Doug Coltart ✊🏼🇿🇼
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Human. Christian. African. Zimbabwean. Activist. Human Rights Lawyer. Partner at Mtetwa & Nyambirai. Believer in the power of the people & the dignity of ALL
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We love to dance at Mtetwa & Nyambirai. 💃🏽🕺 We’ve had a rough few weeks recently. So to let off a bit of steam we teamed up with
@bustoptv
to have a bit of fun and take up the
#JerusalemaDanceChallenge
.
Watch the full video here:
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Mai Mtetwa and I finally leaving Harare Central after the police eventually relented and allowed Hopewell and Jacob to wear PPE in the cells. We prayed together before we left. They are both in good spirits. They have the peace of a clear conscience.
#FreeHopewell
#FreeJacob
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Happy birthday dad! Thank you for being such a loving father, a wise mentor and confidant, and a role model of integrity, servant leadership, and living a God-fearing life. May God richly bless you, strengthen and protect you. ❤️
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Tomorrow I am on trial for reading Paulo Freire’s classic work “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”. I am grateful and honoured to be represented by the most courageous, tireless, ethical, competent, dynamic lawyer...Mrs Beatrice Mtetwa.
#IStandWithBeatriceMtetwa
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter
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Mr Charamba, I eat isitshwala/sadza almost everyday like any other Zimbabwean. Sometimes it’s the mundane things that unite us and bring humor, joy and hope to our lives. The reason you are angry is that’s exactly what you fear: a united, hopeful, energized citizenry. Expect us!
IS THIS PIX TWI-WORTHY? IF SO, WHAT MAKES IT SO?? IF NOT, YOU ARE A PROUD ZIMBABWEAN!!!!
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We received info that Hopewell & Jacob were going to be transferred to Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison this evening. Jacob’s lawyer Moses Nkomo went to Remand Prison to verify. He was denied access to them; they were put in leg-irons & put in the truck to be taken to Chikurubi.
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I have just visited Hopewell Chin’ono at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison and can confirm that he is unwell. We have alerted his private doctor who will be attending to him immediately and we will act accordingly based on the medical assessment and advice.
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter
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THIS WEEK:
• 15 Year Anniversary of
@MtetwaNyambirai
— which I believe makes us the oldest Zimbabwean law firm founded by a Black women
• 40 Year Anniversary since starting legal practice
• Finally secured the release of Last & Tunga
Show some love for Beatrice Mtetwa!
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BREAKING: The High Court has declared that Luke Malaba is no long the Chief Justice or a judge.
Remarkable victory in defence of the Constitution!
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Cde Pride Mkono tells me: “I’ve been arrested 67 times, been in court 34 times, been imprisoned for 8 months, charged with treason when it still carried a death sentence—in all this I never cried. But today when I heard Mugabe had fallen I broke down in tears.”
#MugabeResigns
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At Hopewell’s house right now where the police are conducting an illegal raid with no search warrant. They are trying to take his documentary filmmaking equipment worth US$100,000 which has nothing to do with the charge against him. This is about crippling him as a journalist.
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I’m actually a faster runner than Usain Bolt. I never bothered to go to the Olympics because I was busy at the time, but I informed the Olympic Committee of the fact that I am faster than Bolt and they’ve agreed to transfer all of his gold medals to me.
#ThokozaniKhupeChallenge
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Job Sikhala is back in his home watching his beloved Arsenal.
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To my knowledge, there was not a single incidence of violence today. Not a single shop looted. Not a single canister of teargas fired. Not a single stone thrown. With hundreds of thousands of people marching through the center of Harare.
The power of non-violent people power!!
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When
@edmnangagwa
talks of “opposition terrorist groups” destabilizing the country what he means is:
• Students carrying the Zimbabwe flag
• Journalists investigating corruption
• Nurses asking for PPE and a living wage
• Citizens exercising rights
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter
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Point of order: Please make sure you are using the hashtag
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter
and not the other ones doing the rounds like # ZimbabweLivesMatter # ZimbabweansLivesMatter # ZimLivesMatter etc so that we keep all the tweets in the same place for maximum impact. 🙏🏽✊🏽🇿🇼
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Hanzi I saw a book written “Pedogogy” and I searched in my phone and saw that it means training [not exactly correct, but anyway]. So I arrested them. *So what exactly in the book constitutes the offense?* I don’t know, I didn’t read it.
