Julian The King

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Julian The King

Julian The King

@george18dec

A Chartered Certified Accountant

USA Katılım Temmuz 2015
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Julian The King
Julian The King@george18dec·
@PhillipSibanda8 Those hooligans behave the same as zanu pf towards Zimbabwe citizens if they dont support zanu pf. Atleast these idiots they are doing it for SA citizens. Thats How ED behaves
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freelance@PhillipSibanda8·
My piece of advice to my fellow Zimbabweans is to go home and get a small piece of land to start something . this is so painful to see
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Retired Lt General Winston Sigauke Mapuranga
I have attended too many funerals in my lifetime. I have walked behind too many flag-draped coffins, heard too many volleys fired over freshly dug earth, and watched too many widows fold the Zimbabwean flag into a triangle with trembling hands. I know what it looks like when a soldier dies. I know what it smells like when an institution is rotting. when I tell you that something is deeply, profoundly wrong with the pattern of death in our defence and security establishment I am not speaking from a position of bitterness. I am speaking from sixty years of watching this country. I am speaking as a man who has buried colleagues, commanded men who are now themselves in the ground, and who still wakes in the night with the faces of those who should have grown old with me but did not. Death comes to the Barracks early. Death comes wearing the uniform of those who asked no political questions. It comes for the junior officer, the loyal NCO, the general who served without complaint. But death seems reluctant almost embarrassed to knock on certain doors in the leafy suburbs of Harare. It does not hurry when it approaches the halls of power. And those who occupy those halls have noticed this arrangement. They have grown comfortable with it. They have begun to plan around it.They are marching to the National Shrine to bury our brothers, then returning home to campaign for term extensions. Ponder that for a moment. We are told, with straight faces, that our generals are dying of old age. Old age. This is the official explanation. This is the narrative distributed for our consumption.But I was taught mathematics long before I was taught military tactics. And the mathematics here do not compute. The man who stands at the graveside delivering the eulogy is older than the man in the coffin. The civilian who signs the state funeral order was born before the soldier being interred. The political principal who sends his condolences from his mansion outlives, routinely and conspicuously, the very men and women whose sweat and sacrifice built this republic's security architecture. What type of old age is this? What biological phenomenon selectively culls the juniors while preserving the seniors? What manner of mortality respects rank in reverse order killing those below while sparing those above? I am not trafficking in conspiracy. I am raising a question that any serious person, any person who has served, any person who has attended these funerals in the last decade, has asked themselves quietly and dared not voice aloud. I am voicing it aloud. Because silence, at this stage, is complicity. The ritual has become almost theatrical in its regularity. There is a state funeral. There are the military honours, the music, the solemn faces, the carefully composed grief of powerful men who did not visit the deceased when he was ailing. The flag is folded. The wreaths are laid. The speeches are delivered. And then within days, sometimes within hours the very same faces appear on our television screens, campaigning for constitutional amendments that would guarantee their own indefinite tenure.They mourn on Monday and campaign for 2030 on Tuesday. They bury a brigadier general who never questioned orders, and then return home to demand that the Constitution be amended so that the man who gave those orders can never be removed.
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Julian The King
Julian The King@george18dec·
@ProfJNMoyo Money is surely the root of all evil. Jonathan can do anything for money. If his stupidity could be constructive Zimbabwe would have been a 1st world economy country.
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Prof Jonathan Moyo@ProfJNMoyo·
Debunking a Persistent and Dangerous Myth: Zimbabwe’s Constitution Contains Only One Presidential Term Limit Provision: In the intense public debate over the Constitution of Zimbabwe (Amendment No. 3) Bill, an utterly false claim is being repeated relentlessly and without a single shred of evidence: that the Constitution contains two separate presidential term limit provisions—sections 91(2) and 95(2)(b). This assertion is not merely incorrect; it is constitutionally impossible. No constitution anywhere in the world has ever created two distinct term limit provisions for the presidency. Section 95(2)(b) is not—and, according to the Constitution’s own crystal-clear definition in section 328(1), read with section 328(7), cannot possibly be—a term limit provision. A genuine presidential term limit provision restricts the total or maximum length of time any individual may hold or occupy the Office of President. Section 95(2)(b) does nothing of the sort. It simply defines the length of each presidential term as five years, running coterminous with the life of Parliament. In straightforward language, section 95(2)(b) regulates the office itself, not the person who holds it, and says absolutely nothing about how many terms or the length of time any one individual may serve. The Constitution of Zimbabwe (2013) contains only one term limit provision: Section 91(2). This clause is unequivocal and ironclad. It prohibits any person from serving more than two terms as President, with the vital safeguard that three or more years in office counts as a full term. It is only this single provision—and this provision alone—that actually limits the total time any individual can occupy the highest office in the