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I Am From Zimbabwe. And Rwanda Makes Me Question Everything.
Let me say that again, with all the weight it carries. I am from Zimbabwe , a land blessed beyond imagination. Gold beneath our feet, platinum in our hills, diamonds in our rivers, the richest soil, the most educated people. God gave us everything.
And yet, when I look at Rwanda, I feel ashamed.
Not because Rwanda has more. Rwanda has far less.
I feel ashamed because Rwanda has done more with nothing, than we have done with everything.
In my country, Zimbabwe, looting has become a trophy.
We no longer hide theft. We celebrate it. Corruption is not whispered in dark corridors — it is displayed on Instagram, driven on our roads in convoys of luxury cars, built into mansions on stolen land. The looter is now the hero. The thief is now the role model.
In my country, political proximity to power has become a licence to amass wealth.
You do not need to innovate. You do not need to work. You do not need to build. You only need to be close. Close to power, close to the party, close to the right family. If you are close, the tenders are yours. The mines are yours. The land is yours. The US dollars are yours. And if you are not close, you can watch your country crumble while you queue for everything — for fuel, for cash, for hope.
That is the painful truth of my beloved Zimbabwe.
Then I look across the continent, to Rwanda.
A small country. Landlocked. No vast mineral wealth. A country that in 1994, during the Genocide against the Tutsi, lost everything. The world remained silent. The world left you to die.
You had every excuse to fail. Every excuse to loot. Every excuse to say, "We are traumatized, we cannot build."
But you did the opposite.
You stopped the Genocide. You chose unity over revenge.
You made Kigali safe, clean, and beautiful — not because you are rich, but because you are disciplined.
You built the Kigali Convention Centre. They said that was your limit.
You built Kigali Arena. They said that was as far as you could go.
You transformed Amahoro Stadium. They said other countries have bigger stadiums.
You brought the UCI Cycling World Championships to Africa — the first time in history. They said, "It’s just cycling."
Now you have brought Formula One to Rwanda. And suddenly, the whole world that once ignored you is now paying attention. The whole world wants to come to Kigali.
Do you see the pattern, my fellow Zimbabweans? Rwanda kept rising while the world kept doubting. We keep sinking while the world keeps pitying us.
Rwanda teaches me this profound lesson:
A nation is not built by what is UNDER the ground. A nation is built by what is INSIDE the hearts of its people and its leaders.
Rwanda has no diamonds to loot, so they learned to build. We have diamonds to loot, so we never learned to build.
Rwanda has leaders who see power as a burden to carry the nation. We have people in power who see power as a licence to carry away the nation.
Thank you, President Paul Kagame, for reminding Africa that it is possible. Thank you, people of Rwanda, for your discipline, your cleanliness, your vision. You have turned a genocide into greatness.
I write this as a proud Zimbabwean who loves his country deeply , and that is why it hurts so much.
I wish, with all my heart, that my country Zimbabwe, with all its wealth, could borrow just one leaf from Rwanda:
That leadership is not about how much you can amass for yourself, but how much you can build for others.
Until that day comes, I will keep looking at Rwanda — not with jealousy, but with longing. Longing for what Harare could be, if only we chose to be like Kigali.
Much respect from Zimbabwe. 🇿🇼🇷🇼
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Herman Mashaba’s statement that “Africa’s sense of entitlement to South Africa is UNBELIEVABLE” is a disgraceful insult to African solidarity and the sacrifices made in the struggle against apartheid.
@JosinaZMachel, daughter of the late Mozambican President Samora Machel, was right to remind this man of the historical ties between Mozambique and South Africa. @HermanMashaba must educate himself about those who stood with us when apartheid sought to crush our liberation struggle.
Samora Machel was a revolutionary who understood that African freedom could not be separated from the liberation of Southern Africa. Under his leadership, Mozambique supported liberation movements fighting white minority rule. That solidarity came at an enormous cost. Mozambique endured aggression and destabilisation by the apartheid regime because it stood with those fighting for freedom.
South African freedom fighters also operated beyond our borders, and some perished on Mozambican soil. Our liberation was never achieved in isolation. It was secured through the blood, courage and sacrifices of South Africans and our brothers and sisters across Africa.
If Mashaba wants to speak about entitlement, let us speak about the African countries that sheltered freedom fighters, the families who lost loved ones and the communities that suffered for standing against apartheid.
