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1/ Good morning good people. Like I promised yesterday, I am going to start weekly threads of housekeeping starting today with 2016-17, thereafter I hope we will all have insight & understand how the peoples struggle was compromised & hijacked before the mission was accomplished.
2/ Prior to the situation reaching another level, I bumped into 3 fellow activists @begottensun @PastorEvanLive @StenZvorwadza
at Sopranos Avondale whilst I was going about my business with Lynnette Mudehwe and they were confident that Mugabe's time was up.
3/ They were busy mobilising civic society &finding strategies to get people to march for the removal of Mugabe from Office. The previous year in 2016, we had tried to do a people driven #MunhuWeseMuRoad which was funded by Zimbabweans in the diaspora &unfortunately it flopped...
4/...because some activists who were receiving the funds, misappropriated them, MDC hijacked the plans and sent out messages to people not to join the march in 2016 because it wasnt organized by them. If it wasn't organized by them it had to flop, the trajectory continues.
5/ Some activists from the MDC used to attend our planning meetings of #MunhuWeseMuRoad2016 and take the information to Harvest House where they would use our plans to make sure they disrupt everything as they would end up vakanyika. There was a popular statement then, ...
6/..."mukavasiya vachidemonstatrater vakabudirira tinokanyika, vanoenda nechimuti"
The long & short of it is the people driven #MunhuWeseMuRoad2016 flopped because Promise, Denford, Bvondo, etc sent conflicting messages to people saying the demo had been cancelled whilst the...
7/...Bvondos of this world were on the forefront of instructing all MDC members not to join the demonstration as MDC was planning it's very own and didnt want to be associated with zvinhu zve maactivists. There after, everything they have planned either flopped or had casualties
8/ That is the time when the struggle started eating it's own members, during that time I learnt that some politicians within the MDC were responsible for my arrests with their allies in Zanupf, they thought I was gaining too much mileage & for them I had to get out of the way...
9/...and they would run left, right and centre with begging bowls claiming that they wanted to assist my family which was suffering. Some of those funds never reached my family and neither did I receive some of the so called funds.
10/ The struggle had been commercialized some got rich overnight, drove fancy cars & some started moving around with body guards. MDCT stopped a peoples march in 2016 to participate in a coup not a coup march in 2017 because they had been promised a GNU which never was.
11/ Rewind to the Sopranos meetings, these meetings became a daily affair, my good brother Acie was now running with the #FreshStart & he was gaining momentum everything he said came to pass the following day, oh yes he did a good job, civic society started mobilising their...
12/...grassroots support to march so that Mugabe will be removed from power, MDC was busy mobilising their support base to attend the March & money was exchanging hands every second & all activists, civic society & most opposition politics were in cloud 9 during the preps of...
13/...#MunhuWeseMuRoad2017

I was one person who was against the removal of Mugabe from power unconstitutionally, I wasnt involved in the organization of the marches or speeches whatever you call it. I received two calls the night before 18 November 2017.
14/ One from my brother @begottensun convincing me to be part of the March & another from an unknown caller who informed me that if I dont join the march tomorrow &make a speech like other activists at Gwanzura stadium fate was going to find me.
15/ That was the most difficult night in my life. I was being made to support what I didnt want to.

I desperately wanted Mugabe to step down from power but I find subscribe to the method that was being used. There I was again, me against everyone.
16/ In the morning I made a resolution that I wasn't going to do a speech but was going to march and protect myself and family.

Here comes the whole point of this thread, 2016-2017, the so called radical & seasoned activists were running their own agenda and...
17/...were being funded to do so whilst using the innocent ones like myself who were passionate about the struggle, who wanted real tangible change. I resigned from tajamuka, when I realized that they were being funded by some members of the very same system we were trying...
18/...to fight when they started having demonstrations against one side of the factions of zanupf members yet the very same people today namecall other people zanupf agents, cios, etc
19/ Murisi & Charlton are regular visitors at number 2s farm since 2017, even saw them quarrelliing over funds & whisky at holiday inn car park, the who's who in the MDCA have meetings at 17th floor crown plaza with who's who in Zanupf since 2017 yet they come out here and...
20/... try to agitate people that they are enemies. MDCT of 2017 helped usher in @edmnangagwa into power. They had meetings and agreed on a lot of things. They even attended the 2017 inauguration and happily congratulated the new president. What happened then?
21/ The MDC donors/funders were not happy with the arrangement, they had to revert to antagonism, there were too many disgruntled people from the fallen g40, the west and plan B was to press harder on economic sabotage until Zimbabwe bleeds.
22/ Then we got into the dira jecha mantra. It is not the politicians that suffer from antagonism. It is the ordinary Zimbabweans. It's time to stop the pretence, stop the hypocrisy, stop the lies & find each other again the way you found each other in 2017.
23/ Even the Ostalloses of this world were running around UZ in 2017 pushing for the ouster of the vice chancellor vachidya bag remusangano. Today they want to tell us they are revolutionary kikkk saka zvako mwana waJoseph iwe. I could dig deeper into the actual events of 2017
24/ Zimbabweans have suffered enough. If anyone's quest for power is to transform Zimbabwe surely there is no need to keep on fighting, kurakasha, kudira jecha, etc. Let power contestation happen in electoral years and in between time let us work together to save Zimbabwe.
25/ My clarion call to Mr Mnangagwa, Mr Chamisa and Ms Khupe is that, stop messing with the peoples minds. We all need each other. If you once worked together, what is the problem today? You worked together in the GNU, you mobilized for the 2017 munhuwesemuroad. #OneZimbawe
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