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War veterans’ leader Blessed “Bombshell” Geza made another address tonight, warning citizens that they might become collateral damage if there is an exchange of gunfire between security forces sympathetic to him and those guarding the corrupt individuals they intend to confront. In his latest address, he warned citizens to... show more

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GAZAvor 1 Jahr

Ma Zimbabweans aichemera signal iyo signal kupusa here chii chaizvo nxaaaa ngwarai mhanhi

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shumba bothwell manyuchivor 1 Jahr

Lets support this man...he is trying to help us

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Tineyi Chiwodzavor 1 Jahr

It's slowly but surely reaching a climax, there is definitely going to be an exchange of "zoto"

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JeSuisBlessedMhlangavor 1 Jahr

At least they have been warned.

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Tariro A. F Marumahokovor 1 Jahr

If Zimbabweans don't support geza life will continue to get worse more retrenchments, more taxes, businesses will continue to close , no medication , I could go on and on

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Does he really mean it or he's just trying to intimidate people to stay at home?

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At this moment, if I had an opportunity to speak to Geza, I would tell mudhara to take a chill pill and take the foot off the accelerator Go back to the drawing board, take a stock of things, and conduct an autopsy of what you have done so far and work on how to improve it and make it better Because this scatter gun approach, you are displaying it smacks of desperation, and it clearly shows that you're now running on fumes. Because any military strategist or students or experts in security and military studies. Will inform you that an element of surprise is essential in every military campaign, military activities, or in any insurgency attack. That is, no military commander, or even an ordinary soldier, will ever announce his military objective beforehand. That is, no military officials or even ordinary soldiers will publicly announce or give a clue or hint of their intended attack plans or war plans. War plans, attack plans, or military targets or military actions are only announced after the objectives have been met or after the enemy has been attacked . The Nov 2017 coup was announced after its objectives have been met and achieved. After Mugabe, the CIO and ZRP were neutralised, and when the ZBC was taken over. Chiwenga, Sibusiso Moyo didn't advertise or publicly announce that they're going to stage the coup. Even the 1966 Sinoia battle between the rag tag ZANLA guerillas against the Rhodesian army was conducted through an element of surprise. Mudhara Geza needs good advisors around him. Otherwise, he is expending and destroying the goodwill he had gained over the last few months. With this scatter gun approach of shooting from the hip

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Thank you Cde Geza for your effort, sorry that we are failing you but you're really trying for us and I truly hope that all those sceptics will realise soon enough that this struggle is for the benefit of everyone. #Pamperinestayaway

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He did his best hake round of applause 👏. Ngaachisiyana nazvo taneta nekuudzwa nyemba

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The people want change...but they also need to eat. Zanu Pf knows people are too busy fighting hunger to sustain stay aways. That’s the cruel genius of poverty as a weapon. it’s a long, slow hostage situation.

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The face of today’s protests in Zimbabwe, Blessed “Bombshell” Geza, has told Zimbabweans that today’s protests are only the beginning of a resistance campaign against the corrupt Zimbabwean President, Emmerson Mnangagwa. Geza is a war veteran and former secret service officer and also a former Member of Parliament in Zimbabwe. His address👇🏿

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I have heard Blessed “Bombshell” Geza’s address tonight. I thank him for doing his best to address the main problem our country is facing—corrupt rule! He has managed to put the 2030 mantra on hold or on ice. I will not bash him like some are doing; he is trying (not tried) his best from his corner. I will not rush to comment just yet. A day is a long time in politics. Overanalysis leads to inaction, and inaction is the death of progress. Let us wait and see what happens! Goodnight!

I have heard Blessed “Bombshell” Geza’s address tonight. I thank him for doing his best to address the main problem our country is facing—corrupt rule! He has managed to put the 2030 mantra on hold or on ice. I will not bash him like some are doing; he is trying (not tried) his best from his corner. I will not rush to comment just yet. A day is a long time in politics. Overanalysis leads to inaction, and inaction is the death of progress. Let us wait and see what happens! Goodnight!

