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Apr 7, 2022 17 tweets 10 min read Read on X
1] Once again, ZanuPF is exposing it's desperation

For this who may be unaware, @daddyhope is currently in Switzerland, at the Geneva Summit for Human Rights & Democracy

@daddyhope delivered a powerful speech on corruption, plunger & human rights abuses, by ZanuPF & its cronies
2] @daddyhope drew parallels between poverty/underdevelopment & corruption.

For instance, Zimbabwean gold worth US $100 m, is smuggled #monthly, at a time where ZanuPF has failed to built a single maternity ward in 42 years, contributing to death of 2500 pregnant women annually
3] Take this into context...

Our biggest hospital is Harare Hospital, after 42 years, it only has 2 maternity theaters (both build in 1977) and only one is working.

To build one maternity theatre, we only need US $37 k.

After 42 years, ZanuPF hasn't build any, at Harare Hosp
4] Currently, all state run public health institutions (hospitals & clinics), don't have a single radio therapy cancer machine, never mind how expensive cancer treatment generally is

A cancer diagnosis is an assured death in Zimbabwe, yet a single machine costs US $ 2million.
5] Whereas we've been socialised to think those costs are high, Zimbabwe is one of the richest country in the world, in terms of minerals

Zanu has failed to provide any development nor social services, yet its well within our national capacity

Where's the minerals money going?
6] @daddyhope's speech also narrated the historic treatment of journalists who report on corruption & human rights abuses, by the State.

Some have their accreditation taken away, some are blacklisted, harassed, arrested, tortured, while others like #ItaiDzamara are abducted.
7] Through his investigative journalists, since his #SaveOurHospitals campaign he launched in 2019, @daddyhope exposed the dire state of our hospitals

Our 6 Central Hospitals only need US $50 mlln, to run efficiently, yet we are losing US $100 mlln monthly, to minerals smuggling
8] Considered this context...

Forget about other sources of revenue (e.g taxes & exports), money being looted annually by ZanuPF through gold smuggling (US$100mlln) , can run all Central Hospitals for 2 years without shortage.

Currently, our hospitals lack gloves & basic pills
9] Truth of the matter is, its well within our capacity, to have a government that effectively runs the country.

Our dire national situation is a consequence of CORRUPTION, before anything else, yet the Mnangagwa ZanuPF government, prefers the unsustainable sanctions mantra.
10] Zimbabwean corruption exposes a web of systematic looting.

Remember who was fingered in the Draxgate scandal?

Who was caught with 6kgs of gold at the airport, enroute to Dubai

Dubai is also where the "step-son" Passion Java always flies to.

Put the dots together.
11] It's also troubling how we've been socialised to celebrate archaic things

At a time where @nelsonchamisa wants us to move to #SmartAgriculture, ZanuPF wants us to prioritise ancient #pvumbudza practises, while ZanuPF leaders get free loans & loot state of the art equipment
12] Where @nelsonchamisa speaks of revolutionising our transport system, ZanuPF wants us to celebrate their monopolised ZUPCO system with rain leaking ancient buses.

60 efficient modern trains cost US $1.2 billion.
The looted US $15 billion from Chiadzwa, would have bought 750
13] At a time where developing countries are modernising the rural space, Mnangagwa is ruralizing our cities.

A whole President in 2022 taking pride in introducing a "PRESIDENTIAL BOREHOLE DRILLING SCHEME" for urban cities, including the country's capital.

It's shameful.
14] Expectedly, Mnangagwa's regime is already reacting to Hopewell's address with their age old ostrich mentality.

They are calling for the speeding up of the draconian #PatroiticAct, to silence those who expose corruption & abuse.

They don't want their deeds to be exposed.
15] Varakashi ghost accounts, (most run by CIOs) are calling for @daddyhope's arrest.

They accuse him of "soiling the country's image"

In our society, families will conceal the raping of a minor by a reactive because it "soils the family image".

That's the mentality of ZanuPF.
16] When you loot, murder citizens, rig elections, etc, you're "soiling the nation's image."

Hopewell isn't the problem!

George R.R. Martin said:
"When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say"
17] Unless we register to vote, decisively vote for @nelsonchamisa & put our country on a recovery path, we are heading nowhere fast

It's nolonger a point of debate, fellow citizens, tirikutungamirirwa nevanhu varikuenda kwatirikubva

Come 2023, tombopinza mukomana,

🟡enkosi!!

