We laid Josphat 'Samanyanga' Chiweshe to rest. What a man he was. He was among the guys who stood with me and you can never talk about Mash West without mentioning Chiweshe.
Paying last respects!
People like Josphat did so much for @ZANUPF_Official but he passed away with very little to show for it. It's painful.
I have always believed in being part of the people. This is what we must do as a people. It doesn't come with instructions but your heart tells you. I believe in leading like this.
Josphat lying peacefully. This is how bad it is that even provincial leaders were not there. Chiyangwa, Paradza, many others were not present. They could have pushed for a Provincial Hero status. It must be a lesson to leaders. That's why I say don't fight because of politics.
Politic parties won't be there to bury you. Let's respect each other and live well. Don't allow politicians to put hate in your heart.
Condolences to the mother, anaMadhuve. Feel sad for mothers. It's painful what they go through.
Some of the Top Six guys there. Missing is Sikanyika and the late Josphat. No matter what people say these are people who love their party. Unfortunately at times the party leads you to do wrong things.
The new kids on the block with the old horses, Top 6 and Top 7. They are the stalwarts for @ZANUPF_Official in Mash West. Here I'm raising the socialist symbol, the left hand fist.
With Mambo Chiweshe. He is Josphat's father. He came from royal family. It's important that no matter who we are we should always respect our ubuntu and follow our culture and heritage.
Could not end the day without singing my Whisiri, Methodist of Zimbabwe song.
Putting stones and making sure it's proper. They are a great community here, Chief Chiweshe's people. Shows no matter what you do never be enemies as family because of politics.
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All this infrastructure that government is doing isn't it its mandatory work? It's unusual when a father is constantly calling his children, blowing his trumpet when he buys them bread, relish, milk etc. It gets you to ask what is his role then.
You can't be expected to say well done to your father for simply doing what he is mandated to do. In fact, it's an indictment of our poor standards that people expect to be praised for merely doing their jobs. If we get a culture of everyone doing their job then we will be good.
The sonorous insistence to derive praise for mandatory duties is disturbing, not because the works are bad they are good, but because it's tantamount to not understanding your role. These are box-ticking projects. Let's raise standards& aim beyond achieving basics.
This has become the order of the day. That's why I have said our system is being let down by the Prosecutor General's Office. We then end up accusing the Judiciary of being corrupt when the cases are actually weak. All these high profile cases have gone to nothing.
We might as well bring dzana Mai Mupfumira to an end. The arresting officers are given instructions. It's like all these cases of the black market dealers, it's all noise it will come to nothing.
That is why I have challenged all by showing these companies using the black market. That is the reality but the Gvt refuses to recognise that. The rate will not go down, if there is anything it will go up. People will keep on trading.
It was interesting to hear a lawyer ask, where does the law say you are wrong to sell money on the parallel market. Where does the law say you cannot sell money on the streets? It's their money let them do as they want. The shops are there that are using parallel market rates.
The Spars, OK, Innscor, TM& many others. Why are you not arresting them? The evidence is there. Is it because there is nothing illegal. Why is it we are targeting the wrong people, the small boys? The actual big boys impacting the economy are there& we are not arresting them,why?
Can the lawyers help here on the law around this issue. We create unnecessary headlines and panic. Why is the Gvt paying people doing roads using the parallel market rate? The Chinese are being paid in RTGs yet they don't need it in China. Where do you think they are taking it?
She is spot on&fearless. Thats what I like about women in positions of authority. Just that the system doesn't support what they stand for. The whistle blowers protection legislation is needed. It's so important. It has been talked about for too long. newsday.co.zw/2021/09/graft-…
Without it, it's difficult to fight corruption. The Gvt realises that people are judging it on how they go about dealing with corruption cases of big wigs not these small money changers. There are people who plundered funds which have not gone to the fiscus..
..there is the Auditor General's reports. The recommendations have never been followed through even by ZRP. Am glad @ZACConline is on it. So work of Parliament can only be complete when recommendations of Portfolio Committees are implemented timeously.
Surely do we really have anything left for our people after this. Where is @EMAeep in all this? There are houses there, cattle also and they are still blasting. How do we allow our country to go to the dogs like this? This is deplorable and shameful.
In SA they are celebrating Heritage Day today and here this is what is happening to our people. Ahh kana tisina simba then Mwari nevadzimu venyika vachapindira. If we are powerless as a people in the face of this then the ancestors of this country will rise up and defend us.
It's a shame, an utter shame that our people are treated like this. If the ancestors could reclaim this country from the Rhodesians then they will claim it again from the people they gave it to and allowing this.
The acute polarisation in the country has resulted in people who hate @ZANUPF_Official refusing to partake in national programs. Others have lost out on the Land Reform, Indigenisation or National Housing programs. Just because of the name of the party.
The hate has even become personal, hating people in the party. You extend your hate to someone who has done nothing wrong. Unonzwa nyota makumbo ari mumvura because of hate. We need to grow. Our level of hate is just too much. @ZANUPF_Official or @mdczimbabwe are just names.
Why extend the hate to individuals to a point that you refuse to benefit or even attend one's funeral? Excessive fear of being branded sellout and castigated by your party? We have lost our ubuntu as a country. We should have political diversity, which is real democracy.