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“Makandiwa is a liar,” boldly asserts Mr. Hopewell Chin’ono

Caroline Du Plessis

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Mr. Hopewell Chin’ono, the award-winning journalist, boldly asserted as true and fact that: “Makandiwa is a liar.”

Mr. Brian Manyati, a member of the 10,000 Points of Light (POL) initiative, observed that: “The Zimbabwe I want to be part of is a Zimbabwe in which a person who is liar can enjoy his lies as long as such lies do not cost others.

In this case, I am not aware of any facts and circumstances that would compel another Zimbabwean to call others “brainwashed” as if independent thought is sold in some cash and carry outlet.

Even the smartest man on earth has no right to label another person brainless let alone assign a brain that is the categorized as a washed one.

We all come from wombs of our mothers and the original person never had a brain, a gift of nature itself, that would qualify to be labelled a washed brain simply to prove a point that only a few living persons like Mr. Chin’ono have authentic brains.

There exists no testing centre to establish which brain is washed and which one is not.

Accepting this self-evident truth, it begs the question of how best bridges can be build when walls of exclusion are being constructed daily.

Makandiwa would qualify to be dishonest to people who trust him but to a person like me who has no personal knowledge of this man, it seems to me that characterizing persons as dishonest when honesty is missing in any relationship who is fingered as dishonest is not fair.

I should like to believe that Zimbabwe belongs to all who live in it and it would be futile to accept a proposition that honesty be judged by persons who distrust the potential victim of defamation.

As Rodney King once asserted: “Can’t we just get along,” irrespective of the choices made out of self-interest or inspired by other motivations.

The allegations that Makandiwa may have knowledge or sanctions rape among his followers is a question that can and should be addressed by the victims rather than through third party social media messaging.

The Africa I want is an Africa that respect the sovereignty of all and the presumption of innocence is afforded to all rather than a country in which others sit as judges and without affording the implicated person, the right to respond to allegations made in the interests of building an open and accountable society, before any finding is made.”

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