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Months on the pain and emotions can still be captured by camera, a father, a hubby taken away in cold blood by the state in Zimbabwe, what is left is Varaidzo’s fresh tears and heart ache. The pictures tell it all and the reason why i don’t believe in the new dispensation nonsense. The state is still killing our loved ones, its very painful. For how long can we still be in captive like this? When is this going to end?

Three months ago on this day and for 14 consecutive days that followed, horrific State & ZanuPF atrocities were perpetrated against civilians in the streets & their homes across urban areas, mainly in Bulawayo & Harare. Don’t Let the Victims be the Forgotten Lot! @Professor Jonathan Moyo

Let the streets be safe, let our country be safe from the violence, brutality caused by the military, Zanu Pf militia, and the state security. We don’t want to live in fear at all times. They are supposed to be protecting us but they are doing the opposite. Every life matters, we are one nation, one people.

Is South Africa becoming our local African terrorists? It seems like nothing has changed regarding social ethics when it comes to how others are treated. South Africans in other countries are being treated with respect but they are not treating others the same. We are seeing Xenophobic attacks once again on news and social media platforms and i can say its so heartbreaking to see our brothers and sisters being treated that way. All these (Afro-phobic) barbaric hatred ought to be stopped and condemned with all possible rationality. It seems South Africa has forgotten how other countries supported them to fight apartheid, otherwise they wouldn’t be treating them like rubbish.

Stabbing, stoning, beating, shooting, burning and killing your fellow Africans and hating them for jobs is not a thing to ignore and move on. Something must be done by to stop all the shameful acts and crimes against immigrants. I am starting to believe South Africa is not a rainbow nation as they claim to be with all that is happening, all these hatred and killings. How can it be a face of Africa with blood of their fellow brothers and sisters being slaughtered. What is the leadership of South Africa, Africa doing to address this gross violation of human rights which is a crime against humanity. Seriously, Xenophobia needs the stop!

http://zimbabwehuchi.com/video-some-cycloneidai-victims-have-claimed-food-aid-is-being-distributed-to-zanu-pf-supporters-only/

Genuine love, honesty is needed in our nation of Zimbabwe. The nation is at a crisis, we need to stand together as one. No one expected it to happen. A cyclone hit our nation Zimbabwe and other neighboring countries. We lost our loved ones from the cyclone IDAI. Stealing from people and taking advantage of the situation needs to end in our nation. People donate clothing, food, blankets and other things to support those affected by this disaster.

However some people are so corrupt to take steal from those people and take the donated goods to keep for themselves or even sell them. How can we progress as a nation if we still have such behaviors, such greed? We need genuine love, compassion, honesty when handling matters like these. Some survivors are in the bushes, sleeping hungry, cold, men, women and children. We should have a heart of love for each other, we are one. Corruption and abuse of power must stop.

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I was just browsing on social media and came across a post about a tribal ceremony.
Women from the Hamar tribe in Ethiopia are whipped to show their love for men going through Ripe of Passage ceremony .The beatings go on until their backs turn bloody. They are not allowed to scream. They do not also flee the ceremony but rather beg the men to beat them over and over again. Women in the Hamar tribe are subject to beatings even after the ceremony at any time the man pleases unless they give birth to at least two children. The rules of the tribe also say that men do not need to explain why they are beating the women as they can do so as and when they feel is right. Scars from the beating are proudly shown off as beautiful.

Is it culture, abuse or people do it in fear? Why would people go through all that for culture? Looking at those scars is so painful. I don’t think i would ever want to go through all that. I used to get beatings in Zimbabwe, i got deep cuts that still affect my life, i would never want to beg someone to beat me up. I wouldn’t want to live there. Its sad.

Earlier on today I came across a video online. In the video I saw two children being forced to beat each other up. The caption read, “Zimbabwe police abuse kids in Matabeleland.” It just broke me. I was hurt by it. The adults seem to be enjoying it and laughing as the children beat each other up. You can tell they are so much in pain but they can’t stop because they are being threatened. It’s so sad, it makes me even angry to see such things happen.

I remember a few years back, a similar thing happened to me but I refused to be part of such disgusting behavior, luckily i managed to escape. When I refused to participate in assaulting and abusing a man as part of recruitment, I was physically assaulted and threatened to be killed for refusing to participate in things that I do not believe in. I do not condone or support abuse and brutality. I had no one to turn to or tell. Reporting it would not have helped me at all, it would just land me in more trouble because the system is so corrupt.

They had to do their dirty work themselves and up to now it still haunts me, seeing such things happening in my face. I felt violated. It was so bad, as if the man was going to die is front of my eyes and I was helpless. I experienced it a couple of times especially with the police, CIO’s and political party militias like Zanu PF. The sad thing is that some of these things happen behind closed doors so that there won’t be any witnesses because if they did it in public, it would bring so much attention to them. That is how people just disappear and you never hear of them again, because they would have been taken to them hidden places and what happens there is not for the weak hearted.

People die, sustain injuries from the beatings. Imagine how many people went through similar situations and never get to make it out alive, how many people went through such and they cannot say anything or comment about it because their lives are at risk. It is a traumatizing experience and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. I really wish something could be done to stop that abuse and brutality. When I see such things happening, I get emotional.

The government of Zimbabwe has continued to violate human rights without regard to protections in the country’s new constitution. An expected legislative framework and new or amended laws to improve human rights in line with the constitution never materialized.
Police violate basic rights, such as freedom of expression and assembly, using old laws that are inconsistent with the new constitution. Activists and human rights defenders, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, face police harassment. There has been no progress toward securing justice for human rights abuses and past political violence.

Corruption in Zimbabwe has also injured the human, social and economic rights. The government need to address the corruption as they haven’t done so. People get abused when they go to report their cases to the police just because they can’t afford to bribe the officers to take their cases. Such abuse remain a serious problem in Zimbabwe as the people don’t feel safe.

Police continue to arrest activists. In January, police arrested five activists from four NGOs—Chitungwiza Residents Trust, Combined Harare Residents Association, Centre for Community Development in Zimbabwe Trust, and Zimbabwe Human Rights Association—for participating in a demonstration in Chitungwiza. They were later released without charge. Also in January, police arrested 12 leaders of the Zimbabwe National Students Union. The students, who were beaten in police custody, were arrested during a demonstration against poor education standards at Harare Polytechnic College. WOW! Is this the Zimbabwe we will know, is this our future Zimbabwe?

Civilians beaten and abducted in major Zimbabwe crackdown https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/16/authorities-launch-major-crackdown-amid-protests-zimbabwe?CMP=share_btn_tw

Who do you think guards the guards in Zimbabwe? Violations committed by the Law Enforcement Agencies. We are still witnessing the entities that are consulted to protect the people being the fore front violating human rights. They are supposed to be preserving life, and yet they are leading in the taking of lives. Civilians beaten and abducted, some never return home to their loved ones. This affects our lives especially for those that experience it or have experienced and managed to escape, its so heartbreaking. That’s not a life to live, living in fear at all times.