Freeman
@freemanchari • 272,125 subscribers
Zimbabwean| Biomedical Scientist| Software Engineer| Dad| Activist| Entrepreneur| Wezhira WekwaChivi
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Listen to me Cde Bhila. ZANU PF will never respect you because you guys allowed pple who didn't understand the ethos of the struggle to hijack it in 1977. The pple who had the ideological apparatus of the struggle were pushed out by Tongogara, Rex, Mugabe, Tekere, Mnangagwa et al. In a different Zimbabwe, our liberation fighters would have been treated as capital not a liability but you guys agreed to be used to polarize the same masses you once relied on. Today, the masses have no voice. You have also lost your voice. The only pple with a voice are the thieves and hangers on. In a different Zimbabwe there should have been Veterans' Hospitals, Veterans Affirmative programs, Veterans pensions etc. It's not possible for you today to have a bite in a sea of poverty. We never hated komredzi, but you allowed yourselves to be tools that abused our people. All is not lost though. You can help us right the wrongs that you helped author. First, we start with resisting the attempts by Munangagwa to extend his time in office illegally. Second, we rebuild from the ruins together this time as pple of mutual respect and lastly we commit to memorialize the sacrifice of those who left and bear it as an unquantifiable investment into the country. We can fix Zimbabwe and restore the relationship between the people and their liberators. For now, there is no liberation without freedom!
Freeman46,864 views • 14 days ago
Remember when Tekere & crew killed a white farmer just after independence? This guy was part of the detail. He was also in 5th Brigade. When you listen to these guys that's when you understand why Zimbabwe is in the pits. These komredzi were child soldiers. Imagine going to war at 14, you spend 9 years in the bush then you come back and have to lead with zero cooling down period & rehabilitation.
Freeman59,981 views • 28 days ago
Chitepo's driver who is being spoken of here is Sadat Kafumazuva whose real name is Benson Nicodemus Kadzinga. He is alive I believe. The old man is account is also corroborated in some aspects by Chemist Ncube and the details he is narating tally with what is contained in the Report of the Special Commission on the Assassination of Herbert Whiltshire Chitepo, published in Lusaka in March 1976 by the government of Zambia. . Chitepo was killed by Robson Manyika, Solomon Mujuru,Tongogara, Meya Urimbo, Joseph Chimurenga, Patrick Mupunzarima et al.
Freeman170,419 views • 6 months ago
If it was Uncle Bob in there, he wld have come back with his pride intact and a plane load of sanctions. Trump wld have needed an Oxford dictionary... Bla Ramaphosa understood that he needed to save his country even if it came with personal humiliation... The choice leaders make
Freeman326,787 views • 1 year ago
I have nothing to add. This is why I always believe that when women lead there is more clarity.
Freeman64,932 views • 2 months ago
I believe the Rudo here is the late Squadron Leader Rudo Mutikani. I understand she joined the war when she was 14. There is a reason why I have a deep respect for real war veterans. Apart from the fact that my father is one, it's knowing that those who really fought for this country did without the cunning & calculative intent for power. They genuinely fought for Zimbabwe. Most were child soldiers. I am glad that Robert Tapfumaneyi is giving these gallant sons and daughters the platform to speak for themselves. I have watched countless episodes, and you can tell those who fought don't brag about war. Majority of those who were at the front had little education. Most of them came back to a country that prioritized those who didn't fight. A country whose reconcilliation policies even favored those who had collaborated or served the colonial regime. Cde Rudo could not write her own name and it took the intervention of Perrance Shiri. How many of the thousands who came from the bush were in the same boat. From what I gather, there was no career guidance. The lucky ones had someone telling them to go back to school but a lot fell through the cracks. I have seen a lot of disdain being laid upon them especially after the ZW$50K which by the time they got it was equivalent to USD4000 (Present day $8,229.00). It was a bribe by a failed government which had ignored their plight for over 17 years. When you look at the sacrifice of war, that amount is nothing. Our government failed to foresee the challenges of civilian integration and did not prepare these folk for life in the independent Zimbabwe. They bred a crop of dependents when they could have eased them into independence. Every interview is a comrade wallowing in poverty. In other countries, there are military hospitals, veterans preferential programs , loans etc and civilians don't complain about it because they have a better life courtesy of the sacrifices of their veterans. In our country, civilians are poor. When they have sought an alternative government, ZANU PF has used some of the dependent veterans to suppress the will of the people. That has negated all the good sacrifices the war veterans did during the war. Now, civilians feel like veterans don't deserve any respect nor preferential or affirmitive programs. But, as you listen to the stories of those who actually fought, you realize they too are victims of the same regime. It is not too late for the few that remain to do right by the people. As long as they remain on the sidelines or propping the Mnangagwa regime, they will die as paupers while thieves grow caterpillar bellies.
Freeman39,586 views • 1 month ago