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@baba_nyenyedzi I think it’s 1. Material comforts make the rough & tumble of politics less attractive 2. Many families of independence leaders have spoken of the personal toll to families & family cohesion due to the father’s political activities. So they would rather stay away from politics

@baba_nyenyedzi A few exceptions. Khama and Kenyatta families had sons who followed their independence generation fathers as Presidents. But generally you are right.

Do you think there is a meaningful relationship between political leadership and a genetic disposition toward it? For example, the descendants of precolonial political leaders appear to be largely absent from contemporary African politics. Today’s political class seldom seems to come from those historical lineages. Why is it that the families who once held authority in precolonial societies do not dominate modern politics today?

@baba_nyenyedzi Name a country whose economy is not dependent on oil

@Taks404 Whose problem is it when your economy is oil dependent🤷🏾‍♂️

When gold, copper, silver, and lithium prices were surging, I never heard many African voices saying the world was in a mess. Yet oil rises marginally and suddenly everything is described as a crisis. How did the Western world absorb three- or four-fold increases in commodity prices without runaway inflation? Since it’s them and China who are the buyers? Because commodity booms tend to trigger a counterforce: innovation, in this case AI. That is the difference. Zimbabwe, however, never fully capitalised on the commodity boom. So now a 20% rise in oil prices feels catastrophic. You cannot celebrate geopolitics events simply because they lift the gold price. From time immemorial, oil prices have been volatile and tend to rise during the same geopolitical events. The practical thing to do is accept that China, Russia and USA will do what serves their interests and concomitantly we must take advantage of the opportunities while minimizing the losses.

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@baba_nyenyedzi Musk was an Obama supporter not that long ago. Was that a sign of low IQ then? Which transformed to high IQ when he started supporting Trump 🤣🤣

Americans, on average, have higher IQ scores than Zimbabweans, yet they voted for Trump. The tech Bros, often described as having one of the highest concentrations of high-IQ individuals, also contains many vocal Trump supporters. Many more silent. In that context, it is difficult to sustain the claim that supporting Trump is inherently a sign of low intelligence. If anything, for a Zimbabwean to support Trump despite social pressure, public shaming and performative virtue signalling reflects independent thinking rather than intellectual deficiency. Shaming people for their political preferences is ultimately counterproductive. It substitutes moral posturing for argument and weakens public discourse. When disagreement is treated as proof of stupidity, debate deteriorates and serious engagement disappears.

@Lexmurungu 1980. Nkomo was part of the first cabinet in 1980 as Minister of Home Affairs. You also have the likes of Tekere, Ushewokunze, Silundika in that picture. Silundika was dead by 1987 while Tekere and Ushewokunze were no longer in cabinet

Was this 1980 or 1987? 🤔

@_onlyscott Seydou Keita

Aside from Yaya Touré and Samuel Eto’o, name an African player who has played for Barcelona. Difficult

@SithulileMthet3 @VusaMkhaya I know of a case where a Moyo from Kezi in Matabeleland South married a person of Moyo totem from Mashonaland West. The cheka ukama ceremony required when you marry someone of the same mutupo was performed even though one was Ndebele (Kalanga) and the other Shona (Zezuru)

@VusaMkhaya I've seen people of the same mutupo marrying each other eg Moyos

A question to my Shona Brothers and Sisters. Can someone explain to me how Mutupo (Mitupo) work. How do you know that you are a Shumba, a Mhofu, a Soko etc? Is it connected to your surname? Can 2 people have different surnames but share the same Mutupo? What happens if you marry someone who shares the same Mutupo with you #Ngiyabongamina

@matigary @marcorubio Little Marco Rubio forgets that he is not part of the Anglo Saxon/Nordic elite. His parents were immigrants from Cuba. It’s only through the sacrifices of black Americans in the civil rights movement that a person like him can be a Secretary of State

In his long speech at the Munich conference, Little @marcorubio gave a long speech basically asking Europe to harken back to the days of colonialism and join the United States in engaging in its present colonial ventures. It’s a long speech but that’s the summary of it. It will fail.

@baba_nyenyedzi And what would have been the alternative to addressing the racially skewed ownership and employment patterns in the economy inherited from Apartheid? Appealing to white conscience?