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The proposed indefinite stay-away by Zimbabwe’s war veterans’ leader Blessed “Bombshell” Geza has failed to take off. Zimbabweans, particularly in Bulawayo and Harare and other small towns, chose to go to work today. I see on social media that some citizens in the diaspora are angry with fellow compatriots back home for going to work, but we should remember that Zimbabwe has 95% unemployment, so if people do not go out to hustle, they will starve, so goes the argument. The idea that people would get food from retailers or wholesalers was Alice in Wonderland stuff, it was never going to work or happen in a country where most businesses are owned by the corrupt cabal that the action intended to remove or loosen its grip on power. Secondly, Zimbabweans want to be liberated from corrupt rule by a particular type of political group and politician, so without the traditional opposition throwing its weight behind Geza's call, his efforts were always going to be in vain even though they are noble and progressive. The failure of this stay-away ends any immediate hope that citizens will participate in any liberation efforts unless mobilised by the traditional opposition, which does not exist, or by the military. I will be blunt. Short of a military intervention to stop Emmerson Mnangagwa’s corrupt rule, he will now get everything he wants, including term extensions. He is relentless. Zimbabweans will now be stuck with Mnangagwa until the day he dies and possibly will have to accept that his kids will rule them too with the assistance of his crooked cronies and clansmen. Zimbabweans should forget about the 2028 election and as a local doctor mentioned on social media, begin working through the five stages of grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. It is pointless putting your hopes in a process that you know too well will be rigged. For him to fail to achieve what he wants, Mnangagwa would have to make a catastrophic mistake, like killing loads of people which will attract international scrutiny or firing his Vice President, General Constantino Chiwenga which might finally trigger a decisive response. There is now nobody with the capacity to stop him, short of a military intervention or death. Geza has tried, but there is no tangible citizen support that was forthcoming. Geza managed to force Mnangagwa’s team to stop chanting the 2030 slogan and pushed them into another plan of bribing MPs with illegally parcelled land. But after today, the dictator knows that Geza is now all alone, unless the military intervenes, which, as I have said before, is now looking highly unlikely unless they are provoked by the continued conspicuous consumption of looted public funds. So, Zimbabweans must now accept the reality that their failure to sacrifice for their liberation by simply staying at home will mean more unemployment, more looting of public funds, more dilapidated hospitals and public infrastructure, and more economic pain all around. Those are the grim political and socio-economic realities of Zimbabwe going forward, nothing less, nothing more. Journalists will continue writing about corruption scandals, but only for historical records and as part of our job, and for many readers, it would be for entertainment value sadly. Some will just switch to issues that have positive mental health outcomes. If you are young, have a passport, and have somewhere to go, my advice is to leave, otherwise, you will just become another tragic statistic of poverty, unemployment, and possibly death in a derelict hospital. Ordinarily, Africans do not care about who is in power if they have the basic necessities of life. But sadly, in Zimbabwe, those necessities will remain out of reach for as long as Mnangagwa and his corrupt cabal are in power. As for the opposition, it is dead. There will be no pushback for reasons you all know. You will remember that last year in May, I mentioned that three key countries to Zimbabwe's politics privately mentioned through their diplomats that, as far as they were concerned, 2028 was gone, and they were now looking at perhaps 2033 or even beyond to envisage any possibility of a change of government. But as long as Zimbabweans