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Bulilima byelection :
Ward 14:Mafeha pri sch : 3pm 130 had voted (35 males, 95 females).26 assisted 5 males 21 females) 4 turned away.Malopa Dam pri sch. As at 2pm 114 voters had voted (30 males & 84 females). 15 turned away (5 males &10 females).7 female assisted voters.#Asakhe
Ward 14:Mafeha pri sch : 3pm 130 had voted (35 males, 95 females).26 assisted 5 males 21 females) 4 turned away.Malopa Dam pri sch. As at 2pm 114 voters had voted (30 males & 84 females). 15 turned away (5 males &10 females).7 female assisted voters.#Asakhe
Ward 14: Malalume secondary school by 2pm 294 people have voted (218 females and 76 males). 29 turned away (12 males and 17 females). 34 assisted (10males and 24 females).
Ward 14: Nswazwi pri school polling station, 66 people had voted (51 females and 15 male) . 5 assisted voters (illiterate) 4 turned away (3 not registered n 1 had an issue with ID)
Join us in today’s session of the twitter space where will be giving you updates of the proceedings at the Bulilima by-elections.
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What do you think can be done to encourage young people to participate in the electoral process? Join our space and be part of the conversation. #Asakhe
Participants on the space note that young people in rural areas complain that the elderly do not value their ideas and suggestions they raise at meetings and as such they shy away from such processes.
CITE will be covering the by-elections in Bulilima today. There are 3 selections in Bulilima today. Ward 1, 14 and 16. #Asakhe
Three vacancies arose in Bulilima (Ward 1, 14 and 16) following the resignation of two ZANU-PF councillors, Tonny Mlotshwa and Ntungamili Dube and the death of Delani Mabhena, who also belonged to the ruling party.
Aspiring candidates participating in the by-elections are from the ruling ZANU-PF and opposition parties the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and ZAPU.
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Ward 12 residents are today attending a community meeting to discuss issues of service delivery. The agenda includes the billing system, crime rates and loadshedding. #Asakhe 
Ward 12 councillor, Lilian Mlilo, implores residents not to agree to people who offer to swipe for them at revenue halls when they have foreign currency as council also needs the same to improve service delivery. #Asakhe
Cllr Mlilo says residents sometimes are responsible for sewer bursts in the ward as they throw such things as towels, stones and pampers into man-holes. #Asakhe
In the Kalanga culture, some of the rituals of praying for rain include music for rain "praying" is for women and mayile. Wosana music is performed by male and female dancers whereas mayile music is performed by females only.. #Asakhe,
Wosana songs are sung by a special group of people, also called wosana.
Wosana songs are a request and praise to the Bakalanga Supreme Deity Mwali. Wosana music is sung to ask for rain and good life. Wosana ritual music and dances are performed when rain does not come at the expected time of the year.
2018 Mat North Parliamentary Results;
ZANU PF won almost all the seats in Matabeleland North, with 39.5% of votes.
MDC Alliance won 37.8% & MDC-T (Khuphe) won 9.5% of votes.
13.2% of voters, did not vote for either MDCs or ZANUPF.
Non-‐ZANU‐PF vote was 60.5%.
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ZANU PF won almost all the seats in Matabeleland North, with 39.5% of votes.
MDC Alliance won 37.8% & MDC-T (Khuphe) won 9.5% of votes.
13.2% of voters, did not vote for either MDCs or ZANUPF.
Non-‐ZANU‐PF vote was 60.5%.
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Presidential election Nelson Chamisa won 50.2% of the vote. Mnangangwa 40.7%, Khuphe 4.7% and the all other presidential candidates combines won 4.4% of the vote.( There were 23 presidential candidates.
Bulawayo
For the first time since 2000 MDC (Alliance) got less than 50% of the vote. (49.5%)
ZANUPF got 25.1% of the vote
Khuphe’s MDC T got 8.6% of the vote.
All other smaller parties combined got 16.8%
All other smaller parties including Khuphe;s MDC got 25.4% of the vote.
For the first time since 2000 MDC (Alliance) got less than 50% of the vote. (49.5%)
ZANUPF got 25.1% of the vote
Khuphe’s MDC T got 8.6% of the vote.
All other smaller parties combined got 16.8%
All other smaller parties including Khuphe;s MDC got 25.4% of the vote.
