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IN response to We’ll beat up protesters: Zanu PF, MBUDAYA says: We don’t care anymore. If we keep quiet, we are abducted from our homes and tortured. If we protest, we are abducted again from our homes and tortured. One way or the other, change is coming and I can smell it. Zanu PF’s holding of Press conference­s everyday shows it is panicking. It knows the sins it has committed, the unfulfille­d promises, everything wrong it has done. Let them beat us up, they will be shooting themselves in the foot because we will be peaceful. Since the beginning of the campaign for the protests, nowhere has it been said that we will be violent. In fact, it is Zanu PF itself which always has its people in place who start violence and fires and then go on to blame opposition parties.

PIKIRAYI says: Zanu PF acting spokespers­on Patrick Chinamasa’s choice of words tells what kind of a party they are. They are always viewing violence as the only solution. Victor Matemadand­a once insinuated that they would unleash the army on peaceful protesters. The question is: What is it exactly that they fear about peaceful demonstrat­ions? Instead of paying much attention to the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic and remunerati­ng police officers and soldiers manning our borders so that we flatten the curve, or increasing salaries and allowances as well as providing personal protective equipment for nurses, they are busy majoring on minors. Let the people protest, it is their democratic right as enshrined in the Constituti­on.

IN response to ED unleashes CIOs on Sikhala, GWIZHIKITI says: What a joke this government is. Surely will his arrest save the economy from tanking? Or will it stop the runaway inflation, or falling value of the dollar? President Emmerson Mnangagwa must be serious.

IN response to Zesa boss Gata suspended for corruption, MAZVANYA says: Whoever brought suspended Zesa Holdings executive chairman Sydney Gata back to the parastatal needs his mental faculties to be examined. Gata was responsibl­e for unbundling the parastatal and running it down a few years ago, even suing it for millions of dollars, yet he is the same person who has been called back to rebundle Zesa and steer it in the right direction. Surely, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administra­tion is not serious. It’s not about Gata turning around the fortunes of the parastatal, but some hidden agenda.

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