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Machipisa is warming up. CDF members took a peaceful walkabout at Machipisa Shops, engaging residents, sharing our message and listening to the concerns of the community. The conversations are growing, the awareness is spreading and the spirit of constitutional defence is taking root. This is how movements grow, person to person, shop to shop, street to street. Zimbabweans are opening up, asking questions and standing firm for the protection of the 2013 Constitution. The people are ready. The ground is responding. The defence of our Constitution continues. Join Constitution Defenders Forum (CDF) Today 📌. @BitiTendai @daddyhope @ali_naka @VMusinachirevo #DefendTheConstitution #NoTo2030 #CDFOnTheGround #ZiganandaMiswai

Murderous criminals. All South Africans. They targeted and murdered a young foreign national who was trying to earn an honest living.

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 Armed Police with dogs have camped at the offices of CDF Convener, Tendai Biti @BitiTendai , in Milton Park. We are closely monitoring the situation and gathering full details. We call for calm, vigilance and respect for constitutional rights. More details to follow. @duma_boko @SADC_News @CyrilRamaphosa @Sophie_Mokoena @daddyhope @ali_naka @MbuyiseniNdlozi @SABCNews @ibbosnr @bbmhlanga @MacBelts @NewsHawksLive @NewsDayZimbabwe @TechMagZW @VMusinachirevo @CrimeWatchZW #RuleOfLaw #DefendTheConstitution

📸 Police have camped outside the offices of prominent lawyer Tendai Biti in Milton Park, Harare. Biti leads the Constitutional Defenders Forum which he says is planning a series of actions to stop planned constitutional amendments and extension of President Mnangagwa’s term

Foreign grocers face xenophobia in South Africa after child food poisoning deaths ♦️Vigilantes have targeted Ethiopian and South Asian shopkeepers zimlive.com/foreign-grocer…

The greatest Zimbabwean musicians of our time! Not just singers, but musicians!

@CCCmthwakazi Hon Fadzi is brilliant!

@nickmangwana How do you even begin to compare US and Zimbabwe? The comparison is flawed and assumes the economy is just as strong and people earn at the same level

MANSION TAX was a concept proposed by one UK politician but was not eventually implemented. Levying this type of taxation is not a sign that things are collapsing. It’s a recognition of the fact that there are people with high value properties who have not paid any tax on the income from which they bought or built such mansions. In Zimbabwe there are many such people. A variant of Mansion Tax has now been proposed in Zimbabwe. We are not alone in this. Many state in America do charge for having a high value home. The proposal by Minister @MthuliNcube is to levy such a surcharge on houses with values above US$100 000. This will catch many and hence many are going to express an opposition to it. But it’s natural for people to resist and try to avoid taxation. And it’s natural for Govts to insist and enforce. This one is going to be interesting because it will catch many😅

@bmusonza Nonsense

I proposed mansion tax in Zim. And Mthuli Ncube has introduced mansion tax. This will facilitates a viable property sector. We have one luck diamond or gold deal mansions; people should be able to have stable income to live there or the property becomes available on the market.

🟡PRELIMINARY BUDGET VIEW: There’s so much to debate, analyze and object to in the proposed budget presented this afternoon. For now, it’s important to note that: 🔸Security Services have been allocated more than Health, Agriculture or Primary and Secondary Education. This Govt values guns more than equipping hospitals, improving schools or feeding the nation; 🔸Public Health and Public Education have been allocated less than that mandated in the Abuja and Dakar Declarations respectively. There’s been an acute failure to comply with international protocols that emphasize the obligation to secure basic services for the people; 🔸Toll gates are going up in USD; 🔸A surcharge will be imposed on more expensive vehicles, 🔸A wealth tax will be imposed on houses valued over US$100,000. (Note how there’s a focus on USD when it comes to taxation but on ZWL when it comes to expenditure; 🔸Fuel levies to be increased; 🔸A new levy to be imposed on sugary drinks; 🔸The Youth, Sports and Arts Ministry remains grossly underfunded with the vote barely enough to construct a stadium; 🔸The income tax free threshold is less than ZWL1 million and will soon be eroded by inflation; 🔸The Budget was presented in our unstable ZWL notwithstanding that the economy has largely dollarized meaning that it’s a tabulation of figures that will be meaningless by the end of 2024 when these amounts are eroded by inflation; 🔸A new top up tax will be introduced for MNCs. 🔸Nothing was said about failed allocations from the previous budget. There will be more of the same when it comes to broken promises on allocation; 🔸The budget is anti-people, anti-investment and anti-poor. Little has been out in place to stimulate growth, improve productivity, improve employment, ensure currency stability, address the exchange rate disparities, address the debt crisis or enhance confidence. It’s a mess. We will raise our voices on these and all issues of importance to the citizens. A pro-people budget is not a matter of rhetoric but a pre-requisite to ensure we begin to put in place measures to fix the broken economy.

1. I have friends and family on both sides of the political divide. I am personally bound legally and morally not to express my political views publicly. Therefore, I will side step your comment about Mazizi. But as someone who knows Dr Masiyiwa and Econet, having …/2.

