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𝗗𝗨𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟴 𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗩𝗜𝗢𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗭𝗜𝗠 𝗔 𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗠𝗢𝗜𝗢 𝗕𝗘𝗚𝗔𝗡 𝗧𝗢 𝗕𝗟𝗘𝗘𝗗. In 2008, at the peak of election violence in Zimbabwe, a grave in Chimoio, Mozambique — where women killed in the 1977 bombing were buried — began to bleed. Those in Mozambique saw it as a... sign from the spirit realm that Zimbabwe was on the wrong trajectory. Today, bees are coming out of that same grave. Now we are seeing kombis burning and killing children, people drowning in sewage. Is this another sign? Making this documentary changed my outlook on Zimbabwe. It made me reject government violence against its people, especially now that sanctions are gone and we should be uniting as a nation. Watch the full documentary on YouTubeshow more

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This is the situation in Mozambique’s capital city, Maputo, following the proclamation that Frelimo’s Daniel Chapo has won the presidential election. The skyline is shrouded in thick black smoke from burning tyres. The political and security situation is now spiralling out of control, and it requires proper and reflective leadership to contain it and ensure that Mozambican citizens and visitors to that country do not lose their lives and that property is not further destroyed. So far around 110 people have died since the election was held on 9 October this year. I understand that South Africa often presents itself as just another member of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), but it is not. It is the leading economy in both the region and the continent, and whenever there is a political crisis in any of the neighboring countries, it invariably takes the heat. As such, South Africa must take the lead because an escalation will affect it as well, given its proximity to Mozambique. It is only a five-hour drive from Johannesburg to Maputo, only 540 kilometres apart. When a similar post-election dispute and violent situation occurred in Zimbabwe in 2008, there was a significant migration movement from Zimbabwe to South Africa. Likewise, this political crisis triggered by a disputed election result is likely to result in another unwanted influx of illegal immigrants into South Africa. Human nature works that way, nature doesn’t like a vacuum, if there is no space to survive in a given area, human beings look for a conducive environment to cover that vacuum for peace. I have also noticed that Fikile Mbalula, the Secretary General of South Africa’s ruling ANC, has posted slogans on Twitter in support of Frelimo just as he did with ZANUPF in Zimbabwe last year. That is not what you do when you are a leader of a political party that has such regional influence as the ANC. Leadership is not about empty political slogans that don’t add any value to a volatile situation. The ANC should create a situation where South Africa can act as an arbiter, not a political adversary for Mozambique’s opposition as happened in Zimbabwe. Such public slogans as Mbalula’s risk making South Africa unfit to provide a negotiating platform, which is desperately needed to resolve this crisis. It is in South Africa’s interest for peace to prevail in Mozambique otherwise it will take in more illegal immigrants running away from the violence: This crisis must be resolved through negotiation, otherwise, it will destabilise the region further by exacerbating the already fragile situation in the north of the country, in Cabo Delgado, where Mozambique has had to bring in Rwandese soldiers to contain the situation. Any escalation of the current situation will affect the whole region and that also means we are all not secure and we will all suffer together. What we have is no longer just a Mozambican situation, we have a regional crisis that might escalate to the detriment of the region. May the region’s real leaders please stand up!