Mashaba must also answer questions about concerning his historical role during apartheid. Herman Mashaba was an informer and a collaborated with the apartheid security system must be tested against credible historical evidence. Those who sold out freedom fighters must never be celebrated while our heroes and heroines lie buried far from home.
Josina Machel’s invitation for Mashaba to visit Mozambique and the places where South African and Mozambican fighters perished was an opportunity to learn and pay respect.
It would be an insult to our gallant heroes and heroines to dismiss their sacrifices while reducing African solidarity to entitlement.
Who is demanding that South Africa surrender its sovereignty? Remembering Mozambique’s contribution is not surrender. Gratitude is not weakness. Honouring Samora Machel and the Mozambican people is acknowledging historical truth.
Josina Machel is defending the memory of a liberation struggle that cost African people dearly. She deserves to be heard, not insulted.
Our fallen freedom fighters cannot speak for themselves. We must defend their memory against historical distortion and the erasure of African solidarity.
African solidarity is not entitlement. Gratitude is not submission. South Africa’s freedom was paid for in blood, sacrifice and solidarity.
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This is grand ignorance, the kind we do not expect from African political leaders.
Samora Machel died on South African soil, in a crash long blamed on the apartheid regime, because he stood with your liberation movements.
Yet a South African politician seeking public office tweets such ignorant drivel. This is beyond embarrassing. It is deeply disappointing.
Sadly, these are the leaders who get elected to run councils, provinces and, God forbid, countries, carrying such shameful ignorance with them.
Thirty-four people died in the plane crash that killed Samora Machel at Mbuzini on 19 October 1986. They paid with their lives because Mozambique stood with South Africans in the fight for their freedom.
Today you seek political office and speak with contempt about that sacrifice. What a shameless man you are.
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Thank you @citizentvkenya for recognizing Rwanda’s achievements. But Formula 1 is much more than a win for Rwanda it is a major victory for the entire region and the #Africa continent.
This is the result of the visionary leadership of President #Kagame , whose ambitions for Rwanda continue to create opportunities that extend far beyond its borders and put Africa on the global stage.
#Kenya #Rwanda #F1
c.c @NgwenyaNhla, #SouthAfrica
Where do south Africans get the audacity to attack Rwanda? A country which has built itself without anyone's help?
Rwanda is smaller than u? Yes.
Rwanda is poor compared to u? Yes
But whats your hand in creating your country to that level?
South Africa was built by whites who made u slaves in your own country till 1994,Rwanda was already struggling since 1962.
You south Africans u can't even start up a small business it required Africans from other nations to come and do that for u untill u got bitter and send them away.
You only know two things, dancing amapiano and stealing. U can't work. And if you can't work u can't talk about countries who do.
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" They ALL have misdirected focus." ................You couldn't have said it better😀😀😀,#SouthAfrica busy inculcating xenophobia and Afrophobia among the masses instead of providing basic services for them.
I don’t particularly find them more talented or educated. Here are the differences to me:
1. A President that is in charge, you will be jailed very quickly for any transgressions.
2. Fear of wrong doing vs pull to do wrong because it is everywhere & everyone is showing material gain.
We have plenty of talent, in government & private sector, they ALL have misdirected focus, unhelpful to the country.
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Listening to Rwanda’s Minister reminds me of what Maj.Gen. (Rtd) Muntu often emphasizes. That politics shouldn’t be a gamble and you cannot give what you do not have. Rwanda’s hosting of F1 is neither luck nor a miracle. This is simply what merit and consistent execution produce. You reap what you sow.
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“Banyarwanda”
in Rwanda 🇷🇼
Congo 🇨🇩 Uganda 🇺🇬 & Tanzania 🇹🇿
Looking at these “historical documents” attached.
It is a historical fact that pre-colonial Rwanda - inhabited by the Banyarwanda - was amputated of significant portions of its historical territory, leaving substantial Banyarwanda populations living outside the borders of what subsequently became Rwanda during the “colonial” occupation and at it’s independence.
I would add that what is missing here, in the documents, is one related to the territory that went to Germany and was later incorporated into German Tanganyika, which ultimately became part of Tanzania, including Zanzibar.
The territory that remained as Rwanda was placed under a different colonial status. Rwanda was governed through indirect rule rather than being administered in exactly the same manner as a conventional colony.
