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President Cyril Ramaphosa’s contradictory remarks on the treatment of fellow Africans in South Africa raise questions about whether his position changes depending on the audience he is addressing. More👇🏿 https://x.com/daddyhope/status/2088298688829440436?s=46

Zambian broadcast journalist Alice Mutangala reports that the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has ordered all stakeholders to leave the election results totalling centre. She said that only police officers and Electoral Commission officials have been allowed to remain inside the centre. More👇🏿 https://x.com/daddyhope/status/2088265334453047450?s=46

Four senior Zambian ministers in President Hakainde Hichilema’s government have lost their parliamentary seats as the Electoral Commission of Zambia suspends vote counting nationwide. More👇🏿 https://x.com/daddyhope/status/2088223155739361783?s=46

Zambia’s Electoral Commission, chaired by President Hakainde Hichilema’s former personal lawyer Mwangala Zaloumis, has suspended the nationwide counting and announcement of election results following alleged violence, threats against polling staff and the theft of marked ballot papers. More👇🏿 https://x.com/daddyhope/status/2088215315477848484?s=46

Simon Chitambala Mwewa’s defeat in the Lusaka mayoral race offers another powerful lesson about why massive social media popularity does not necessarily translate into political power at the ballot box. He has more than one million followers on Facebook alone and runs a popular television programme across his social media platforms. His father was also Mayor of Lusaka during the Kenneth Kaunda era, giving him considerable name recognition. Yet he lost to a little-known candidate with just 19,000 Facebook followers. More👇🏿 https://x.com/daddyhope/status/2088193529730195591?s=46

Zambia’s election is delivering a powerful lesson about the gulf between social-media popularity and real political strength on the ground. More👇🏿 https://x.com/daddyhope/status/2088190214648771018?s=46

As Zambian election results continue to trickle in, the drama typical of many African elections is beginning to unfold, with reports of ballot theft. More👇🏿 https://x.com/daddyhope/status/2088168102160679191?s=46

A disturbing image from the iconic Birchenough raises serious questions about the maintenance of Zimbabwe’s critical infrastructure and the potential consequences of continued neglect. More👇🏿 https://x.com/daddyhope/status/2087992822955737561?s=46

It is embarrassing for us as a nation when we start looking for stupid excuses, like in this video, where they blame spirits for the boat tragedy in Kariba, when we know that the boat was overloaded, it was not seaworthy, and it left when the tide was high. All of us as Zimbabweans have a responsibility to push back against such nonsense because it makes us a laughing stock in the world. More👇🏿 https://x.com/daddyhope/status/2087912774638645614?s=46

Zimbabwe’s failure to have even one CAF-approved stadium almost seven years after its major stadiums first failed inspection is a damning reflection of a government that has failed to deliver even the most basic sporting infrastructure. More👇🏿 https://x.com/daddyhope/status/2087844031975792726?s=46

This video highlights the deep disrespect and contempt some powerful figures in the Gulf have for Black Africans, with a Sudanese man protesting about the killing of his people being answered by a member of the UAE ruler’s entourage calling him a “black bitch.” More👇🏿 https://x.com/daddyhope/status/2087634361805856929?s=46

Eight years ago, on 26 October 2018, I wrote this article, which was published by Nehanda Radio, where I described Kariba as what it is today, a ghost town. And I suggested a lot of things that could be done, including the servicing of boats and having a modern service centre to avoid tragedies like what happened yesterday. It is not that the Zimbabwean government does not have ideas. We share ideas every day about what needs to be done based on our international experience and how we have engaged with the rest of the world. But there is nobody to listen.👇🏿 https://x.com/daddyhope/status/2087604147138822532?s=46

More than a year before the Lake Kariba tragedy, Nick Mangwana, the spokesperson for the Zimbabwean government, was publicly warned that RIDA’s ageing vessels needed massive repairs or they would become “a disaster waiting to happen.” As usual with this government, nothing was done. The warning was ignored. More👇🏿 https://x.com/daddyhope/status/2087592738468352018?s=46

This video captures passengers boarding the Kariba boat, its departure and the terrifying moment water began entering it before it eventually sank in Lake Kariba. How could a government boat not fit for purposes beyond allowed to carry 153 people when it is supposed to carry not more than 45 people. How come nobody has resigned over this avoidable tragedy? More👇🏿 https://x.com/daddyhope/status/2087565394286350400?s=46

The security guard on the Kariba boat shares some disturbing information. The Kariba boat disaster raises serious questions about lawlessness, regulatory failure and the human cost of Zimbabwe’s worsening economic desperation: how could a boat meant to carry only 45 people end up with 153 people on board without being stopped by anyone? More👇🏿 https://x.com/daddyhope/status/2087492526118723807?s=46

Painful narration from a survivor of the Kariba boat disaster, recounting the terrifying final moments before the boat capsized and the desperate struggle to survive.👇🏿 https://x.com/daddyhope/status/2087462161685602348?s=46

Today is Zimbabwe’s Defence Forces Day, a holiday meant to celebrate the military and its role in the nation. However, this video raises difficult questions about Zimbabwe’s military’s role in the country’s politics and why so many ordinary citizens fear and hate the very institution meant to protect them. More👇🏿 https://x.com/daddyhope/status/2087124867694973090?s=46

If the 22-year-old side chick of the President’s son can accumulate properties worth US$7 million without having paid a penny in income tax or having any traceable income, imagine how much those who actually control the State are looting. More👇🏿 https://x.com/daddyhope/status/2087088135448449326?s=46

The ANC’s dramatic decline in Johannesburg, from 34% in the 2021 elections to 30% in March 2026 and just 18% in July 2026, while the DA has risen from 26% to 42%, is a stark warning that South Africa’s oldest liberation movement is rapidly losing the confidence of urban voters, and could face the same fate as Zambia’s UNIP if it fails to address corruption, poor governance, failing municipal services, unemployment and the growing political consequences of undocumented migration. More👇🏿 https://x.com/daddyhope/status/2086844061193806023?s=46

My parents taught me more than 40 years ago that once you share something with someone, it is no longer a secret, which is why I always advise young people to protect their privacy, never record intimate moments, and understand that once something is shared or recorded, they can no longer control where it ends up or how it may affect their dignity, relationships, families and future. This one made that mistake and he has ruined his professional contracts. More👇🏿 https://x.com/daddyhope/status/2086823496080887897?s=46