As a nation, we now openly embrace nudity, profanity, cheating and prostitution to alarming levels. Where is our Government? Before independence, people still had their dignity even though Zimbabwe was going through a lot of challenges through colonialism.
Hello British Government:
My name is Thomas Mapfumo, a great musician, and political activist from Zimbabwe. I noticed with shock to learn through the media this week that President ED Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe is part of your guest list. Of all the delegates in the world!!
Let me say this for the record. That invitation throws the interests of all struggling and suffering people of Zimbabwe into the dust bin.
After so much suffering through the hands of such a dictator, I am sure something better could be done to align with democratic values of this new world. Is this the way the people of Zimbabwe get rewarded by the British government?
Mugabe is often described in binaries: hero or villain, liberator or dictator. Both are true and yet neither is adequate. Because Mugabe was not only a political figure. He was also a psychological case study of something far more unsettling:
History is often unkind to those who build the very prisons they later wish to escape. Whenever the story of Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle is told, few figures loom as large, as complex, or as ultimately frustrated as Dr Edson Jonas Mudadirwa Zvobgo.
Human rights lawyer Doug Coltart was assaulted during the proceedings after a group of suspected ruling party supporters disrupted the event. Witnesses said his phone was snatched and he was beaten, while attackers questioned his nationality.
US President Donald Trump has criticised the United Kingdom and other allies, telling them to secure their own energy supplies rather than rely on Washington.