Across these different territories and political arrangements, and depending largely on the nature of local governance, there have been recurring acts of violence against Banyarwanda communities, although the intensity has varied considerably. In many instances, the level of violence depended on how much the central authorities were willing to tolerate … or, at times, whether they were themselves complicit in it.
For ordinary people, part of the problem may have been simple ignorance. Many did not understand why Banyarwanda communities were living among them when Rwanda existed as a country associated with the same population. Unlike many of the neighboring communities, the Banyarwanda had a state that bore the same identity as their broader community. Yet this ignorance was not the only factor. There was also, at various times, a desire to appropriate the land and wealth of Banyarwanda communities.
This was facilitated by the fact that Banyarwanda communities were often highly organized, economically active, and socially cohesive characteristics deeply rooted in their culture and civilization. Their organization and prosperity could consequently become a source of resentment, competition, and ultimately hostility.
Evidence of this pattern can already be found in 1965. An airgram written by a U.S. Department of State official provides a detailed account of violence committed by local communities against Banyarwanda populations in Congo.
Another part of the historical record explains how, in Uganda, some Banyarwanda adopted the name “Bafumbira” as a way of navigating the political and social pressures surrounding their identity. (Note, that by then there had also been an influx of Rwandan refugees who had fled Rwanda as a result of early acts of Genocide under Belgian rule before independence.)
A similar process occurred in South Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Banyarwanda communities in South Kivu came to be known as Banyamulenge.
These recurring episodes of violence and the political pressures surrounding Banyarwanda identity cannot be understood independently of the history of colonization and its aftermath. The colonial division of territories separated communities that had previously belonged to interconnected political, cultural, and social spaces, creating borders that did not necessarily correspond to the realities of the populations living across them.
It is also important to challenge the assumption that these conflicts were fundamentally the result of “scarcity of land.” In many of these territories, the problem has not been an absolute lack of land. Rather, the deeper issue has been the way land, identity, citizenship, and political power have been governed.
The recurring violence against Banyarwanda communities is therefore better understood in the context of colonial legacies and post-colonial failures of governance - particularly the manipulation of identity, exclusionary politics, unequal access to land and resources, and the willingness of authorities to tolerate or participate in violence against particular communities.
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The idea that the minerals US companies import from Rwanda are “clean,” while those sold to Chinese companies are somehow conflict-linked, tells you all you need to know about US motives.
This isn’t about Rwanda looting Congo, which is a baseless claim. It’s geopolitical maneuvering aimed not only at securing Congo’s minerals for US companies, but also at cutting China out of the supply chains.
Ultimately, the US-backed puppet who rules in Kinshasa will also be expected to push China out of Congo’s mining sector.
Is this why they sanctioned Rwandan gold last week?
Rwanda signs a nuclear deal with Russia for real energy independence and suddenly their gold refinery gets hit with US sanctions over “conflict minerals.”
The timing is too perfect.
When African countries choose partners outside the Western system, something always becomes a problem.
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First They Came: A Lament Under the Shadow of the Crocodile
In the red dust of our ancestral soil,
where the ancient oak once whispered freedom
and the drums carried the heartbeat of the people,
a great darkness fell.
First they came for the Northerners,
and I did not speak out
because I was an Easterner.
Then they came for the Opposition,
and I did not speak because I was a ruling party stalwart, clutching my party card like a charm,
my belly full while my conscience starved.
Then they went for the students, extinguishing their dreams with batons and bullets.
And I did not speak
because I was no longer young,
my books were closed.
Then they went after the gay people,
and I did not speak – because their love was not mine.
Then they came for the civil society activists,
and I did not speak out – because I was not an activist;
I had a family to feed.
Then they came for the journalists,
and I did not speak out –
because I was not a journalist.
Then they came for me.
In the dead of night, boots on the veranda,
a knock like thunder from an angry sky.
My children hid under the bed,
trembling like leaves in the kaskazi wind.
And there was no one left to speak for me.
The neighbours drew their curtains.
The market women lowered their voices.
My friend turned off his phone.
The whole land cowered in silence – a nation of bowed heads, too terrified even to whisper a prayer.
The drums fell quiet.
Only the wind carried our shame across the savannah.
The Crocodile had won.
(Thanks for the inspiration, Martin Niemöller.
May we find the courage before the darkness takes us all.)
