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@matigary @GaytonMcK A BIG ONE! Disgraceful!

@GaytonMcK But you are a xenophobe Gayton

South Africans are not xenophobic. What South Africans are putting up with regarding illegal immigration basically makes them saints. Let us not put labels on people whose hospitality has been abused to the maximum.

@imanrappetti Happy birthday, Iman. Happy to share birthdays today.

It’s my birthday! 🎂 I am happy, I am loved and this is more than enough for me! Thank you to everyone who adds ‘that thing’ to my world 🥰…

@NewsHawksLive Talk about trying to put lipstick on a pig!

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa yesterday visited Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa at his Precabe Farm in Kwekwe on a private visit which Pretoria later described as a working visit amid an attempt to keep details of the mission under wraps. Informed diplomatic and security sources told The NewsHawks last night that Ramaphosa had come to see Mnangagwa over three key issues: Zimbabwe's political and security situation given growing tensions over constitutional amendments around the 2030 agenda and subtle threats of a coup; South Africa's upcoming November local government elections and funding issues, and business interests. A South African intelligence official told The NewsHawks: "It was a private visit. That is why the South African government initially had not announced it until after the fact. Ramaphosa arrived in Harare around 10am and was received by Mnangagwa at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport to go the farm. It was only last evening that Pretoria officials issued a statement after the visit to explain the situation, saying it was a working visit. Ramaphosa had come to see Mnangagwa to understand what was happening on the ground regarding the 2030 agenda. South Africa is worried Zimbabwe could be on a path towards a renewed destabilisation. Mnangagwa explained the situation to Ramaphosa, and the South African President said as long as Zimbabwe follows its own constitution and laws, there is no problem. Ramaphosa said South Africa, and SADC, will not tolerate another coup in Zimbabwe. That is very clear and well understood by all involved, including Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga who is locked in a succession battle with Mnangagwa. So the visit had a political and security focus. Then there issue of South African local government elections which Ramaphosa announced on April 30. The ANC has been in contact with Zanu PF for months to exchange of ideas, resources and logistics over a number of issues, including elections. On April 1, 2026, ANC Treasurer-General Gwen Ramokgopa visited Zanu PF in Harare 'to strengthen ties between the two liberation movements'. She was hosted by her Zanu PF counterpart, Treasurer-General Patrick Chinamasa. Their meeting focused on the influence of global forces funding opposition parties in Africa to unseat liberation movements from power. They also discussed sharing strategies for sustainable funding for liberation movements. That visit followed a prior courtesy call Ramokgopa had made to Mnangagwa at State House in November 2025. During that trip, she discussed encouraging progressive businesses to participate in party initiatives and hailed historical fraternal relations between the ANC and Zanu PF. That is the context of Ramaphosa's visit to Mnangagwa yesterday. And that is why those businesspeople linked to Mnangagwa were there at the farm; what you guys call Zvigananda. They are regarded as 'progressive businessmen' in both Zanu PF and ANC circles. Liberation movements in the region have an agreement, not just to share strategies to remain in power, but also resources. That was part of Ramaphosa's mission, preceded by those visits by Ramokgopa. Those were party issues and that's why the trip was initially classified as a private visit on both sides of the Limpopo until Pretoria tried to brand it a working visit as an afterthought." A statement by Ramaphosa's office said: "HE President @CyrilRamaphosa earlier today, undertook a working visit to the Republic of Zimbabwe for an engagement with his Zimbabwean counterpart, HE President Emmerson Mnangangwa, to discuss issues of mutual and bilateral interests. South Africa and Zimbabwe maintain a historical, political and dynamic trade relationship. In 2025, South African exports to Zimbabwe totaled about U$4.30 billion, with agricultural products and machinery dominating the majority of traded goods." The truth is it was a private trip to discuss political, security, business and financial issues.

@divinemafa Will do shortly

@ibbosnr I can send you a soft copy +19015459000 WhatsApp me.

@ibbosnr The book that will destroy ZANU-PF. For sixty years the people of Zimbabwe have been told they won their freedom in 1980. They were lied to. SKINS OF POWER is the raw, explosive testimony that rips the mask off the greatest deception in African history. In 1957 — eight years before UDI — a small circle of white Rhodesian intelligence officers, scientists, and politicians met in a secret room in Salisbury. They asked one question: What happens if we are forced to hand over political control? Their answer was chilling: We do not lose it. We change how it looks. They created Project Melanin — a classified biological serum that forces the human body to grow a living second layer of dark skin. Every twenty-four hours the wearer peels it off in a private ritual, revealing the pale white skin beneath. By morning they inject again and walk out as “Black” presidents, generals, ministers, and judges — the trusted faces of a nation. They became the Skinners. They manufactured ZANU. They ordered the 1962 London split that created the party. They infiltrated the liberation camps in Mozambique and Zambia. They turned the war inward — not against the Rhodesian army, but against the very villagers they claimed to liberate. Night after night the pungwes rang with forced singing and public executions. “Stay alive. Vote ZANU. Or the war will never end.” They orchestrated the staged handover at Lancaster House, protecting white farms and institutions for twenty years. They engineered Gukurahundi. They looted the state. They hollowed out the economy. And they did it all while wearing Black skin by day and peeling it off at night. This is not metaphor. This is not theory. This is documented history wrapped around a biological horror that has ruled Zimbabwe in secret for six decades. In these pages you will read the nightly “Wash” ritual — the metallic stench, the wet slap of living skin hitting the bathroom floor, the syringes waiting for morning. You will follow the first test subject in the hidden labs. You will sit in the 1957 meeting with Ian Smith. You will witness Mugabe’s visit to Chimoio, the deliberate cleansing bombing, and the private toasts in Borrowdale mansions where white men raised glasses and whispered, “To the skin.” The White Rhodesians never left. They simply changed their skins. And they are still ruling. The book that will destroy ZANU-PF is here. Get your FREE copy for 5 days. After the trial period the price is only $9.99. The hidden secrets of ZANU-PF are finally exposed. The mask is cracking. The skin is peeling. Download now before they try to ban it. The power never changed hands. It only changed its appearance. Devine Mafa Author of a generation Imaginative, gripping and enlightening

