Zimbabwe is a failed state because we have many stupid voters. Alas! There is no cure for stupidity! W Mukori

 The ignorant can be educated and the crazy medicated. Alas! there is no cure for stupidity! NONE!

How true! 

Zimbabwe is a failed state because we have brigades of stupid people who keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again - a hallmark of stupidity. The irony is that we continue to boast that we are one of the best educated nation in Africa. 

In other words we have invested millions of dollars, sweat and sinew and all we have hundreds of thousands of of idiots with “O” level education or better and a very significant number even have university qualifications!

You cannot reason with the stupid, they are incapable of rational thinking. Experience is the best teacher, yes but only for those with still some active brain cells which repeated suffering can force the dormant cells back to live. The brain of the stupid has all but ossified into fat. 

The stupid view leaders as demigods who can do no wrong, that is hardwired.  This is why diehard Zanu PF supporters see nothing wrong with extending Mnangagwa’s stay in office by 2 years, followed by CAB3 and now there is talk of CAB4! Diehard MDC/CCC supporters will never accept that Chamisa is corrupt, incompetent, a liar and a conman!

The idea that ancient Greeks classified humans into "idiots, tribesmen, and citizens" is a popular modern interpretation of ancient Greek civic philosophy that frequently circulates as a viral social media commentary. While it captures genuine elements of how the Greeks viewed civic duty, the specific three-part breakdown uses a mix of real ancient etymology and modern sociological framing.

Here is how the original Greek concepts compare to the popular modern viral breakdown:

1. The Idiots (Idiotes)

The Viral Definition: A totally selfish, self-centered person who has no public philosophy, disregards community rules, and cares only about personal gain. 

The Historical Reality: In ancient Greece, the word idiōtēs (ἰδιώτης) originally meant a "private person" or an individual who did not hold public office, as opposed to an official or an expert. Because Athenian democracy placed a massive premium on participating in the polis (public life), those who completely neglected civic affairs and focused purely on private matters were looked down upon. Over time, the term evolved from meaning a private citizen to someone unskilled, uneducated, and eventually, the modern meaning of the word.

2. The Tribesmen

The Viral Definition: A person with a narrow, clannish mindset who can only see the world through the lens of their specific ethnic, religious, or political group. They are loyal only to their group and suspicious of outsiders. 

The Historical Reality: This category is largely a modern sociological addition used to contextualize contemporary political issues like tribalism and hyper-partisanship. While ancient Greece was originally organized by distinct geographic and ancestral tribes (phylai), the democratic reforms of Cleisthenes in 508 BC actually restructured these tribes artificially to mix people from different regions. This was done explicitly to break old clannish loyalties and force people to identify as citizens of the city-state rather than members of an isolated tribe

3. The Citizens (Polites)

The Viral Definition: The ideal community member who respects shared humanity, balances individual rights with the common good, and actively builds a flourishing society.

The Historical Reality: To the Greeks, a politēs (πολίτης) was a citizen of the city-state (polis). Being a citizen was not a passive status; it required mandatory active participation in governance, jury duties, and military service. However, the ancient Greek definition of a citizen was highly exclusive—it was strictly limited to free, adult, native-born males, entirely excluding women, enslaved people, and foreign residents (metics).

"The Presidential Title Deeds Programme continues," Mnangagwa 2026 SONA. Granting the right to own land continues at a glacial pace! W Mukori

🇿🇼 State of the Nation: What it means for ordinary Zimbabweans - HARARE 24 SUMMARY

THE PRESIDENT gave a State of the Nation Address SONA today in parliament. 

At Harare 24 we know munongoda tingoti ga ga straight to main points. 

The President vati Zimbabwe’s economy is stabilising, with inflation now in single digits and foreign-currency inflows are increasing.

The main points for us are:

•  Food: Agriculture grew strongly, but government is preparing for possible drought and food shortages next year.

•  Electricity: Government says load-shedding is now largely behind us, with more power coming from Hwange, Kariba and solar.

•  Jobs: Government says mining, manufacturing and investment are creating jobs, with more opportunities promised for young people and women.

•  Roads: Major highways, including Harare-Beitbridge and Harare-Nyamapanda, will continue being upgraded.

•  Property: More people in urban and peri-urban areas are expected to receive title deeds, giving them formal ownership of their homes.

•  Healthcare: Government says it is improving hospitals and clinics and increasing access to medicines.

•  Small businesses: New laws are planned to make it easier for SMEs to formalise, access finance and find markets.

•  Safety: New laws will target drug abuse, human trafficking, firearms and fake overseas job schemes.

•  Transport: Airports and railways are being upgraded, while new laws will address roads and road accidents.

In simple terms: Government is saying the economy is getting better. The real question for ordinary Zimbabweans is whether that improvement will be felt through lower prices, reliable electricity, better services, more jobs and higher purchasing power.

