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We love to dance at Mtetwa & Nyambirai. 💃🏽🕺 We’ve had a rough few weeks recently. So to let off a bit of steam we teamed up with @bustoptv to have a bit of fun and take up the #JerusalemaDanceChallenge. Watch the full video here: m.facebook.com/BUSTOPTV/video…

The @MonavaleWetland Ramsar Site is an urban wetland at the heart of Zimbabwe’s capital Harare. It provides the city’s residents with a beautiful greenspace & water security. That’s why Harare’s skyline—and Marimba River—feature in the #SaveMonavaleVlei logo 💚#WorldWetlandsDay

“CATCH ‘EM YOUNG” ☺️ It’s was wonderful to see the community come together to show some love for @MonavaleWetland to celebrate #WorldWetlandsDay — including so many children and youth who are already passionate about protecting the environment! Our vlei. Our future.

Thanks @MinOECW for calling us all to take action to protect Zimbabwe’s wetlands. Residents of Monavale, Warren Park, Kuwadzana, Budiriro and beyond are playing their part! To celebrate #WorldWetlandsDay, we came together to clean up @MonavaleWetland Ramsar Site.

WORK HARD PLAY HARD 💃🏽🕺🏽 Nothing beats a pumping Silent Disco 🎧 as the sun sets over the stunningly beautiful @MonavaleWetland 🌅 after a hard afternoon’s work showing some love for our wetland, our city, our planet, and each other! 💚 HAPPY WORLD WETLANDS DAY!!

DID YOU KNOW? @MonavaleWetland stores water throughout the long dry season—slowly releasing it into Lake Chivero via the Marimba River, the City of Harare’s main water source—and it reduces flooding in downstream suburbs of Harare such as Mufakose and Budiriro. #WorldWetlandsDay

What a JOY it always is to partner with Green the Ghetto! Thank you for joining the “Sub-Aquatic Unit” (🤣) of the @MonavaleWetland Clean Up, together with Budiriro Water Foundation, to clean the Avondale Steam. And for those epic dance moves afterwards too! 💃🏽#WorldWetlandsDay

To celebrate World Wetlands Day, wetland warriors from all across the City of Harare came together for a Vlei Clean Up on @MonavaleWetland—collecting 33 bags of rubbish + two tires 🛞—followed by a “Silent Disco” as the sun went down! 🎧 💃🏽🕺🏽🪩🌅 Watch till the end! 😂

Two men. One continent. Very different legacies. One stood for peace, power and believed Africa's resources belonged to its people. The other signs deals with polluters and allows greed corporates to sponsor our joy while wearing the mask of progress. Two visions. One continent. History will always remember who stood for liberation and who stood beside exploitation. We love football. We hate pollution. #KickTotalOutOfAFCON

Between local dictatorships and imperial bullies The abduction of Maduro by the USA has triggered legitimate and genuine moral tension facing many people living under oppressive systems. It is a challenge of choosing between condemning electoral theft and rejecting imperial intervention. It seems some are approving of Maduro's ouster. This "realist position" — that an illegitimate ruler like Maduro who violently usurps power forfeits all claims to sovereignty, and that his removal by any means cannot be mourned more than his continued rule, has many problems. This framing overlooks a foundational principle of international order and of long-term democratic struggle. Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter prohibits the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state. This principle is not a technicality; it is a hard-won safeguard against a world where powerful states decide, by force, which governments may exist. Once we normalise external military regime change—however morally tempting in a given case—we reopen the door to imperial domination disguised as moral correction. History is unambiguous: externally orchestrated regime change has overwhelmingly failed to deliver democracy. From Iraq to Libya, Afghanistan to Haiti, the violent removal of dictators by foreign powers has produced state collapse, prolonged instability, proxy rule, or new forms of authoritarianism. Democracy does not arrive on cruise missiles. Yes, Maduro undermined the will of the Venezuelan people. Electoral theft is violence. Militarised repression is violence. These must be condemned without hesitation. But it does not follow that imperial violence becomes legitimate by contrast. Two wrongs do not produce a democratic right. The deeper danger for Africa is this: if we accept that dictators may be removed by foreign powers whenever they lose legitimacy, we also accept that our own democratic struggles are disposable, to be settled by external actors whose primary interests are extraction, influence, and domination—not popular sovereignty. Democracy is slow, painful, and must be locally owned. It requires strategic internal resistance struggle. Yes, it needs regional and international pressure, but for it to be genuine, it needs civic organisation, and sustained struggle by citizens themselves, sometimes under impossible conditions. Outsourcing democratic renewal to imperial powers is not realism—it is surrender. There is no self-determination where the will of the people is crushed by armed force. But there is also no self-determination where liberation is delivered by foreign guns. The violent assumption of power by dictators must be confronted—but the violent removal of governments by external imperial forces must be rejected first and firmly, because it destroys the very conditions under which genuine democracy can ever take root. The task before us is harder than choosing between two evils. It is possible to refuse both. @gift_mugano @ProfJNMoyo @adv_fulcrum @baba_nyenyedzi

