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We have all watched the way that Donald Trump deals with hecklers at his rallies. Watch how a President with class and dignity deals with them.
"... these guys don't need to go"
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Kuda Tagwireyi has become the most dangerous man in Zimbabwe.
Having brazenly acquired billions of dollars though crass and gross pillaging of public assets and resources he has set his eyes on the highest political office in the land .
His hubris arrogance and ego thinks that he can commodify political power in Zimbabwe on the same matrix he has sat in his soiled boardroom plotting tenders ,schemes or scams.
He will learn soon learn that buying off ZANU PF is not the same as getting into bed with Trafigura and acquiring rights over the Beira pipe line .
That dealing with war vets is not the same as scamming off the National Social Security Authority ( NASSA) to acquire its shares in First Mutual Life.
He will learn soon that the occupancy of 1 Chancelleor Lane Borrowdale can not be done with the ease he acquired USD 1.9 billion Treasury Bill for his 35 % equity in Kuvimba Mining .
This criminal element can not get away with paying millions to divert public sentiment against CAB 3 .
He can not be allowed to continue doling out millions of dollars to buy his way into public spaces .
GD sixes can never be the bridge to State House .
Those backing him , those who have fast trekked his elevation into the ZANU Central Committee, the Senate , Cabinet and the ZANU politburo must know that Zimbabwe is a not a private limited company .
Neither them , their ancestors or mistresses have title deeds to Zimbabwe.
They have no right to play poker with Zimbabwe institutions and public offices .
They have no right to push Zimbabwe to the brink .
Our advise to Mr Tagwireyi is simple :
Go back home and play with your children .
This path you have chosen only has one guaranteed unhappy ending .
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THE APPOINTMENT OF KUDAKWASHE TAGWIREI: A NEW LOW FOR THE SECOND REPUBLIC
The shocking appointment of Kudakwashe Tagwirei as Minister of Economic Development is a new low, even by the vacous standards of the self proclaimed Second Republic.
It is breathtaking arrogance and hubris on the part of Mnangagwa .A statement that he is untouchable and oblivious of the national mood and national interest.
We have consistently argued that the center of gravity of this regime is looting extraction and rent . No thing else.
It is this mafia mentality that has driven the 2030 Agenda and is bringing the country to a point of no return through the unrelenting pursuit of the ill fated Constitutional Amendment No. 3.
This appointment of Kuda conflates the the line between power and private enrichment. It is the personification of State Capture. The Gupturisation of the Republic .
THE ARCHBISHOP OF CORRUPTION
Kuda Tagwireyi is the kingpin of massive extraction . His shadow permeats every corridor of looting , from fuel , mines , construction , tenders , banks supermarkets and even churches .
He has an incestous relationship with Treasury , has received more Treasury Bills than anyone . and purely on the basis of conflict of interest can not be a government minister .
Tagwirei was a major beneficiary of Command Agriculture.
The Public Accounts Committee I chaired investigated his companies 2015-2018. We found over US$1 billion received, mostly in Treasury Bills. We could not find a single bag of maize or fertiliser delivered in return.
Those questions have never been answered.
On 20 Jan 2019 he received a US$360m Treasury Bill. Under SI 33 of 2019 all foreign obligations were converted to local currency. His TB escaped the haircut.
In June/July 2019 he flooded the market with that US dollar Bill and the RTGS collapsed. RBZ froze accounts, IMF raised concerns, then nothing.
He has benefited from numerous other Treasury Bills with no comprehensive account from the Minister of Finance.
Most notorious is the US$1.9bn payment for 35% of shares in Kuvimba Mining when it was placed under the Mutapa Fund.
The US$1.9 TB was paid out without valuations or justification .
This TB like Command Agriculture is a criminal docket on its own .
A VICE-LIKE GRIP ON FUEL
Tagwirei controls Zimbabwe's US$4bn fuel industry.
He was awarded the Dema diesel plant contract and ZESA was forced to buy power at 34 US cents per kWh while Eskom imports were 12 cents. The public paid the difference.
Millions of litres of duty-free diesel for Dema were mdiverted and sold on the market.
Zimbabweans pay some of the highest fuel prices in the region. A large part is levies and rents that ultimately end in Tagwireyi pockets.
A PATTERN THAT DEMANDS INVESTIGATION
He has been linked to land and title deeds, First Mutual Life shares, and shares in two major banks.
These need forensic audits, not political slogans: all TBs, Command Agriculture, Dema, fuel, Kuvimba, Mutapa , Trababalas Interchange. , roads churches .
To then place a criminal like Tagwireyi in a Treasury Ministry represonsible for national coffers is an act of treason. It brings the country into disrepute.
More so when the appointment itself is void Constitutional Amendment No. 3 is contested. Courts must decide. You cannot wish away the Constitution by exercising power.
THE CATTLE THIEF AND THE HERDSMAN
In Gandanzara village there was a notorious cattle thief, Faranisi .He stole goats, cattle, sheep and terrorized villages .
One day headman Zvaendwa of the Nyati totem appointed Faranisi to guard the village cattle.( kuenda kujana)
The village erupted. They went for Nyati and demanded he removes Faranisi.
