Raisedon Baya is a multi award winning playwright, author, columnist, critic, arts administrator & cultural activist tweeting in his personal capacity.
Big lesson from past revolutions is that once the job is done "the masses must chuck out the leaders. " This is to stop the "I brought you independence/ change" mentality we see with many liberation movements of our time. A mentality that often leads back to authoritarianism.
Let's pause a bit and appreciate so beautiful rural homes. The pics are part of My Beautiful Home Project being in Matobo district. Just check the sofaπππ
This is Ngqabutho Khumalo, a form 4 pupil at Gwanda High, Matabeleland South. He says all he wants is to be a professional artists. We want to get to do a solo exhibition once he writes his O' level exams. RT and let's make the works know him.
Dear Zimbos
Can we make
@namataik_
trend once more. She is a young woman fighting against amending a constitution that has rarely been implemented. She was arrested again today.
#FreeNamatai
I am not an MDC supporter but yesterday
@advocatemahere
earned my respect. She went to the ground and became one with the people and their cause. Respect!
When I was growing up K. Moyana was the Governor of the Reserve Bank. That man never made a public speech. Most of us never knew how he looked. The only thing we knew about him was his signature on bank notes. He was leadership.
My experiences with the Zim police today. If you find yourself at the police station, no matter how much you know your rights etc, if you are not a lawyer, be humble, play ignorant, never be emotional, forget about time, call everyone chef, and you will come out OK. πππ
Watching Tuku perform at Bra Hugh's memorial service I had this feeling that maybe Zimbabwe needs to actual honour Tuku now while he is still alive. The old man has been a true Ambassador of Zimbabwean arts and culture. Let's give him roses now when he can still smell them!
May I take this opportunity to wish that woman who spent the whole year feeding kids in Chitungwiza a Merry Xmas. She was one of the brighter lights in 2020. Have forgotten her name and her handle. RT until she sees it.
My first film set was under this man Cont Mhlanga. He introduced me to film and the art of telling stories with minimum resources. Today is Khulu's birthday. Help me wish him a big day and many many more productive ones.
I might be wrong but I don't think
@daddyhope
stood up to fight coz he wanted crowds to follow him in the streets. He stood up for a cause he strongly believes in and prepared to die for. Crowds or no crowds. He is fighting a good fight. Exposing corruption.
Sir Wicknell is bringing a Rolls Royce he bought for over 700K cash and there is no noise on Twitter or green app about how that money could be our Zesa money. Now Yvonne shows a Range Rover, probably not bought cash, but we explodeπ³π³Zimbabweans will never sing Freedom Songs.
We must be careful of the hate we are teaching our children.
To hate the police
To hate ZBC
To hate and not trust civil service
To hate the national flag
To hate the national anthem
We have taught them to hate their identity, hate themselves.
Rights and responsibilities. Simple. Someone saying this is child labourπ³π³ Children have been learning under a tree for years. They get a classroom. Someone sees them cleaning it and screams child labour! We are walking on eggshells u tell you.
Bheki Cele at a taxi rank looking for Zimbabweans to send back home. The humiliations Zim people are going through in SA is bad guys. A whole minister going out there just to embarrass Zimbos πππ
I think it's OK to be afraid. We all are. It's also OK to be silent, if you are comfortable in your silence. What is NOT Ok is trying to slander those that have found courage to speak or try to instil fear in those that are speaking out.
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter
We shud not applaud radio stations for playin Cal-Vin's music today when they didn't play it when he really needed the airplay. How many yrs did he produce music & how many of his songs do pple know? Relatively unknown coz his music was not played as regularly as it shud have bn
Whatever history has to be written about women on the frontline, women who have found their voices and are speaking for others, please don't leave this woman's name. ππ Her name is
@Mamoxn
Zanu PF is not Zimbabwe
Talking bad about Zanu PF is not the same as talking about about Zimbabwe. Wanting Zanu PF to stop stealing and abusing people is not the same as wishing Zimbabwe to fail. Let's make that clear!
#Zimbabweanlivesmatters
There is a legend in Hwange that a Malawian man retired from work and decided to take back with him to Malawi the company house he had been living in as part of his package. They say when he left the next day the house was gone. Everything. π€£π€£π€£
We can't keep saying
Let's wait till the next election
Since 2000 that has been the song
Let's wait till the next election
Time moves
Dreams die
People get old and lose hope
Something gotta give
Or else the song will never change.
Job Sikhala's story abt the prisoners he met in Chikuribi Prison is a reminder that there are many political prisoners we have "chosen" to forget because they are not popular. We need a list of all political prisoners in jail so we keep calling their names and remembering them
Cont Mhlanga was not just your ordinary playwright & director. He was a leader. He was a thinker. He was a pioneer. He was a visionary. He was so many things. The best way to honour him is to give him national honours. We must not just mourn him but celebrate his legacy
1.2. Dear Police Officers Working In Matabeleland. It is very important to learn IsiNdebele & try to use it to communicate with locals. Make locals feel its OK to use their own language when reporting cases or when they have been arrested. Locals shud not struggle to communicate.
