I had the incredible honour of serving as the Master of Ceremonies at the inaugural global conference on Artificial Intelligence in Political Campaigns, held in Cape Town, South Africa this past week.
With 130 delegates from almost 30 countries, I understand this event achieved
Namatai Kwekweza (20): no dialogue without addressing rape/abductions.Truth - only thing that can set us free. It might make us uncomfortable but it's the only thing that can bring healing.Intergenerational dialogue needed
#NationalPrayerMeeting
@NamataiiKwekwe1
@SlymediaproTv
Drove past someone who looked like Cde Chinoz parking his vehicle.I stopped & called out to see if it was him. Zvikanzi:Ndiwe ani?
Ndikati: 'Mwana asina tsika'
Chinoz aumburuka nekuseka🤣
When Violet met the larger than life Chinoz for the 1st time since the 'farming pple' saga👇🏾
BREAKING NEWS: SADC Gives
@ZECzim
Worst Report Card Ever:
Delimitation Process - FAILED
Delimitation Boundaries - FAILED
Equal Number of Voters per constituency - FAILED
Nomination fees fair? - FAILED
Voters roll access - FAILED
……..,
As for the govt’s
On my travels in East Africa recently, it was good to meet this ‘fugitive’ -
@ProfJNMoyo
It was an incisive meeting spent in his company and being privy to his candid thoughts on a range of issues.
Hopewell Chin'ono tells court:’Holding lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa accountable for posts made on the Beatrice Mtetwa & The Rule of Law Facebook page is similar to holding Man U club accountable for posts posted by Man U fans on a Facebook page created by Fans’- source
@ZLHRLawyers
Vanhu watotanga. Hazi the slogan for the new Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is ‘Chamisa Chete Chete’
Kana kuti:
‘Chinototi Chipinde Chikomana!’😅😂
@CCCzimbabwe
@nelsonchamisa
At last I have a Zim passport after an 18yr struggle! No more arriving in Zim as a foreigner&paying $55visa fees. No more fear of deportation. AM A ZIMBABWEAN-FULLSTOP
Thanks
@ZLHRLawyers
.A STOPLIST hs NO plce in Zim
Wish you all the best in 2019 & beyond
VIDEO:
@nelsonchamisa
's international lawyers arrive from SA for 2moro's poll petition. I asked
@DrNkuSibanda
if their work permit issues hv been finalised.He said they are accredited to be in court & can continue to work as part of the team & that is all that matters for now👇🏾
MDC Alliance rejects ConCourt ruling, which upheld ED's presidential election win.
@nelsonchamisa
's MDC says: ConCourt judges 'captured' by ZANU PF. "Over the next few days we'll be announcing a vigorous programme of action in response to this election theft of the century."👇🏾
It was Baba’s birthday yesterday. We couldn’t celebrate because we lost our 9month old cousin in Zim yesterday. Baba, who turned 72, has also not been well & is self isolating with mhayi. So my brother & his colleagues cheered them up with this social distance celebration 🎉🙏🏿
Sharing appeal circulating for Skye’s face surgery. A Maxillofacial Surgeon in Harare says the 1yr’s face can be reconstructed.
Also share love with single mum Nomatter Mutandwa (20)on +263788598174 who is shunned for giving birth to Skye.Details in link:
First
#NetballWorldCup
appearance - finished 8th. Way to go
#ZimGems
!✊🏾🇿🇼🇿🇼
May have lost the court battle but won the charm war! Lots of love for them all around!
#ZimGems
worth more than their weight in gold😉😉
Hope the professional leagues noticed🙏🏿🤞🏽
@NetballWorldCup
First he brought back the ‘morally compromised’ Kembo Mohadi as Vice President, a couple of years after Mohadi quit amid a sex scandal.
Now President Mnangagwa has announced a cabinet with family members including:
- Kuda Mnangagwa, as deputy finance minister
⁃Tongai Mnangagwa
Zim 66 - 41 Barbados
Proud of our
#ZimGems
...
