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HH was today in Luanda, as Chair of the SADC Troika, to consult the Chair of SADC. Enough to silence the self serving nonsense and (misplaced) arrogance of the loud mouths in Munhumutapa Building. Be warned!
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Just received the sad news that Alex Magaisa is no more; a great loss to Zimbabwe’s intellectual community, to the struggle for a better and democratic Zimbabwe.
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Zimbabweans should not be distracted by the apparent attempts to preempt the SADC process in Harare. To state the least: the SADC Troika meets this week; and Zimbabwe can forget the Chairmanship of SADC next year if they persist in their disdain of the regional body.
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The congratulatory messages from whoever does not change the bottom line that the election lacks credibility and is largely a sham, nor does it contradict the SADC Observer Report in particular but also all the other reports. We have a crisis and that’s the bottom line.
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So, as expected, tens of thousands have already converged at Zimbabwe Grounds for Chamisa’s Star By Election Rally, defying shameful conduct by the state to frustrate the event. It’s beyond optics: Mnangagwa’s regime hangs on a thread, and the deep state is taking note.
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Hard to believe, let alone accept, that they would kill Moreblessing after abducting her on 24 May. Her lifeless body dumped in a well, not far from where they abducted her. I feel so sore and devastated - and imagine her children, relatives and friends! We have to stop this!
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Is it mere coincidence that opposition figures are being arrested and charged variously across the country?
What’s going on? Back to the future or the last days of endgame? Hardly a reflection of someone who has won a game fairly!
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While we are busy in the pursuit of a Political Settlement in Zimbabwe, let’s remember that the latter includes the release of all political prisoners, including and not exclusively Job Sikhala and Jacob Ngarivhume.
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A most depressing, if not cynical, feature about elections in Zimbabwe is the extent to which elections are so brazenly stolen and the voters rendered mere useless statistics.
Deplorable! Depressing
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Shameful but predictable!
How can that guy ever win an election?
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I join all freedom loving people across the globe, and in Zimbabwe in particular, in raising the alarm at the attack on Hopewell Chingono who, according to Beatrice Mtetwa who responded to his SOS, has been abducted from his house an hour ago.
SOS for Zimbabwe!
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Why should anyone be concerned when, for the first time in the history of flawed and disputed elections in Zimbabwe, SADC has finally confronted the beast as it should have done long ago. It’s the import and not the semantics that matter. These electrons were rigged. Period
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@matigary
No, Comrade; SADC can and will convene an Extra Ordinary Summit in the next few weeks, following due process. Don’t believe ignorant propagandists among you. I reminded you the other day that we are more familiar with SADC matters than vana mupurwa among you.
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That Job Sikhala and Jacob Ngarivhume are still under incarceration as political prisoners is not only a scandal of great proportions but an indictment on those who purport to be in charge of this country. Never thought we would do worse than the Rhodesian regime.
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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!
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What a damn disgrace!
All that prancing and yet a combination of incompetence and clumsy rigging by an administration bereft of both intellect and integrity.
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SADC Observer Mission issued a statement yesterday. Why are the member states so defeaningly silent, especially as Mumba is being savaged by Harare? You’re endangering the Mission as long as you remain silent.
Cyril, HH, Masisi, Chakwera, my sister in Tanzania - Sema!
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The coup in Gabon, coinciding as it does with a likewise “ messy “ election in Zimbabwe, throws the latter into sharp focus. Both AU and SADC in particular need to take note and understand the underlying implications thereof, especially with respect to the situation in Zimbabwe.
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Herewith our Petition to the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security in the first instance, but also to the AU, for the establishment of a Transitional Government as part of a Comprehensive Political Settlement in Zimbabwe.
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So we have easily a crisis over this over exaggerated SADC summit: I have witnessed at least 40 summits, having been at the inaugural one on 2 April 1980 in Lusaka.