remain fixated on the main actor syndrome and not an opposition movement, they must also accept being stuck in the current political ditch for a long time to come. What does this mean? It means more looting. For the diaspora, it means continuing to send money back home for the foreseeable future. The tragedy is that Zimbabwean citizens continue to look for a hero figure rather than building a durable, collective movement that outlasts individual egos. Until that changes, power will remain concentrated in the hands of whoever seizes the moment, no matter how corrupt or undemocratic they are like Mnangagwa. For foreign diplomats, it simply means accepting that they now must work with the government of the day no matter how corrupt it is, with no hope of any change unless there is a dramatic intervention that puts an end to the current political rot. For General Constantino Chiwenga, it means kissing goodbye to his dream of becoming president. He must now tighten his security and pray that Mnangagwa does not make the un-strategic mistake of firing him because he might not be able to fight back. If he still has an appetite for this job, he has to fight for it by coming out of the shadows, otherwise he will meet the same fate that destroyed Joice Mujuru’s career. Without her husband, she became a nobody, and without the military, Chiwenga will be just another brick in the wall. For 74-year-old war veterans’ leader, former intelligence officer, and former Member of Parliament Blessed “Bombshell” Geza, keep your head up high old man. You did what you could, and history will be kind to you for trying, at great personal cost. Your beautiful home in Sanyati was burnt, your wife harassed, and now you are living in hiding. One would have to be a fool of monumental proportions not to acknowledge your efforts and say thank you for trying. You have contributed to people’s consciousness about how bad corruption has become, and hopefully you will live to see the change that Zimbabwe so desperately needs. Every struggle needs leadership; people cannot lead themselves. The idea that the Arab Spring was leaderless is rooted in ignorance and a lack of understanding of what happened. Without leaders to provide direction and inspiration, citizens cannot move forward on their own. Citizens were given direction and inspiration by Geza, but quite evidently, they felt it was not enough to compel them to make sacrifices, such as simply staying away from work and enduring a little hardship for the greater good and a better future. The dysfunctionality of national leadership in Zimbabwe has been fuelled by money changing hands, shameless ethnic alignments, corruption, and the absence of a shared national vision and values. Put simply, Zimbabweans are not united against the common enemy, corrupt rule. The oversized egos that prioritise individualism over a collective agenda are self-evident, and they are among the key ingredients of today’s failed politics. Sadly, it is the ordinary people and the lumpen who cheer that individualism that will continue to suffer. As Dr Solomon Guramatunhu has always said in my favourite saying of his, politicians are a mirror of who we are as a society. Every society has a leadership it deserves. When the society fundamentally changes, it will change its leadership too. When citizens hero-worship politicians regardless of the mistakes they make, it means such a people deserve those leaders. When citizens demand more, the leaders will also change. For now, Zimbabweans are stuck with Mnangagwa and an elusive opposition that only exists in name and not indeed. I conclude by saying that only something very dramatic will change Zimbabwe’s state of affairs. It could be a military intervention that removes the current corrupt political leadership of Mnangagwa, but ultimately it will also serve the interests of the elites if the citizens are just by-standers, or a dramatic fall from grace for the corrupt if a few of them are arrested beyond the president’s control, leading to the public shedding its fear. At this moment, any change will do, because the country was removed from the gutter in 2017 into the sewer. The question is who has the capacity to bring the required change? Only time will tell.