🔴Across Africa, leaders manipulate constitutions to stay in power. Since 2000, 24 instances of removing or loosening term limits have occurred in 18 countries. Zimbabwe’s crisis is part of this dangerous trend. Resisting the extension of term limits is essential to safeguarding democracy and stability for Zimbabwe’s future. #DefendTheConstitution📌 #NoTo2030❌ #2030Musipo✅

@DouggiesYeloSox @zimlifestylehub @grok what song is playing in the background of this video?

It’s all in the socks! 🧦 🕺🏾 🔥

🔸Reflections on the #Warriors & AFCON ‘25: 1. We need stadia. Our facilities tell a story about our lack of seriousness about football. 2. Zim has exciting new talent. The Tawandas, Jonah, Musendami and many others. They must be allowed to play together. 3. The branding of the Warriors needs to improve. 4. The internal fights must stop. Morale was visibly low. 5. Don’t leave out excellent players. Why shoot ourselves in the foot? 6. Many Zimbabweans flew to Morocco from the UK, Zim, SA and other countries to support the team. Acknowledge and thank them on the pitch after each game. 7. Leadership matters. A good leader provides inspiration, fosters cohesion and holds the team together. 8. The build-up to big tournaments must improve. Market the kit and sell it everywhere. Use billboards. Profile players. 9. Make better use of social media to build hype. 10. Communicate effectively. Answer questions. Address harmful narratives. Give out info about matches. 11. Don’t be partisan. Use the game to unify not divide. 12. Do not conflate any club with the national team. 13. Pay attention to optics. 14. Representing Zimbabwe on the international stage is the highest honour. Take every assignment seriously. Avoid silly mistakes. Don’t celebrate with opponents after a loss. It’s a slap in the face to your fans. 15. Public confidence in the team has been eroded over the years. Be intentional about rebuilding it. 16. Use talented creatives in the marketing. The music, graphics and styling of outfits should be the best display of Zim excellence. 17. Take feedback on board. Consult widely and secure buy-in. 18. Success is not accidental. Prepare obsessively. We can’t always be coming last. It’s a blow to supporters and harmful to our national pride. 19. Stop the excuses and deliver. Almost doesn’t count nor does potential. There are countries at war that were winning matches. 20. Understand that with each game, everyone’s national pride is at stake. Chimboitaiwo zvinotifadza. We love the Warriors but we need them to love us back. #GoWarriorsGo #TeamZimbabwe🇿🇼

Smartphone addiction has negative impacts on student learning and overall academic performance.

The greater the use of a phone while studying, the greater the negative impact on learning.

The skills and cognitive abilities students needed for academic success are negatively affected by excessive phone use.

The results of this meta-analysis implied that addicted users show a diminished level in learning.

🔸The Public Accounts Committee of @ParliamZim is meant to hold Treasury accountable and ensure public funds are no abused. How can this committee perform this function when Senate President Chonomona is reported by the Auditor-General to have spent over US$370,000 renovating her home with US$130 pillows, US$64,000 curtains and US$57,000 vases without even going to tender? We need new leaders.🇿🇼

🔸Gobhoraaaaaaa! #GoWarriorsGo #TeamZimbabwe🇿🇼

The Warriors don’t walk in quietly. 🇿🇼 #TotalEnergiesAFCON2025 | #WeSoundDifferent

Congrats big bro @bbmhlanga 🔥

“[I saw] the river of the water of life… flowing… down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life” The Bible’s climatic ending in Revelation 22 features a vision of an URBAN RIVER!🤩 📸Little Marimba Stream, @MonavaleWetland

🗞️ “Harare residents bid to block mega project on @MonavaleWetland” — by @DChingarande1 for @thestandardzim Thank you for helping to raise the public’s awareness of the efforts to #SaveMonavaleVlei 🙏 newsday.co.zw/thestandard/am…

“Let everything that has breath praise the LORD.” — Psalm 150:6