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@KuraChihota @PamGoldingGroup Vakagona apa sekugona kwavakaita yeMandarin. Chikuru kuwana mari.

After the noise about a Mandarin signboard in Harare, @PamGoldingGroup comes out in vernacular on Borrowdale Road. Does this get your vote ? Drop a comment below

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@rajasthanroyals Kunal Singh Rathore

👇 Name a Royal and we’ll reply with a cold wallpaper 👀🥶

@icelandcricket Green Varun Gaikwad Pooran

Who has been the second biggest IPL disappointment so far this year after Nicholas Pooran?

@freemufumiri Thanks Tas for this. Not sure what Prof Hill’s 2 is for because when a student dies in an institution that you head and are supposed to protect them in, then it is a 0 in my books. Nyagura was exactly as you put him as an administrator. He was simply a puppet who messed up.

🧵 Thread 8/9 | THE FINAL LEDGER Seven decades. Ten leaders. One institution. Here is the complete, honest accounting. Dr. William Rollo (1953-55): The placeholder who kept the multiracial charter intact when no one was watching. Necessary. Quietly consequential. 6/10 Sir Walter Adams (1955-66): Built the intellectual foundations. Compromised them incrementally under UDI. Left with a knighthood and a controversy that followed him to London. 8/10 for construction. Permanently docked for accommodation. Prof. Terence Miller (1967-69): Two years. Zero compromises. Resigned rather than serve a racist republic. Set the moral standard. Smith called him a commie bastard. History called him right. 9/10 Robert Craig (1969-80): Eleven years. Held the institution together through war and isolation. An island of privilege in a country on fire. Not heroic. Not villainous. Functional. 4/10 Leonard Lewis (1980-81): The footnote between two eras. Unscored. Prof. Walter Kamba (1981-92): The greatest. Built UZ sevenfold. Globalised it. Then resigned to Mugabe's face in public rather than surrender its independence. Zimbabwe has never adequately honoured him. That is a national shame. 10/10. Unmatched. Prof. Gordon Chavunduka (1992-96): An original intellect. A giant in sociology and traditional medicine. Perhaps too gentle for the chaos that was descending. A wonderful man in a role that needed a different gear. 6/10 Prof. Graham Hill (1997-2002): A student was beaten to death in a university residence room on his watch. The institution shrugged. He accommodated the state against the students consistently and without apparent remorse. 2/10 Prof. Levi Nyagura (2003-18): Kept the lights on through hyperinflation. Built some infrastructure. Sold everything else. PhD-gate. Sixteen years. The nadir. 3/10 Prof. Paul Mapfumo (2019-present): The rebuilder. Serious credentials. Real results. The open question is whether Education 5.0 produces graduates or just products. 8/10, provisional. #UniversityOfZimbabwe #ZimbabweHistory #UZimbabwe

🧵 UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE: Power, Principle & Betrayal The Complete, Unvarnished History of Its Leaders: Thread 1/9 To understand the University of Zimbabwe, you must first understand what it is. It was never just a school. It was a colonial project. A revolutionary prize. A statecraft laboratory. And at its best, the intellectual conscience of a nation. Founded in 1952 as the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Renamed University of Rhodesia under UDI. Renamed again at independence. One institution. Three names. Seven decades. Ten leaders. Each one tells you something about the country they served, or failed. Here is the architecture of power that shaped every single one of them: The Chancellor of the University of Zimbabwe is the President of the Republic. Ex officio. Automatic. Non-negotiable. No election. No tenure limit. Just power, sitting at the top of the academic hierarchy, watching. When the man who can deploy the army is also the man who approves your appointment, academic freedom is not a right. It is a daily negotiation. With someone who holds all the cards.

@VascoDaGappah Madzimbamuto vs. Lardner-Burke

"Your words will disappear. Your house will disappear. Your name will disappear. All memory of you will disappear." - Sansa Stark, GOT Isn't history fascinating? Of the men in this picture of the Rhodesian cabinet in 1970, I'm willing to bet that people only remember one name.

@freemufumiri I loved how @kennethmtata was out there during his time making the Council visible. Having been operating in the environment during his time, he did very well at the wheel.