land. Nothing illuminates this fundamental distinction more powerfully than comparative constitutional analysis—the gold standard for both public education and responsible policymaking. As the ancient wisdom has it, there is truly nothing new under the sun. A careful examination of proven global practice, vividly illustrated in the attached infographics, reveals three clear and time-tested approaches that nations around the world have taken when designing presidential term rules: Case 1 – Term length only (unlimited re-election permitted) Constitutions in this category have a single provision that simply defines the length of each presidential term, leaving the number of terms entirely open. This constitutional model operated successfully for decades—for example—in Botswana (31 years, 1966–1997), the United States (163 years, 1789–1951), and Zimbabwe itself (23 years, 1987–2013). Case 2 – Two separate provisions Here constitutions have two separate provisions: one that sets the length of each presidential term; and a second, entirely distinct clause that limits the total time any person may serve as President. This is precisely the framework that has—for example—operated in Botswana since 1997, South Africa since 1996, the United States since 1951, and Zimbabwe since 2013. The first infographic displays this clear separation of the two provisions across all the four countries. Case 3 – Combined in one elegant clause Constitutions in this category have a single constitutional provision that seamlessly merges both term limit concepts—defining term length while simultaneously imposing the limit. This approach has—for example— stood the test of time in Argentina (since 1994), Chile (since 1980), France (since 1958), Mexico (since 1917), the Philippines (since 1987), and South Korea (since 1987), as shown in the second infographic. The historical record is especially telling. Botswana introduced its separate term limit provision only after 31 years of independence, the United States after 163 years, and Zimbabwe after more than two decades of operating under a pure term-length provision. South Africa, by contrast, enshrined both provisions, separately, from the very first day of its democratic Constitution in 1996. These facts drive home an irrefutable truth: a provision that merely defines the length of a term has never been—and can never be—a term limit provision. The distinction is not a technicality; it is the bedrock of constitutional integrity. Recognising it clearly ensures that public discourse and debate on constitutional amendments is anchored in facts, logic, and proven international best practice, rather than convenient fiction to advance nefarious political agendas. Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans deserve nothing less!
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Julian The King
Julian The King@george18dec·
@NgarivhumeJ When the bible says money is the route of all evil this is what they mean. You can't worship God and money at the same time. Tagwirei opted for money
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Jacob Ngarivhume@NgarivhumeJ·
Good morning. I am waking up to this very disturbing news. Tagwirei comparing ED to God. He says when ED speaks, God has spoken. Varume musadaro. Huye kana tazogara ngatisadaro. Let us pray for our country. God bless 🇿🇼 🇿🇼 🇿🇼
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mutonhodza@chari639408·
Soon will lend spectators to those who dont see ,the second republic had proven the west that ,nothing is impossible,it real showed middle finger to the IMF,zvese tikuzviitira nemari yedu CAb3 had come to the right time,when Zimbabwe needed it the most ,we say yes to Cab3
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Levison Chambati@ChambatiLevison·
President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa @edmnangagwa is one of the few Presidents in the world who promised REAL CHANGE in 2017 and went on to deliver it. When he said that load shedding, fuel shortages, and similar challenges would become a thing of the past, no one believed him. Today, we have even forgotten that we once had load shedding issues, only to be reminded by people living in South Africa. ED promised prosperity to the people of Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 , and he has delivered it as it is. He is a worthy candidate for the Guinness Book of Records. @Jamwanda2 @vudzijenaj @KMutisi @bashi92178 @pmkwananzi @pandukai @chrissy10charu @CMukungunugwa @bbmhlanga @mugutiLorraine
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Julian The King@george18dec·
@hon_mugari @masibanda_ These zanoids it's either akamama pfungwa vakasiya ndove mumisoro or he or she is a murderer. Does don't shout on top of a roof but Thier work speaks for itself.
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Masibanda🐵@masibanda_·
Ndakabva kuSouth kwandaigara ndakauya kuZimbabwe ndakarima honai chibage changu ,munyika mangu,muivhu rangu no rentals 😂😂😂munokuvara nemarentals kuDiaspora dzokai Zimbabwe ine mikana ,President vedu vakusupporter munhu wese
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Paddy Pardon
Paddy Pardon@CdeNgomaNeHosho·
A closer look at governance systems across the Commonwealth countries reveals an often-overlooked reality: the majority of member states do not directly elect their head of government. In fact, 35 out of 56 countries—approximately 63%—use constitutional mechanisms such as parliamentary selection processes. As Zimbabwe,we may not be in the Commonwealth, but most of its members are our development peers—so on democratic governance, that’s a useful benchmark. #CAB3 Bhoo zvekuti #Vision2030
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Julian The King@george18dec·
@cozwva Thanks to the evil rule of Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa and his evil father Robert Mugabe supported by demons in the likes of Chiwenga. Why would they not be killed. Zimbabweans are all scattered around the world, thanks to ED
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COZWVA
COZWVA@cozwva·