😂😂😂
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The System wants to crush Winky D because his songs speak to issues that resonate with the masses. They will fail...just like the apartheid regime failed with Miriam Makeba & Hugh Masekela, the Rhodesians with Mukanya, and Museveni with Bobi Wine...instead they made them heroes!
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Hopewell Chin’ono’s bail appeal has been set down for hearing tomorrow 29 July 2020 at 9am at the High Court.
#FreeHopewell
#FreeJacob
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A group of at least 30 armed riot police unlawfully raided Hopewell’s home this evening & seized his camera. I was arrested & detained in a police van during the raid and was later released without charge. Hopewell is now at Central. He and Jacob are expected in court tomorrow.
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I visited Hopewell and Jacob this afternoon in prison. They are still in good spirits despite the set back of the bail appeal being postponed until Monday. They both know they have done nothing wrong and are on the right side of history.
#FreeHopewell
#FreeJacob
#31July2020
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Hey
@MasterKGsa
, we took up the
#JerusalemaDanceChallenge
but
@Facebook
took down the video citing copyright infringement.
Please help us out. We just wanna spread the joy.
Comrades, please retweet until Master KG sees this. 🙏🏼✊🏽💃🏽🕺🏾
We love to dance at Mtetwa & Nyambirai. 💃🏽🕺 We’ve had a rough few weeks recently. So to let off a bit of steam we teamed up with
@bustoptv
to have a bit of fun and take up the
#JerusalemaDanceChallenge
.
Watch the full video here:
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Spotted at a traffic light in Bulawayo. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 Citizens taking nonviolent ACTION for a better Zimbabwe. 🙏🏽✊🏽🙌🏼 🇿🇼 What are YOU going to do?
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter
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We just won our case on behalf of ARTUZ & Veritas to stop ZANU PF & the Minister of Education from forcing children & teachers to go to ZANU PF’s rallies & from using school property (including buses, premises etc) for their political rallies. All glory to God!
#SafeSchools
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There is nothing quite like a
@Mokoomba
concert! It is always too much fun! At their gig last night, during their song “Vimbe” (which is about a traditional Tonga/Luvale dance) the band called on members of the audience to come and dance on stage. I couldn’t resist!🕺🏽💃🏽😂😂😂
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Just so we’re clear on the facts, this is what George Charamba calls a “white law firm”... 👇👇👇😂
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Hopewell Chin’ono is finally OUT! I don’t say he is “free” because none of us are free when we live in a country that arrests and detains journalists for doing their work. I praise God that he is no longer in Chikurubi. But the struggle for a
#FreeZimbabwe
must continue. Aluta!
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There is a total internet shutdown in Zimbabwe. VPNs are not working. All websites are down. The techie gurus got me back on for few minutes to get this message out: Zimbabweans in the diaspora and our friends throughout the world, please keep up the campaign to
#SwitchBackOnZw
!
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#ABDUCTION_ALERT
I received this info about the abduction of a woman in Chiredzi this afternoon at new terminus rank in a white Nissan. I havent yet been able to independently verify but I’ve learnt that getting info out quickly saves lives. Anyone w/ more info pls share. Pls RT.
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My brother Patson. A son of the soil, a courageous comrade, a brother in Christ.
Your life MATTERED.
You always used to say “A better Zimbabwe is possible in our lifetime”.
You did not get to see that day. 😢
I pray that we would honour your legacy by achieving that. Go well.
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Hopewell Chin’ono is now appearing in Court 14 & Jacob Ngarivhume in Court 11. Jacob has already been detained longer than 48 hrs meaning, in terms of s 50(3) of the Constitution, he must be immediately released. Beatrice Mtetwa currently laying out complaints against the state.
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Hopewell Chin’ono
@daddyhope
has been granted bail at the High Court. Justice Chitapi found that Magistrate Gofa grossly misdirected herself in denying the journalist bail. He is expected to be released from Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison later this evening.