The cattle thief has been appointed to herd the cattle.
We must not stay silent.
Cry, the beloved country. Cry.
#Zimbabwe #Tagwirei
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Chivayo in ‘ruins’: The anatomy of judgment
The unrestrained violence inflicted on Wicknell at the time of his death was not ordinary. It was brutal, deliberate and devastating. Imagine, he will now be buried without his head as if the fact that his body parts were gathered into garbage bags weren’t gruesome enough. To me, the violence carried the terrible hallmarks of judgment; vicious and absolute. I do not know whose judgment it was. I have my suspicions, but they are ultimately worth very little in the absence of evidence to confirm them.
What it speaks to, however, is unmistakable: one may act with impunity, protected by the power and favour of mortals, but no one escapes accountability forever. Every human being must eventually answer for what they have done. It is not difficult—at least not for me—to understand why Wicknell, otherwise a likeable figure before his vulgar shenanigans with ZANU PF for which he has been pilloried as public enemy number 1, was ultimately called to account.
The lesson is clear: whatever power one acquires, one must never trample upon the aspirations of the poor or mock the suffering of the vulnerable. Their pain is not a spectacle, and their dignity is not yours to diminish. Neither should one pretend that there is no day-light between them and God.
The tragedy, therefore, is not merely the horror of his dismemberment, nor the grim end to which his actions may have contributed. The deeper tragedy is that some people still refuse to see the lesson. Instead, they would rather emotionally blackmail us all, insisting that we suppress our views and deny the sense of closure most feel at what they regard as a deserved end.
The public tumult acknowledges the consequences of a life lived in blasphemy, with pride and impunity and must be understood as such. It reiterates that power does not erase accountability, and that contempt for the poor and the powerless always carries a cost.
In the tumult is the expression of both an expectation and a hope carried in the rhetorical question, So who’s next? Yes, the public yearns for similar judgment on the next obnoxious figure. Don’t be that person.
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It’s not true that Nelson Chamisa is only talking about Chivhayo because he is gone. Here is a video from 7 weeks ago. I am sure Mr Chivhayo was alive 7 weeks ago 🙃
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Winky D delivers a top-tier performance of “Ngirozi” at TÈTE Ä TÈTE Season 2, bringing an extended lineup of backing vocalists beyond his usual band setup . 🔥
The energy. The arrangement. The vocals. The stage presence. Pure greatness!
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Tigati gare gare toyeuchidzana kuti tinongovhuvhutwa nemhepo huye takazhangandira . Batai munhu kana openga
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🔸Murikuti chii? Unlike Mukuru wemaTsotsi, Winky D doesn’t have to buy people’s love by gifting them trinkets or bribing them for affection. People love him as he is.
Furthermore, ane zvinhu zvake. He’s his own man and he’s not begging anybody for anything. This is quite unlike Uyu’s poodles. We respect that. That’s why he’s loved by the people. Haatengeki.
Svotwai as much as you like but that’s the truth.
We need new leaders.🇿🇼
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They are discussing using nuclear weapons on Iran in strategy meetings.
Yes you read that correctly. It’s real. I’m not speculating, I know.
And it’s pure evil.
The last time a nuclear weapon was used was August 6th and 9th of 1945 on two cities in Japan, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, immediately killing 110,000 people, vaporizing people at ground zero, and total deaths reached 214,000 by the end of the year from severe burns and trauma.
But the extreme suffering continued for the Japanese people from radiation sickness, skyrocketing cancer rates, and generational birth defects.
Not to mention wiping out all means of their economy.
And the suffering was so great that all of humanity vowed, “never again.”
Trump and his admin were told by our own intelligence that Iran was no where near creating a nuclear weapon, then Israel said the same line it’s repeated for decades, “Iran is only weeks away.”
So we bombed anyways, killed their leaders and innocent little children in a school, and Iran has controlled the Strait of Hormuz ever since and punished the region for their part in it.
And now our government is the one actually discussing lowering the nuclear threshold in order to use nuclear weapons against Iran even though Trump claims he’s won the war like 40 times and says the U.S. controls the SoH.
Trump promised no more foreign wars, but may actually be the one who delivers a nuclear holocaust that would likely drag the entire world into major conflict, economic depression, and mass human suffering we’ve never seen in our lifetimes and maybe throughout history.
People need to speak out and boldly stop this insanity.
America is not untouchable.
If and when that happens, everyone, and I do mean everyone, will hold ALL of those in leadership right now fully responsible for the rest of human history.
Do not use nuclear weapons and stop this war NOW.
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A South African man was finally spotted working in an office after all the foreigners were gone.
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When I heard about Senator Graham’s death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of Donald Trump. I thought of the time before Donald Trump when he was a brother to Senator John McCain.
A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends. A time when a conservative Republican from South Carolina could say of my father: “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God ever created.”
That is the Senator Graham I will remember today. Not because I have forgotten what came after. Because in that memory there is hope. Hope for a country where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh, and the loss of the people they love.
I will choose to remember the time before Trump. Because I believe in an America after Trump.