@glenmpani Great!! I will definitely be in touch with you my Brother.
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Professor Sigabade iNdethi yaseMhlangeni
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Professor Sigabade iNdethi yaseMhlangeni
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Professor Sigabade IAcademic |Researcher | Usalakutshelwa usalakunyenyezelwa | Human Rights Activist l Global Citizen | isiQholo seZhwane #ProfSigabadeVibes
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My brother my apologize if you extend the deadline I can draft something. @mtakagogoe
Professor Sigabade iNdethi yaseMhlangeni@mtakagogoe
@glenmpani I really am so mad at you right now. Remember I invited you to contribute a chapter in my Book on Strategic Communication and Political Campaigns in Africa. This is the stuff I wanted you to elaborate on. Hebanaaa.. yini ngawe …..mxmmmmmm!!
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Professor Sigabade iNdethi yaseMhlangeni retweetledi
En 2007, el profesor de Stanford Joel Peterson impartió una clase de 1 hora sobre cómo negociar y obtener lo que quieres.
Sus 3 ideas:
→ Nunca muestres necesidad
→ La confianza vence a la manipulación
→ Piensa en términos de relaciones
12 lecciones para negociar mejor:
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Huh 🤔 @LarryMadowo good question my Brother. Unfortunately you didn’t get a convincing response from President @HHichilema
That the Summit organisation has been reversed - with Macron coming to meet them ALL in one country doesn’t change anything
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Professor Sigabade iNdethi yaseMhlangeni retweetledi
Dear Chofamba @Chofamba
The question is not whether people are clamouring for a political system. The real question is whether that system resolves a political problem. My intervention is anchored on a simple but critical reality. Zimbabwe has endured a perennial cycle of disputed presidential elections. That is the political problem I am interrogating.
Serious constitutional and political reforms are not born from noise or popularity contests. They are born from the need to create stability, legitimacy, and public confidence in governance systems.
History shows that many political systems across the world were not initially demanded by the masses. They emerged because political actors recognised structural weaknesses that threatened national cohesion and institutional legitimacy. My reflection on the proposed amendments is therefore straightforward. Do they meaningfully address the recurring crisis of disputed presidential outcomes or do they merely preserve the status quo?
To argue that political reform should only be guided by what people are currently clamouring for is to reduce statecraft to sentiment instead of problem solving.
Leadership is not only about responding to public emotion. It is also about anticipating and resolving structural political risks before they become national crises.
Chofamba@Chofamba
.@glenmpani one key question you should have no problems answering: When did Zimbabweans ever clamour for a change in how they elect their President? This “debate” you’re “contributing” to - where among Zimbabwean citizens has it arisen from? Ndepapi uye ndiriini ruzhinji rweZimbabwe parwakati tiri kunzwa shungu yokushandura masarurirwo emutungamiri wenyika? Of course, the question is redundant, because this is a contrived debate. It is not organic; it’s imposed by E.D’s cabal and fuelled by his consultant narrative builders - yourself, @ProfJNMoyo and others - to try and make it a real thing.
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Professor Sigabade iNdethi yaseMhlangeni retweetledi
When it comes to conceptualising, developing and writing research questions for a qualitative study (for a paper or a dissertation), Jane Agee's 2009 article is very helpful.
I also like the fact that the article incorporates ethical considerations in developing questions.
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Professor Sigabade iNdethi yaseMhlangeni retweetledi
Jesus' first miracle wasn't really about running out of wine.
It was about something theologians have argued over for 2,000 years.
The wedding at Cana contains one of the most layered symbols in all of Scripture.
Most people read right past it.
A thread on what it actually means.🧵
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Zimbabweans, when did Lovemore Madhuku a known ally of Mnangagwa & ZANU PF for all along become a trustworthy & go to leader in our fight against ZANU PF??
Madhuku supported the Coup in 2017. He later worked closely with Mnangagwa & was handsomely rewarded for his work in POLAD
Trevor Ncube@TrevorNcube
The constitution is not theirs to amend. It is ours to defend. My @ConvoWithTrevor with Professor Lovemore Madhuku is the clearest guide yet to what is at stake — and what each of us must do. Watch it. Share it. Defend the Constitution. youtu.be/lcHjETTKEDI?si… #RejectCAB3 #DefendTheConstitution #icwt26
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Professor Sigabade iNdethi yaseMhlangeni retweetledi
EEF President Julius Malema Breaks Down Parliament's Impeachment Process for President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Phala Phala scandal
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@glenmpani I really am so mad at you right now.
Remember I invited you to contribute a chapter in my Book on Strategic Communication and Political Campaigns in Africa. This is the stuff I wanted you to elaborate on.
Hebanaaa.. yini ngawe …..mxmmmmmm!!