We are live for the MDC-T Press Conference: Hon. Dr Thokozani Khupe. Watch here: fb.watch/aGdbpjM2dE/
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The crowd is singing anti-Mwonzora songs. They are saying “Mwonzora you are a rigger and you are a thief “
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@SiphoMalunga is discussing the following in his lecture:
-The applicability of International Law in Zimbabwe
-The status of International Law in Zimbabwe
-The status of the conflict in Matabeleland
-Evaluate the Gukurahundi massacres
#Gukurahundi @39
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-The applicability of International Law in Zimbabwe
-The status of International Law in Zimbabwe
-The status of the conflict in Matabeleland
-Evaluate the Gukurahundi massacres
#Gukurahundi @39
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@SiphoMalunga- Customary International law applies to Zimbabwe according to our Constitution.
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#Gukurahundi @39
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#Gukurahundi @39: How the genocide was indemnified, justified and hidden
A THREAD
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A THREAD
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On or around 20 January 1983, the Fifth Brigade-led genocide was launched in Matabeleland and the Midlands, Tsholotsho, Lupane and Nkayi in Matabeleland North and Zhombe, Silobela and Lower Gweru in the Midlands being the hardest hit.
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#Gukurahundi @39: Within weeks thousands of people had been killed, mostly through mass executions, thousands forcibly disappeared, raped, and an entire population in those areas tortured.
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Two of the six suspected armed robbers who were arrested in Fourwinds Saturday morning have appeared in court facing a charge of armed robbery. #Asakhe
The Investigating Officer made an application for further detention citing that a report obtained by the police from CID Ballistics showed that the weapons recovered from the suspected armed robbers had been used to commit similar offenses in and outside of Bulawayo. #Asakhe
Makhosi Brian Nkomo (31), Mthokozisi Moyo (37) and Nkosilathi Ncube (34) are being represented by Bob Sansole of Dube, Mguni, Dube Legal Practitioners. Ncube is admitted to UBH after sustaining injuries in a shootout with the police prior to their arrest. #Asakhe @sansole_bm
Let's talk about the Mateleland vote #Asakhe
Bulawayo and the 2018 elections
The Alliance received most of the seats for the house of assemble but
for the first time since 2000(MDC) got less than 50% of the vote. (49.5%)
ZANUPF got 25.1% of the vote
The Alliance received most of the seats for the house of assemble but
for the first time since 2000(MDC) got less than 50% of the vote. (49.5%)
ZANUPF got 25.1% of the vote
Khuphe’s MDC T got 8.6% of the vote.All other smaller parties combined got 16.8&
All other smaller parties including Khuphe;s MDC got 25.4% of the vote .
All other smaller parties including Khuphe;s MDC got 25.4% of the vote .
President Mnangagwa has appointed Frederick Shava,Zim's ambassador to UN, as his new foreign minister. Speaking in parliament in the early 80s Shava once said "I advise strongly the Mini of State Security 2 demand from dissidents & dissident supporters 2 eyes for one..#Asakhe
two ears for one & never turn the other cheek...Supporters of dissidents should be shot on sight.
Mrs. Chinamano interjected :"Mr speaker this is the most desctructive...
MR SPEAKER .."on a point of order cde Chinamano will the minister continue please .. "
Mrs. Chinamano interjected :"Mr speaker this is the most desctructive...
MR SPEAKER .."on a point of order cde Chinamano will the minister continue please .. "
Laughter...Mr Shaba "I will repeat supporters of dissidents shld be shot on sight they are as bad as dissidents"
Bulawayo city council used to be one of the best run councils in the country and the region. This was becoz in 1980 ZAPU lost the national elections and deployed its best brains at the local level where they had won.#Asakhe
ZAPU had a gvt in waiting. So people who were supposed to be ministers, directors, Perm sec, etc became councilors and technocrats at a local level. They set a very high standard of running a local authority
But in recent years we started electing stone-throwers as councilors and the results are there for everyone to see.
Chief Munhuwepayi Mangwende who was Biggie Matiza's uncle a strong ZAPU activist and the one who went with Matiza to Zambia was not declared a National hero when he died .#Asakhe
There was a popular song in this area that went like, "Nkomo hatina zvikoro, Nkomo tinoda zvikoro".
In 1961 Munhuwepayi was deposed as Chief Mangwende for involvement in nationalist politics.He was later He was later detained at Gonakudzingwa .
In 1961 Munhuwepayi was deposed as Chief Mangwende for involvement in nationalist politics.He was later He was later detained at Gonakudzingwa .
So are we saying everyone who crossed into Zambia is a war vet?
Nitram Properties a short thread. #Asakhe
Nitram properties was set up by ex Zpra combatants. About 15 000 combatants contributed ZW$50 each raising a total of ZW$750 000. There was also cash that was left from the war.
The original idea was to fund ex-combatants who had been demobilized and it was feared they won't be able to find jobs. Then it was agreed the combatants could work in ZPRA owned companies.