This is the situation in Mozambique’s capital city, Maputo, following the proclamation that Frelimo’s Daniel Chapo has won the presidential election. The skyline is shrouded in thick black smoke from burning tyres. The political and security situation is now spiralling out of control, and it requires proper and reflective leadership to contain it and ensure that Mozambican citizens and visitors to that country do not lose their lives and that property is not further destroyed. So far around 110 people have died since the election was held on 9 October this year. I understand that South Africa often presents itself as just another member of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), but it is not. It is the leading economy in both the region and the continent, and whenever there is a political crisis in any of the neighboring countries, it invariably takes the heat. As such, South Africa must take the lead because an escalation will affect it as well, given its proximity to Mozambique. It is only a five-hour drive from Johannesburg to Maputo, only 540 kilometres apart. When a similar post-election dispute and violent situation occurred in Zimbabwe in 2008, there was a significant migration movement from Zimbabwe to South Africa. Likewise, this political crisis triggered by a disputed election result is likely to result in another unwanted influx of illegal immigrants into South Africa. Human nature works that way, nature doesn’t like a vacuum, if there is no space to survive in a given area, human beings look for a conducive environment to cover that vacuum for peace. I have also noticed that Fikile Mbalula, the Secretary General of South Africa’s ruling ANC, has posted slogans on Twitter in support of Frelimo just as he did with ZANUPF in Zimbabwe last year. That is not what you do when you are a leader of a political party that has such regional influence as the ANC. Leadership is not about empty political slogans that don’t add any value to a volatile situation. The ANC should create a situation where South Africa can act as an arbiter, not a political adversary for Mozambique’s opposition as happened in Zimbabwe. Such public slogans as Mbalula’s risk making South Africa unfit to provide a negotiating platform, which is desperately needed to resolve this crisis. It is in South Africa’s interest for peace to prevail in Mozambique otherwise it will take in more illegal immigrants running away from the violence: This crisis must be resolved through negotiation, otherwise, it will destabilise the region further by exacerbating the already fragile situation in the north of the country, in Cabo Delgado, where Mozambique has had to bring in Rwandese soldiers to contain the situation. Any escalation of the current situation will affect the whole region and that also means we are all not secure and we will all suffer together. What we have is no longer just a Mozambican situation, we have a regional crisis that might escalate to the detriment of the region. May the region’s real leaders please stand up!

Hopewell Chin’ono

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The Zimbabwean President will announce the election date for that country’s general election today. This week I am sharing with you this award winning documentary film that I made and put out in 2009. This is the film that ZANUPF and the Government loves to hate because it defines its responds to losing elections. The regime stopped the University of Zimbabwe from screening this documentary film last month. A Violent Response captures the post-election brutal violence of 2008 after Robert Mugabe lost the general election to Morgan Tsvangirai by 73%, and his party ZANUPF lost parliament to Tsvangirai’s MDC-T political party. The opposition was violently beaten into submission and hundreds of its supporters were killed forcing a Government of National Unity, which failed to implement the political reforms it was created to put in place, reforms that would have delivered clean, free and fair elections. I directed, produced and shot the documentary film. The film also uses stock footage. ZANUPF as a political party doesn’t exist anymore, what exists is a political shell that is used by the military and corrupt politicians to legitimize stolen elections through violence and patronage. With the election campaign now in full swing, there are many Zimbabweans in rural areas who are still carrying the trauma of 2008, that trauma is regularly harvested by ZANUPF to instill more fear in rural citizens. Rigging is a process, it is not an event. Since the election date will soon be announced, election observers must move in now to monitor the electoral process until August to salvage a bit of fairness, if it still exists at all. A Violent Response directed and produced by Hopewell Chin'ono.

The Zimbabwean President will announce the election date for that country’s general election today. This week I am sharing with you this award winning documentary film that I made and put out in 2009. This is the film that ZANUPF and the Government loves to hate because it defines its responds to losing elections. The regime stopped the University of Zimbabwe from screening this documentary film last month. A Violent Response captures the post-election brutal violence of 2008 after Robert Mugabe lost the general election to Morgan Tsvangirai by 73%, and his party ZANUPF lost parliament to Tsvangirai’s MDC-T political party. The opposition was violently beaten into submission and hundreds of its supporters were killed forcing a Government of National Unity, which failed to implement the political reforms it was created to put in place, reforms that would have delivered clean, free and fair elections. I directed, produced and shot the documentary film. The film also uses stock footage. ZANUPF as a political party doesn’t exist anymore, what exists is a political shell that is used by the military and corrupt politicians to legitimize stolen elections through violence and patronage. With the election campaign now in full swing, there are many Zimbabweans in rural areas who are still carrying the trauma of 2008, that trauma is regularly harvested by ZANUPF to instill more fear in rural citizens. Rigging is a process, it is not an event. Since the election date will soon be announced, election observers must move in now to monitor the electoral process until August to salvage a bit of fairness, if it still exists at all. A Violent Response directed and produced by Hopewell Chin'ono.

Hopewell Chin’ono

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