1. The absurdity of the #Murehwa violence is that it's actually senior citizens, who have experienced the Smith era; Mugabe era; & now the Mnangagwa era,- who want change & a better Zimbabwe.
Tragically, it's young people who are butchering them, & want the status qou to remain.
2. I've been replaying the video to try and capture some details about the victims.
Here's what I picked up:
i. Mrs Nyaradzai- 48 years
ii. Mr F Dongo- 75 years
iii. Mrs C Mutezo- 62 years
iv. Mrs T Dongo- 60 years
v. Mr Morris - 73 years
The 2 Dongos are possibly a couple
3. How do you even begin to comprehend the frustration of senior citizens who experienced the indignity of colonization, now being humiliated by excitable party thugs?
Does power mean so much to ZanuPF, that they're willing to humiliate & traumatize our parents like that?
4. Odds are, many of the senior citizens who are supporting the Opposition, do so on the hope that the country can be functional, to the benefit of the youths & future generations.
Alas, it's those who stand to benefit, mercilessly butchering them.
Someone make that make sense!
5. And for ZanuPF, how do you cut off a man’s lie, and then accuse him of lying?
If ZanuPF is popular in the rural areas, why not allow CCC to conduct its political business without interruption?
Why are you this fearful of a "disorganized, structureless & ideology-less" party?
6. How does ZanuPF continue to masquerade as a "liberation party" when it is eroding the very gains of independence?
Colonization was fought in search of dignity, liberty, freedom, & self determination.
Tragically, ZanuPF, for 43+ years, has become a threat to all this.
7. Clearly, senior citizens have become alive to this reality that the country needs a change of guard.
That we simply can't carry on like this, on a road to nowhere.
Bizarrely, it's my generation that is being used to try and maintain the disfunctional status qou.
8. The more I watch the video, I'm reminded of a view I've long held.
Whereas it's true that millions of young people are key to an Opposition win, that "truth" shouldn't be based on a thinking that older citizens support ZanuPF.
Clearly, many are desperate 2b agents of change.
9. While we conscientize young people on the importance of voting for change, our parents & senior citizens should equally be mobilized for change
It is them who have experienced ZanuPF's misgovernance for the longest.
2. Sadly, neither the callous attack on defenseless senior citizens, and the recording of these visuals is random.
It's a deliberate political cultivation of fear, particularly in the countryside.
Citizens are being deliberately warned against engaging in Opposition politics.
3. The problem we face as a country, is that neither the perpetrators & masterminds of political violence have faced justice.
Since independence itself, we have just shifted from one ugly episode of political violence to another, pursued fake "reconciliation" without any justice
1. Fellow citizens, I've been tagged to a lot of questions around the delimitation reports, and the challenges it poses for the 2023 election.
Like others, I've been trying to both have an individual appreciation of the report, & study the technical reaction of actual experts.
2. As both unfold, let's admit that ZanuPF can never be expected to protect the political interest of the Opposition, and vice versa.
The key battle is lost, once ZEC, a functionary of ZanuPF, is treated as a trustworthy executioner of its otherwise constitutional duties.
3. As experts sink teeth into the preliminary delimitation report, many issues are of concern.
For instance, ZEC remains mum on the electronic voters roll.
It's thus difficult to review an outcome, when the key template for the process is a guarded secret.
1. It would be a travesty of history, to "commemorate" 🇿🇼's #UnityDay, without chronicling what that day means.
By & large, it's a stark reminder of the violent DNA of the Zanu party, & their persisting thirst for uncontested political dominance, that continues to spill blood.
2. #UnityDay came about, when Mugabe & his allies, shifted from the use of brutal force (Gukurahundi) to the use of dialogue (Unity accord), to institute their envisioned one party state.
Today should actually be a day of introspection & national mourning, and not celebration.
3. Post the inaugural post-independence election, Zanu instituted a politically motivated genocide, on Matebeleland & Midland regions, as punishment for supporting the Nkomo led Zapu.
Tragically, the untold consequences of the Zanu Gukurahundi evilness is yet to be fully told.
2. It's only a ruling party that can abuse state tools, to institute a 'one party state'.
The best an Opposition party can do, is appeal significantly to the voters, thus acquire massive citizens' support, to the detriment of its competitors.
Everything else is whataboutism.
3. It's only those with a naive appreciation of our political dynamics, who can claim that one Opposition is closing space for their own activities.
They sheepishly think hijacking pro-state propaganda against the main Opp, will transfer It's support to their own projects.
1. A few days ago, @MbalulaFikile was interviewed on @eNCA where he spoke about how some @MYANC elders were concerned by some of his 'weak character traits'.
On his own admission, part of that trait, is his unproductive youthful exuberance, which makes him act/speak prematurely.
2. No measured individual, let alone SG of the oldest political party in the region, goes on air & says "we don't subscribe to regime change in Zimbabwe."
In doing so, @MbalulaFikile is bastardizing our constitution which envisioned "regime change", through national elections.
3. "Regime change" is a function of democracy.
Its embarrassing that @MbalulaFikile accuses the "British & Americans" of wanting regime change, & ANC of disapproving "regime change", when both would mean undue political interference.