I have read a lot of bios the late ZPRA Commander Stanley Gagisa Doko Nleya and there is little that is said about him after 1980. Any special reason why? #Asakhe
Talking to Gagisa in 2018. he said " We used to think that ZPRA military training was the toughest guerilla training South of the Sahara until we went to Lebanon. Gagisa was attached to to Palestine Liberation Organisation 1974-75.
He was stationed South of Beirut at a PLO camp called Jalub ,10 kilometres from Hebron . He was with Ananias Gwenzi(General Valerio Sibanda). Elias Ndou, Alexander Assaf Katema and Joel Dambudzo.
@CityofBulawayo is currently holding a press conference at the council chambers on #COVID19. #Asakhe
Mayor @SolomonMguni says khothama will be suspended with immediate effect. #Asakhe
He says in the event of a funeral, only 30 mourners will be allowed at the cemetery and
back filling of graves will now be done strictly by @CityofBulawayo staff. #Asakhe #COVID2019
back filling of graves will now be done strictly by @CityofBulawayo staff. #Asakhe #COVID2019
1. I'm writing this thread because I am frustrated by MDC's lack of impetus on this. After the 2013 election MT was trying to figure out how to rejuvenate the party. He was frustrated that the Scientific Organizing had failed. I had been a major proponent of data-driven decisions
2. Had a phone call in 2014 with the Treasurer Theresa Makone & MT wherein I explained the whole concept & the infrastructure needed. The party was supposed to know its members by every data point necessary. MT argued it was going to be expensive, I told them will do it for free.
3. It was 2 pronged. A membership registration portal & manual data capture of every person who attended MT's national rallies. MT took the matter to the National Council and Obert Gutu was tasked to publicize. The central figures were supposed to be Obert, Theresa & Doug.
In his paper titled " Black Workers from Zimbabwe in South Africa " J.Van H.Coetzer (1980) says a tradition of working seeking in South Africa had built up since Pre- World War 1 days.#Asakhe
He says the largest and the only real problem from SA point of view is the Matebeleland Contigent comprising mainly the kalanga from Bulima Mangwe ( Plumtree),Tjolotjo and Matopo(Kezi)."Spending a period in Johhanesburg is a habit so firmly entrenched among the kalanga men..
..He says #Johhanesburg is their Mecca also known as Egoli.
A 2016 World Bank policy research working paper looked at the financial viability of electricity sectors in 39 sub-Saharan African countries. #Asakhe
It found that in 2014, South Africa’s power utility had the largest workforce out of the 39 countries – at 41,787. It also had the largest number of customers: just over 5.4 million.
Eskom was therefore 66% overstaffed. The only countries with higher than optimum staff levels were Zimbabwe (67%) and Zambia (71%).
Bulawayo power station the thread:The station has it's origins dating back to 1897. The first current being switched on , on 3rd November 1897 and full service introduced in 1898 with 100 customers connected. #Asakhe
Byo was the 5th center in Sourthern Africa to have public electricity after Kimberly, Johhanesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town
The tender to generate electricity for Bulawayo was given to Napier, Weir and Clark of the Electric Light Company on 4th Feb 1895 and during the next 2yr equipment was brought up by ox - Wagon. On 17th August 1897 the 3 ceded the rights to Willoughby's Consolidated company
Asked by a BCC journalist why Britain did not confront Mugabe on Gukurahundi , ROGER MARTIN ,British Deputy High Commissioner Zimbabwe, December 1983-86 said ..... #Asakhe
"Among the short-term self-interest, the points you might have put in your analysis of what our interests were that no British Government wanted a couple of hundred thousand British citizens appearing with cardboard suitcases at Heathrow...
the sudden expulsion of whites if we'd pulled the rug on the aid and as it were denounced Mugabe. This was a real threat."
The Wankie and Sipolilo 12 campaigns : The thread. #Asakhe
Formed in 1961, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK),
its aim was to carry out sabotage against
symbols of the apartheid state.
its aim was to carry out sabotage against
symbols of the apartheid state.
Early attempts to infiltrate guerrillas through Botswana in 1966 and 1967
failed, largely due to the vigilance of Botswana’s own security forces.
failed, largely due to the vigilance of Botswana’s own security forces.
The past week i meet a lot of former ZPRA cadres & had a lot of stories.One of the person who was discussed a lot was ED becoz at one point he was part of ZPRA.These are some the things. Additions and subtractions are welcome #Asakhe.
Around 1957 ED 's family relocates to Zambia
Around 1963-64 he is recruited by ZAPU and he goes for military training in Egypt