#NetballWorldCup
tournament debut & they are doing so well. Watch out world our
#ZimGems
will soon rise up to the top!
Player of the match
#PaulineJani
. What an incredible shooting percentage 👏🏿
Good team work girls!! More Fire 🔥 🔥
High Court declares Luke Malaba is no longer Chief Justice or Judge!
He is the first holder of public office in Zimbabwe to be forced to go and be with his grandkids. What a 70th birthday gift👌🏿🙏🏿
Did Hon. Nduna boast (during a Parly Committee hearing) about killing pple? Did he say he’s lost count of just how many?
We know about MPs outbursts in moments of anger but to openly boast about killing & threatening to deal with a fellow MP outside parly is a new low in Zim
MDC Alert: "CIOs follow and attacks Chamisa convoy near Ruwa. Chamisa was returning to Harare following a rally in Marondera"
@nelsonchamisa
is said to be safe
Hi guys...sorry I was not able to share Commission proceedings today. I am currently out of the country on other business. Unfortunately the scheduling was unexpected. Hope to share an exposé/documentary on the 1st August shooting sometime soon
#August1Inquiry
Video: Years before the 2017 coup, Grace Mugabe’s political ambitions were so nakedly obvious that the then leader of the War Veterans Association, Jabulani Sibanda, warned her that “power is not sexually transmitted”. He was relieved of his leadership position soon afterwards.
Lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa says prison authorities asked Hopewell Chin’ono to remove his
#COVID
-19 goggles because they were not sure if they were for protection or to capture prison visuals😳
Do they think Hopewell is James Bond or something like that?
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter
Hino toziya zvipi manje? Zvikambozi: I don’t know who deployed.The army was not involved, it’s people who stole uniforms
Now
@edmnangagwa
admits to sending in the troops?
Is the strategy: 'talk peace & dialogue' while beating the lights out of pple?🤷🏿♀
‘Why would I reply to this menstruating idiot?’😳
The sexism, bigotry, abusive language on
@SABCnews
journalist
@Sophie_Mokoena
in this tweet is shocking. If this
@Jamwanda2
account is run by George Charamba,
@edmnangagwa
’s spokesman, then it says a lot about the entire office!
BALLOTS THEN BULLETS: A
preliminary documentary -1stAug shootings. Video is the result of interviews with the wounded,witnesses & reviewing of hrs of amateur & prof videos/photos.This short version hd been prepared for submission tothe Motlanthe Commission
How can Zim be open for business when we cant even look after our own flagbearers?The national rugby team being treated in the most appalling way in Tunisia where they were forced to sleep on the streets, & had no money for visas.More via
@DavidColtart
Namatai Kwekweza (20) CONTINUED:We only have dialogue when it's too late.When pple are dead, raped or there's vandalism.Make dialogue our culture.Set straight objectives.
@NamataiiKwekwe1
says we are all pple-whether ZPF, MDC, black/white!
#NationalPrayerMeeting
@SlymediaproTv
Human race rendered useless by an angry Mother Nature!
Praying for all the families affected by
#CycloneIDAI
Sadly Zim is more geared up to reacting to peaceful demos than such foreseen disasters. Encouraging to see ordinary pple taking the lead to help our pple. Aluta continua
How many times does the government use file photos of Mbuya Nehanda and Sekuru Kaguvi...and those of the bush war that happened more than 40 years ago in its narration? Would government be seeking to mislead???
"SOUTH African media houses brazenly misled viewers on the situation obtaining in Zimbabwe by using file photos and videos to back their biased reportage, something that even contravenes that country’s broadcasting laws, new data reveals."
Dear
@PoliceZimbabwe
Can you confirm what is happening in this video?
What did these people do to justify this type of force by the police?
Is this acceptable at all?
