Brian Nare

Mdluli. 🔥

I have been arrested. My passport seized. My citizenship stripped. As I write, @HStvNews , @bbmhlanga @olgamuteiwa and @FaithZaba sit in our courts for telling the truth to power. Some of us have already paid. Some of us are paying still. We have no intention of stopping. These past few weeks I saw a glimpse of the Zimbabwe I have dreamed of all my life. I watched the Flag fill our timelines. I watched strangers across class and politics draft submissions to Parliament. I watched ordinary citizens take time off the daily hustle just to be counted. For a brief and beautiful moment, we remembered who we are. Make no mistake. Ian Smith's white minority rule has been replaced by ZANU PF's repressive black minority rule. The fuel cartel. The procurement carnival around Tagwirei, Chivayo and Tungwarara. Wealth that tracks state tenders, not honest markets. We will not be freed by another strongman. We will be freed by strong institutions and an awake citizenry. The nation and the Constitution above party. Country before everything else. Read the full essay 👇 open.substack.com/pub/allthingsz…

Colonised by our own leaders BY BLESSED MHLANGA Speech delivered in Ireland on the Occasion of Africa Day celebrations I am a political and investigative journalist of 25 years whose work has revolved around African leadership, social and economic justice for the ordinary people of Zimbabwe in particular and Southern Africa in general. Delighted to share this stage with you today, to share my perspective which is forged not solely from study or my journalistic work, but personal experience. This event aims at its core to showcase African Leadership, while highlighting solutions in addressing global challenges. This is a step towards strengthening support for equitable partnerships, climate justice and sustainable economic systems on this May 25, where Africa celebrates Africa Day, regardless of the fact that the United Africa remains an elusive dream. Africa is a continent blessed with massive mineral wealth and resources, its climate is conducive and access to arable land is next to none. Its people are hardworking, loving and bolstered but a sense of belonging to communities – we call it ubuntu. Yet my lovely continent is a tale of contradictions, you will see and hear of the African Continental Free Trade Area opening borders for trade among 54 countries, where at the same time you also witness bloody contested elections, institutions strained, or captured to serve the elites. You will see ctizens in Uganda, Zimbabwe, and elsewhere who are demanding accountability, transparency and improved social service delivery being jailed or exiled by governments that have no respect for basic human rights and justice. You see South Africans and Nigerians collaborating in tech, arts, and business across the continent, yet you also see xenophobic violence that shames us all. This is not a contradiction to hide. It is the reality to lead through. Because leadership is not the absence of problems. It is the decision to act on solutions especially when we have problems. The question that becomes fundamental and that needs an answer as soon as yesterday is what is wrong with Africa which is one of the fastest-growing and youngest population globally, there estimation is that by 2050, about 1 in 4 people on earth will be African. The continent has the people, resources, and momentum to shape the direction of the world in the coming decade – can Africa achieve this. We need to arrive at the answer by proffering the solutions that can place Africa on the global table, ensuring we become equal partners in trade, development and general human endavour - the answer to me that is - has always been simple – nothing is wrong with Africa, it is exceptional - except it has bad leaders. Leaders who care not for their people, but are instead engrossed in self-serving power retention schemes to the extent that they sacrifice the deep African wealth just to enrich self and their cronies while abusing their fellow kith and keen. Africa has been colonised by its own leaders. Today the continent is burning, in South Africa there are Xenophobic attacks where black Africans are targeting foreign Black Africans. Civil war is ravaging DRC Congo one of the wealthiest African nations by minerals wealth. Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni is busy beating up supporters of Bobi Wine himself an enduring opposition leader whose only crime is wanting a better Africa. We can’t demand climate justice, without paying attention to the energy needs of an old woman in Dotitio, or the health and education needs of an 18 year old in Mahalape, Botswana. In my own Zimbabwe after a Military coup in 2017 celebrated by many, including myself sadly, as a new beginning, is burning under a new tyranny that abuses law to oppress and violate the rights of its own people. Respected lawyers, opposition leaders, students and journalists are beaten up by police in front of cameras with no consequence.

Happy Goku Day! Let’s celebrate a timeless hero ✨ Leave your favorite Goku moment in the comments! #SonGoku #GokuDay #DragonBall

‘When the righteous prosper the city rejoices. When the wicked perish there are shouts of joy.’

🇿🇦 Black Coffee becomes the first African DJ to sell out the world's busiest music arena, 20,000 capacity O2 Arena in London, UK. He performed with a live orchestra and Alicia Keys as a Special Guest.

Our story 🥹🙌🏽🙌🏽

37 years ago, the legend was born! Vegeta, the ruthless Saiyan prince, made his first appearance in the Dragon Ball Z anime 💫 #DragonBallZ #Vegeta

📹 Wicknell Chivayo’s ex-wife Sonja Madzikanda says she has been arrested after he told police that she stole his phone and leaked a video “of him and a president that’s very compromising.” The video reportedly shows Chivayo meeting South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa (see screen grab in frame two) much earlier than their encounter at Pricabe Farm in Kwekwe a fortnight ago. The video would be highly damaging to Ramaphosa, whose office insisted he was seeing Chivayo for the first time during his visit to President Mnangagwa’s farm

CONFIDENCE IS WHAT WE ARE MISSING AS ZIMBOS • “We are super talented but we lack confidence” Whats your take on this? - Credit - Mono Mukundu, Plot Mhako & Nigel tha Slick Pastor

They slept on the new wave, the streets made it a movement. They are playing catch-up ‘cause the voices behind the mic got too comfortable, too disconnected, too outta touch. No wonder why a call for fresh blood hits a nerve. Peep the arrogance in this 2017 clip.

What’s Behind the Recurring Fires at the Glen View Area 8 Furniture Complex?

Intotal Band + Mbeu & Mhodzi Tribe + Dereck Mpofu + Mr Brown + Munya Mataruse + Tendai Mavengeni + Simba CI + Vimbai Zimuto + Macala Macala + Dj Andile Brown • Live at @motomotofest Festival 2026 • 25th July at The Südebrücke in Cologne. Tickets - weeztix.shop/n3rs6uqd

Working on the final draft of my new novella "Making Others Angry"

Two suggestions for my book cover. Help me choose one.

Now we are gunning for 100K followers on our page. Go watch what we are doing! And please share with others youtu.be/rUtOt6zeswQ?si…

There is a Shona saying about men who can't lie not doing well in matters of the heart. This one is good liar! #Amcalareloaded is on ZBCtv every Wednesday. And on Amplifying Girls Voices TV on YouTube.

"My dreams are your dreams," he says. This is a trap that most girls fall for. #AmacalaReloaded is on ZBCtv every Wednesday. It is also on YouTube on @AmplifyingGirlsVoices Tv

Amacala Reloaded youtu.be/twnJlqf8FIw

If this doesn't motivate you to study hard despite all distractions and hardships in life, then I don't know, look at the shack he grew up in and her mother is staying in. He's finally a University of Pretoria graduate.

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