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Apr 2
1. Admittedly, when I first read the "structured currency" headline, I thought the Harare regime was taking its "structures" propaganda too far.

With the benefit of more research on the topic, I'm now totally convinced the Harare regime is indeed taking its propaganda too far. Image
2. By definition, a structured currency is "structured" in that it's supposedly backed by both mineral reserves (in our case gold) and trust in government's monetory policies & regulations.

Unfortunately, no one believes any of the two are present in our existing circumstances.
3. Part of why all previous gimmicks have failed is a trust deficit.

Even if the government opts to accuse commentators of being alarmists, causing panick and despondency, no one can be faulted for rushing to withdraw their forex savings if we have learned anything from history.
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Jan 21
1. Imagine trying to make sense of how some 4 gentlemen in Bulawayo can randomly claim, 'we have recalled Amos Chibaya, he has ceased being a member of CCC'.

Outside the influence of social media, many only know about #CCC because of the efforts of this indefatigable organizer. Image
2. Propaganda has to make some sort of sense.

Even where some decide to hide behind the claim of "a traceable history in the struggle," Chibaya would make the mark.

A devoted organizer during the times of Tsvangirai & even more so, during the times of Chamisa under the MDC-A.
3. For the successive elections between 2018-2023, it's a mystery how Chibaya found the passion to abandon the comfort of his home and the herculean energy to traverse the country, organizing the Opp for electoral triumph.

Chibaya is very much unheralded & doesn't seem to care.
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Jan 19
1. So, a group of at least 25 individuals have decided to join nonexistent forces under the otherwise much heralded #NERA banner to push for electoral reforms.

It's difficult to even identify them as political leaders because they don't represent any political constituency. Image
2. If you review the outcome of the controversial 2023 election, these people combined had fewer votes than the Councilors who won your ward election.

Many of them have never even bothered to field candidates in successive elections but only pop up whenever they sense a need.
3. If you were to profile them, there is one Lucia Matibenga, masquerading as PDP President.

Her "party" never contests.
She only temporarily enjoyed limelight under PDP when Sen Mwonzora brought her as his MDC-A partner before they connived to recall MPs elected under Chamisa.
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Dec 14, 2023
1. Interesting comment on this unfolding drama by Prof Ncube.

I, however, can't help recognize the continued conflation of politics & law, which I've previously written about, regarding the formation of CCC party from MDC-A.

It's quite strange that BaNcube does the same here.
2. I take notice of @Welshman_Ncube choice of words here.

He says: MDC-A party's "...National Council resolved to reconstitute itself as CCC..."

By definition, when you "reconstitute," you simply restore or build up again, using remaining parts of whatever has been destroyed.
@Welshman_Ncube 3. However, it was a legal nulity not only for MDC-A to 'reconstitute' itself but to even meet & make legally binding resolutions to begin with.

In 2020, Justice Chitapi ruled that the MDC-A party wasn't a legal persona, effectively meaning it wasn't a legally constituted party.
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Dec 3, 2023
1. Some interesting revelations from the Tshabangu interview by Mhlanga.

It's better to keep people guessing than to come out & publicly expose yourself beyond doubt

On his own admission, he was skeptical about this interview, & he was right.

Agreeing to it was stupid bravery. Image
2. One must applaud Mhlanga for his confrontational approach to interview.

He seldom tolerates long winding responses, unrelated to the asked question(s), in the name of "giving the guest time to respond."

In fact it was his grilling style that saw hats flying in all directions Image
3. There are also a lot of ridiculous contradictions.

Clearly, Tshabangu & his handlers are using the very same "strategic ambiguity" and "structureless structure" approach.

For now, save for a few mentioned names, Tshabangu claims to have the backing of unnamed "42 others."
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Dec 1, 2023
1. We need to accept that we've seen enough to conclude we've no justice system in Zimbabwe.

Perhaps it's time to totally (temporarily) abandon seeking judicial recourse, particularly around political issues

Why continue subjecting ourselves to the wig wearing ZanuPF activists!
2. Let me rationalize this personal view:

Firstly, we are simply patronizing the generality of the citizens by arguing that going to these "captured courts" is an important academic exercise that exposes judicial capture.

What has been the consequence of exposing this capture?
3. ZanuPF's reaction to the damning SADC Observer Mission report is evidence enough that they don't react to "embarrassment" by showing restraint.

ZanuPF chose rather to burn SADC through an unprecedented propaganda offensive and direct confrontation with the Zambia government.
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