This Zim🇿🇼 woman was gunned💔😭 down in Johannesburg after refusing to give a Zulu man some free pap &meat that she was selling. They had an argument & the Zulu man took out a gun & shot her 3 times. The streets of Johannesburg have really swallowed a lot of Zimbos RIP🕊⚰️😭💔
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Tafi Mhaka@tafimhaka·
🧵 Zimbabwe’s Lost Businesses since Independence — The Looted, Collapsed & Forgotten Giants 1/ Ziscosteel Africa’s steel giant. Five thousand jobs. A city built on furnaces. Bankrupt by the 2000s — wages unpaid, furnaces cold. Essar came in 2011 — Obert Mpofu blocked the ore rights; the deal froze. R&F tried in 2017 — factional wars under Mnangagwa killed it. In 2025, Redcliff is still closed.
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Tafi Mhaka@tafimhaka·
Gordon Mpofu was a child at the time of Gukurahundi and described what the dreaded Fifth Brigade did to his parents. "They came to our village and accused my father of helping the dissidents. He denied it, and so they assembled us all in the area between our huts and made us sit on the ground. Then they took my mother and tied rope around her ankles and hoisted her, upside down, into a tree, so that her head was maybe a metre off the ground. As we watched and cried, one of the soldiers gouged out her eyes with a knife, while others made a fire underneath her and baked her head until she was dead. I can still hear her screaming for help." "My father was tied to the next tree, from where he was forced to watch.‘When my mother was dead, they beat my father with their rifle butts until he vomited and finally passed out. By the time they left our village, he was dead." Battle For Zimbabwe: The Final Countdown (2005)
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Tafi Mhaka@tafimhaka·
A photo showing Ishmael Kumire, 42, and his children is displayed during Kumire's funeral ceremony in Chinamhora Village, Domboshava, after he was shot dead by ZNA soldiers during a violent crackdown on a peaceful demonstration on August 1, 2018 in Harare. Kumire was shot dead while standing at his fruit vending stall in downtown Harare.
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Julian The King@george18dec·
@tafimhaka So expecting anything good from ED is asking for too much. Most karanga's are naturally cowards, thieves rapist and coupist.
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Tafi Mhaka@tafimhaka·
🧵 The Assassination of Herbert Chitepo — ZANU’s Inside Job 1/ 18 March 1975, 8:00 AM. Lusaka, Zambia. A VW Beetle explodes outside No. 150 Muramba Road, Chilenje South. Inside: Herbert Wiltshire Chitepo, ZANU Chairman. Killed instantly alongside his bodyguard Silas Shamiso. A local boy, Sambwa Chaya, later dies from injuries. At first, all fingers pointed at Rhodesia. The truth was far worse.
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Tafi Mhaka@tafimhaka·
As politicians in Harare raised the flag of freedom on 18 April 2000 — Zimbabwe’s 20th Independence Day — 50–70 armed ZANU-PF war veterans and ex-Fifth Brigade soldiers surrounded Nyamandhlovu farmer Martin Olds' farm. His wife Kathy and their children had already fled after death threats. Alone, he fought for two hours, wounding several attackers before they overpowered him. They dragged him from his home, beat him, shot him in the head, and left his body in the burning ruins.
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Tafi Mhaka@tafimhaka·
The game we are about to play needs music," the Zimbabwean police constable said to the 12-year old girl. But as he tossed a mattress on to the ground it was clear that it was no game that he was planning. For the next four hours the girl's mother and younger sisters, aged nine and seven, were forced to chant praises to Robert Mugabe and watch Dora being gang-raped by five "war veterans" and the policeman. "Every time they stopped singing the policeman and war vets beat them with shamboks and sticks," said Dora, crying and clenching her hands repeatedly as she recalled the ordeal which took place behind her family hut in a village in the dark shadow of the Vumba mountains of Manicaland, in eastern Zimbabwe. "They kept thrusting themselves into me over and over again saying: 'This is the punishment for those of you who want to sell this country to Tony Blair and the whites'. When they had finished it hurt so much I couldn't walk." Now in hiding, spending most of her nights in frightened wakefulness, she remembers feeling the rough breath on her face, the hands forcing apart her thighs, and "that animal thing" as she calls it slamming into her underfed body. Dora was raped because her father is a supporter of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. He is not a candidate, not a party official, just a simple carpenter who had mistakenly believed that he lived in a country where he could vote for whom he liked. — 25 August 2002
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mutonhodza@chari639408·
We say no to referendum because,we are law abiding nation ,we dont go against the law to please the east or west ,let noone will be negative trying to spoil our great nation,increasing life of parliament does not need referendum so we follow the law not charlatans #CAB3BHOO
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Tafi Mhaka@tafimhaka·
🧵 The Burning of Tichaona Chiminya & Talent Mabika — ZANU PF’s Road to Hell 1/ 6 April 2000, Buhera. MDC activists Tichaona Chiminya — a ZANLA war veteran turned opposition driver — and Talent Mabika, 27, a fearless MDC youth organiser, were ambushed after campaigning for Morgan Tsvangirai. CIO operative Joseph Mwale and war vet enforcer Kainos “Kitsiyatota” Zimunya rammed their car off the road.
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Tafi Mhaka@tafimhaka·
🧵 Chiwenga, Helicopters & Mass Graves — The Chiadzwa Diamond Slaughter 1/ October 2008 in Chiadzwa. Operation Hakudzokwi—“You Will Not Return”—was unleashed by Defence Forces Commander Constantine Chiwenga and Air Force chief Perrance Shiri. Over 800 soldiers, police, and spies stormed the diamond fields. Helicopters rained bullets down on miners scrambling in the dust. At least 200 were killed in weeks—locals say far more.
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