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1/ Zvekumhepo zvinochengetwa nevari kumhepo, zvemumvura zvinochengetwa nevari mumvura uye zvemuvhu zvinochengetwa nevari muvhu. @ZANUPF_Official doomsday is nigh, mineral resources & land that belongs to the native Zimbabwean mapedza kupa maChinese nemaRussians. #Chimurenga3
2/ Youths of this generation you are sleeping on laurels, one day you will wake up & be strangers in your own country. It is not surprising that our country is being mortgaged slowly. Why do we need unending loans when we have vast mineral resources? #MindaKumaYouthOse
3/ We recognize the significance of the liberation struggle & the contributions of the war veterans who waged it. I'm not ignorant of the reasons that drove many gallant sons & daughters of the soil to fight exclusion, oppression & repression to ensure a free sovereign state.
#GreatZimbabwe was one of Africa’s ancient empires. Construction began in 11th century and continued until15th century. Edifices erected by ancestral Shona. Served as a royal palace for the local monarch and thus seat of political power.
Edifice's walls, some were over 15 ft high, were constructed of dry stone (without mortar – like the pyramids of Egypt). To this day, stone sculpture remains an edifying skills of Shona with sculptures displayed in some American airports. Take a look bit.ly/3fXYhap
Great Zimbabwe (GZ) was enmeshed in controversy for some time. Europeans questioned if “backward and primitive” Africans were capable of constructing it. Gov’t of Rhodesia put pressure on archaeologists to deny it was constructed by native Africans but by Arabs
