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#ALifeOfSacrifice Since Independence, Zimbabwean parents have worked hard to invest in the education of their children. Some opened accounts with the likes of Beverly Building Society for years only to see value wiped away in a matter of days by Zanu's collapse of the economy 
#ALifeOfSacrifice Those who managed to make it & graduate, could not find any jobs because ZanuPF's ruinous policies destroyed the economy. Families were forced to sacrifice quality family time & send their children off overseas. But first they had to sacrifice to find airfares
#ALifeOfSacrifice Those who made it to the diaspora are still sacrificing to bring family over or send money home to help those left behind at the mercy of a predatory elite that is looting the country dry at Olympic proportions. Cynically, diaspora is not allowed to vote
Martin Luther King: "Not only do we have a right to be free, we have a duty to be free. So when you sit down on a bus, when you sit down in the front, or you side down by a white person, you are sitting down because you have a duty to sit down not merely because you have a right"
Similarly, Zimbabwe, you have a duty to hold political parties to account. You have the right to support them but a duty to question conduct that is unbecoming. You have the right to elect a government, but a duty to demand excellent performance. Insist on it. #FixTheFoundation
You have the right to elect a party or representative of a choice, but a duty to demand they execute their duties, once elected. You deserve a decent life and have a duty to vote in parties that will work to that end. You have a right to favourites but a duty to unbiased thinking
@263Chat @kubatana @ercafrica @MagambaNetwork The saying goes, "there's no shortcut to any place worth going". Leaders who take unconstitutional shortcuts to power bring grief on their own house, with enemies they could do without. Some ride in armed motorcades, never at peace
Others constantly look over their shoulders, never at peace either. There's wisdom in following process. There are no announcements in democracy. That would be a continuation of the past. There's purity in truth, the straight & narrow road is longer but has more value & duration
The role of supporter is not only to cheer, certainly not without reservation. It is also to question, hold to account, insist on consistency lest the supporter drown, too, swept away by hubris. The life of man is three score & ten, life of a nation, forever. At 40, we are young
Sad how different political parties trade barbs at each other depending on which of them has abused women. Inconsistent, hypocritical & partisan based values. This is why many are willing to flout constitutions when they lust for power. Values are incidental rather than timeless.
Then there's this tendency to attack one gender because a member of their gender has been abused. Human rights abuses are what they are. They do not have to be condemned any more or less because one is a mother, sister or female minister. Selective rage turns to cyber bullying.
On one day, you ask SADC to stay out of our politics because you are excited a military coup might bring you in to government as a partner & on the next you lament SADC's lack of response because same military regime you supported has shown its real face for the umpteenth time.
A week in to lockdown, some Harare policemen were filmed enthusiastically beating a woman for being outdoors. A couple of weeks after that, we saw photographs of more women, this time in Bulawayo, brutalised by police. Now we have 3 MDC female officials who have been tortured.
The beatings are crude, cruel and a weapon of fear & intimidation. The viciousness with which members of police force gleefully undertake these actions is puzzling. Do they not have mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers & children too? The sad thing about this whole thing though...
Is we have seen this before. There's not an area in Zimbabwe where there has been no police brutality in one form or another, across the country. The violence is the same, it is only the victims' names that change. Zimbabweans fall in to the trap of discussing each new case....
Newsday reports that "The Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Con-ference says Zimbabwe has lost an opportunity in the past 40 years to redefine its his-tory, foster national healing & to end corruption, international isolation & to save the collapse of the country’s infrastructure." Why?
At Independence, we had a highly educated cabinet that compared favorably, man for man, with the best in the world. Yet, the majority of them did not have the courage of their liberation convictions to stand up to Ghukurahundi atrocities. Core values matter.
The rest of the country, apart from the victims and a few people, hardly stirred either. You cannot look away when the authorities repress your fellow citizens. When Zanu advertised car accidents & coffins on national television in election campaigning & as a warning against...
