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Alex T Magaisa 🇿🇼

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21 Jan

1. Mutongi Gava is a song based on a folk tale where the jackal finds a man and a leopard in a vicious argument because the leopard wants to eat the man. But it was the man who, out of misguided kindness, has helped the leopard out of the trap.

2. Leopard had pleaded with the man to be helped out of his predicament. The man was doubtful but eventually he gave in. However, as soon as the leopard got out, he went after the man. He was, after all, very hungry after days caught up in that trap!

3. The man was shocked and asked leopard for arbitration. Several animals that came by didn’t care. “Dyiwa uri nyama iwe!” said the cow has she reminded the man how he milks her and slaughters cows when he wants meat. They had no sympathy at all for him.

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Alex T Magaisa 🇿🇼

@Wamagaisa

19 Jan

Groupthink - a thread

1. Imagine where you are in a group & someone asks what is 3 + 3? You know the answer is 6. But everyone in the group says it’s 7. You know they are wrong, but you go along with them anyway. You’re doing something that’s wrong for the sake of conformity.

2. If you are in that situation, and many of us have been in such situations, you are a victim of Groupthink. This is a way of thinking whereby an individual member of a group sacrifices his viewpoint in favour of what he/she perceives to be the consensus of the group.

3. The theory was first coined by social psychologist, Irving Janis in 1972. It helps to examine why even intelligent people in a group end up making wrong, even calamitous decisions when they knew or should have known better. They put aside their beliefs, in favour of the group.

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Alex T Magaisa 🇿🇼

@Wamagaisa

18 Jan

@MKomichi

1. Senator @MKomichi my attention has been drawn to your public post below. We have worked together well in the past, so the respect is mutual. However, I have to say it has been much diminished by your conduct last year when you joined in the subversion of the people’s will.

2. The arrogance and pleasure with which you & your chums wielded the axe against fellow MPs & councillors was a most horrendous & disagreeable sight. A man does not urinate on the heads of people & then ask them why they are unhappy with him. It was you who threw stones first.

3. Therefore, Senator, with great respect, you’re not in a position to take the moral high ground as you’re trying to do; playing the humble servant when there’s utter carnage behind you. You should look those people - voters, MPs, councillors - in the eye & at least apologise

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Alex T Magaisa 🇿🇼

@Wamagaisa

16 Jan

1. If it hasn’t dawned on the regime, then its security apparatus is sleeping on the wheel. The pandemic is a national security risk. Instead of pursuing coercion against political opponents, the regime should be prioritising the COVID19 defence strategy.

2. Last year, a colleague said the pandemic has the potential to cause a fundamental rearrangement of the political landscape. At the time, the risk seemed low. The regime & everyone went about their business as if it wasn’t a big problem. Not anymore.

3. Some in the regime defied the very laws they had crafted, part of the arrogance that comes with too much power. They even held parties. But even as they applied the law selectively against the poor, they forgot that this pandemic does not discriminate based on power or wealth.

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Alex T Magaisa 🇿🇼

@Wamagaisa

12 Jan

1. Looming Chitungwiza Demolitions & the Hand of ZANU PF

There are two types of pandemics in Zimbabwe: the COVID19 pandemic & authoritarianism. I have written before about the structure of governance in local authorities & how ZANU PF has Power but takes no Responsibility.

2. Information at hand reveals plans for demolitions in Chitungwiza in the middle of the COVID19 pandemic. This letter dated 12/01/21 on demolitions is from the Director of Works to the Acting Town Clerk. These are ministerial appointees. The CSO is the Chief Security Officer.

3. For the source of all power you have to go to the office of the Minister of Local Government. Minister July Moyo tells the Mayor what to do, including to reverse a council resolution & to supply a list of properties for demolition. I told you the Minister has all the power.

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Alex T Magaisa 🇿🇼

@Wamagaisa

9 Jan

@HeraldZimbabwe

1. Today, the regime’s propaganda machine @HeraldZimbabwe published a story with a picture of celebrated human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa. But this wasn’t the Beatrice Mutetwa who is a senior government official. Technically, the paper published a falsehood. Any charge? No

2. It was either an error or mischief. If it was an error, these things happen in journalism. Sometimes you just get things wrong, however careful you might be. It’s not a crime. The irony is that the regime is persecuting Hopewell Chin’ono & Job Sikhala for alleged falsehoods.

3. They posted a story which scores if not 100s posted because they genuinely believed it was true. It turned out it wasn’t. The Herald also published a falsehood. Even if they changed the picture, they had done what Job & Hopewell had done. But no one is arresting the editors.

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