2/ This is not a church story. It is about: • How power is built • How institutions check (or fail to check) it • How intelligence, fear, and survival shape decisions

1/ Over the past week I have been writing about power, institutions, intelligence & statecraft in Zimbabwe. So here is a deeper cut prompted by the state's backlash to the ZCC CAB3 submissions to parliament: The Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) as a theatre of power. 🧵👇

@VascoDaGappah Ndinorangarira ndichitanga kumunzwa ndikafarira zita rake rese Musaemura Bonas Zimunya. Came across a book of his and I enjoyed it, Country Dawns and City Lights. Hope you succeed in getting him to pen down his memoirs. If possible, please get Shimmer to do so too. Thank you

Vashomashoma vanyori vedu vakwegura. I love Musaemura Zimunya so much. He carries with him the memories of all the writers I loved who are now gone. Marechera. Mungoshi. Vera. Hove. Samupindi. Katiyo. I am pestering him for his memoirs. Vashomesesa vanyori vedu vakwegura.

@freemufumiri Chihuri was the worst. Maybe it was the environment but he was poor at his job. Sad that history does not talk more about Mukurazhizha as it should, wish there was more literature on him. Him and Nguruve needed to write books detailing the transition from pre 1980 to post.

28/ 🇿🇼police force has gone from: A man who rose from const to Comm thru a syst designed to stop him To a man who arrived at Comm office already designated by foreign gvts as a threat 2 democracy. That distance. In 45 yrs. Is distance btwn a state being built & a state being used

1/ We did the CIO DGS. The response was extraordinary. Now we turn to the other instrument of state power that touches every Zimbabwean's life directly. The @PoliceZimbabwe. 6 Commissioners General since independence. What their succession tells us about who we became. 🧵👇

@FinLitBae @RayGunda Ahh arsenal kungobhowa uku. We cannot be arguing with people who count the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup as one of their European cups.

@ItsMeTheAfrican @RayGunda Not even Arsna. Ma dhevhuu are the real rivals

Leeds yorikita madhimoni Kulidzwa pamba

@freemufumiri That book by Ken Flower is a must read for any history boffin. You will have this idea of the intelligence world that is either corrected or just clarified through reading that book. Thanks for this thread and others, fantastic all round.

5/ Flower retired in 1981 & published his memoirs, 'Serving Secretly: An Intelligence Chief on Record.' Rare for any spymaster anywhere. Rarer still in Zimbabwe's culture of institutional silence. He died in 1987. The organisation he built is still running.

1/ The removal/reassignment of Dr Fulton Mangwanya as CIO Director General this week has fascinated me. Full disclosure: I have a long-standing obsession with intelligence, security & the hidden architecture of state power. So let's talk about ALL the CIO DGs since independence.

@RayGunda @FinLitBae Ndiri hangu we Liverpool but apa mandifadza🤣🤣. Unobva watoziva kuti rivalry chaiyo haisi neChelsea or City

@FinLitBae We don’t care as long as Liverpool iri pasi pedu, we are good.

@thaslickpastor Kufarira kwandinoita Bing Bong song and Little Snout. Ungatoti ndini mwana wacho

Ma cartoon unotozopedzisira wava more invested kupfuura muridzi wawo. I'm updating my son that mommy pig gave birth to a third child. He didn't know.

@Winnie_wacho @CrimeWatchZW 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 asi kana magara musazodaro veduwee. Munouraya vana vevanhu nema heart attacks

WATCH | A man with two wives was left heartbroken after DNA tests showed that the children he had with both women were not his biological children. After learning the results, he ordered the women to leave his house. Before the DNA results came out, the man had been boasting that he was satisfying both of his wives in bed.

@chickenhutzim Ko mudhudhudhu uyo?

This car is parked at Avondale 🚗 and moves on 8 August with its winner. How would you use it to make money? 💭 Comment below #WinACar #ChickenHut

Be honest with me please. What would be more satisfying for you as a hatewatchers. Seeing Spurs get relegated or seeing Arsenal bottle all four competitions and go trophyless again?

@LethuNyaz @VascoDaGappah Please take me to The Fridge and I will do so😀

@ItsMeTheAfrican @VascoDaGappah Sign me up

One day, I am going to open a Book Bar. People will come to share their problems, and I will comfort them with a drink and a book that speaks to their problem. My Book Bar will be styled like Coben and Dobernigg in Hamburg, the most stylish bookshop I've ever done an event in!

@SkySportsPL Jamie Frank Redknapp come on now.

Jamie Redknapp believes Arne Slot has not yet had the chance to show his full potential at Liverpool with the current squad 👀

@Shadygize Franco Baresi

Who made you fall in love with football?