#FreeHopewell
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Before he breathed his last, Hugh Masekela saw the downfall of every single one of the dictators he sang against in his song “Change”—the last being Robert Mugabe. Our entire continent is indebted to him for his unwavering voice for justice.
#RIPhughmasekela
#AlutaContinua
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Hopewell and Jacob have now been taken to Rotten Row Magistrate’s Court.
#FreeHopewell
#FreeJacob
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We are finally out! Thank you so much to all those who have been praying for us and showing your solidarity. Huge thank you to
@ZLHRLawyers
for the legal representation. So many reflections from the past two days but that’s for another day. Feeling grateful, hopeful, energized!
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Bail hearings this morning in connection with
#31JulyMovement
. Not a comprehensive list, just those I am aware of. Pray that they are released.
#FreeZimbabwe
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter
- Hopewell Chin’ono (Harare)
- Jacob Ngarivhume “
- Simon Drury “
- Nigel Ndlovu (Bulawayo)
(1/4)
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I dream of a Zimbabwe free from violence, abductions, and torture.
#NoToAbductions
#NoToViolence
💔🇿🇼
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I have been called for questioning at Harare Central Police this morning in connection with the meeting yesterday from which 4 teachers (including ARTUZ Sec-Gen
@RobohChere
) were abducted and beaten by CIO and later handed over to the police. Would appreciate your prayers. 🙏🏽
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22 year old Tawanda Muchehiwa (the nephew of
@zimlive
editor
@Mathuthu
) has been missing for more than 48 hours after being abducted around midday on 30 July 2020 in a Toyota D4D accompanied by a white Ford Ranger.
Let’s make
#FreeTawanda
trend every day till he’s found.
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@icecube
Thank you for responding and for your interest in Zimbabwe
@icecube
. Here’s a piece from
@nytimes
@ap
which explains what is going on: . In short, the Govt is brutalizing its citizens for peacefully protesting corruption and violence.
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter
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Thank you
@lecrae
for your 🙏🏽 and ✊🏽 for the people of Zimbabwe. Your music is life and your Christian witness is an inspiration. I watched you live in Harare a few years back. I hope you might come back some day.
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter
#BlackLivesMatter
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The time has come for us to unite as a nation. For too long we’ve been exploited and oppressed by a tiny group of greedy individuals who care only for themselves. We must come together and peacefully stand up and say: enough is enough!
#Amandla
!
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Hopewell Chin’ono has been denied bail and remanded in custody until 7 August by Magistrate Ngoni Nduna on the basis that he is a danger to the public because he has not yet completed his mission of inciting people to demonstrate on
#31July
. We will be appealing.
#FreeHopewell
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#HappeningNow
in Harare
The masses are speaking out...
- NO to massive fuel price hikes
- NO to the failed Bond Note
- NO to the exploitative 2% tax
- NO to corruption
- YES to NONVIOLENT ACTION
- YES to UNITY
- YES to a New Zimbabwe
#ShutdownZimbabwe
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Fighting for a better Zimbabwe is an expression of LOVE for Zimbabwe.
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter
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Mnangagwa says he’s coming after the lawyers and doctors who came to the aid of innocent people including children who were beaten, raped and abducted by soldiers acting on his orders. Well I for one do not fear you
@edmnangagwa
. The LORD is my strength and shield. So bring it!
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Hopewell Chin’ono’s bail appeal has been dismissed by the High Court per Justice Tawanda Chitapi.
#FreeHopewell
#FreeJacobNgarivhume
#FreeZimbabwe
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter
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Incredible drone shots of the march today. Zimbabweans came out in numbers like we’ve never seen before. The people have spoken: Mugabe Must Go!!!
#PeoplePower
#Zimbabwe
#SolidarityMarch
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Uganda is now under a total internet shutdown. VPNs are not working. Ugandans are cut off from the world on the eve of the election.
When they switched off the internet in Zimbabwe, the State unleashed military brutality. I fear the same is happening in Uganda right now.
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Job Sikhala embraces his lawyer Jeremiah Bamu. ❤️ He and Harrison Nkomo have fought tirelessly to see this day: Job finally back in his home after 595 days in prison. Well done, colleagues.