To put it simply, someone in Harare is afflicted chronically with a legitimacy deficit, following an election
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An impressive turn out already at the Memorial Sendoff for Alex Magaisa at Harare Showgrounds. Here I am too with my Muzukuru/ granddaughter Audrey, who benefited from Alex Magaisa’s guidance at Kent University. So are Simba Makoni , Arthur Mutambara and many others.
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Isn’t this the opportunity for the official opposition in Zimbabwe to cease being compliant and obliging and, thereby, deal a deadly blow to the crumbling edifice?
Simple!
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The incident at Barbourfields today: a sign of the pitfalls of national consciousness; a call for brave and visionary leadership. We don’t have it, we have never had it.
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@nickmangwana
What’s this?
Don’t be stupid.
I am beyond fear, least of all your type.
But I have taken note, and so have many others on this platform.
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@nelsonchamisa
@NicolaWatson13
@afrikaex
Go with your Godisinit and leave opposition politics now, to allow a new leadership. As I have stated before, you have served the state well by systematically demobilizing the masses - a damn disgrace for which you will pay dearly.
Declare your departure or we expose you.
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I can’t be the only Zimbabwean, at home and in the diaspora, who is bewildered at how some big guy of dubious business history is dishing out vehicles and millions of USD like confetti, with the full confidence of the powers that be, in full glare of the media who, up to now,
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The good news as we mourn Tuku is that he is is to be buried, not at the controversial heroes acre, but at his rural home in Madziva( near Bindura), this Sunday.
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Already one citizen killed at CCC KweKwe rally this afternoon, and many reportedly injured by ZANUPF thugs. Should we be surprised when leaders yesterday used such incendiary language as crushing fellow citizens like lice?
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When we allow and watch, as we have all done so far, the obscenities around the Gold Mafia, the chrome scandal and someone flaunting the purchase of nearly $!2 million worth of super luxury vehicles, what does it say of all of us as Zimbabweans?
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Netsai Marova, Cecilia Chimbiri and Joana Mamombe re arrested: is there no limit in cynicism on the part of a paranoid securocracy? And how long shall we’ll meaning people at home and abroad stad by and watch while they torment our children, especially in these COVID days?
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Let’s not blame administrative failures and/or incompetence as an excuse for a fundamental assault on democracy.
There’s no excuse; we have to this rectified in the interest of the democratic process. Otherwise, forget it, not to mention many other transgressions.
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Hama neShamwari, is there something unfolding in this our broken Zimbabwe, something that heralds something like deja vu? Don’t call me a dreamer coz I am not the only one working to make the dream a reality.
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Regrettably., CCC stumbled into a flawed exercise and witnessed the entire sham, the worst in the history of elections in Zimbabwe. Back to the future!
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Beware the Ides of March to those who threaten to crush the masses like lice. Inappropriate language against the backdrop of a state in evident demise of which the 2017 coup was a significant benchmark.
It’s clearly a matter of time now…
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For how long shall we stand and watch while they brutalize and kill our children, our tomorrow?
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It’s unfortunate that this debate about the structure and content of the opposition movement has come to this - caught up in a wrangle of personalities and in my view senseless and unnecessary mud slinging.
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One would have thought, or are we asking for too much here, that my younger brother Malaba would simply resign, walk away into retirement, and leave the power mongers in the Zimbabwean state to their internecine conflict?
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@daddyhope
The subtle irony in all this is that I am currently Visiting Professor at the School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand; and a Member of the Board of the Human Sciences Research Council, in addition to my role as Head of regional think tank, SAPES Trust.
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Secondly, the person of Emmerson Mnangagwa who is a very pale shadow of his mentor Mugabe, has never won an election since the 1999 Congress, is more securocratic than political in outlook, and has been tarnished irreparably by the allegations of sleaze.
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@nickmangwana
Where are the accounts, if any? The public has a right to know coz, more likely, these guys keep their loot abroad. The court of public opinion is incensed and deeply suspicious of the state. Such pronouncements from its functionaries ring hollow and insincere.
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The sobering reality that Zimbabwe is so far behind the rest of the region in almost every respect, especially the economic and political realms. A major challenge for you, the younger generation.