#blacklivesmatter
So ZANU PF is allowed parallel vote tabulation? Is
@PoliceZimbabwe
going to raid the Shake-Shake building, confiscate all computers and arrest ZANU PF’s Patrick Chinamasa et al, like they did with the
@ercafrica
and
@ZESN1
election monitors?
#ZimbabweDecides2023
In a moment of anger, is Chiwenga about to do something permanently stupid just coz temporarily upset?Isnt divulging personal details likely to be interpreted as saying more about him as well?
Why was she not arrested 5months ago?Is the State being used to settle personal scores?
Video:
@vicenews
/
@HBO
special report on Zim includes interview with Min. Monica Mutsvangwa
MM: What happened in the last 2weeks is tragic & regrettable
Reporter: it's not really enough to say it ws tragic, becoz it happened on your govt's watch
MM:I'm talking about the protests
I did not violate any security protocols nor behave differently from other journalists at the event.
That such blatant intimidation can happen at State House during a business forum should concern all Zimbabweans interested in freedom of information and accountable leadership.
University of Zimbabwe ‘recalls decision to send students on recess’.
Defiant UZ students had refused to leave their hostels to ‘create room for mourners coming for
#RobertMugabe
's funeral’
This brother says:’If this ws Xenophobia, you wud hear Chinese,US, UK nationals being killed. It’s Zims, Nigerians etc.Blacks being killed by black South Africans.Its not Xenophobia but black on black crime.A form of self hate.Time to hold those clowns called leaders accountable’
2days after ED gave himself roads:
Restore Regasi,VP Chiwenga,is back after treatment in China. Apa haana zita raapihwa kana ka dust road🙈
Eish he’s looking too youthful. Is this him or this is a Chinese version-Xi Wenga? Is this why only the Chinese welcomed him at the airport?
So if this ailment was “some minor abdominal ailment”, what is the Hon saying about our health system? Couldn’t it be sorted out at Pari Hospital for instance, or is someone telling porkies???🤔🤔🤔
The Hon. Vice President CDN Chiwenga is recovering well from some minor abdominal ailment in Delhi, India. Meanwhile, His Excellency President ED Mnangagwa has secured lucrative deals that will make a difference to the economy & provide jobs to the youths.
Biti presser: we have now received results of the polls. Results show that we have won these elections and that the next president of Zim is Nelson Chamisa
Was Gen Dr Chiwenga's medical presser featuring the biggest patient in the room?
Fidgety Acting Pres.
Seemed to be a bunch of nerves.What's with the nervous body gestures, irrational language &plaster on both hands? Is Generari still unwell?
Full video:
Maiwe maiwe look at this marriage proposal😍.My friend Ettie ws completely taken by surprise when her boyfriend proposed to her at 40,000ft.This proposal, with a bit of help from
@easyJet
crew, gave the mile high club a classy new defination.Congrats bhururu!Happy hols to you all
Hacktivism as a form of protest.Anonymous grp took down 72govt websites:"This is only a start.Your banking system will also fall.Zim govt you hve become an enemy of Anonymous!Your systems are in danger!In the face of oppression, rebellion becomes our duty"
Ruling not a surprise but the timing is!Why do they continue to push political agendas in the midst of
#coronavirus
? Was this the reason for the lockdown? To dispossess
@nelsonchamisa
of party possessions & eliminate potential for demos etc? Why not deal with
#COVID19
issues 1st?
Witness: No. You represent rogue govts. What are you doing here.I am a taxpayer,I want to know how much you are getting paid.
Dixon: just tell us how many soldiers u saw
Witness: I was running for dear life, they were shooting pple.Ask ED he knows how many soldiers they deployed
Scottish novelist
@Doug_D_Stuart
has won the 2020
#BookerPrize
.
@TheBookerPrizes
shortlist for the £50,000 prize featured
one of Zimbabwe’s finest wordsmiths Tsitsi Dangarembga 👏🏿🙏🏿
Well done
@efie41209591
for being among the best and for flying the 🇿🇼flag!