The proposed indefinite stay-away by Zimbabwe’s war veterans’ leader Blessed “Bombshell” Geza has failed to take off. Zimbabweans, particularly in Bulawayo and Harare and other small towns, chose to go to work today. I see on social media that some citizens in the diaspora are angry with fellow compatriots back home for going to work, but we should remember that Zimbabwe has 95% unemployment, so if people do not go out to hustle, they will starve, so goes the argument. The idea that people would get food from retailers or wholesalers was Alice in Wonderland stuff, it was never going to work or happen in a country where most businesses are owned by the corrupt cabal that the action intended to remove or loosen its grip on power. Secondly, Zimbabweans want to be liberated from corrupt rule by a particular type of political group and politician, so without the traditional opposition throwing its weight behind Geza's call, his efforts were always going to be in vain even though they are noble and progressive. The failure of this stay-away ends any immediate hope that citizens will participate in any liberation efforts unless mobilised by the traditional opposition, which does not exist, or by the military. I will be blunt. Short of a military intervention to stop Emmerson Mnangagwa’s corrupt rule, he will now get everything he wants, including term extensions. He is relentless. Zimbabweans will now be stuck with Mnangagwa until the day he dies and possibly will have to accept that his kids will rule them too with the assistance of his crooked cronies and clansmen. Zimbabweans should forget about the 2028 election and as a local doctor mentioned on social media, begin working through the five stages of grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. It is pointless putting your hopes in a process that you know too well will be rigged. For him to fail to achieve what he wants, Mnangagwa would have to make a catastrophic mistake, like killing loads of people which will attract international scrutiny or firing his Vice President, General Constantino Chiwenga which might finally trigger a decisive response. There is now nobody with the capacity to stop him, short of a military intervention or death. Geza has tried, but there is no tangible citizen support that was forthcoming. Geza managed to force Mnangagwa’s team to stop chanting the 2030 slogan and pushed them into another plan of bribing MPs with illegally parcelled land. But after today, the dictator knows that Geza is now all alone, unless the military intervenes, which, as I have said before, is now looking highly unlikely unless they are provoked by the continued conspicuous consumption of looted public funds. So, Zimbabweans must now accept the reality that their failure to sacrifice for their liberation by simply staying at home will mean more unemployment, more looting of public funds, more dilapidated hospitals and public infrastructure, and more economic pain all around. Those are the grim political and socio-economic realities of Zimbabwe going forward, nothing less, nothing more. Journalists will continue writing about corruption scandals, but only for historical records and as part of our job, and for many readers, it would be for entertainment value sadly. Some will just switch to issues that have positive mental health outcomes. If you are young, have a passport, and have somewhere to go, my advice is to leave, otherwise, you will just become another tragic statistic of poverty, unemployment, and possibly death in a derelict hospital. Ordinarily, Africans do not care about who is in power if they have the basic necessities of life. But sadly, in Zimbabwe, those necessities will remain out of reach for as long as Mnangagwa and his corrupt cabal are in power. As for the opposition, it is dead. There will be no pushback for reasons you all know. You will remember that last year in May, I mentioned that three key countries to Zimbabwe's politics privately mentioned through their diplomats that, as far as they were concerned, 2028 was gone, and they were now looking at perhaps 2033 or even beyond to envisage any possibility of a change of government. But as long as Zimbabweans remain fixated on the main actor syndrome and not an opposition movement, they must also accept being stuck in the current political ditch for a long time to come. What does this mean? It means more looting. For the diaspora, it means continuing to send money back home for the foreseeable future. The tragedy is that Zimbabwean citizens continue to look for a hero figure rather than building a durable, collective movement that outlasts individual egos. Until that changes, power will remain concentrated in the hands of whoever seizes the moment, no matter how corrupt or undemocratic they are like Mnangagwa. For foreign diplomats, it simply means accepting that they now must work with the government of the day no matter how corrupt it is, with no hope of any change unless there is a dramatic intervention that puts an end to the current political rot. For General Constantino Chiwenga, it means kissing goodbye to his dream of becoming president. He must now tighten his security and pray that Mnangagwa does not make the un-strategic mistake of firing him because he might not be able to fight back. If he still has an appetite for this job, he has to fight for it by coming out of the shadows, otherwise he will meet the same fate that destroyed Joice Mujuru’s career. Without her husband, she became a nobody, and without the military, Chiwenga will be just another brick in the wall. For 74-year-old war veterans’ leader, former intelligence officer, and former Member of Parliament Blessed “Bombshell” Geza, keep your head up high old man. You did what you could, and history will be kind to you for trying, at great personal cost. Your beautiful home in Sanyati was burnt, your wife harassed, and now you are living in hiding. One would have to be a fool of monumental proportions not to acknowledge your efforts and say thank you for trying. You have contributed to people’s consciousness about how bad corruption has become, and hopefully you will live to see the change that Zimbabwe so desperately needs. Every struggle needs leadership; people cannot lead themselves. The idea that the Arab Spring was leaderless is rooted in ignorance and a lack of understanding of what happened. Without leaders to provide direction and inspiration, citizens cannot move forward on their own. Citizens were given direction and inspiration by Geza, but quite evidently, they felt it was not enough to compel them to make sacrifices, such as simply staying away from work and enduring a little hardship for the greater good and a better future. The dysfunctionality of national leadership in Zimbabwe has been fuelled by money changing hands, shameless ethnic alignments, corruption, and the absence of a shared national vision and values. Put simply, Zimbabweans are not united against the common enemy, corrupt rule. The oversized egos that prioritise individualism over a collective agenda are self-evident, and they are among the key ingredients of today’s failed politics. Sadly, it is the ordinary people and the lumpen who cheer that individualism that will continue to suffer. As Dr Solomon Guramatunhu has always said in my favourite saying of his, politicians are a mirror of who we are as a society. Every society has a leadership it deserves. When the society fundamentally changes, it will change its leadership too. When citizens hero-worship politicians regardless of the mistakes they make, it means such a people deserve those leaders. When citizens demand more, the leaders will also change. For now, Zimbabweans are stuck with Mnangagwa and an elusive opposition that only exists in name and not indeed. I conclude by saying that only something very dramatic will change Zimbabwe’s state of affairs. It could be a military intervention that removes the current corrupt political leadership of Mnangagwa, but ultimately it will also serve the interests of the elites if the citizens are just by-standers, or a dramatic fall from grace for the corrupt if a few of them are arrested beyond the president’s control, leading to the public shedding its fear. At this moment, any change will do, because the country was removed from the gutter in 2017 into the sewer. The question is who has the capacity to bring the required change? Only time will tell.

