1. It’s most unfortunate that a young lad whose only qualification to office is his father’s name has taken to desecrating the same name by dragging and abusing his late father’s name and shamelessly lying about him to prop up a limping & politically bankrupt entity.
2. But what is more unfortunate is that he is a front for Senator @DMwonzora who lacks the cojones to publicly respond to the BSR in his name. He will do so by abusing the name of Morgan Tsvangirai, whom they won’t let rest in peace or writing diatribes under pseudonyms.
3. But what is worse is the duplicity of writing private communications pleading peace and brotherhood on the one hand, while writing public diatribes, through surrogates like the young lad or pseudonyms. But that is the kind of duplicity that is now a trademark.
4. But the people of Glen View, who out of respect, followed the name now know it was a stray. They will revise their opinion and read the last rites for what is set to be a short-lived parliamentary career which was earned by dint of name, not by deed, substance or quality.
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1. In 2016, when Morgan Tsvangirai appointed 2 Vice Presidents they placed a tortoise on a lamppost to challenge him. That metaphorical tortoise was Patson Murimoga. His case was thrown out by the High Court on a technicality & they lay low. They were fighting him while with him.
2. Afterwards, an aggrieved Thokozani Khupe sulked and stopped attending meetings and events. She was unhappy with Tsvangirai’s decision, but had no guts to challenge him openly while he lived. The relationship was frosty even as Tsvangirai was on his deathbed.
3. Even in death, when he was no longer able to defend himself, they still went after Tsvangirai. They put another tortoise on a lamppost, this time it was one Elias Mashavira to challenge Tsvangirai’s 2016 decision and do what the first tortoise had failed to do.
1. Look at this statement by the MDC-T: “We are cognisant that since attainment of independence in 1980 a number of local government reforms have been incrementally instituted with a view to ensure improved service delivery” The depths to which this lot will sink know no bounds.
2. How can a sane opposition party, which claims to control local government since 2000 make such a blatantly false claim? Mudzuri their VP was emasculated when he was Executive Mayor of Harare. And yet the party claims the government made reforms to improve service delivery!
3. Analysis of the legislative framework shows that local authorities are bound hand and foot to the central government through the Ministry of Local Government. The experience of the MDC councils under Tsvangirai is public knowledge. Yet these guys claim there have been reforms!
1. For a former nurse, Secretary Mangwana displays pedestrian thinking. He & his chums were openly violating COVID-19 rules as if they were special. They were holding useless meetings & parties. Now he’s peddling conspiracy theories & looking for scapegoats among doctors & nurses
2. This is a reminder to self-proclaimed moralists who were busy lecturing citizens about ubuntuism. A friend often says, “ZANU haichinji”. Here is the regime spokesman, living up to its high standards & upholding the values of ubuntuism by accusing medics of conspiracy & murder
3. The regime always tells opposition people to go to the police whenever they allege criminal acts against them by its agents. Well, Secretary Mangwana should take a dose of that prescription and proceed to @PoliceZimbabwe to report the crimes. Twitter is not a police station.
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.
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.
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