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Progress is born of cooperation, not competition. Let’s build Zimbabwe together — one idea, one act, one citizen at a time.
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A total disgrace to support this murderous scam elections, & an insult to all those committed to the emancipation of the women in these patriarchal societies.
A monumental moment for Tanzania. My heartfelt congratulations to Her Excellency President @SuluhuSamia. Your victory paves the way for women and girls across our continent, proving that with determination, every ceiling can be shattered.
Karibu sana Rais!
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Do not push citizens too far.
Violent protests break out in Tanzania's🇹🇿 biggest city, Dar es Salaam, on Wednesday during an election day.
Hundreds of protesters have been marching towards the Selander Bridge that leads to Dar es Salaam's centre while laying barricades on major highways.
Viral videos of young Tanzanians protesters throwing rocks at security forces and a petrol station in flames are circulating on social media.
Protesters lit fires on roads, vandalised buses, and caused extensive damage to bus terminals and other public infrastructure demanding for electoral reforms, and free political activity.
The police are responding by using tear gas to disperse protesters in another part of the city.
President Samia Suluhu Hassan's government has moved with speed to implement a digital blackout and subsequently cut nationwide internet connectivity even as violence rocks several parts of the country, live network data from @netblocks show.
Hassan, one of only two female heads of state in Africa, won plaudits after coming to power in 2021 for easing repression of political opponents and censorship that proliferated under her predecessor, John Magufuli, who died in office.
But in the last two years, rights campaigners and opposition candidates have accused the government of unexplained abductions of its critics.
Source: @Reuters, @BBCNews, @netblocks.
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But the Press Conference scheduled for 11 am today will proceed as planned, on the ashes of the destruction and in full view of the world and parallel with their “SONA”!
Yes, it will be well; there is a tomorrow in Zimbabwe.
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The burning of the SAPES Centre last night, hours before a press conference by progressives rising to defend the Constitution, was no accident. It was choreography, authored by the same dark architects who have always feared an awakened citizenry. And the irony cuts deep: The Daily News, once bombed and banned for daring to “tell it like it is,” has today carried coverage of that very press conference, whose venue now lies in ashes. History is looping before our eyes, this time in HD.
Zimbabwe must not pretend this is new. In 2001, The Daily News printing press was blown apart after a series of threats from then Information Minister, Professor Jonathan Moyo. In the 1980s, homes and bodies in Matabeleland were burned under the banner of Gukurahundi. In 2008, citizens were beaten, raped, and killed for voting the wrong way. The architecture of terror has always been there, only its décor changes.
@edmnangagwa, whose fingerprints stain every chapter of that bloodied script, now presides over a state that burns ideas when it cannot debate them. And behind the curtains, the not-so-good professor once the superintending minister during the Daily News bombing, later the loudest critic of repression, now lends his pen to justify it again, as chief author of the constitutional vandalism framework dressed up as a “BBI document.”
The torching of Gilbert Mbwende’s home, a member of the Constitutional Defence Forum, on the same night, seals the message: the regime is terrified. Its instinct is fire. Its language is fear. But Zimbabwe has seen this movie before, and this time, it will not end the same way.
And to those still loyal to @nelsonchamisa’s convenient evasions. Those who say, “this is not our fight”, that’s ok. The fight against oppression is still a democratic right and privilege. History has a long memory. It will record who stood with the oppressed and who aided the oppressor hiding behind hashtags and scripture while the Constitution burned.
The system has panicked, and it will not stop until citizens make it stop. Those who understand what’s at stake will act. The rest will rationalize their silence. Brace.