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If Black South Africans were gathered in the millions armed with crude weapons in order to chase away Boers who have enslaved them, stolen 90% of their wealth and rendered them destitutes in their own country, fascist @realDonaldTrump would have sent warships, launched tomahawk missiles and orchestrated a @UN Security Council resolution condemning the violence and calling it “White Genocide.”
@elonmusk would have turned @X into a White Revolutionary Media!
But because the victims are Black Africans, the entire white world is silently cheering!
🚨 Captain Thomas Sankara’s Testimony About The Behavior of South Africans.
This is a rare interview of Sankara that you might have never seen before. Here is what Sankara witnessed in South Africa in his own words:
“A bit like a slave who doesn’t want his freedom, because he has been so attached to his master, because he has been so shaped. In South Africa 🇿🇦, I saw back in the day in South Africa, black people attacking us black people who were just passing through who were being treated by the airline to have the right to the same treatment as the other passengers.
But it was our Black African brothers like us who spat on us because they could not understand how we dared to measure ourselves against white people. It wasn’t because they suspected that we were compromised with white people, no, because they felt that we were showing an inestimable, unacceptable pride.
Well, those black people have been dominated too long, they can’t understand that a black person can sit at the same table with a white man.”
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A Malawian man finally summon up the courage to confront his South African tormentor and reveal the weaknesses and problems in South African work ethos , as he departs South Africa.
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As many predicted, Alan Kasujja has found himself in the difficult position that often comes with crossing from journalism into government communication. It is a role that does not simply require explaining policy. At times, it demands defending decisions that, only a few years earlier, he openly questioned from the outside.
That is why an old post from 2016 has resurfaced and is spreading rapidly. Back then, Kasujja posed a simple but powerful question:
"So the government of Uganda is picking a fight with the media? Throwing all sorts of threats around? Can they REALLY win?"
A decade later, the political landscape has shifted, but the underlying question has returned with even greater force.
Today, the Ugandan state faces criticism over its treatment of sections of the media. Yet the man who once publicly challenged government hostility toward journalists now serves as the official spokesperson for that same government. His public silence on the issue has become as much a talking point as the government's actions themselves.
This is less about personalities than it is about the paradox of power. It illustrates how institutions can reshape public roles, often requiring individuals to defend positions that appear to contradict their earlier convictions. The transition from asking difficult questions to managing difficult answers is never an easy one.
In politics, old words rarely disappear. Social media has become the nation's permanent archive, and every statement made in opposition can one day be measured against conduct in office.
The internet never forgets. Sometimes, the toughest questions are not the ones your critics ask today, but the ones you asked yourself ten years ago.
You explicitly stated the truth, the whole truth & nothing but the truth.Mandela,Sisulu,Tambo,Miriam Makeba must be turning in their graves.And this clique of #SouthAfrica -n bastards will blame their savagery on Apartheid!All they can do is drink,dance,rape,steal, & kill!
These people are uncouth, ignorant and too uneducated to understand the stupidity and cruelty of their Afrophobia. Only an idiot would tell another African to “Voetsek”. Only a fool would refer to fellow Africans with derogatory slurs such as “Kwerekwere”. And only a clown would defend such hateful behaviour.
“Voetsek” is an Afrikaans word traditionally used to chase away dogs. The deliberate choice of that word to address fellow Africans is therefore not accidental, it is a deliberate act of dehumanisation.
That said, these clowns do not represent South Africa and should never be used to define South Africans as a whole.
The overwhelming majority of South Africans are decent, cultured and measured in how they treat others. It would be unfair and inaccurate to judge an entire nation by the actions of a hateful minority. These are fools, and every country has them! Only a fool would openly utter such hurtful words!
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Neo-colonial arrogance from Uncle Sam's errand boy........''wealth that rightfully belongs to the Congolese people" including ........ the M23 who are Congolese.#Rwanda #RDC
The United States is announcing sanctions that target the networks smuggling conflict minerals out of the DRC to support the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group. M23 and its backers exploit the DRC’s vast mineral resources — wealth that rightfully belongs to the Congolese people — to fund weapons, pay fighters, and sustain a destabilizing insurgency that has triggered a severe humanitarian crisis. Today’s action directly supports implementation of the Washington Accords for Peace and Prosperity, the historic agreement President Trump brokered between the DRC and Rwanda.
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