Chamisa's lawyer: we are working with a huge team of local lawyers & internationally recognised constitutional lawyers working on this petition. My team is being harassed. We do not fear them & we are happy to address the Constitutional Court whilst on death beds & in prison
After Parliament’s ZANU PF Speaker recalled 15 recently-elected opposition MPs, human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa is the only person demonstrating against this unconsitutional seizure. Do we only have one brave democrat in Zimbabwe?🤷🏾♀️
Where are the other millions whose votes
Dear Vice President Kembo Mohadi:
Firstly you distanced yourself, then said your privacy has been infringed.Surely when you allege invasion of privacy, you're effectively pleading guilty?🤷♀️
Pastor
@ShingiMunyeza
says state agents held him hostage at the launch of the Zim Institute of Strategic Thinkers,where he ws guest of honor:”They chased me down a flight of stairs.Being targeted for stating govt has gone rogue & is waging war against citizens.I wont be silenced”
ZBC reporter says a polling station in Norton has 611 registered voters. Then interviews the Presiding Officer - Lazarus Gahadza - who says 992 people voted???? 🙄🤔🤐👇🏾
@ZECzim
@TembaMliswa
@ChrisMutsvangw2
@Wamagaisa
Zim Elections 2023: Convicted rapist turned ZPF praise singer
Would you ask a convicted child rapist to endorse your political party?
‘Spotlight on Zimbabwe’ looks at how Bobby Makaza, the rapist freed recently under a Presidential amnesty, has become one of the poster boys for
1/2 A fish rots from which direction? In an ideal country
@edmnangagwa
would be investigated &expected to comment.
There are behaviors & moral standards commensurate with high office.When such allegations surface a true leader would step aside or allow the law to take its course
Emotional resignation by
@theresa_may
. Imagine a political leader resigning because she failed to deliver!?Unheard of in some parts where failures seem to be rewarded instead. It’s always someone else’s fault. No accountability,no “the buck stops here” ethos!
#trexit
#TheresaMay
Zim govt spokesperson exposes theory suggesting Drs are killing political players through
#COVID19
.
At a time when
@edmnangagwa
is preaching unity, his govt spox
@nickmangwana
is sharing conspiracy theories about ‘medical assassins eliminating political players in hospitals.
Thought this Commission of Inquiry is open for transparency!??? We, journos, are at Cresta Lodge to cover the public hearing and we have been told only ZBC will be allowed to film the proceedings. Is it only the state broadcaster that is allowed to cover this public hearing!!?!?
Human Rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa says police broke into journalist Hopewell Chin’ono’s Harare house and “abducted him”. Police did not produce any warrant when they took him.
@pressfreedom
@CPJAfrica
@daddyhope
@angelaquintal
Abduction system in Zim has got to go says activist
@MatarutseAlbie
:An injury to 1 is an injury to all as we are all suffering.Itai Dzamara stood alone,today we must now stand with Dr
#petermagombeyi
. Govt failed all of us.Violence is a solution for cowards.Time to stand with Drs
The lawyer representing arrested MDC-Alliance MP Job Sikhala has also been arrested. Jeremiah Bamu arrested outside the magistrates court- source
@ZLHRLawyers
To think this total
#AntiSanctionsDay
attendance included:
- CIOs
- frogmarched civil servants
- bused school kids
- the odd supporter from the provinces
- & coerced attendees looking for free tshirts.
This begs the question:- Just how many would have attended voluntarily?
Journalist Hopewell Chin’ono has been denied bail. How is it a man who has never been convicted of a crime all his 49 years is adjudged to have a propensity to commit crimes?😳🤷♀️ And what happened to ‘innocent until proven guilty’?
#JournalismIsNotACrime
Time to name and shame the thugs in the police force who beat up peaceful citizens. Journalists were also caught in the crossfire! There is no excuse for this kind of heavy handedness.
