Robson Beans 🇿🇼

Some deem it divine retribution - a penance for rebellion. Others, a cosmic duel between good and evil. Yet the enigma persists: Why does the battle endure? Two millennia post-Calvary, the faithful still grapple. The battlefield eludes sight, yet its echoes reverberate. Our strategy? Our leader? The truth crystallizes: We fight not against flesh and blood, but against unseen principalities. Our battleground? The human heart - the theater of choices. Our strategy? The armor of God - truth, righteousness, faith, salvation, the Word. Our leader? The One who conquered death - the risen Christ. robsonbeans.com/2020/05/28/the…

The ones in support think/know they’ll benefit from the amendment. They also don’t really care about what implications this has for anyone else alive or future generations. In other words, they’re selfish people who have no respect for the rule of law and do not have any moral compass.

Am I the only one who is genuinely shocked by ordinary Zimbabweans who aren’t in power, or in business, are poor and downtrodden, and yet support the plan to have their rights to directly elect the President stripped away and given to a small group of people who can be easily bought or manipulated, and can’t be said to be truly representative for this purpose since they’re elected via first-past-the-post with its obvious baggage of gerrymandering, rather than proportional representation? I mean, what’s the thought process in such Zimbabweans? Why would anyone co-operate actively in their own disempowerment?🤷🏾‍♂️

@MaiZuKitchen That’s interesting. Who have their own identity I suppose?

The children of Zimbabwean diaspora parents grow up in two worlds and belong fully to neither. They are too Zimbabwean for their peers and too foreign for kumusha. It sounds more like confusion but, that is a new identity being formed. Diaspora parents: do you raise your children to identify primarily as Zimbabwean or as citizens of your host country?

@FigoTongai That’s probably a more appropriate and balanced way of approaching it

@BeansRobson I also face the same challenge but I do what I can, I told myself kt we're all equal and that's all.

Ndina bamnini vakaenda ku SA 2014, vakasiya mhuri. He doesn't hear from anyone and you don't hear from him. Ukavapinza mu family group vanobuda, always online pa Facebook nepa WhatsApp ukaisa message avapindure. Zvinenge zvamboitasei chaizvo?

@FigoTongai In my experience, you can all be in the group but what’s expected from each group member is not the same. But I agree, isolating yourself may not be a permanent solution.

@BeansRobson I got you but everyone in the group is facing the same issue, so why isolating yourself?

@Wachewee Maladministration and a serious dearth of patriotic leadership

The first time i read time Why Nations Fail ndakatotanga nekutsvaga peZimbabwe wanikwe itori neChapter yayo yega😂 Our country is a case study when it comes to Economy. We inherited a jewel from Ian Smith. How did we get here🤔

@zeustheman05 And it’s an assessment I can’t fault.

@BeansRobson Net negative Everything good he did in the beginning was completely cancelled out by all the bad

How do you assess Mugabe's legacy? net positive or net negative for Zimbabwe? Complicated?

Being Zimbabwean in the diaspora means carrying a country in your chest. Not the country it is. The country it was supposed to be. That weight is both burden and identity.

SADC as a bloc has never once meaningfully pressured a member state on human rights. It is a club, not a community and it rewards longevity not governance.

Happy to engage further. I laid out the full case in the replies to the original post, drawing from Alois Mlambo’s A History of Zimbabwe. The short version: Black Friday 1997. DRC 1998. Fast Track 2000. 6 million needing food aid by November 2002. ZIDERA arrived after all of it. I acknowledge sanctions contributed to investment flight. But they cannot be the author of a collapse that was already three years old when they arrived. The sequence is the argument.

@BeansRobson Sanctions destroyed the economy while gearing it for local ownership that has now seen the current high growth and wealth creation. Context is everything.

Robert Mugabe built more schools than any leader in African history. He also destroyed the economy that was supposed to pay for them. Legacy is complicated.

@ProudlyZim1980 “You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become a villain.” Harvey Dent/Nolan

@BeansRobson Legacy is created by not staying too long in power. If he had done that,he would’ve been seen as an elder statesman to approach fo advice.He died a loser

@global_pastor @TendayiManyange ….“However, what sanctions contrubuted to was foreign investment flight.”

@BeansRobson @TendayiManyange You haven’t answered the question, read again and answer if you know. If you don’t know it makes it two of us🙏

Every Zimbabwean who left to work abroad and sends money home is running a more effective development programme than ZIMSTAT has run in a decade. Remittances are Africa's most efficient foreign aid.

@ThePsyberFox Well noted.

@BeansRobson Robert Mugabe didn't build 1 school

@T_Chakoroma @zeustheman05 That’s very commendable. I do not have anything against that. My question is, are you saying all the schools and universities built post independence were funded by parents from their own pockets?

@zeustheman05 @BeansRobson This is Guyu secondary school. Vabereki started building those 2 blocks 30 years ago. Updated those two blocks are not fully finished. Vabereki varikutoremerwa kusvika pawasvika for 30 years. It's not a private school, but government record it's theirs.

@zeustheman05 @T_Chakoroma Co-ask…

@T_Chakoroma @BeansRobson Hold up, your parents were building schools with whose money?

@zeustheman05 @SeanXrazz Agreed, and he could have had a plan for this grievance from day one.

@BeansRobson @SeanXrazz My Brother, he had refused to heed to the Veteran's demands for almost 20 years. MDC campaigned with land reform as a talking point and it was more popular than ZUM, who had done the same but he still ignored them RG wanted to win elections, so he had no choice but to give in

@mulinge_muteti_ Lenin wrote Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism in 1916, arguing that capitalism inevitably evolves into monopoly capital, which then requires imperial expansion to find new markets, cheap labour, and raw materials.

What we are witnessing is a crisis of capitalism. Every cycle ultimately ends in war, death and destruction. The world will only achieve lasting peace after the overthrow of capitalism.