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Watching a video, from the border between Zimbabwe and SA , showing Zimbabweans being literally thrown out of SA - Makwerekwere voetsek, go home. So sad, dangerous and ominous!
Where’s leadership in SA, Zimbabwe and SADC, if the latter still exists?
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Comrades, the crisis in Zimbabwe requires more than a plea for a dialogue with a regime that has evidently failed; more than that, we have known for two decades or more that it is a regime incapable of reform; and its current stewards represent the most clueless ever.
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What a national shame about which all citizens, at home and in the diaspora, should demand, as we tried in vain last year through a petition that drew 70,000 signatures: the release of Job Sikhala and Jacob Ngarivhume.
Political Prisoners - an indictment on all of us!
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@DrStephenChan
Yes, SADC, and even AU, will do absolutely nothing UNLESS Zimbabweans themselves take the initiative to use this occasion to pressure the regional body to carry out its responsibilities under the Organ on Politics, Defence and Security. That’s precisely what we are at now.
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What I find difficult to understand is the level of denialism on the part of state actors, in the face of the wanton political violence, not to mention a state which since independence treats any opposition factor as an enemy. This has to stop!
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What a horrible experience with Kenya Airways and , of course, Kenya itself which introduced a new (paid) visa regime for all arrivals. Chaotic airline that caused last minute flight changes and delays across the region and beyond; not to mention incompetence at the transfer
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@LynneStactia
It’s not over yet; Summit reconvenes physically on Saturday 4 November,specifically to deal inter alia with the Zimbabwe issue. Don’t be misled by the courtesies and formalities that accompany such diplomatic meetings.
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Interesting observation from the George Floyd trial in Minneapolis: the forensic pathologist currently giving evidence for the defense of killer cop Chauvin is David Fowler, born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, graduated from Capetown Medical School in 1983, and now at Maryland, USA.
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I believe it’s overdue that Chamisa comes clean on the narrative before, during and after the elections in August 2023. You owe the population - especially the 2 million plus who voted for you. - a detailed explanation, to dispel the rumours doing the rounds about your
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@CadreShangri
@dhonzamusoro007
I bought my farm - Panhohwe Farm - in July 1990, as is well known. I have no other farm other than this family jewel, for my children and their grandchildren, to posterity.
So stop your cheap propaganda, you scum.
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@MakomboreroH
@alistarpfunye18
@daddyhope
Mako, please bury the hatchet; there can be no justification for such internecine conflict, regardless of whatever provocation.
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Please join us tomorrow Thursday 31 July at 17:30 to 19:30 on our Policy Dialogue which, inter alia, will conclude with a Resolution/ Petition to AU and SADC for mediation TOWARDS a COMPREHENSIVE SETTLEMENT in ZIMBABWE.
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Strange that someone suggests that the hashtag ZANUPF Must Go could be unconstitutional? And what about the coup?
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Sad news: our sister, Zodwa Dabengwa, has just passed away in London, after a long battle with cancer. A brave and great woman, Dumiso’s spouse, Comrade and mother to Nombulelo and her siblings.
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Hard to understand the rationale of digging up Julius Nyerere and Samora Machel Avenues, including Leopold Takawira and several others in the CBD of Harare. What a damn waste of resources on infrastructure far less in need of rehabilitation than many other roads, including the
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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.
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I am devastated at the decision to deny Sikhala and Sithole bail they want these citizens dead? Does anyone deserve such cruelty?
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Arrived this morning in Maputo for Samora Machel’s 90th( posthumously) birthday tomorrow at his home area in Gaza.
Grateful for the hospitality of my young brother Adriano Nuvunga and sister Graca. Looking forward to meeting old and new comrades of the years since ‘70’s.
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@nelsonchamisa
@gladyshlatywayo
@ZECzim
While this is being challenged officially, it’s advisable that CCC publishes their correct list of candidates for the record.
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Xenophobia, wherever it rears it’s head, is a reflection, inter alia, of poor leadership in the country concerned. The horrible murder of Nyati yesterday is yet another reminder of such abject leadership in South Africa , the failure to explain that no African is foreign.