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The Springboks winning the World Cup for South Africa is also a win us, a win for Africa, a win for the Global South. I won’t be put off by a tiny minority of noisy xenophobes obsessed with colonial boundaries. Imma celebrate this win with you whether you like it or not! ❤️🇿🇦🇿🇼🌍
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Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin’ono has been granted bail by the High Court ending his 20 day incarceration at Chikurubi Maximum Prison. Bail conditions the same as his first case plus an additional ZWL $20,000.
@daddyhope
is expected to be released later today.
#FreeHopewell
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Hi Kudzai, I was actually down in the filthy cells of Harare Central giving them legal representation and securing their release. By the way, how is Joburg? I hope you can come back home once brave teachers like ARTUZ have won the struggle for freedom. It’s for your sake too.
I hear there are some teachers vapera tsoka vachingomacha muroad.... Folks like
@DougColtart
will be sitting in air-conditioned offices cheering them... All that marching yields nothing, kungoshandiswa Na Doug... Vamwe vanhu so😂😂😂😂
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This morning Magistrate Nduna refused to hear our application for bail based on changed circumstances. The State was willing for us to make the application today but the Magistrate directed that it can only be made next week on 12 August 2020.
#FreeHopewell
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter
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Twimbos,
Let’s make
#MuGarden
break 500K views within 48 hours!! 🔥🔥🔥 WATCH and RETWEET.
@winkydonline
@gemmamusic_
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SOLIDARITY is the fuel of the struggle.
Today Job Sikhala’s application for discharge was dismissed - meaning his stay at Chikurubi continues.
We must continue to stand with him. His trial resumes on 20 Nov.
#FreeWiwa
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Professionals in Zimbabwe are under attack:
• all junior DOCTORS now fall under military
• TEACHERS & NURSES threatened with mass dismissals for questioning slave wages
• LAWYERS arrested & prosecuted for doing our jobs
• JOURNALISTS assaulted for covering a press conference
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Women—particularly young black women—are at the forefront of Zimbabwe’s struggle for freedom. As a result they are being targeted by the fascist regime. These 7 have all been detained in the past week. Let’s show appreciation for the courageous ladies leading from the front! 👏🏼
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Both Hopewell and Jacob’s bail hearings have been postponed until tomorrow morning on the basis that due to the curfew courts are closing early. Ruling for Jacob at 11:15. Continuation of bail hearing for Hopewell at 8:30 am. They will he detained at Harare Remand Prison tonight.
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Good morning Dark Forces, Bad Apples and “Terrorists”.
Today is
#SoloDemo
DAY 3 and another opportunity to stand with prisoners of conscience Hopewell, Jacob, Godfrey and survivors of torture Tawanda, Terrence, Loveridge, Noxolo and many others by saying
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter
.
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Thank you for standing with him and with the people of Zimbabwe.
#FreeHopewell
#FreeJacobNgarivhume
Dear
@_AfricanUnion
Chairperson, President
@CyrilRamaphosa
, please ask President
@edmnangagwa
to release anti-corruption journalist
#FreeHopewell
Chin’ono
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Happy Monday! Hope you have a great week ahead.
Seek the Light, fight for Joy, and don’t forget to Dance! 😄
[🎵 Boogie Wonderland -
@EarthWindFire
]
🕺🏾💃🏼
@captain_roddy
@BethColtart
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We are at Harare Central now. The Officer in Charge (who refused to give her name) is refusing to allow Hopewell and Jacob to wear PPE in the cells. This is after the police refused to sanitize the cells - even at our expense.
#FreeHopewell
#FreeJacobNgarivhume
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Thank you for the solidarity from Namibia! ✊🏽🙌🏼🔥🇿🇼🇳🇦
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter
The Trade Union Congress of Namibia (Tucna) condemned the brutal and barbaric actions by the Zimbabwean government against the country's trade union.
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70s vibes with
@captain_roddy
! 🕺🏾💃🏽😂
#HappyFriday
Song credit: “He’s the greatest dancer” by Sister Sledge (1979)
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I pray that God would break the spirit of fear that has gripped our nation. We have nothing to lose but our chains.