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#Excellence In this exciting discussion, Zimbabwean tech expert James Manyika, Google’s senior vice-president of research, technology and society, talks to Zimbabwean billionaire philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa. The dialogue provides insights into Africa’s mobile revolution, and opportunities presented by artificial intelligence, among other topics .

@Pachisolife @StriveMasiyiwa5 Nonsense on stilts . Tell me a bigger employer, great tax payer, bigger philanthropist. Sit down with your shallow bootlicking nonsense. You are twerking for attention

Dear Mr Strive Masiyiwa @StriveMasiyiwa5 I see mazizi praising u for meeting the Rwandan president in the US. As 4 me I have never seen any good building in ZWE bearing your name. I only know the poor service of ECONET I put it to u that u take 💰 from Zim to invest elsewhere I do not see u as my role model

Kirsty gets a gold medal for incompetence. Well done.

@lilomatic They work for free?

Deputy Ministers are not part of the cabinet. They do not even act for a Minister they deputise when he is sick, on leave or out of the country. Deputy Ministers in Zimbabwe are ceremonial. Good evening!

Zimbabweans should not be distracted by the apparent attempts to preempt the SADC process in Harare. To state the least: the SADC Troika meets this week; and Zimbabwe can forget the Chairmanship of SADC next year if they persist in their disdain of the regional body.

@advocatemahere Drama

Can you please publicize Mavetera’s cv. We want to see something.

@ProfJNMoyo So what’s wrong with a brief for a free fair and credible elections. Zimbabweans deserve that at the barest minimum.

HICHILEMA LASHES OUT AND LABELS CRITICISM OF THE MUMBA 'SADC' ELECTION OBSERVATION REPORT ON ZIM ELECTIONS AN "ABNORMALITY" Below is a verbatim transcript of what Zambian President Hakainde is saying on the attached video clip: “On economic integration, enhancing growth in our individual economies, regional and Africa economy; Madam Speaker, Zambia is part of the pack of nations, civilised nations. Calling each other names, when we are solving a problem created by colleagues; and the names are being called by those who created the problem is not logic, it is not normal. It is called an abnormality. That’s what we call it”. President Hakainde Hichilema. COMMENT: Given the facts of this case, it is unheard of and is therefore abnormal that President Hichilema believes that Zimbabweans should have kept quiet and done nothing about his abuse of his ex-officio chairmanship of Sadc’s Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation to unilaterally depart from the long established Sadc protocol of appointing the head of the Sadc Election Observation Mission [SEOM] to Zimbabwe from ministerial ranks in Zambia, among his UPND party elements, to instead appoint Nevers Mumba, a well-known loquacious and quarrelsome opposition political leader in Zambia. President Hichilema's unilateral appointment of Mumba, a reckless Zambian opposition politician, was not only abnormal, because it violated the normal protocol, but it was also provocative in the extreme from all standpoints, including diplomatic and political. Hichilema's abnormal and provocative appointment of a quarrelsome leader of an opposition political party in Zambia to lead SEOM in Zimbabwe has been compounded and made worse by many factors, notably and particularly four: Firstly, Mumba himself has since disclosed the shocking detail about the instruction he was given by President Hichilema prior to leaving for Zimbabwe: “He [President Hichilema] said to me, Mr Vice President go on behalf of Sadc, and all I expect from you is to help and give the Zimbabweans a free, fair and credible election. Those are the only…he said it twice. I need nothing from you Mr Vice President but free, fair and credible election, you would have done your job”. President Hichilema's instruction to Mumba is shocking not only because it is contrary to both the Sadc Code of Conduct for election observes and to the Sadc Principles and Guidelines on Democratic Elections, but also because it has the trappings of a regime change agenda. Secondly, there are striking similarities of form, substance and language between the Mumba report and the reports of European and US election observers, and the similarities leave a distinct impression of coordinated collusion. Thirdly, debates in European parliaments, like the UK’s House of Lords, have notably dragged in President Hichilema, as Europe’s hope and point man who is expected to use SEOM’s Mumba report to rein in Zimbabwe on behalf of Europe and the US. Fourthly, President Hichilema has been widely reported by the media in Zimbabwe and within Sadc to be unilaterally working the phones, including making a trip to Angola, to lobby for an extraordinary Sadc Summit to review and act on Mumba’s discredited report, in the vain hope of placing Sadc behind the ill-fated calls for fresh elections in Zimbabwe; to the detriment of the country's sovereignty. There’s a lot to be said about this abnormality of mess, but what is clear is that the abnormality was created by President Hichilema when, against established Sadc protocol, he appointed a reckless leader of an opposition political party in Zambia and gave him an unlawful instruction to "go and give the people of Zimbabwe a free, fair and credible election". No Sadc country would countenance such interference in sovereign affairs. None!

7. On a factual basis CCC had agents in 98% + of the pollings. It is also fact that there are 12200+ v11s while the remainder is info we got as text messages via our alternative communication systems. On that end we are covered. Other issues are outside of my purview

5. We pointed last year that ZEC was moving pple from their traditional polling stations in urban areas. ZEC did not invest in letting pple know where they were voting. They shut down their portal & on election day their *265# on election day. We had to come up with alternatives