026 SONA: PRESIDENT MNANGAGWA OUTLINES KEY NATIONAL PRIORITIES

President Dr Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa has officially opened the Fourth Session of the 10th Parliament, outlining key achievements and priorities:

•  Economy: GDP grew 8.3%, agriculture 27.9%, inflation fell to single digits, while foreign currency inflows reached US$10.7 billion in H1 and are projected at US$20 billion by year-end.

•  Agriculture: Government has adopted a Six-Pillar resilience plan against projected below-normal rainfall, focusing on grain reserves, climate-smart agriculture, financing and livestock protection.

•  Mining & Industry: Zimbabwe produced its first locally made lithium sulphate, while investments in lithium, gold, PGMs, iron and steel, manufacturing and mineral beneficiation continue.

•  Energy: President Mnangagwa said frequent load shedding is now a thing of the past, with Kariba, Hwange, IPPs and solar supporting electricity supply.

•  Infrastructure: Government targets completion and upgrading of major highways, including Harare-Beitbridge, Bulawayo-Victoria Falls and Kwekwe-Nkayi-Lupane, alongside the Mabvuku Interchange.

•  Rail & Aviation: The 614km Chicualacuala-Plumtree railway is being rehabilitated under a US$12 billion regional agreement, while the Kafue-Lion’s Den railway is planned. Kariba Airport will be upgraded and two additional international airlines are expected in 2027.

•  Housing & Social Services: The Presidential Title Deeds Programme continues, alongside improvements in healthcare, medicines, digital health, social protection and support for returning citizens.

•  Sport: International football has returned to the National Sports Stadium, while Mosi-oa-Tunya International Cricket Stadium is being developed for the 2027 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup.

•  International Relations: Zimbabwe assumes a UN Security Council non-permanent seat for 2027–2028 and will assume the COMESA Chairmanship in October 2026.

•  New Laws: Parliament will consider reforms covering elections and delimitation, justice, healthcare, finance, agriculture, water, transport, drug and substance abuse, human trafficking, firearms, defence and benefits for liberation war veterans.

President Mnangagwa reaffirmed Government’s drive towards Vision 2030, calling for accelerated development that “leaves no one and no place behind.”

This is nauseating, it really is! Millions of Zimbabweans in the rural area are being denied the right to OWN property, even one quarter of an acre of land on which their mud hut stand. This has been a deliberate policy by this Zanu PF regime and the white colonial regime before it. 

Smith did not want rural blacks to have title deeds to the land for fear that the economic empowerment will embolden the blacks to demand political empowerment next. He did not want to give the blacks a vote. Period! 

Mugabe and now Mnangagwa have too refused to give title deeds to the rural blacks for the same selfish economic and political reasons. Zanu PF could not deny rural blacks the vote but by by denying them economic empowerment the party knew it will have control over whom they voted for. 

The rural areas are Zanu PF’s strongholds and that has not changed. The so called Presidential Title Deeds Programme is giving title deeds to the lucky few who were given the former white-owned farms or benefited from the subdivided farms. These people got Offer Letters initially which is not bankable because the letters were withdrawn willy nilly with no legal recourse. 

The Presidential Title Deeds Programme has no authority in the rural areas. Rural povo have no right to own even once acre of land on which their mud hut stand. All land in the Tribal Trust Lands belong to the President. 

Every square inch of rural land belongs to the President and all those living in the rural areas are no more than medieval serfs forever beholden to the land lord!

It is utterly pointless telling these thugs that the right to own property is a fundamental human right. 

Article 17

17.1 Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.

17.2 No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

These thugs have yet to understand the first article!

Article 1

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

The notable thing that they understood all these rights before independence, they were amongst the blacks of the coal face facing white racism, oppression and exploitation. When they became the oppressors they saw nothing wrong!

Zimbabwe is a failed state, State of Nation Address (SONA) should address why and not talk nonsense. W Mukori

 The real State Of Nation Address (SONA) we should be having in Zimbabwe is why, 46 years after independence, millions of our people continue to be denied even the most basic freedoms human rights and dignities.

The white colonial regimes oppressed, exploited and treated blacks as inferiors beings who could not be trusted to make rational decision because they are inertly incapable of rational thinking. The war of independence was fought to put an end to all this! 

Alas! 1980 marked the end of white colonial oppression, yes; but very little else changed. The majority of our people continue to be treated as dirty, denied the same freedoms, human rights and dignities by the whites are now being denied them by the black ruling elite! 

SONA Part 1: Why are millions of Zimbabweans, 46 years after independence, still being denied “One man, one vote!” 

SONA Part 2: Why are millions of Zimbabweans, 46 years after independence, still being denied title deeds to even one acre of land?

SONA Part 3: Why are millions of Zimbabweans, 46 years after independence, still being denied the basic necessity of life including the right to life.

