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CAB3 is nothing; in fact, it is child’s play. The real danger is CAB4, CAB5 and 6; a calculated pathway to capture, entrenchment and the quiet birth of a new political dynasty. Never allow this carmel to put its head in through CAB3. They are testing the waters. Tinoparara.
Do you really think if Tagwirei takes over from an 86 year old Mnangagwa he will only do 14 years and thereafter gracefully retire to Shurugwi in his 60s? Kwanai mazvinzwa.

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@yvng_zadyn I had been on the waitlist since launch until about 2 hours ago 🤦🏾♂️
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@Danielnezxt i think it was coincidental, a lot of people tried that and that didn’t work.. but nice to know you have it now. In my experience it’s rather slow, how are you finding it?
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@404_y It's just that it wasn't like that, I was on the waiting list for more than 48 hours and I didn't get anything, so what I did was change my region and language to the United Kingdom and automatically the app and Siri came on considering that I didn't get the notification.
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Susan Matsunga entered Parliament as an opposition Member of Parliament for Budiriro, a constituency where three Zimbabweans were recently found drowned in a sewer.
Yet instead of focusing on the real issues affecting her constituents, she chose to defend and advance the interests of the ruling party and President Emmerson Mnangagwa in exchange for political trinkets. She is a perfect example of what is wrong with Zimbabwean politics.
Four years ago, I was heavily criticised and insulted on this platform by some personality politics die hards when I questioned the process used by the opposition to select candidates for Parliament. One of the reasons I eventually fell out with the opposition leader was because I challenged the lack of transparency in how candidates were chosen.
I argued that there should be public interviews so that Zimbabweans, both at home and abroad, could hear for themselves the quality of thought, ideas and leadership abilities of those seeking to represent them before they were selected or elected. I questioned how different the opposition was to ZANUPF if it refuses this level of transparency.
I deliberately use the words “selected” and “elected” interchangeably because, in many cases, opposition candidates are selected long before voters are given an opportunity to elect them. If need be, rigging is done to make sure that the candidate the leader wants gets in, this is commonly known in the opposition circles.
Anyone who has spent time around opposition politics knows that many aspiring MPs get onto the ticket not on merit but more on ingratiating oneself with the leader and his side kicks. That makes the process fundamentally flawed.
My challenge in 2022 and again in 2023 was simple, if the opposition claims to be different from ZANUPF, why should advancement depend on loyalty to an individual rather than commitment and loyalty to ideas and principles? There were persistent stories that some aspiring candidates had to curry favour with influential figures in order to secure positions on party tickets.
Susan Matsunga is an example of what happens when politics revolves around personalities rather than principles. Many will remember how she bootlicked the opposition leader on social media and attacked anyone who raised genuine concerns. I raised concerns about that at the time, and I will look for the posts.
What we are witnessing now is not an isolated incident. It is a symptom of a deeper and structural problem. When people rise through the ranks by flattering leaders rather than demonstrating competence, principles and independent thinking, they eventually transfer that loyalty elsewhere whenever it serves their interests, as she is doing now.
What she said during the Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 debate yesterday reflects exactly that. President Emmerson Mnangagwa did not simply ask MPs to support a bill that could benefit him. He offered something that could benefit them as well, an extension of their own terms in parliament. For those like Susan whose politics is driven by personal gain rather than principle, the temptation becomes obvious.
Bootlicking is not loyalty to a particular progressive idea. It is a political culture based on personality cults. Those who build careers through flattery will eventually flatter whoever appears capable of advancing their personal interests. Yesterday it was the opposition leadership. Today it is Mnangagwa. Tomorrow it will be someone else.
Zimbabwe’s political challenge is bigger than one person or one party. We have allowed personality cults to dominate our politics at the expense of ideas. We support individuals rather than principles, and as a result we repeatedly produce leaders and representatives who place personal interests above the interests of the people they claim to serve.
If our politics were rooted in ideas, accountability and merit, there would be less bootlicking and more conviction. Representatives would feel bound by the principles on which they were elected rather than by opportunities for personal advancement. Today you see grown men and women shamelessly bootlicking leaders instead of ideas.
Susan Matsunga entered Parliament on an opposition ticket, but many of her constituents who oppose Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 will struggle to see their views reflected in her position. In the end, that is the real issue, whether elected representatives remain accountable to the people who sent them there.
Some people will not understand this argument today. Others may take years to do so. As the saying goes, puppies in the same litter do not open their eyes on the same day. Some open them sooner, some later, and when it comes to human beings, some never open them at all.
But history must be recorded. These things need to be said when they need to be said, so that future generations know there were people who challenged the culture of personality politics and warned about its consequences long before the damage became obvious to everyone else.
And to my fellow citizens, especially journalists, it is far better to be unpopular for saying the right things than to be celebrated for saying the wrong ones.
History has a way of separating principle from convenience. Those who stand for what is right, even when it is unpopular and misunderstood, are often vindicated with time. The crowd is not always right, and popularity is not always a measure of truth.
Eventually, history will judge those who stood with the interests of the people, even when the people themselves did not fully understand the message at the time. The duty of a journalist is not to tell people what they want to hear, but to tell them what they need to hear, guided by facts, principle and conscience.
Susan Matsunga is not the disease; she is the symptom. The real disease is a political culture that rewards bootlicking over ideas, loyalty to individuals over principles, and personality cults over democracy.
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@desiibond @Mrwhosetheboss the new Siri uses the gemini models , I think
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@Mrwhosetheboss Gemini is way way ahead, though I am into full apple ecosystem, would pick Gemini. I am used to Gemini on 12R (go to conversational AI) for non-coding and Claude for coding. Siri has been disabled on my phone since it launched.
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@Mrwhosetheboss the internet is becoming more and more filled with unrealistic imaginary pictures of everything.. no one will actually know what’s real and what’s not.
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@Mrwhosetheboss So far this #WWDC has just been an bunch of improvements which were long overdue.
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Siri's getting a rebrand! Siri AI
- More capable
- More conversational
- New logo
- Based in the Dynamic Island, AND its own dedicated app
#WWDC


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