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@RangTiger
🌍 Exploring Africa's Tapestry | Tech Professional 🚀 | Passionate about Culture, Innovation & Unity | African Wonders 🌿🔍 | #AfricaAdventures 🦓🎶
England, United Kingdom Katılım Ekim 2014
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Zimbabwe Parliament has failed in its fundamental duty to provide a safe environment for public consultations. Pandemonium in such enclosed spaces is extremely dangerous to the public & can be fatal.
Under such conditions, the constitutional consultation process cannot proceed legitimately. A government that cannot protect citizens exercising their rights to speak freely has no basis to claim that its consultative processes are genuine. Until the state guarantees safety and ensures free and open participation, this process must be halted.
Violence should never be the instrument that substitutes for debate. The legitimacy of any constitutional process depends on the ability of citizens to participate without fear of assault or intimidation. Anything less is not consultation.
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@hankasello The ecosystem needed for e-commerce to thrive is still weak in Zimbabwe, i.e. robust payment systems that can scale online, efficient logistics networks, accessible capital markets, large total addressable market and currency stability. Bonus, business friendly environment.
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The assault on human rights lawyer David Coltart during constitutional amendment consultations is not an isolated incident. It is yet another clear example of the ruling party asserting its monopoly on violence to control the political arena.
When a political system relies on organised thugs to disrupt public consultations, assault participants, and silence opposing views, it reveals a fundamental imbalance, one side claims the right to use force while everyone else is expected to remain peaceful.
What makes this even more telling is that none of the ruling elite themselves showed up to face the public at these consultations. If the process were genuine, those proposing such consequential constitutional changes would be present to hear citizens directly. Their absence exposes the consultations for what they increasingly look like, a stage-managed exercise where the outcome is predetermined and dissent must be suppressed.
This is not accidental. The ruling elite that emerged from the Rhodesian Bush War carried forward a governing logic shaped by war, where control of violence determines political power. In such systems, constitutional processes become theatre because genuine public participation introduces uncertainty.
A constitutional consultation cannot be legitimate when the monopoly on violence is used to intimidate citizens who wish to speak. That is not consultation. It is coercion disguised as process.
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Breaking: Human rights lawyer Douglas Coltart was attacked by suspected ZANU-PF supporters while attempting to leave the Constitution Amendment Bill public hearing at City Sports Centre in Harare. His phone and eyeglasses were stolen.
NewZimbabwe.com@NewZimbabweCom
Scenes from the ongoing public hearings on the Constitutional Amendment Bill at City Sports Centre.
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@Chilearmy123 Despite the apparent threat, Chalino finished his set. Although it was his last. Saylor should be able to decrypt the message here.
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Michael Saylor reading Google's Quantum report after borrowing money to buy $33 billion BTC
Project Eleven@projecteleven
🚨 Google has sounded the quantum alarm 🚨 Today, they released groundbreaking progress towards breaking crypto using a quantum computer. TLDR - Existing cryptography is dead. Mempool attacks are real. We must migrate to post-quantum now. Thread 🧵
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@matinyarare Violence is way much cheaper than PR especially when you have a monopoly on violence.
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𝗭𝗔𝗡𝗨 𝗣𝗙 𝗗𝗢𝗘𝗦𝗡’𝗧 𝗡𝗘𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗢𝗥 𝗕𝗘𝗔𝗧 𝗣𝗘𝗢𝗣𝗟𝗘 𝗜𝗙 𝗜𝗧 𝗛𝗔𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗦𝗞𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗦.
Before the CAB3 Bill came out, I was one of the only people who could make a video promoting 2030 interesting enough to get over 80 000 people to watch it. Then the Bill came out without consulting people. I saw how it would destroy our constitution and our futures, I changed my mind and chose not to support it.
If ZANU PF has skilled people like me who claim that they removed sanctions and not me, this is the time they should rise to sell CAB3 to the people, without muzzling, arresting or beating people, like I did with sanctions and 2030. You don’t need violence to make people believe. You just need skills to persuade and convince people to change their minds, even when you are selling them rubbish.

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@daddyhope In stark contrast to Trump's assertion Somali's are actually some of the most enterprising Africans. You'll hardly find a Somali man in a job, they run their own businesses. A good example is World Remit founded by is a Somali.
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Somalians are Africans. Yet in this video, American President Donald Trump labels them “stupid” and “low IQ”. That is not just an insult to one nation, it is an insult to an entire continent, to our dignity, our history, and our humanity.
You would never see Europeans applauding a foreign leader who calls them stupid or inferior. Imagine the global outrage if an African leader stood on a platform and declared that an entire European nation was “low IQ” and “stupid”.
There would be diplomatic backlash, wall to wall media condemnation, and calls for accountability. The same applies to Arabs and Asians, there is a line of dignity that is defended fiercely when it is crossed.
But when it comes to Africans, something deeply troubling happens. We have Africans who will defend, excuse, and even celebrate this man who openly demeans them. It is not normal, it is a crisis of self worth.