How prepared is our government for emergencies? How much does it invest in Research and Development versus rigging elections, hiring private jets, buying tear gas and water cannons? How many government officials think like Oppah Muchinguri? Where is our brains trust?
We knew about cyclones but our Minister of Defense says they saw the warnings but did not take them seriously. Her very public reaction to COVID 19 was scandalous. Our President announced a shutdown and had a rally the next day. We know about drought but we lack in food reserves
If you don't trust coronavirus, why do you trust ZanuPF? We know from experience after experience what a complete mess they are. What are you going to do to #FixTheFoundation and #RehabilitateZimbabwe In the midst of a global health crisis, our VP goes to a hospital in China
Orpah Muchinguri who said they knew about Cyclone Idai warnings but did not take them seriously, now says God is punishing the US with Coronavirus for sanctions. Who would vote for such people? A government that does not understand science & spouts nonsense!
Can you trust such a government with climate change & water resilience remedies when they ascribe events to biblical punishment? How will they provide solutions? And who are the applauding members of the audience? What manner of self abuse is this? Y
You are part of the problem when you gleefully applaud nonsensical behaviour by politicians to the detriment of our country. When do we stop to think about the damage ZanuPF has wrought on the country instead of laughing at their non stop gaffes? You are laughing at yourselves.
We can spend time debating one symptom of ZanuPF misrule after another. We need to stop wallowing in our misery and focus our energies on one goal: elect a government that is not motivated by power but a development agenda for Zimbabwe and the continent.
APA is that political party. Potential candidates who want to stand with us must understand & accept that our agenda is a leadership based on core values & competence, in that particular order. If you're willing to be selfless & put your country first, you should be talking to us
We refuse to abuse youth in political games & power struggles. Our youth must get to the point where they have enough self respect to reject being pawns. Your future is that important. Temporary excitement at rallies or in streets versus a brutal regime will feed you for an hour
Are you travelling home this Christmas? What are you going to tell friends & family about your thoughts on the crisis in the country? It will be a dialogue of course. You may have to discard your beliefs or dispel some of their myths. Whatever the case, discuss #thinkingvote
Please ask whether they are ready to suspend their allegiances long enough to have an open & honest conversation about why we are where we are, who is responsible & what they think we should do to change direction. You might want to discuss voting as a duty for nation building
You might want to define what nation building, prosperity might look like and who best can bring that about. You may have to tell a lot of hard truths. We have no choice but to #RehabilitateZimbabwe & that will not be possible if we don't #FixTheFoundation Simple! It might work!
When we say the regime is brutal, appeasers come on to our timeline to deflect. Brutality has no party colour, they do it to others and among themselves as we have seen since independence. Tragically, other appeasers yearn for a G40 return. All fighting to be part of the system
We refuse to learn, wilfully ignoring history. APA refuses to compromise on its core values. If Zimabweans want sustainable change & prosperity, they must stop looking away, stop aiding & abetting unconstitutional behaviour within parties & national government. #FixTheFoundation
We have a duty to humanity, to fellow citizens, country & posterity. We can end this cycle of poverty & violence. Examine every party's conduct in all aspects of democracy & the future you want and then work to #RehabilitateZimbabwe We don't have a choice.