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How is it that, unlike other societies in the region and beyond, the Zimbabwean state( read ZANUPF) has since independence in 1980, treated all opposition factors - whether it was Joshua Nkomo and ZAPU, Edgar Tekere and ZUM, Morgan Tsvangirai and MDC, and now CCC - as enemies ?
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I was again reminded last night of the parlous and even inhumane health system in Zimbabwe, when a critically ill colleague was kept waiting outside one of the hospitals in Harare until I had to cough up $760 in the early hours of this morning.
Reminded me of a similar situation
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It’s overdue that Zimbabwe’s opposition movement - which is far beyond the official opposition, by whatever name you call it - gets its act together. This has been a disastrous 5 years; we can’t afford any more of this. Let Jacob Ngarivhume, Chapman and all others group together,
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The disaster and loss of more than 10,000 in Libya: condolences to the many families affected and hope support can reach survivors sooner rather than later.
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Remembering my brother and comrade who was murdered on this day in 1977 by the apartheid savages.
We will never honour you enough, Steve Bantu Biko.
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The story now is that Gayton McKenzie of the Patriotic Alliance is a Zimbabwean from Gweru.
Interesting if true.
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So what was the judge smoking when he made a ruling which has now been logically overturned by the superior court? Gullible to the whims of the merchants of social media or a subscriber to the campaign against democracy?
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What should be worrying us as Zimbabweans is that we have a New Parliament but without an Opposition. How can anyone celebrate a compliant Opposition, almost as a branch of the ruling party?
No, an Opposition exists in any dispensation as an essential component of democracy - to
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@PedzisaiRuhanya
If the appeal against this judgement fails, shouldn’t the CCC as the main and majority opposition party consider withdrawing from the election altogether. Besides, there are many more negative features in the electoral process so far that render
the 2023 elections flawed.
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@mzshumba1
We, the Mangwende dynasty, will fight this tooth and nail. The war starts now.
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The odd circumstances under and in the context of which Godfrey Sithole was ( justifiably and belatedly) granted bail today apart, on what basis is Job Sikhala and the 13 others being denied the same?
This confirms what we have always suspected. Stop it!
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@mtakagogoe
@ProfJNMoyo
@Welshman_Ncube
@Mathuthu
@TrevorNcube
@NewsHawksLive
@UKinZimbabwe
@USEmbZim
Thank you, Sigabade and many others who have raised the red flag over the blatant attempts by cowards to intimidate and and scare my family and friends. Notwithstanding the obvious irony that what we are proposing is something that might redeem them from cowardice.
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To think , 42 years ago today, snd this hour, my wife and I were sitting in Rufaro Stadium with thousands other Zimbabweans - and our many guests, including Bob Marley and the Wailers ( and later Walter Rodney as our special guest) - awaiting Zimbabwe’s Independence at midnight.
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@Charega1
@MatutuTongai
@LindaTsvan30062
@noku_carol
@MulakazuvaL
@timotonho
@RMuzezuru
@MadisonNcube
@DadlynM
@moyo_archford
Nonsense! Biti is just coming out of court now, fit as a fiddle. As fellow citizens, we need to guard against such kind of messaging on social media. Remember, whatever your views on Biti, he is human being and fellow citizen, with relatives and friends at home and abroad.
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Watching the smart transition in Zambia: warms our hearts in a continent - including Zimbabwe - where there’s been more than a cynical disdain and disregard for the people’s will.
Yes, we can!
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Sad and tragic scenes of African migrants being massacred by Moroccan and Spanish soldiers(BBC). And a deafening silence from the AU, not to mention the countries from which the migrants are escaping(from the scourge of economic and political failures). Not yet Uhuru!
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Can you believe someone claiming that the judiciary in Zimbabwe is independent, apolitical and immune to executive interference? Not least by one whose appointment was an outcome of outright executive fiat?
Clearly, a very political statement by a purported apolitical person.
