Thread by @OpenParlyZw

#Twimboz we will be following live proceedings of the Sapes Trust 11th Online Policy Dialogue Forum of 2020 dubbed: "The Political economy of Corruption in Zimbabwe." #OpenParlyZw

Tawanda Mutasa: “We do not know what those pictures mean, we can only speculate because of the lack of access to information, we do not know what those pictures mean when we see Scott Sakupanywa with gold buyers.” #OpenParlyZw

Tawanda Mutasa: “A discussion of the political economy of corruption in the context of Zimbabwe cannot be a legal conversation, it is a multifaceted conversation.” #OpenParlyZw

Tawanda Mutasa: “Corruption is an existential threat that we all face.” #OpenParlyZw

Tawanda Mutasa: “The impacts of corruption can be very serious.” #OpenParlyZw

Tawanda Mutasa: “We do know the impact of corruption on health and education.”#OpenParlyZw

Tawanda Mutasa: “We do know the impact of corruption on other services and the environment.”#OpenParlyZw

Tawanda Mutasa: "We have seen how much alluvial diamonds we accessed by chinese companies.” #OpenParlyZw

Tawanda Mutasa: "There wasn't any attempt for local capacity building." #OpenParlyZw

Tawanda Mutasa: “The Chiadzwa diamonds were largely alluvial, and would not have needed that level of collision because there was no mystery in terms of technology on how to extract them.” #OpenParlyZw

Tawanda Mutasa: "Instead of protecting whistle blowers we have seen a phenomenon where whistle blowers like Mduduzi Mathuthu and Hopewell Chin’ono are persecuted for whistle blowing.” #OpenParlyZw

Tawanda Mutasa:“Corruption can destablize the whole economy of a country.”#OpenParlyZw

Khadija Shaife: “ We saw diamond money be used to rig an election” #OpenParlyZw

Khadija Shaife: “Democracy here is very hollow (Africa) #OpenParlyZw

Khadija Shaife: “Democracy is voting for policies deciding how your resources should be extracted." #OpenParlyZw

Khadija Shaife: “The official secrecy act which was inherited from the colonial era says journalists can get jailed for 20 years for recording information in state institutions.” #OpenParlyZw

Godfrey Kanyeze: “We fought a vicious liberation struggle to uproot a colonial system, the argument is that there was no time for democracy but time to align with the leadership.” #OpenParlyZw

Godfrey Kanyeze: “In essence war credentials plays a critical role in who benefits from Zimbabwe's resources.” #OpenParlyZw

Godfrey Kanyeze: “ If we need to address these issues we need to address the rules of the game.” #OpenParlyZw

Godfrey Kanyeze: “What becomes essential is your relation with the state.” #OpenParlyZw

Godfrey Kanyeze:“Essentially we have created a system that is exclusive and highly militarised.” #OpenParlyZw

Godfrey Kanyeze: “The ordinary folks are disempowered and do not have acces to resources” #OpenParlyZw