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Tendai Chabvuta

Of armed robberies, propaganda and distracting public from real robbery

By Tendai Chabvuta

In a country where:

One can pass the airport with 6KGs of gold in a handbag and still argue that they carried the wrong handbag.
Where military people can be accused of buying million-dollar homes and rent them out to the state without shame and consequence.
Where millions of Covid funds can be plundered and no one is held accountable.
Where hoodlums can plunder a whole power generating company and still be able to win the cases in court.
Where ‘white collar crime’ is celebrated as “being connected; entrepreneurial and innovative.”
Where a whole judiciary and prosecution can implement “catch and release policies” without shame.
Where senior government officials plunder resources through junkets, tenders and no one can raise a finger.
Where tenderpreneuring criminals dressed in suits are acquitted because of lack of evidence.
One would wonder how then it is possible that cases of armed robbers who conduct such heinous activities can be caught within hours of committing the crime and the same investigators cannot catch the ones plundering taxpayers money.

Mar 01, 2024 Read more

Chamisa’s strategic ambiguity vs Tshabangu’s lawfare: Whose side is GOD on?

By Tendai Chabvuta

The big question that has been asked by many since the whole Strategic Ambiguity doctrine started was how it is possible that a serious political party vying to run a whole country cannot govern itself by a constitution.

The whole defense made by the CCC that part of it was to fend off infiltration by supposed ruling party and intelligence operatives is neither here nor there. While the allegations could be true, the idea smacks of a primitive way of dealing with challenges.

If one cannot trust one’s own systems in a political party how much more would they be able to defend such attacks at a national level. It is unheard of and does not make sense.

Nov 13, 2023 Read more

The Bulawayo CCC High Court judgement – a case of obsolete legalism and pyrrhic victories in Zimbabwe’s August 2023 elections

Tendai Chabvuta: “The current debate in Zimbabwe over the 27 July High Court ruling in Bulawayo barring CCC candidates from standing for election in the 23 August plebiscite because they missed the 16:00HRS nomination court deadline rages with all manner of interpretations. What is clear though is that while ZANU PF supporters are celebrating this technical victory and the CCC candidates plot to counter ZANU PF, it is Zimbabwe and its citizens that will emerge as the ultimate losers come election day. The judiciary as well as the ZANU PF party is missing a chance at guaranteeing Zimbabwe’s peace, security and enhancing democracy by this judgement which is overly legalistic and devoid of political praxis.”

Aug 02, 2023 Read more

Amnesty for rape convicts – arrogance or ignorance on the part of those that lead?

Tendai Chabvuta: “The question that concerns most Zimbabweans about this matter of the release of convicted rapists under the amnesty provision is moral, legalistic, and political. What message is the Government sending when it releases such people into communities without conducting public consultations on such a critical public policy issue? Is it arrogance or ignorance on their part?”

May 27, 2023 Read more

Ubuntu will require that Tynwald High School and Zimbabwe looks at the Nyanga Bus disaster differently

By Tendai Chabvuta

It is getting to three weeks since the tragic Tynwald High School bus crash in Nyanga on 14 October 2022. There were six fatalities and scores more of students and their accompanying teachers remain in hospitals and some are recovering from their homes.

I understand, this is not an easy issue but feel that it needs to be discussed further for several reasons. For starters, there are different stakeholders in the form of the learners, the parents, the school staff and the school management/owners and the Government of Zimbabwe who all need to play a role and also have needs to be addressed. I would like to propose a recovery plan for Tynwald High School in connection with the Nyanga Bus Disaster.

Nov 08, 2022 Read more

No parent should ever have to bury their children – In Memory of the dearly departed TYNWALD HIGH FOXES

By Tendai Chabvuta

Pasi hariguti nei?

In 1991, I was the Headboy at my primary school and I remember one morning getting a message that the Headmaster wanted to see me as soon as I had gotten to school. I went to see the Headmaster and he asked me whether I had heard about the Nyanga Regina Coeli Bus Disaster that had killed close to ninety school children. I told him yes; I had heard about it, and he asked me how I felt about it. I told him I was saddened by the loss of life. I told him I had been shocked but did not know what to do or say to anyone. I was a teenager; I did not know the students that had perished but I remember seeing the old man with tears streaming down his face. I remember walking up to him and telling him “Sir, chinyararai, ndokuita kwa mwari.” I stood there numb struck not knowing what to say or do, but he then told me to go and prepare a speech which I had to read out the following day at the school assembly where we would gather to remember the children who had perished in that bus disaster. With the help of my teacher, I gave out a heart wrenching speech the following morning, weeping and mourning for the departed souls I had never met but connected to me because they were children and were school children just like me.

The fateful 14 October 2022

Today, now with my own children who go to school and could probably have been in a similar situation, I am grappling with tears, trying to understand what anyone can tell a parent who happily drove their child to a midterm break’s holiday excursion and being called that your daughter or son is no more, and they have breathed their last. It is heartbreaking.

Oct 17, 2022 Read more

‘Maybe Mugabe was right about Professor Madhuku after all’ – Chabvuta

By Tendai Chabvuta

In the last two months, Professor Lovemore Madhuku, the President of the National Constitutional Assembly, and law lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe has appeared on two Zimbabwean social media channels, the HSTV and another calling itself the Citizens Voice Network to discuss the achievements of the opaque political body that is the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD).

It is mostly political hot air! While commenting on the POLAD, Professor Lovemore Madhuku strayed into the current debate around the arrest and perpetual incarceration on remand of Citizens Coalition for Change Deputy Chairperson, Job Sikhala, his fellow CCC MP Godfrey Sithole and other CCC activists (The Nyatsime 13) who were arrested on 14 June this year.

This was in connection with the disappearance and then reported murder of CCC activist Moreblessing Ali in May this year. His comments have been rather incoherent, outright condescending to the intelligence of Zimbabweans, seemingly sycophantic and deliberately spiteful to the CCC leadership in a childish way for someone of his stature.

This is what makes one hold the opinion that the old geezer Robert Mugabe might have been right after all about the erratic behavior of Professor Lovemore Madhuku.

Sep 12, 2022 Read more

The 26 March by elections – a fallacy that this is a contest between ZANU PF and Chamisa

Tendai Chabvuta: “People should and they must go and vote if the by elections are in their respective constituencies, but the supposedly enlightened ones must not put us into unnecessary pressure where we are made to believe that this is an election pitting the CCC against ZANU PF. The opposition CCC is fighting to restore what it lost out of its own miscalculations. 2023 is coming and that is when the real battle will be.”

Mar 26, 2022 Read more