queue.

[Wu Wei @thonjea]

@drDendere I often wonder what the modalities actually entail. E.G., to whom would the NTA be accountable? On what basis would office bearers be appointed - besides presumed patriotic goodwill? In practice, how would the NTA cure the nation(s) of its political toxicities?

[Wu Wei @thonjea]

Hanzi we are resilient.

[MaZwangendaba @mamakaCleo]

As Zimbabweans we have to agree that we admire the chains that enslave us. Somehow we deserve the misery and suffering. Cowards. All of us.
* Demonstrations - we don't want we will get killed.
* Stay away- we don't want we will lose our income.
* Elections-we don't want we are tired.
Why would you say that when there is-
*No running water in our homes
* Massive load shedding.
* Collapsed healthcare.
*Poor transport system.
* Substandard education.
*Corruption.
Why would you say that as the youth when-
* You've never had a bank account?
* Most don't know how to use an ATM.
* You have never signed a work contract.
* You not even aware of labour laws or labour court is.
At this point in time no one must complain about anything, we are all not ready for change.
You all bash Geza an old man yet you the stallions are cowards.

The income that you were saying you going to lose yesterday imarii and do you still have it?

We deserve it all, tenfold

[Wu Wei @thonjea]

@MkhontoweSizwex Not particularly surprising given the principal's affinity for Pentecostalism.

https://t.co/pupfH0ZdUF

https://t.co/YqTV82lxTF

[MNM @ZimbabweMake]

1/From a farm labourer in Zimbabwe to a PhD student in the UK: my story of resilience 🌍📚

This is my journey of resilience, self-determination, and the power of education. A story that proves where you start doesn’t define where you’ll end up. #Inspiration #Resilience #Zimbabwe

[Wu Wei @thonjea]

Many of the comments in response to Tafi's tweet here are sobering. The entitlement on the part of PZ is appalling. No critical reflection at all. One wonders what character these exiled chaps wpuld have shown had they remained close to power.

[Tafi Mhaka @tafimhaka]

Patrick Zhuwao, a former Zimbabwean minister and the nephew of former president Robert Mugabe, has given a harrowing account of his late uncle’s last days spent under self-imposed exile in Singapore.

Zhuwao was also part of the G40 faction of the late leader’s administration, whose figurehead was former first lady Grace Mugabe.

His account of the late president’s last days was in stark contrast to the defiant leader who ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist for 37 years, and had even said once that “only God” could remove him from office.

Zhuwao described a forlorn and frail 95-year-old who had been forced to seek refuge in a foreign country after “some of his own had turned against him and weighed him down mentally”.

The late struggle stalwart was, according to his nephew, “forced to seek peace of mind in Singapore, where he rented his own accommodation, had no doctor or nurse at hand, was bathed by his wife and son, and was even forced to travel to hospital using Singapore’s equivalent to Uber”.

Zhuwao said the last straw for Robert Mugabe – who was deposed in 2017 – was when the current administration, led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, realised that killing the ousted leader would result in a huge fallout – so, they resorted to using local TV stations to air content that was meant to “weigh him [Mugabe] down mentally”.

“The old man loved watching news on television. However, since his unceremonious ousting from power in a coup in 2017, most of his former allies had turned against him and were uttering obscenities against him on a regular basis, something that scarred him immensely.

“For his own peace of mind, he decided to leave the country,” said Zhuwao.

This narrative is in direct contrast to reports that Mugabe had been seeking treatment 8 000km away from home in Singapore’s gleaming Gleneagles clinic – where the cheapest suite costs about $850 (R12 400) a day – for the past five months.

“For the five months that he spent in Singapore, only five days leading up to his death were spent in hospital receiving medical care,” said Zhuwao.

Saviour Kasukuwere, another former minister who was also part of the G40 faction and was at one point tipped to succeed Mugabe, also lamented the treatment of the former president after his removal from power.

Zhuwao and Kasukuwere – along with Jonathan Moyo, Walter Mzembi, Mandi Chimene and Godfrey Gandawa – are some of the former ministers who were part of Mugabe’s inner circle and have since fled the country. They are all living in self-imposed exile in fear of Mnangagwa’s administration.

An emotional Zhuwao said that although it would have been more logical for the former first family to seek refuge in neighbouring South Africa, given their historical relationship, South Africa’s treatment of Mugabe’s wife, Grace – with regard to her alleged assault on model Gabriella Engels in a Johannesburg hotel room two years ago – had prompted them to rather relocate to Singapore.

“For me, and I think for a lot of members in the family, we owe an immense debt of gratitude to Grace for caring for the former president. What she did for Mugabe during the time he was in Singapore was done without complaint by her and her son, Tinotenda Mugabe,” said Zhuwao.

“Given that he was a 95-year-old man, this meant assisting him with a lot of things, including bathing, feeding and exercising him.

“That young man [Tinotenda] was forced to grow up quickly and be a man,” he added.

Comparing Robert Mugabe to South Africa’s former president, Nelson Mandela, Zhuwao said the Zimbabwean leader ought to have received similar treatment from his government to that given to Mandela on his passing, considering the contribution that both had made in their respective countries.

It was humiliating, added Zhuwao, to even compare how the leaders, who both died at the age of 95, were treated prior to their passing.

“Mugabe had no doctor looking after him. Mrs Mugabe had to train staff to assist the family. He was looked after by domestic workers who had no medical training; these are the people who were assisting Mrs Mugabe to look after her husband.

“When he needed to go on regular trips to see the doctor, they had to order the equivalent of Uber, called Grab – a Singaporean transport company offering this service,” said Zhuwao.

He said such treatment would explain why the family was struggling to reconcile with Mnangagwa and his administration, which he accused of “grandstanding and wanting Mugabe to be buried according to their preference”.

“They cannot have a say because they abandoned him,” he said.

Zhuwao repeated his assertion that the treatment Mugabe received had alienated him from his country of birth, for which he had fought.

He said that, even when “Mugabe knew that his life was slipping away and could have quite easily said: ‘Take me back to Zimbabwe; I am going to die in Zimbabwe,’ he had opted to rather die in a foreign country – away from most of his colleagues who had ostracised him and blamed him for everything that went wrong”.

15 September 2019

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Israel just committed *the largest child massacre in its history*, according to Haaretz. Two hundred Palestinian children murdered in a single day, with direct support from the US and UK, and zero outrage from Western media. What stage of barbarism is this...

[X̌ëîshɛn @AllanChininga]

@FMaguwu @MoHCCZim Whilst on it , WE ARE APPEALING FOR HELP, my brother is in pain

[Wu Wei @thonjea]

Hi @CabsZimbabwe . Does it take more than 7 days to replace a damaged bank card? Is it policy that no communication is made with clients to notify them when to collect? One travelled to Masvingo from a rural area just to be told "sorry our machines in Hre are down". #DoBetter

[Wu Wei @thonjea]

@sintelltd Good day. Awaiting feedback on Ticket #1541: UJ PDRF form bugs

[Wu Wei @thonjea]

@mediauj Please advise on which office I should address over the problematic application form for postdoctoral fellowships: https://t.co/jPtKH3NSY7

[Wu Wei @thonjea]

@drruwende Some nyaope users do it in SA. I witnessed a few homeless people do it near Rand Steam shopping centre. Not sure how prevalent it is (in SA and in Zim) but, it is true.