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Joanna will NOT participate in the Discussion on Thursday coz of bail and her evident poor health caused by her ordeal at the hands of brutal people and a callous magistrate.
However, her case is one of the key testimonies to the topic.
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Again, the reality that most in our neighborhood, and especially Maputo, have long overtaken us as Zimbabwe, particularly Harare. Busy trying to discover how and why the comprador bourgeoisie here, unlike ours who stash the loot abroad, are investing in visible development.
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Why don’t we as a nation pause for a moment and consider what’s the objective of these recalls and the possible implications for our purported “democracy “. Why have a parliament - and a new one at that - without an opposition?
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When, as a purported official opposition in Zimbabwe, deplete, fragment and your leaders and members variously fall victim to the temptations of patronage and freebies, please know that you have not only failed dismally, but also betrayed the 90% or more Zimbabweans, at home and
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@NewsHawksLive
There will be a day of reckoning against these murderers, including this callous and cynical lot of state actors.
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We cannot rule out the need for a negotiated settlement if we’re to avoid an acrimonious and even bloody end to this presidential campaign, the most desperate given a ruling party so afflicted by factionalism like never before the coup in 2017. Asylum beckons for some.
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The spectre of political violence rears its ugly face, again, in Zimbabwe?
After KweKwe on Sunday, an ugly assault on Tendai Biti at midnight today: the security guard left for dead; Tendai and his mother survive but understandably traumatized.
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Just heard the good news that 6 by elections are now off the roll coz Biti and his 5 colleagues were illegally recalled by a shady PDP outfit. But, likewise, all the other recalled MPs should benefit against an action that was an assault on democracy itself, on the voters alike.
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Husam Zomlot, the head of the Palestinian delegation to the UK, putting the BBC in its place: you can’t bring us here to have us apologize to ourselves when over the decades (the western world and its media) has never brought the the Israelis to apologize for their atrocities.
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Outrageous, yes, but almost incredible if this is not a symptom of the decay of the edifice, the last phase of which began with the coup in November 2017. That’s my reaction to the shocking news about Jacob Ngarivhume yesterday.
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Condolences for the 74 killed in the fire in Johannesburg. Sad
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And neither a note nor sense of irony, when only a year ago, the SADC region, and SADC itself in particular, has acknowledged and recorded a grossly flawed election in Zimbabwe and yet feting the latter as the incoming Chair, accompanied by unprecedented pomp and fanfare ….
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Voted with my granddaughter at North Park in Mt Pleasant, where I have been registered for years, only to discover we are In Hatcliffe constituency.
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Things have descended to unprecedented levels in Zimbabwe: never seen such anger before; and we don’t know yet the number of lives lost; and, more frightening, soldiers are being deployed out of State House right now. It’s not difficult to imagine what’s in store tonight.
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@aishapandor
Many of us - especially those like me who were her lecturer at University of Botswana in 1977/78 - share your sentiments , my dear girl. We are eternally proud of her; and we can never thank her enough for the splendid work she’s done for both SA and the continent as a whole.
We
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One day soon we will undress the anglophobe who, oblivious of the irony, poses as an anti imperialist , waxes lyrical in verses meant to impress Buckingham Palace and those he purports, even without a touch of irony, as the enemies of Zimbabwe. A real running dog of imperialism.
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Incredible stuff out of the US Embassy in Zimbabwe presser today: inter alia, that “available evidence “ justifies targeting Mnangagwa, his wife, Tagwirei et al for corruption and criminal activities. As some of us have always requested, please provide concrete evidence of such
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Ibbo Mandaza is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: “The 2023 Elections condemned: What should SADC, the AU, and the International Community do?”
Time: Sep 21, 2023 05:30 PM Harare, Pretoria
Join Zoom Meeting
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So glad and honoured by my brother and comrade, Blade Nzimande, the South African Minister ohf Higher Education, Science and Technology, for inviting me and placing me at the high table with his counterparts from the BRICS at a dinner in Gqeberha ( Port Elizabeth) tonight.
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