Tafadzwa Mandiwanza

Mother, wife, neurosurgeon, FRCSI. So many hats but all so much fun!!!

[Tafadzwa Mandiwanza @TMandiwanza]

@annmhiggins It was insanely close!

[Tafadzwa Mandiwanza @TMandiwanza]

BOKKE💪🏾💪🏾🎉🎉

[Tafadzwa Mandiwanza @TMandiwanza]

@JTFlamelily What a game!!! AFRICA���🎉

[Tafadzwa Mandiwanza @TMandiwanza]

@MedgibbonsCathy @CiaraMcCiara @IrishRugby Hope you brought some bug spray😂

[Tafadzwa Mandiwanza @TMandiwanza]

@Merriganmania @markbar74 Massive well done Max!!! All your hard work is paying off. Sooo proud of you!

[Fiona McElligott @FionaMcElligott]

https://t.co/wtSGtJ3tMZ

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

RETWEET

This is probably the most important tweet I will put out in the next 5 years.

Today Zimbabwe will be a swearing in its new Members of Parliament that will serve Zimbabweans for the next 5 years after the recent elections.

The Zimbabwean crisis has been anchored on the lack of institutional, political and economic Reforms.

Reforms can only realistically happen in parliament away from the political posturing and grandstanding noise.

As such, the opposition CCC should ensure the presence of a formidable committees team in parliament that will hold the Government to account for its actions, the same way MPs like Tendai Biti and Temba Mliswa did.

The Zimbabwean crisis is driven by one thing, massive corruption.

At the heart of this parliament should be Reforms and the exposing of corruption, the looting of public funds and the plunder of this country’s natural resources.
Zimbabweans are poor, but their country is wealthy in resources.

ZANUPF fights for power not for the sake of it, but to facilitate State corruption!

These CCC committee teams should fight against the regime's corrupt actions, and more importantly advocate for Electoral Reforms and laws that prioritize the welfare of the poor people that sent them to parliament.

CCC has 103 MPs, so it must deploy the strongest teams in parliamentary committees to resist any attempts to ride roughshod on our constitution by ZANUPF.

There are opposition Members of Parliament that never spoke a word in the last parliament, that is a betrayal of the citizens considering the level of suffering and corruption in our society.

The last term was characterised by people outside parliament being more effective in exposing corruption and lack of public service delivery.
This must change if the opposition parliamentary cohort is to be taken seriously.

Currently parliament is the most effective platform to challenge the regime because of the compromised state of our courts where corrupt elites should have been dealt with, but are getting away.

Billions of State dollars were looted in the last 5 years, and yet there has been no single conviction of these political criminals!
That is why parliament should become the most import political theatre.

ZANUPF is not yet done with its attempt to get a two thirds majority, it will attempt to get opposition MPs in rural and peri-urban areas convicted of contrived cases to force by-elections, the opposition must stay vigilant.

If the opposition fails to force Reforms in this parliament, it would have failed because the election was rigged partly because of lack of Reforms.

The 2028 election is going to be like no other, ZANUPF will have a new presidential candidate, and there will be new opposition faces too.

The current opposition will either fail or succeed on the basis of what it does in this parliament in the next 5 years.

It should be Reforms, Reforms and Reforms.

The health delivery service is collapsed, Zimbabwe has no single working radiotherapy cancer machine, no medicines in hospitals, and 2500 women die every year giving birth because the biggest hospital only has ONE maternity theatre.

This should be discussed daily in parliament until it is sorted, every MP should talk about this because it is the reason why they were elected, and not to fight for their cars and salaries.

As the English idiom says, All Is Fair in Love and War, ZANUPF will not stop trying to undermine State institutions, CCC must be on guard.

Parliament is not a platform to foolishly show off and politically posture, it is a place to make meaningful interventions for society.

CCC must have a distinct reform agenda of what it seeks to achieve, and a roadmap of how it will achieve it.