@MviringiHosia Too late, DIRCO, the damage can’t be undone! And you know it!

Hope is that you communicated with President Mnangagwa on the dangers of clinging to power against people's wishes. If you condone the arbitrary changing of the Constitution for selfish purposes your country should be ready to shoulder the consequences of a resulting crisis.

Zimbabwe: A call for Inclusive National Dialogue By Siphosami Malunga I am pleased share my reflections provided at the recent SAPES Trust Debate on how and why I see an Inclusive National Dialogue as a plausible pathway to unlocking the political logjam and create an opportunity to peacefully transform Zimbabwe's broken politics. Zimbabwe's hegemonic political culture that instrumentalises violence did not start with Zanu PF but was inherited from the Rhodesians and perfected by Zanu PF. Like the Rhodesians, Zanu has used violence to gain, maintain and retain political power. It took violence by the nationalist liberation movements to force change. As certain as it is that CAB3 will pass, it will not resolve the decades old Zimbabwean crisis. On the contrary it will deepen it. It will sharpen the divide between the governing elite and the masses. A national dialogue provides a possibility of a win-win situation for everyone. It ensures that expectations, interests, fears and concerns of all parties (including the ruling elite) are presented, noted, discussed and managed- inclusively as well as peacefully. It is a tried and tested approach in many other countries facing acute and prolonged political crisis from Zimbabwe itself (1979, 1987 and 2008), Angola (2002) to Mozambique (1990) to Kenya (2008) to South Africa (1994). President Emmerson Mnangagwa and those around him would be minded to listen. It may be their only chance to help salvage the situation, themselves and the country from this perilous path. 87 years-old, with less than 10 years of active service left in the best of scenarios, even with CAB3, Mnangagwa's hold on power will slip from him and those around him. The alternative is further political strife and possible implosion in the not so distant future. Mine is a call to sense and sensibility. It is an appeal to both national and individual interest. If the crisis is left unaddressed, the Zanu PF ruling elite will face the same fate that the Rhodesians faced. Zimbabwean citizens will also eventually embrace violence (an option they are yet to adopt) to confront it just as Zanu PF itself did against the Rhodesians. The option to dialogue will be long lost and the human cost will be high by then. This can all be prevented. 🔴Malunga is a Zimbabwean citizen and lawyer who remains hopeful that a peaceful political breakthrough and transformation remains possible in the country.

@CrimeWatchZW Clumsy “diplomacy “, if the latter word is to be used at all. In our language, mahumbwe - a complete mess, but one pregnant with serious consequences.

Using his official social media account, Cyril Ramaphosa clarified his visit to Zimbabwe. He said it was a working visit to meet his counterpart, President Mnangagwa, and discuss issues of shared and mutual interest between the two countries. He also explained that South Africa and Zimbabwe have a long-standing political and trade relationship. He added that in 2025, South Africa exported goods worth about US$4.30 billion to Zimbabwe, mainly agricultural products and machinery.

@zimlive What has become of CR?

📸 Millionaire tenderpreneurs Wicknell Chivayo, Paul Tungwarara and Kudakwashe Tagwirei - all increasingly influential in Zimbabwe’s political direction - were present in a private meeting between South African president Cyril Ramaphosa and President Emmerson Mnangagwa today. Ramaphosa made an unannounced trip to Zimbabwe for what the South African government now says was an engagement on “issues of mutual interest.” Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has accused Tagwirei and Chivayo of “capturing the state.” A plan to amend the constitution to extend Mnangagwa’s term, opposed by Chiwenga, is threatening to cause a rapture in Zanu PF - which could explain Ramaphosa’s trip to Mnangagwa’s Kwekwe farm

Ramaphosa faced an inquiry into $580k in cash at his farm. Mnangagwa's farm, Pricabe Enterprises, seemingly received $1m from South African entrepreneur Zunaid Moti's African Chrome Fields on 5 December 2017. Why? (Moti says it was loan or investment.) thesentry.org/reports/spinca…

@daddyhope But the South African state doesn’t have such a capacity to coup proof any other state, let alone the capability for military intervention. Eastern DRC refers, not to mention Lesotho in the 1990’s. That’s vain talk, if true.