Video credit:
@bbmhlanga
Mugged in SA.Getaway car stopped in the middle of crossroad.Thug came from opposite side of road. Snatched my phone, ran into car & sped off.
#SAPS
wanted my cell serial Nos, b4 opening case.Who moves with serial Nos?Zim appears to be doing better thn SA on managing street crimes
Do these ZANU PF youth actually understand what diplomatic relations/international relations is all about?
Hamufungi kuti uku ndiko kunozi kukotamira museve??😳🤔
@OpenSpaceZW
@usembassyharare
Makomborero Haruzivi Ishe:soldiers came with the intention to kill.Shot pple fleeing. Ministers foretold this day incl Mukupe. ED,Chiwenga culpable.Challenges composition of Commissioners Madhuku & Dixon who is in the business of speaking on behalf of rogue govts & army
Zims expected more from this “restore legacy’ govt. Why did they remove Mugabe who was doing exactly the same as they are doing now? All citizens hear is: Ngazviyende, Zvigoyenda,Ngazvibviswe,Zvigobviswa.Hatizvidi
Why won’t ED simply attend to the refoms kuti masanctions ayende?
Video: *Zimbabwe: Persecution By Prosecution*
The list of opposition opponents being detained and convicted on frivolous charges continues to grow as elections approach. Journalist Violet Gonda explores ‘Persecution by Prosecution’ in the ‘Spotlight on Zimbabwe’ series.
Should ED fire his PR/strategy advisors?Disastrous week for the dispensation:
1Dr
@DMagombeyi
court saga
2Mugabe abandons HeroesAcre
3Rented Dec12 mvt exposed
4
@Harvard
rescinds 1st Lady’s award
5
@Julius_S_Malema
’s
#arrivalists
drama
6Did the fruit fall very far from the tree👇🏿
1/2: Thank you all for the support. The case goes way beyond me - it’s about one’s right to access public documents with no victimization. Access to documentation (IDs, passports, birth certificates) is a constitutional right that is not being offered to all Zims.
Magistrate Nduna said he does not have Wi-Fi at his home for the purposes of doing further research on the State's application to bar Beatrice Mtetwa from representing Hopewell Chin’ono before handing down his ruling.
Hopewell remanded in custody to 18 Aug -
@NewZimbabweCom
Morgan Tsvangirai dies.
In his lifetime MT showed his fellow countrymen that you don’t have to be in the army, to fight in the war. But this final battle was not one that he could win.
RIP to a great Zimbabwean patriot who changed the political playing field in our country
Magistrate Ngoni Nduna rules that lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa stands down from representing journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and directs that the Law Society of Zimbabwe should cancel her licence for "scandalising the court" - source
@zimlive
Video:
@MatarutseAlbie
says
@CyrilRamaphosa
speaks like the spokesperson for the SADC brotherhood of dictators: "He speaks about Zim sanctions but says nothing about corruption, nothing about the violence in Zim...what about economic reforms?What do you stand for Mr. Ramaphosa?"
No Mr. President
@edmnangagwa
This is in very bad taste. Chema is never celebrated, its merely acknowledged, with gratitude and humility, because it's an intergral part of mourning.
Chema handi chipo chepamuchato....
#CycloneIdaiZW
Oppah Muchinguri giving a vote of thanks to the President's speech started by saying 'pasi naJoice Mujuru'!!! The only 'pasi na nhingi' slogan given so far has come from a woman dissing another woman! STOP IT!
President
@edmnangagwa
stressing really hard that it was COVID-19 that killed the retired Air Chief Marshall Perence Shiri.
Is this a good measure announcement, to debunk the ‘poisoning’ narrative?🤷🏾♀️
A snake crawled into opposition activists
@JoanaMamombe
&
@ceechimbiri2
’s
prison cell at Chikurubi yesterday.
@zlhr
’s
@rose_hanzi
confirmed this. Reports say they screamed for help but guards took their time. Said they were waiting for National Parks!