Glen Sungano Mpani@glenmpani
Campaigns Do Not Lose Because They Lack Messages. They Lose Because Voters Interpret Them Differently.” Political campaigns often fail not because they lack messages, but because they misunderstand how voters process information. There is always a gap between what campaigns say and what voters actually hear. Every message passes through identity, lived experience, emotion, fear, hope, memory, and bias before it is accepted or rejected. A campaign may believe it is communicating vision, while voters interpret arrogance. It may believe it is projecting strength, while voters perceive desperation. Communication is never received as intended. It is received as interpreted. That is why political communication is not about speaking louder. It is about understanding deeper. The most dangerous mistake in campaigns is assuming the audience hears what you meant to say. Voters do not consume messages in a vacuum. They interpret them through the realities of their daily lives. Perception is not controlled by the sender. It is determined by the audience. Effective campaigns understand this. They do not just craft messages. They anticipate interpretation. They understand how different communities will process the same words differently. They know that successful political communication is not built on assumption. It is built on behavioural insight, data, culture, and emotional intelligence. Campaigns are not won by the best speech. They are won by the best understood message. This is why political communication cannot be left to chance or to conventional advertising approaches. It requires specialists who understand campaigns, voter psychology, persuasion, narrative warfare, and behavioural insight. At UNDA Africa, political communication is treated as both a science and an art. From strategic messaging and rapid response to multimedia storytelling and narrative engineering, UNDA Africa continues to distinguish itself as the go-to political communication agency for campaigns serious about influence, persuasion, and impact. If perception shapes political reality, then communication must be engineered with precision. #PoliticalCampaigns #PoliticalCommunication #CampaignStrategy #VoterBehaviour #NarrativeBuilding #PoliticalMarketing #DataDrivenCampaigns #CampaignMessaging #UNDAAfrica #ICPC
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Well said @glenmpani the level of intellectual laziness we see in these corridors is so shocking!
Glen Sungano Mpani@glenmpani
I rarely respond to posts that are malicious, intellectually dishonest, or authored from behind faceless profiles masquerading as serious commentary. What is striking here is not the critique itself, but the inability to distinguish between two completely separate discussions. My article was never intended to be a constitutional law thesis on the procedural mechanics of amending presidential election systems. It was a political and policy reflection on the merits and implications of direct versus indirect presidential elections, and whether an indirect system may, in certain contexts, better serve Zimbabwe. To attack an article for not addressing a question it never set out to answer is not intellectual rigour. It is either careless reading or deliberate misrepresentation. One would expect an award-winning journalist of Blessed’s supposed calibre to appreciate the elementary difference between a policy argument and a constitutional analysis. Conflating the two is not sophisticated criticism. It is analytical laziness dressed up as commentary. The constitutional process of effecting such a change is indeed an important discussion. It deserves its own serious and technically grounded article. Perhaps that is the article he should focus on writing instead of shadowboxing arguments that were never made @bbmhlanga
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Professor Sigabade iNdethi yaseMhlangeni retweetledi
@mtakagogoe @glenmpani Indeed Prof, the problem with this charlatans is they are consuming information with the intent to reply, rather than to comprehend. Glen put a masterpiece of an article.
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@mtakagogoe @glenmpani Challenge is they love making noise pasina logic
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@Va_Zhoou Also the kind of school is very important. Zimbabweans are generally a very mediocre society because of that!
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Professor Sigabade iNdethi yaseMhlangeni retweetledi
@mtakagogoe Hahaha..... Anyways we allowed Harare Poly to destroy our activism. We can't fight. We deserve this shit!
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So Mzukulu @mawarirej are you saying if the first-past-the-post system were to be removed, and replaced with Proportional Representation you would support the Parliamentary System of electing the president?
…..asking for a friend…🤔🤔🤔
mawarire mbizvo jealousy@mawarirej
Your problem is you are tone deaf. Where parliament chooses a president, members of parliament are chosen through Proportional Representation, not First-Past-The-Post. My argument was for Zimbabwe to move away from First-Past-The-Post to full-time Proportional Representation. Don't cherry pick what you want. In SA, where you are hiding, MPs who choose the president are elected through PR. The proposed changes in CAB3 are targeted at shielding ED from an electorate that never wanted him. It is not a popular policy shift but a contrived move to save an unelectable leader. If there is any thing "individual", it is CAB3.
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Professor Sigabade iNdethi yaseMhlangeni retweetledi
Blessing, one of the greatest crises in public discourse today is the inability to read for comprehension before rushing to perform outrage. I clearly outlined the categories of critics I rarely engage, and unfortunately your response positioned itself perfectly within that category.
You completely missed the central thrust of the article and instead constructed arguments around issues that were never being debated. That is not intellectual engagement. It is intellectual carelessness disguised as analysis.
More importantly, your certainty on whether the Bill withstands constitutional scrutiny is itself part of a deeply contested legal and political debate. Serious constitutional questions are rarely as simplistic and absolute as social media commentators like to imagine. Unfortunately, Zimbabwe’s discourse has increasingly rewarded noise over nuance, confidence over competence, and performance over depth.
Political campaign practitioners fully understand the point the article was making because they appreciate the distinction between analysing political systems and analysing constitutional procedure.
There is a reason why serious practitioners often say, “mastery has boundaries.” The tragedy begins when individuals wander far outside their area of competence while still convinced they are authorities on every subject.
My advice to you is simple. Finish your law degree. Travel more. Read wider. Expose yourself to how political systems evolve across different jurisdictions before presenting yourself as the final authority on complex constitutional and political questions.
One of the tragedies of our generation is how mediocrity has been elevated to the point where individuals with very shallow engagement suddenly believe they possess complete mastery of complicated subjects. Read the article again carefully. You may yet learn something from it.
I suspect I have already afforded this exchange far more time than it deserves.
Have a great day. Adeus. @bbmhlanga
Dhara Blessed Mhlanga@bbmhlanga
@glenmpani Nhai Glen do you know what is faceless, you are engaging in discussion from a false premise, I have a face, a name and you are the one being dishonest. Yes your submission is not Constitutional law, it can’t survive that measure, it does not take away the fact that it’s not sound
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