Because at some point, we must confront an uncomfortable truth. What does it say about us when we rally behind someone who insults our intelligence and our identity? What does it say when we defend him, and attack our own people on his behalf?
This is not about politics. It is about dignity and self worth of ourselves as Africans. It is about whether we see ourselves as equal human beings deserving of respect. Supporting someone who calls you “stupid” and “low IQ” is not loyalty, it is idiotic submission. It is internalised contempt for yourself.
And perhaps the most painful part is this, that in defending him, some end up reinforcing the very stereotype he projects. Not because it is true, but because choosing to support your own humiliation is the clearest abandonment of self respect.
Africans must decide who they are. A people who demand dignity, or a people who defend those who strip it away. You cannot defend a man who calls you stupid without proving his point.
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Presidents can do a lot in the short term given the power & resources in hand.
In El Salvador for example. El Presdente has done a lot in just seven years & is so popular that since 2025, El Salvador's constitution now allows indefinite presidential re-election & it extended presidential terms to six years. From a strict non-consecutice five year term, and still kept the popular public vote.
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Actually, the logic works the other way around. If a party knows it cannot consistently win the popular vote, shifting the presidential election to Parliament makes the path to power far easier. Influencing or buying off a few hundred MPs is far simpler than persuading millions of voters.
What this bill risks creating is not a stronger democracy, but a system where the presidency can effectively be decided through parliamentary manipulation.
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Chamisa Faces New Reality as Presidential Vote Moves to Parliament .
It is clear why opposition leaders like Chamisa @nelsonchamisa are uncomfortable with Clause 3 of the Bill, which introduces a shift from a popular vote to a parliamentary based system for electing the President.
For years, the opposition has relied on claims of rigging after losing elections, often without providing solid evidence. Under this new framework, that familiar narrative becomes far less sustainable, as the outcome will be determined through a structured parliamentary process.
This reform does not remove democracy, it strengthens it by anchoring the election of the President within a clear constitutional and institutional framework. Parliamentary systems are widely recognised and accepted democratic models across the world.
The opposition cannot have it both ways. They cannot continuously reject election outcomes and at the same time oppose reforms aimed at improving and stabilising the system. In many respects, their own actions have contributed to the emergence of such changes.
Ultimately, politics is about participation and accepting outcomes. If the opposition is confident in its support base, it should have no difficulty competing under any lawful constitutional framework.
Video: Hon. Mercy Dinha (MP Zvimba West) explaining Clause 3 of the Bill to Ward 2 District leadership recently.
@DinhamercyHon
@mpslswzim
@bashi92178
@nickmangwana
@Ziyapapa1
@hazelwekwagondo
@chigunwedaniel
@ZANUPF_Official
@edmnangagwa
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@laflameclipping So when drunk, Kevin Hart has a big heart, but Domanism is a whole other level. A Kevin Hart owned watch should be of far significant worth.
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@elonmusk Still remains one of the most remarkable engineering feats of our time. Right up there with semiconductor fabrication & nuclear weapons production.
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@BusInsiderSSA This conveniently happened in 1989 and the reason why is as clear as day.
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@daddyhope Paved roads in the UK were built starting around 43 AD by the Romans. UK roads range from over 5000 years old to modern constructions. It's quite a stretch to compare that to Murehwa, Tsholotsho, Mazvihwa, Bocha.
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A friend came to pick me up tonight so that I can see their businesses tomorrow. This is on a rural road.
This is how rural areas would look if there was a competent government. This is how Murehwa, Tsholotsho, Mazvihwa, Bocha and every rural area in Zimbabwe should look.
Sometimes we need to visualise!!!
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@RangTiger @fariraijames Obviously nextjs
Rabie Ridge, South Africa 🇿🇦 English

@daddyhope Currently $106 & only $41.00 more to trigger a full on global reccession.
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Instead of just seeing shame, we should also see entrepreneurial spirit in this. This man is thinking outside the box. With proper support even something as simple as a fully equipped food trailer, he could turn this into a legitimate street food business. Street food is a thriving niche in cities across the world.
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A capital city is one thing that either brings pride or shame to a people. This is in the heart of Harare, and it shows the economic degradation of our country.
I do not know how my fellow Zimbabweans feel watching sadza being cooked in the middle of the capital city like this, at a place where real and structured economic life used to be vibrant and thriving.
This is what one of the once beautiful and industrialised African capital cities has been reduced to. And this is happening barely a kilometre from the president’s office and less than 500 metres from the mayor’s office.
A capital city should reflect order, productivity, and dignity. Instead, what we are witnessing is the visible collapse of urban management and the slow decay of a city that once stood as a symbol of possibility all because of failed economic policies.
This should bring shame to every right thinking Zimbabwean, regardless of political persuasion. This man, and many like him, are victims of a failed system.
A society that cannot create opportunities for its people pushes them into this kind of undignified survival mode. What we are witnessing in this video is not individual failure, but the real human cost of economic collapse and broken governance.
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