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This morning I am unable to appear in the High Court for
#FreeHopewell
’s bail appeal because I am on trial myself, ironically facing almost the same charge as him (the State’s go-to charge for political trials: participating in a gathering with intent to promote public violence).
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Just received this from a friend who lives in Chitingwiza:
“Soldiers redeploying at Unit L, Chitungwiza now. Two Ashok Leyland trucks dropping off soldiers.”
Military atrocities are continuing in Zimbabwe every day. World, why are you quiet?
#ZimbabweAtrocities
#ZimbabweCrisis
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When you have experienced the deprivation of your own liberty, it changes the way you fight for others deprived of theirs.
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter
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My heart breaks thinking of
@JoanaMamombe
in a cold prison cell tonight. What kind of heartless person yanks someone out of a private medical facility and sends them to a prison for 2 weeks for medical assessments? They are trying to break her. We must ALl stand with her.
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University of Zimbabwe students demonstrating outside the Great Hall. They are refusing to write exams until UZ withdraws the fake PhD it issued to Grace Mugabe.
#Zimbabwe
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The High Court’s ruling in Hopewell Chin’ono’s bail appeal will be handed down on Thurs 6th August 2020. Until then he remains in prison custody.
Jacob Ngarivhume’s bail appeal currently in session.
#FreeZimbabwe
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter
#FreeHopewell
#FreeJacob
#FreeZimbabweans
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Job Sikhala’s family have been through a most horrific ordeal ever since their dad and husband (and the family’s primary breadwinner) was unjustly jailed more than 500 days ago. They deserve our love, solidarity and support.
#FreeWiwa
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Today I filed my objection with
@ZECzim
to the undemocratic and illegal attempt by MDC-T to usurp the will of the people and replace elected Members of Parliament who stood on an MDC Alliance ticket in 2018 with their own unelected members.
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter
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Anyone recall what were the causes of the 1st Chimurenga?
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Rest in Power, Morgan Tsvangirai. Courageous and bold, you have inspired our nation’s long struggle for a just, peaceful, equitable and democratic society. We salute you, comrade, thank you for all you have done for Zimbabwe.
#RIPMorganTsvangirai
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Almost 3 days after being granted bail on Thursday and 16 days after being abducted from his home by 6 armed men in plainclothes, Obert Masaraure has FINALLY been released from Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison and is reunited with his wife and ARTUZ comrades. Aluta continua! ✊🏽
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Show some love for this courageous lady who sent me her Solo Demo pic and asked me to post it for her.
Yes, fear is real. But she didn’t let it stop her from taking action!
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it” - Nelson Mandela
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter
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I’ve been released after being charged with section 37 of the Criminal Code along with Roboh, Precious, Munya & Jess. Thank you
@ZLHRLawyers
for the excellent legal representation from Denford Halimani and Tino Shoko (note our matching Pan-African attire ✊🏾!) Aluta Continua!
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Any regime that consistently promotes and protects sexual predators, convicted rapists, and paedophiles should be opposed by all right thinking people.
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.
@terry_guta
and Loveridge Chinzvende have been released on bail. The story of what happened to them is truly horrific and needs to be told. Praise God they are still alive! They are the heroes of our generation. Thank you
@ZadhrDoctors
for providing them with medical attention.
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Someone challenged us to celebrate the reversal of Beatrice Mtetwa disqualification from doing her job by taking up the latest challenge! So here is our offering of the
#DuduzaneChallenge
.😎😂😂
#ImaliEningi
#ImaliEningiChallenge
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Hopewell Chin’ono
@daddyhope
is still in remarkably good spirits despite his continued incarceration at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison. He told me today with a beaming smile on his face that he’s thrilled that
@JoeBiden
defeated Donald Trump in the US election.
#FreeHopewell
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I can confirm that Hopewell Chin’ono has been arrested on charges of contempt of court relating to a tweet. I’m currently out of Harare but managed to speak with him via phone. He is being held at Harare Central Police station & has been attended to by
@ZLHRlawyers
.
#FreeHopewell
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“The hope of freedom is like a well that will never run dry because it lives in the heart of each Zimbabwean” —
@GlenDhliwayo
#FreeHopewell
#FreeJacob
#31July2020
#ZanupfMustGo
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