SONA Part 4: Why was Zimbabwe’s post independence founding fathers turned out to be a total disaster for Zimbabwe? 

SONA Part 5: Why was Zimbabwe’s post independence second generation founding fathers turned out no better than the first?

SONA Part 6: Given the realities of denied “One man, one vote!”, etc. how can Zimbabweans extricate themselves from this doomsday nightmare?

SONA Part 1: Why are millions of Zimbabweans, 46 years after independence, still being denied “One man, one vote!”

The South African generals who were send to investigate the blatant cheating and wanton violence visited on the ordinary Zimbabweans by Zanu PF during the 2008 elections were shocked at the barbarism and callous indifference of regime! Zanu PF has learned to hide the wanton violence but otherwise continues to ride roughshod over the masses.  

46 years after independence Zimbabweans continue to be denied these basic and fundamental freedoms and rights:

A meaningful say in the governance of the country. “One man, one vote!” remains a mirage. Zanu PF has yet to hold free, fair and credible elections. The nearest the nation came to holding freed elections was 2008 and Mnangagwa and Chiwenga launched Operation Mavhotera Papi to wrestle power from MDC and, more cynically, to punish the people for having dared to reject Zanu PF. 

The primary task of the 2008 to 2013 GNU was to implement the democratic reforms to secure all the basic human rights and freedoms and thus ensure the blatant cheating and wanton violence of 2008 are never repeated. The MDC leaders entrusted the task to implement reforms sold out, not even one token reform was implemented. 

SADC leaders warned Tsvangirai & co. of the folly of participating in flawed elections; the warning fall on deaf ears. 

Zanu PF blatantly rigged the 2013 elections and all subsequent elections. SADC and AU condemned Zimbabwe’s 2023 elections as flawed and illegal but were powerless to deny the regime legitimacy because Chamisa conned millions of his brain dead followers participate. 

Mnangagwa has bullied and bamboozled his Zanu PF supporters and the nation at large to pass CAB3 extending his stay in office a further 2 years and consolidating the regime’s dictatorial power on the pretext he is turning Zimbabwe into an upper middle income nation by 2030. Vision 2030, he called. 

The economy has not shown and signs of a meaningful recover since he took over from Mugabe in 2017 - proof vision 2030 is a mirage! 

Still Mnangagwa has moved on, he is now pushing for CAB4 which assumed vision 2030 has been delivered and CAB3 is done and dusted. CAB4 will turn Zimbabwe from a Republic into a Monarch, so that before his presidential term end in 2030 Mnangagwa will be crown King Munhumutapa. 

CAB3 has consolidated the dictatorial powers of the de facto one-party, Zanu PF, dictatorship. CAB4 will turn the de facto dictatorship into a de jure dictatorship. 

We have just come full circle! Blacks had no vote during white colonial rule. In 1980 to the present the masses had a vote or be it not a meaningful vote since they were not allowed to reject Zanu PF. CAB4, just like CAB3 before it, is unstoppable Mnangagwa will be king and the people will have lost the vote altogether since kings are not elected! 

Varanda VeZimbabwe (VV) plan to smash CAB3. Will it work? W Mukori

 @ VVZ

Fellow Zimbabweans, my brothers and sisters in Varanda VeZimbabwe,

​The time for long speeches is over. Politicians sold out our vote in Parliament for 7-year meal tickets, but this country belongs to us—the people.

​If we want to smash CAB3 and reclaim our right to choose our President, here is our direct, uncompromising plan of action:

Lock Down the Economy: Nationwide Stay-Aways

​A regime cannot survive without worker compliance and tax revenue. We are uniting vendors, kombi operators, teachers, nurses, and civil servants. When Varanda VeZimbabwe gives the order, everyone stays home. No buses, no markets, no work. An empty nation starves the state of revenue and forces them to yield.

​Expose and Retire Every Traitor MP

​We are publishing the names and faces of every single Member of Parliament who voted for CAB3. They took bribes and extended their own terms while robbing the citizens. We will organize peaceful constituent petitions to publicly confront them and banish them from public trust forever.

​Flood the Constitutional Court

​We are taking the legal fight directly to the Constitutional Court under Section 328. The law is clear: changing term limits and stripping direct elections requires a mandatory national referendum. Every court date will be an anchor point for mass peaceful assemblies outside the courtroom.

​Mobilize the Diaspora & Force SADC Action

​To our family in South Africa, the UK, the US, and Botswana: you are our financial and diplomatic engine. Fund our legal defense, picket Zimbabwean embassies, and pressure SADC heads of state to reject CAB3 as an illegal breach of regional democratic guidelines.

​WE ARE OUR OWN LIBERATORS.

​No self-serving politician will save us. Stand firm with Varanda VeZimbabwe, and let us take back our vote!

​#VarandaVeZimbabwe #DefendTheVote #NoToCAB3 #PowerToThePeople

Is this a realist plan? What will it take to work?