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Jan 26 6 tweets 1 min read
1. Dear Zim, healing a genocide entails very uncomfortable conversations. Some of us only tell in part because telling the stories will retraumatize those we know. However, when we say some things, they are only a tip of the iceberg. There are mountains of trauma wc are hidden
2. To build relationships that last, we must sit through these sessions which are akin to a visit to the dentist without anesthesia. If you are not yet prepared to have these conversations, steer clear and observe, lest you cause harm and fray relationships.
3. Develop the ability to listen, thank God for those who speak out, those who provoke you to think harder, at least they have spoken. Some will not speak but act, those are the ones I fear because they have given up on Zimbabwe.
4. They do not believe that Gukurahundi is an issue that will be solved by engagement anymore. When we come here with issues to provoke thought and reflection, engage with civility. Some will see your responses to us who have thicker skins and they will form their impressions.
5. Remember, you are not only responding to us, you are responding to them as well. Let us learn to navigate difficult issues for the sole purpose of understanding each other.
6. If we fail, or if we who engage give up, the vacant space will be taken up by those without the patience and calmness to listen. The result will be a net loss for all of us.

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Jan 25
1. There was a guy who I used to see at this other place where we played pool/billiards. He was always smartly dressed and definitely looked like he was in the money.
2. Those who were closer to him said he had one business: ZESA tenders 🤣. Even if you came with a different business idea or deal he would simply remark "haa imboitai imimi mozondiudza", he only did ZESA tenders.
3. He had someone on the inside who would consistently give him tenders. That's all he came into the CBD for, he's get to the CBD park and play pool whilst waiting for the call. That was his life. ZESA tenders nothing else.
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Jan 23
1. Newsflash!
Guys, I have people I know, in 2022, who can't stand Shona. Not because they hate Shona people, but the way the language was abused by 5th Brigade as a tool of demeaning them and victimizing them they struggle. 40 yrs after they are still affected.
2. Remember this, as adults, we spend all our lives getting over what happened in early childhood. Speak to anyone today, ask them the reason for their pain and behavior, early childhood is enduring in its impact.
3. Imagine, your parent being raped and killed and you are forced to sing and dance in a specific language that you don't know. I know friends in SA, who don't want to speak Afrikaans because of the manner in which they were victimized and how the language was forced on them.
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Jan 22
1. Tsitsitsi 😂. Gentrumen, all your mineral resources are priced by organizations outside the African continent. You can't even sell each other oil for fuel, you don't even have a continental research entity to build the Africa that you want.
2. You all fund secret spies to track activists abroad and where possible kill them but fail to send those spies to learn about how pretty nations have succeeded. When the globe looks at you, they see that all some of you want is to be called President.
3. So they will help you oppress your own whilst they get what they want. You'll use money given to you by them to entrench cults of personality and not cults of development because your goals are all local. You don't threaten the global order in any way.
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1. The humbling thing about leaving ZImbabwe, is that you move from having Elders who have invented nothing and are not globally relevant but want you to lick their entire bodies to talking to the pioneers of your field who insist that you call them with their first names😩
2. Imagine, talking the person who literally made the most important findings in your field and they want nothing from you apart from giving you all the skills and attention to make you great! You are not seen as competition but as a branch on a big tree, to bear more fruit.
3. I once spoke to this other big person, they have more than 300 published papers, and they thought that I was a great fit for one of the projects they were doing. Never did they try to remind me how big they were, it was as if I was the big person 🤣...the issue was about me!
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1. My greatest fear, is that we have been under the rulership of a single party that is inept, corrupt and cruel. It is like being born during a war, you grow up knowing nothing else but war. The scarcity mindset sets in and becomes default for a generation.
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1. Zanu-PF is an equal opportunity abuser.
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2. Joyce Mujuru was at the Zenith of her powers when she was elected VP, she was a powerful politician within Zanu PF, with a storied liberation history she had all the credentials. But when she fell on one faction, she became public enemy and was abused and booted out.
3. Savior Kasukuwere was notoriously violent and murderous with eye witnesses placing him at scenes where people were killed and he l
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