The Zim state of parliament for 2023-2028.

ZANUPF: 176 MPs.
136 direct election.
33 women’s quota.
7 youth quota.

CCC: 103 MPs.
73 direct.
27 women’s quota.
3 youth quota.

Senate:
ZANUPF: 33.
CCC: 27.

18 Chiefs.
2 representing People With Disabilities.

RETWEET

[JTK @JTFlamelily]

It’s been a long week which has felt like a 100 years
A luta continua; vitória é certa
The struggle continues but I still remain hopeful for a better,brighter Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
Chisingaperi chino shura
Back to the grind because someone has to send those remittances

[Tafadzwa Mandiwanza @TMandiwanza]

@JTFlamelily It’s an extension of the disrespect we have been seeing since the 23rd. For people who claim to have fought to give the majority a voice and a vote, they are going out of their way to suppress both. But the voices are too loud now and the votes overwhelming

[Tafadzwa Mandiwanza @TMandiwanza]

@JTFlamelily Taurahako. 💯 agree

[Irwin Gill @IrwinGill]

Red letter day in Acute Rehab in @TempleStreetHos with the introduction of upper limb robotics to our service! Great to be able to offer this to young people in Ireland for the first time, we're all buzzed! 🙌🙌🙌 #rehabilitation #paediatrics @CHI_Ireland

[Tafadzwa Mandiwanza @TMandiwanza]

Well what a brilliant future workplace! Lots of negative stuff being said about this project but it does not take away from one fact- the children who need it will be getting the absolute best! Really looking forward to moving in ⁦@nch_info⁩ #ourchildrenshospital

[Tafadzwa Mandiwanza @TMandiwanza]

FYI My daughter has had 2 bikes stolen from the same spot in broad daylight!

[Tafadzwa Mandiwanza @TMandiwanza]

Spotted these 2 trying to access “their” bike at a luas stop just now. A group of us told them to stop- which they did but in the process I was called the”N” word and told to go back to Africa. Sorry lads after over 15 yrs working and paying hefty tax - I’m staying!

[Ann Higgins 💛 @annmhiggins]

A FANCY DANCY DISCO
Michael’s 21st Birthday is this month 💛 We want to celebrate him whilst also raising money for @Temple_Street
In true Michael style, it’ll be a Fancy Dancy affair
Tickets €20 on sale (poster for details). Also you can donate here: https://t.co/zFVNfU4XUd

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

"I think if they are good enough individuals to look after the Irish people in the Irish health service, and they are good enough to be entrusted to save lives here in the Irish system, I think they should be good enough for their lives to be saved" https://t.co/ByJAEsEE3U

[𝐖𝐀í𝐥 𝐀𝐛𝐝𝐮 @WailAbdu]

Can we not do the same for our Sudanese Doctors working in @HSELive who are standed in war zone in Sudan!? Please!
Nearly 20 of them (and their dependant families)
@HSE_HR
@MichealMartinTD
@LeoVaradkar
@rtenews
@AnnualSdui

[Tafadzwa Mandiwanza @TMandiwanza]

@EngozyO @RCPI_news @CHI_Ireland @jobswithCHI Huge congratulations👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾welcome to the @CHI_Ireland family. You are an inspiration to other mums excelling despite the juggling 😃

[Tafadzwa Mandiwanza @TMandiwanza]

Got my running shoes out ready to join the wonderful St Gabriel’s ward @CHI_Ireland in the @VhiWMM please help support the amazing work of this ward without whom I couldn’t do my job https://t.co/RZzxr0IdPs

[Tafadzwa Mandiwanza @TMandiwanza]

@Claudia_Craven @CUH_NHS @GOSH_NeuroSurg @SkywardGOSH @RlhNeurosurgery @QSNeurosurgery @lauriedale @AhmedToma13 @Si_Thomo @SayalParag @EleanorMoncur @NicolaJCraven Brilliant news Claud🎉🎉🎉 they are very lucky to have you!