BEE is a tax on capital. It never works

@bla_bidza Mike Munyati. Not Nigel Munyati

In the words of one of Zimbabwe's post-independence finest broadcasters, the late Nigel Munyati. who was a War Veteran himself, "A Hero is a Hero, you don't qualify a hero". He said this when I was standing next to him at the corner of Union Avenue and Second Street, and he was reporting a protest. MHSRIP! Hero status is not, and was never meant to be, a function of ZANU-PF membership. It is rooted in the depth of commitment and sacrifice made in pursuit of a singular historical objective: the liberation of Zimbabwe and the attainment of independence in 1980. That commitment was to the country and its freedom, not to a political party, nor to the personal authority of any individual leader, past or present. Across Mashonaland Central, where I come from and many other parts of the country, countless men and women gave their lives alongside ZANLA and ZIPRA forces without ever holding a party card. They were ordinary villagers, peasants, youths, parents who fed fighters, carried supplies, offered intelligence, sheltered combatants and, in many cases, paid with their lives. Their contribution was no less heroic because it was not framed by formal party affiliation. They fought not for ZANU-PF, but for Zimbabwe. To deny or diminish that sacrifice on the basis of present-day political alignment, or lack of deference to current party leaders, is an act of historical revisionism. It seeks to retroactively privatise a national struggle and recast it as the exclusive property of a political organisation. Worse still, it elevates contemporary power and personal loyalty above collective sacrifice, turning liberation history into a tool of unbridled self-aggrandisement rather than national memory. The current self-serving and pathetic definition of a hero status would have disqualified Joshua Nkomo and his ZIPRA and ZAPU colleagues in the backdrop of the fallout with ZANU PF in the early 1980s. And some of those accorded heros status did not even participate in the liberation struggle; they got the status because they grovelled before the hero status giver. True heroism lies in the courage to risk everything for freedom, not in post-independence political obedience. Any attempt to redefine heroism as loyalty to today’s leadership is not only morally indefensible but an affront to those anonymous patriots whose blood secured the nation’s birth. Aluta Continua!!!

@RexMidzi These were not zvigananda. They were hard working businessmen with traceable records and auditable sources of wealth

Elijah Mwayera & Dennis Makomva Zimbabwean Zvigananda of the 1960s

@iAmKudaMaynard He could have been playing 3 centre backs against 10 men subbing on two defenders. He was completely delusional and egotistic.

Right now we could have been losing but getting stupid things about how Amorim has improved XG and field tilt and that we are suffering but making progress. What an absolute moron that fool was. And everyone who supported him.

@CalvinEmeka Backing a manager doesnt mean tolerating mediocrity. It means accepting that winning a trophy or the league may take time but doesnt take away the need to see demonstrated, progressive improvement in quality of play and results. Amorim was not supposed to be worse than Ten Hag

The fallacy of "Back the Manager." I am thinking if I should do a thread or write a column. That nonsense has to stop at Manchester United. The only thing that keeps a manager in his role should be matches won and eventually, trophies. Thunder fire process 😡

@markgoldbridge Yes

Would you give Bruno 400k a week to keep him?

@SuhailChowdhary We have already tried the upcoming next best coaching superstar thing with Ten Hag and Amorim. De Zerbi gives me Amorim vibes. Down to his temperament No for me. I say if we can’t get a Tuchel or Nagelsmann we stick with Carrick

Manchester United need to stay away from managers like Roberto De Zerbi.

@Shadaya_Knight So why did they kill him if he was a plant. You need to learn about the COINTELPRO programme of the FBI, how they had him under surveillance, MLKs war on poverty. Where he was assasinated and what he was doing there

Ask yourself why they celebrate Martin Luther King but demonize Malcolm X Because the other was a plant and the other an actual revolutionary If you study history well, you will see that all throughout his life, Martin Luther King never really challenged authority. He was more of a preacher, just preaching bible verses & feel good motivations to black people On the other hand Malcolm X was a revolutionary, he challenged authority in every way. He was actually militant, he wanted black people to be actually strong To this very day between the 2 you will find that, what Malcolm X said is still relevant unlike that other guy Martin Luther King wanted to be included at the white man's table whilst Malcolm X wanted the black man to have his own table Martin Luther King day is a joke