Hopes of a military coup against President Emmerson Mnangagwa, led by his vice president, General Constantino Chiwenga and his associates, have reportedly been quashed after sources say that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa assured his Zimbabwean counterpart that South Africa will not countenance any unconstitutional removal of a president in Zimbabwe. Today, President Emmerson Mnangagwa met with Ramaphosa in Harare, where he was received by Mnangagwa alongside businessmen Wicknell Chivayo and Kudakwashe Tagwirei, before the two leaders and the two businessmen flew on a one hour helicopter trip together to Mnangagwa’s farm, Precabe, in Kwekwe. They toured the farm, where the South African president was shown Mnangagwa’s Ankoli cattle and fish breeding pools. When they reached the ostriches, Ramaphosa is said to have remarked, in a pointed and politically loaded statement, that “nothing and nobody will remove my elder brother from power unconstitutionally.” The remark was made in the presence of members of the delegation accompanying the two leaders. “The owner of these ostriches will be president until 2030 if Parliament says so,” Ramaphosa is further reported to have said, reinforcing his assurance to Mnangagwa and those present. The two leaders then went into a four-hour closed-door meeting, where they were joined by Tagwirei and Chivayo. The meeting was described as highly personal and private, with even the president’s spokesperson, George Charamba, excluded from the delegation for today’s visit. Sources familiar with the discussions say Ramaphosa made it clear that South Africa would neither support nor recognise a military coup against Mnangagwa. Those within Mnangagwa’s inner circle were reportedly buoyant after the engagement, interpreting Ramaphosa’s position as a significant reinforcement of regional backing. They believe that, with South Africa’s stance now aligned with that of countries such as Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, and, more recently, Botswana, where Chivayo travelled in recent days, Mnangagwa has effectively strengthened his position and insulated his presidency within the region against any potential coup attempt. What was significant today is that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s trip to Zimbabwe, which I broke last night, was not an official bilateral state engagement conducted at the level of heads of state. It was a private trip, and sources in Pretoria say that many people in the president’s office, and indeed within DIRCO, the foreign affairs department of South Africa, were not aware of it. President Cyril Ramaphosa is now back in South Africa after the short visit to Zimbabwe.

@Sophie_Mokoena I hear it was meant to be a secret visit until it was leaked yesterday?

I really don’t know. The presidency has not issued a statement. However I am sure the media in Zimbabwe will share some light.

@SajeniMapuranga @BlessedGeza @TembaMliswa @LynneStactia @kerinamujati @Jamwanda2 Hezvo!

IT HAS HAPPENED. EXACTLY AS I SAID.

@daddyhope @realyassinali Havanyare!

I have received information that I cannot in good conscience sit on. President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa is visiting Zimbabwe. Not an official state visit with full diplomatic protocol.Not a SADC summit with regional agenda. Not an AU engagement with continental purpose. A private visit.And the destination after the obligatory Harare formalities is Precabe Farm. Kwekwe.

@daddyhope @czhixs Ndiani?

I hear that an African president is visiting Zimbabwe tomorrow and proceeding to Kwekwe’s famous farm. Interesting times.

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. Gramsci’s quote could not be more appropriate for Zimbabwe today. The resistance to the latest, unashamed entrenchment of elite power by a faction of ZANU-PF using CAB3, demonstrates how broken the nation has become. With Zimbabwe perilously close to moving from fragile to a failed state, the deeper argument is not merely that about a constitutional amendment but about the national question that has been subverted by narrow political interest. Even if passed CAB3 is not expected to resolve Zimbabwe's broken politics. Instead, it is expected to exercabate the country's polarisation, intensify the exclusion, frustration and anger of the citizens and escalate the decades old political crisis. When countries reach such crisis points, the need for an inclusive political settlement becomes imperative, and this always begins with an inclusive national dialogue: this has been the way in over 60% of the political transitions over the past 50 years worldwide. For Zimbabwe this began with the Lancaster House process in 1979. In South Africa it manifested in CODESA. In Mozambique, in Vatican led dialogue and Peace Process in 1990 and more recently the President Chapo led National Dialogue following the electoral crisis. So, the question is simply: Do we urgently need a national dialogue, and what should be the focus and form of that national dialogue? This question will be addressed by an expert panel.

@tafimhaka @chrispdon Horror!

On 27 January 2002, in Murehwa, Mashonaland East, ZANU-PF youths stopped a man known as Ceekay on the road and demanded his party card. He handed it over. They said it was false, and the beating began there. They struck him with batons, kicked him, slapped him, and dragged him to the ZANU-PF offices. By the time they got him inside, he could barely stand. What followed was something else. Inside that office, ZANU-PF youths forced Ceekay to rape a woman while they watched. Her name was Fungisai Mutemaringa, from Mutoko. After the assault, ZANU-PF youths killed her. The men responsible were Collin Zimura, Esam Kasambarawi, and Shambare. This was organised violence. Fungisai Mutemaringa was killed. Ceekay was forced to live with it. ZANU-PF turned power into humiliation, torture, sexual violence and death.