No disrespect to other parties already in existence but I think Bulawayo needs another strong and vocal political entity to challenge ZANU PF and MDC Alliance. An all inclusive entity that will put Bulawayo and all its residents first.
Dear Zimbos can we do a Marvellous Nakamba on this one. RT and vote until the world asks who is this woman. She has opened doors for others Zimbos. The doors will be wider if she wins.
This young woman is a fighter. She is now the voice of the albino community. When she posts sad stories about her community I always ask myself why is the albino community not getting free medical treatment at all Gvt hospitals. Why not?
It's not tribalistic to say Harare has killed the whole country. We say so becoz national leaders live in Harare. And most decisions that have crippled the country were made in Harare. Nothing tribal. It is also not tribal to call for equitable distribution of the national cake.
An MP donated about 1000 ballpens and made a speech thanking the President for making it possible for him to donate $50 worth pens!!!!! Dear God, deliver us from politicians!
I would rather die
In the middle of a crowded street
Right in the thick of a revolution
Fighting for the future of my children
Than die
Peacefully of hunger
In the silence of my empty house
Knowing the same hunger
Will stock and later kill
My children.
Viva Revolution!
I went to a certain meeting wearing a yellow t-shirt. Mind you I had this t-shirt way before CCC came into existence. A certain broadcaster was there and they edited me out. π€£π€£π€£I love my country.
Democracy is good. It means choices. Many choices. But Saviours Kasukuwere cannot be the man to save Zimbabwe. He is not in exhile because he wanted to save ordinary Zimbabweans. He is in exhile because he choice a wrong Zanu faction. And that big house of his tells more abt him.
As long as people are still able to watch DStv, get basic groceries from SA or Botswana, send their kids to school, buy Japanese cars let's forget about a revolution. Most of us are still too comfortable to want to upset the applecart.
It's my mother's birthday today. She is a great woman and some of my writings have been inspired by this woman. Wishing her many more to come. πππ
If elections go ahead with the 12 CCC candidates missing (excluded) then I will not be exercising my right to vote this year. Its a decision I have made today.
Paul Munakopa was gunned down by a policeman in Byo. Simply cold blooded murder. His issue is not political but a human rights issue. Someone just took his like for nothing. We must all stand up and demand
#JusticeForPaul
RT until ZRP shows us the identity of the killer cop
Vusa Mkhaya got an international award recognising his work and no big welcoming party was planned or even suggested and then someone is taken to see an awards ceremony and we are planning a big welcoming party. The things we celebrate in this country. π€£π€£π€£
Harare is not Zimbabwe!
Harare is not Zimbabwe!
Harare is not Zimbavwe!
Harare is not Zimbabwe!
Will repeat this until it hits home and we see change in how we treat national projects!
I have an ask:
So if Vincent Tsvangirai is a matric dropout and can't string a paragraph together in English, how did the the MDC A leadership endorse him and why was he voted into parliament? To go and sleep? It means we must interrogate the process of choosing representatives
The late Zairean ditactor Mobutu once brought the biggest boxing match btwn Foreman & Ali to the slums of Zaire. Paid millions for the match. People all over the world talked about the match BUT it did not clean his image. This post has nothing to do with Mayweather Jnrπ€£π€£
Last Sunday veteran actor Aleck Zulu lost everything to a mysterious fire. While at church his room caught fire, burning everything & literally leaving him with the clothes he went to church with. Any assistance to him will be greatly appreciated. His numbers are 0773472094
Job Sikhala moved too fast! He is a likable character. Good fighter. His incarceration has given some capital. But he moved too fast. He was supposed to rest and study the situation first. Those handling him have bungled a good chance.
Still traumatised by the house that Tyson had built for himself before he fled. Can a person like that come back and talk to us about stop corruption and understanding what ordinary people are going through. Before I vote for him I would need a lot of answers first.
A video of Beatrice Mtetwa breaking down as she talks about how the courts have treated Marry Chiwenga sums up what politics in Zimbabwe has reduced all of us. We are at the level where we all want to scream helplessly and ask: is this OK? Is this the life? Is this JUSTICE?
In silencing Pius Ncube with the sex scandal Zanu PF silenced more than just an individual. They silenced the whole church. Look at how silent the church is on matters of abuse, corruption and bad gorvenance
Ngqabutho Khumalo, form 4 student at Gwanda High, is talented & needs help to put up a solo art exhibition in Byo. He did this pencil art of a Chimanimani family that was a victim of
#cycloneidai
RT & help him realise his dream. Any support towards the exhibition welcome
Totally surprised to read today that Henry Cele had no previous acting experience when he was cast as Shaka in the hit series Shaka Zulu. He nailed that role like he had rehearsed for it the whole of his life
So according to Zim courts wanting ZANU PF out of power is a punishable "offence". Unless if I got it wrong today. If so does that mean we are now in a one party state mode?
Half the people who claim to be Christians will certainly consult a traditional healer or seer if a serious illness attacks their family. Most Zimbos are dual believers but will not acknowledge ATR publicly.