1)The intolerance among Zim politicians & quasi- political activists is what is wrong with Zim that we need to fix.Artists shld be left to do their art, be hired by anyone for performances. I have seen Alan Chimbetu & others performing at both Zanu-PF& MDC functions, that's how
2) it shld be.We have to build a society with high levels of tolerance, pple shld exercise their freedom of association unhindered.I don't believe we all shld see things with one eye.Politicians shld market their programs on their own, seek endorsements from those 2whom they wld
3) have successfully sold their programs. No artist,or ordinary citizen shld be commandeered to like or hate anyone on behalf of politicians failing to sell their programs. I don't believe in ED & his military junta & I don't believe his junta-PF can turn-around our country
4) but I don't believe I have a right to force anyone to see things the way I do. I will continue working to win the hearts of Zimbabweans to see sense in my programs BUT will not force artists to run with my arguments or attack them for not doing so. That's not how we entrench
5) democracy as a country. I believe all of us have a right to hold different opinions and our artists should enjoy freedom that comes with poetic licence. How we make meanings of their lyrics shld never be used as an instrument to attack them because those are our opinions, not
6) necessarily theirs. Let's build a Zimbabwe where we have tolerance, a society in which the voice of the least among us is invaluable, a home in which the ideas of those we think are better than us are considered, a country where our collective is better than our indiv efforts.
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1)Biggest problem was to snub a communications expert,a Zimbo based in UK, who had offered to help him with the interview.The guy applied for leave from work & waited all day at a place they had agreed to meet but NC & team were no longer picking his calls until after interview
2) The expert was helping pro bono yet they snubbed him. He wanted to give them an overview of the media industry in UK,the public perception about the coup in Zim & which media orgs to address & which salient issues they were supposed to push including how to handle Suckur & BBC
3) Unfortunately NC & team snubbed the guy, a long time MDC member, who, I can tell you, is one of the best media brains I have encountered. I was in the same class with the guy at UZ, he is brilliant. But it's not only NC who snubbed his expertise, Mai Mujuru's team
1)I have seen a lot of msgs from junta apologists in Zim calling for the removal of sanctions. The most interesting thing is the insinuation that if these targeted sanctions are removed off the necks officials running the military regime here, immediately, Zim will be a paradise
2) Folks, do u think if those sanctions are removed, Zimbabweans will be free to demonstrate without Idhii & Gen Racto sending soldiers to murder them with AK47s? Do we believe if sanctions are removed, the looting of our diamonds, gold, platinum, chrome by Idhii & his cabal will
3) stop? Are we foolishly optimistic that the moment sanctions are removed, electoral theft will stop? Do Zimbabweans believe after removal of sanctions, ZBC will become a truly public broadcaster & afford every Zimbabwean a voice? Are we so gullible to believe that the day
1) SADC is expected to tighten screws on ED & his Junta-PF regime after SADC Chairperson, Malawian President, Lazarus Chakwera, cut short his state visit to Zimbabwe amid reports, from Malawi, suggesting that ED was unhappy with the message Chakwera was carrying, that the region
2) was growing worried with ED's increasingly despotic rule & gross abuse of human rights. There were 3 unusual things coming out of Chakwera's state visit to Zimbabwe. The first was his cutting short of the scheduled two-day state visit.The second was Chikwera's diplomatically
3) unprecedented move to invite Zimbabweans of Malawian descent, some who have never set foot in Malawi, to come back to Malawi where his government promised them dual citizenship, a move perceived as an indictment to his host & his governance. In short, Chakwera just told
1)SADC journalists have written to Pres @CyrilRamaphosa imploring him, as AU chairman, to ensure President, @edmnangagwa & Zimbabwe, appear before the African Court on Human & Peoples' Rights for human rights violations, specifically on account of the abduction of Tawanda
2) Muchehiwa @TeeMuchehiwa & the continued incarceration of @daddyhope. They wrote : "* We will support the launch of a matter on the trials and tribulations of the journalists and writers in Zimbabwe, in the The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights."
3) They also pleaded with Pres @CyrilRamaphosa to
"* ensure the release of all journalists & writers held in Zimbabwe" & to "* hold Zimbabwe accountable at the AU for the agreements that they have ratified regarding human rights, but honour only in the breach."
1) Junta-PF & @edmnangagwa are compensating former white farmers, mostly of British extraction, for the role Britain played in "Operation Quartz 2.0" (Nov 2017 Coup).The British were not only coup planners as shown by the @CatrionaLang1 Blacks Club meeting on Dec 22 2017 but also
2) shown by the fact that they were the first ones on the crime scene to cover up their tracks. Britain first sent its envoy @RoryStewartUK, the first western govt official to visit Zim, after the coup, for @edmnangagwa inuguaration after the coup then @hbaldwin immediately
3) after. @MinisterSBMoyo & Patrick Chinamasa, the uncouth & militant Zanu-PF acting spokesperson, were also immediately summoned to Britain where they were promised Commonwealth readmission if they behaved like good puppets, possibly by reversing the land reform.
1) The tribal diatribe by Monica Mutsvangwa aimed at Archbishop Robert Ndlovu is unacceptable hate speech that should be condemned by every right-thinking Zimbabwean. The statement made by the Catholic Bishops did not communicate a personal position by Archbishop Ndlovu
2) but a collective concern by Catholic Bishops as shown by the number who signed the statement. How a whole government spokesperson turned it into a personal letter warranting a tribilised, hate-filled & savage attack on the person of Archbishop Ndlovu is astonishing & betrays a
3) divisive & tribal regime whose modus operandi is rooted in fanning tribalism & labeling to justify attacks on perceived enemies. I went thru the statement & saw the concern by the Bishops for national cohesion, peace & stability built on the ability to speak truth among