@263Chat @kubatana #HowZimbabweFails
1. Impunity: authorities get away with murder & corruption
2. Appeasement: influencers make excuses for the predatory elites
3. Apathy: Citizens no longer care
4. Societal decay: Most people want to join the system
5. Point of no return
1. Impunity: authorities get away with murder & corruption
2. Appeasement: influencers make excuses for the predatory elites
3. Apathy: Citizens no longer care
4. Societal decay: Most people want to join the system
5. Point of no return
#RehabilitateZimbabwe
1. Do not accept poverty. It is not normal
2. Call out: the predators. Stand your ground.
3. Take on: the appeasers. This country belongs to us all.
4. Encourage: family & friends to embrace possibility of change.
5. Activism: organise for a new beginning
1. Do not accept poverty. It is not normal
2. Call out: the predators. Stand your ground.
3. Take on: the appeasers. This country belongs to us all.
4. Encourage: family & friends to embrace possibility of change.
5. Activism: organise for a new beginning
#FixTheFoundation
1. Restore community values
2. Remember your self respect
3. Imagine a better future
4. Build local communities and government
5. Get involved at ward level
6. Stand for local office
7. Work with APA for a new generation of citizenship
1. Restore community values
2. Remember your self respect
3. Imagine a better future
4. Build local communities and government
5. Get involved at ward level
6. Stand for local office
7. Work with APA for a new generation of citizenship
A vendor, Hilton Tafadzwa Tamangani, is arrested & assaulted by police. He has died at the hands of the authorities for trying to make an honest living in an economy destroyed by the same authorities. He will be just another statistic because our lives are cheap?
And people want to play semantics about sanctions, comparing us to American interests in elsewhere? Will you step in & take care of his family? You want to make excuses for this regime that has killed in times of plenty & times of crisis? The sheer audacity! #FixTheFoundation
Is there no self respect for what our lives are worth? Where does this thinking come from that because the powerful have their friends & unfair practices we can allow our people to be oppressed with impunity by a predatory elite? Sort out mess at home first! #RehabilitateZimbabwe
@kubatana @WCOZIMBABWE Societal leadership is at many levels and not restricted to local and national government or political parties. A society decays when the leadership has retrogressive ideas while the rest of the world soars ahead.
Closing the gap is not easy when a generation is trapped in limbo of ideas because of a leadership that is impoverished of mind. Do we become a hernit nation in the middle of an information revolution? #thinkingvote is not an insult. It is a cry for restoration of sanity.
Zimbabwe is in serious danger of retrogressive if the trend of "putting women in their place" continues. Modest dress, limited property rights, election side bets between political rivals - Whatever next? #RehabilitateZimbabwe
The invention of the printing press allowed the masses to read and interpret the Bible for themselves, among other things. Society was the better for it. history.com/news/printing-…
The internet allows Zimbabweans to see what political parties stand for. Visit apazimbabwe.org to see what values you must measure APA against. The APA Way tells you what the foundational core values of APA are. What kind of leadership do you want? #thinkingvote
In this regard, don't let pastors or political leaders think for you. Don't follow party colours or personalities. Read, evaluate & then decide, depending on the future that you want for your country, family & fellow citizens. #RehabilitateZimbabwe Have a good meditative Sunday!
@kennethmtata Governments are elected to govern. Elections are meant to give voters options for next cycle. You don't suspend elections because the elected are failing to govern. If there's a collapse, you go back to the electorate, you don't do deal to suspend the constitution
Have you not learned the lessons from the approval of the coup given by some opposition leaders in the selfish and vain hope for power sharing? "Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar" & leave the nation to constitutionally self-correct. Anything else is more precedence for chaos.
The solution is not to allow the incompetent predatory elite another 7 years of famine when a complete break from the past can bring 7 years of plenty and more. Restore legitimacy via the constitution. #FixTheFoundation #RehabilitateZimbabwe
#MegaDeals Repeatedly lied to. Repeatedly celebrated by our "youth" and women in ZanuPF regalia and yet poverty stalks the masses. Talk to your family & friends. Drop the veil from our eyes. #FixTheFoundation with a massive #ThinkingVote and we will #RehabilitateZimbabwe for all.
The latest CSC deal is yet another example of drip feed wool over the eyes. Ask your friends & family what they think of all these lies. How many mega deals announced to date? Why is country still poor? Who is driving luxury cars? Who has dirty water, no medicine & electricity?
Headlines of mega deals but deadlines from ZESA. Trumpets of open for business but snippets of open for chaos. Shouting by ZanuPF aligned Chiefs but doubting a dissenting Chief. Begging bowl for funding but acquitting corruption cases. Anointed leaders but contaminated water.