Hopewell Chin’ono

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“There Has Been No Government In Nigeria That Has Been As Corrupt As The Tinubu Administration. That Is Why They Will Not Get a Second Term. If Tinubu Gets a Second Term, He Will Sell This Country. From Day One In Office, He Didn’t Come To Govern. From The Day Of His Inauguration, They Started Campaigning For a Second Term Instead Of Governing. They Had No Real Plan To Govern The Country. All They Care About Is Holding On To Power And Selling The Country.” ~ Hon. Sergius Ogun, Member Of The House Of Representatives.

“There Has Been No Government In Nigeria That Has Been As Corrupt As The Tinubu Administration. That Is Why They Will Not Get a Second Term. If Tinubu Gets a Second Term, He Will Sell This Country. From Day One In Office, He Didn’t Come To Govern. From The Day Of His Inauguration, They Started Campaigning For a Second Term Instead Of Governing. They Had No Real Plan To Govern The Country. All They Care About Is Holding On To Power And Selling The Country.” ~ Hon. Sergius Ogun, Member Of The House Of Representatives.

Somto Okonkwo

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This is today at Zimbabwe’s 45th national independence event, presided over by the corrupt dictator Emmerson Mnangagwa in his home province, the Midlands. Such an important occasion held in a dilapidated stadium without a drainage system. It rains everywhere in different parts of the world, but normal countries have decent stadiums with proper drainage systems, it is such a basic concept. This is not only embarrassing to watch; it is painful to witness a once great and prosperous country like Zimbabwe reduced to this level of comical incompetence due to Mnangagwa’s corrupt rule, coupled with his cluelessness in how to run a country. If a definition of mediocrity were ever needed, this video screams mediocrity in capital letters. Yet this failed, corrupt dictator wants to extend his term of office from 2028 to 2030 to subject the country to even more of this embarrassment! What pains progressive Africans about Zimbabwe is that the words of Zimbabwe’s last colonial ruler, Ian Smith, when describing ZANUPF, have come to pass. He is reported to have said: “(Under ZANUPF)… people in towns will walk on sewage until they believe it is normal, infrastructure will collapse, roads will be impassable, trains will kill people until they are abandoned as an unusable mode of transport, hospitals will be closed, farms will be grabbed and (there will be) nothing to feed the people.” Sadly, everything he said—and more—has happened. Imagine ruining a country to the point where what was once perceived as a racist perspective has become fact. Sad!

This is today at Zimbabwe’s 45th national independence event, presided over by the corrupt dictator Emmerson Mnangagwa in his home province, the Midlands. Such an important occasion held in a dilapidated stadium without a drainage system. It rains everywhere in different parts of the world, but normal countries have decent stadiums with proper drainage systems, it is such a basic concept. This is not only embarrassing to watch; it is painful to witness a once great and prosperous country like Zimbabwe reduced to this level of comical incompetence due to Mnangagwa’s corrupt rule, coupled with his cluelessness in how to run a country. If a definition of mediocrity were ever needed, this video screams mediocrity in capital letters. Yet this failed, corrupt dictator wants to extend his term of office from 2028 to 2030 to subject the country to even more of this embarrassment! What pains progressive Africans about Zimbabwe is that the words of Zimbabwe’s last colonial ruler, Ian Smith, when describing ZANUPF, have come to pass. He is reported to have said: “(Under ZANUPF)… people in towns will walk on sewage until they believe it is normal, infrastructure will collapse, roads will be impassable, trains will kill people until they are abandoned as an unusable mode of transport, hospitals will be closed, farms will be grabbed and (there will be) nothing to feed the people.” Sadly, everything he said—and more—has happened. Imagine ruining a country to the point where what was once perceived as a racist perspective has become fact. Sad!

Hopewell Chin’ono

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