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The Great Match: Diaspora FC vs Zanu PF United - A 4-0 Rout
Match Report: A Masterclass in Democratic Resistance
In what can only be described as a thoroughly one-sided affair, Diaspora FC delivered a crushing 4-0 victory over a hapless Zanu PF United side, whose tactics throughout the match consisted primarily of intimidation, corruption, and spectacular defensive blunders.
First Half: Early Pressure Pays Off
GOAL 1 (15th minute) - Diaspora FC 1-0 The opening goal came from a brilliant team move. Diaspora FC's midfield orchestrated a perfectly timed petition to Downing Street and the FCDO, catching Zanu PF United's defence completely off-guard. The regime's attempt to field Auxilla Mnangagwa at the Flair Summit was blocked with clinical precision. The Zanu PF goalkeeper looked bewildered as the ball sailed past him - a clear sign of the defensive chaos that would plague their entire performance.
GOAL 2 (28th minute) - Diaspora FC 2-0 A stunning counter-attack saw Diaspora FC supporters surge forward with a highly coordinated demonstration both outside and inside the Flair Summit venue. The pressure was so intense that Auxilla Mnangagwa, who was supposed to be Zanu PF's star player, fled the pitch entirely - last seen heading for Dubai! In desperation, the regime's manager threw on retired Colonel C Katsande as a substitute, but his performance was described by commentators as "limp" and "full of misinformation." Another goal conceded through sheer panic.
Second Half: The Rout Continues
GOAL 3 (55th minute) - Diaspora FC 3-0 This was perhaps the most embarrassing moment for Zanu PF United. The IMF, acting as a crucial referee in international finance, blew the whistle on their corruption and refused to grant them the facility they desperately needed. This wasn't even a goal scored by Diaspora FC - it was a spectacular own goal by the regime, whose record of corruption had finally caught up with them. The crowd was stunned by such a basic defensive error.
GOAL 4 (72nd minute) - Diaspora FC 4-0 The final goal came after Zanu PF United committed a series of brutal fouls - lashing out with threats and intimidation using Zimbabwe's oppressive laws, published in local news outlets. But Diaspora FC's defence was rock-solid, responding with a masterful counter-attack through their article at zhro.org.uk, effectively neutralising every threat. The regime's dirty tactics had backfired spectacularly.
Late Drama: More Defensive Disasters
The Leeds Walk (85th minute) With the match already decided, 30 members of Diaspora FC staged a brilliant "Walk for Freedom" in Leeds on Saturday 12th July. Zanu PF United's defenders looked completely demoralised, and the Zimbabwean press coverage only highlighted how thoroughly outplayed they had been.
The Mthuli Blunder (90th minute) In stoppage time, Finance Minister Mthuli committed what pundits are calling "the defensive error of the century." His claims about $26 million in cost overruns on a road interchange were immediately seen through by spectators as yet another corruption scandal. It was as if he'd deliberately passed the ball to the opposing team.
Match Analysis: A Tactical Masterclass
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Harare, Zimbabwe: An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team led by Mr. Wojciech Maliszewski visited Harare from June 4 to June 18, 2025, to conduct the 2025 Article IV Consultation.
At the conclusion of the IMF mission, Mr. Maliszewski issued the following statement:
“Zimbabwe is experiencing a degree of macroeconomic stability despite lingering policy challenges. Following successive bouts of hyperinflation over the past few years, more disciplined policies—including halting and transferring to the Treasury the quasi-fiscal operations (QFOs) of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) and tighter monetary policy despite fiscal pressures—have helped stabilize the local currency (the ‘ZiG’) and reduce inflation. Growth this year is recovering following a sharp slowdown in 2024, which was affected by a drought that lowered agricultural output by 15 percent. Electricity production also fell, and declining prices for platinum and lithium weighed on the mining output. During the first half of 2025, better climate conditions and historically high gold prices have boosted agricultural and mining activity, strengthening the current account and contributing to the recovery, with growth projected at 6 percent in 2025."
Well we will leave his tangled and politcally acceptable verbage and recruit AI [Artificial Intelligence] to put this into readable, bullet point ENGLISH! No offence Mr Maliszweski - but free-thinking Zimbabwean's at home and the diaspora what the truth in plain speak!
AI Analysis of entire Statmemt converted into Bullet points - each referenced with a supporting web link!
Here’s a straightforward breakdown of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) 2025 Article IV Mission findings for Zimbabwe, explained in plain language for the average person:-
*Economy Growing, but Challenges Remain*:
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Parirenyatwa Makeover or Political Smoke Screen? The Truth Behind the Belarus Agreement.
What seems like help on the surface can sometimes be a mask for greed, corruption, and misplaced priorities.
During President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s recent state visit to Belarus, a bilateral agreement was signed for the renovation of Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare. On paper, it sounds like a long-overdue solution to Zimbabwe’s crumbling healthcare system. But let’s be honest, this deal is not as noble as it’s being made to appear.
The truth is, this agreement raises far more questions than answers.
Let’s not forget: Parirenyatwa Hospital was once one of the finest on the continent, back when it was known as Andrew Fleming Hospital during the colonial era. It was well-resourced and well-run, albeit for the exclusive benefit of the white minority. Today, the same hospital lies in shambles. Ceilings are caving in, there are holes in the roof, wards lack basic medication, and essential machines for dialysis and cancer treatment often sit broken for months.
In this context, the Belarus deal might look like a lifeline. But let’s stop and ask the obvious question:
Why do we need Belarus to renovate our hospitals?
Zimbabwe is one of the richest countries in the world in terms of natural resources, gold, diamonds, platinum, lithium, chrome, coal, the list goes on. Yet we continue to act like beggars in our own land, depending on struggling foreign states to fix problems we could solve ourselves. The government constantly claims there's no money for hospitals, schools, or basic infrastructure. Yet billions are spent on luxury vehicles, presidential jets, useless fire trucks, and overpriced machinery we didn’t ask for. There’s money, but it’s being hoarded by a greedy elite who live in obscene comfort while the rest of us are left to suffer.
We have builders, contractors, skilled workers, everything we need right here in Zimbabwe. But the government refuses to empower our own people. They’d rather sign secretive deals with foreign agents, where millions are skimmed off the top by well-connected middlemen, than create jobs and opportunities for ordinary citizens. Just look at what happened with the infamous Belarus fire tender deal. Councils were forced to buy fire trucks at three times the international market rate, without a tender process. The money was deducted from their devolution funds, even though what communities really needed were ambulances, clinics, and roads.
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We asked:
From a purely management ability and civic administration view point, is there any real 'talent' within the current (or recent past) Zimbabwe, Zanu PF regime, that could demonstrably claim to have led the nation to any basis of success on any internationally recognized governmental/civic/economic metric?
GROK3 Research Provided insights
GROK3 {AI Deep Research} Source Link
Assessing the management ability and civic administration talent within the current or recent ZANU-PF regime in Zimbabwe, particularly under Emmerson Mnangagwa’s leadership since 2017, requires a focus on measurable outcomes tied to internationally recognized governmental, civic, and economic metrics. These might include GDP growth, human development indices (HDI), governance indices (e.g., World Bank’s Worldwide Governance Indicators), corruption perception (e.g., Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index), and civic administration effectiveness (e.g., service delivery, infrastructure development, or poverty reduction). The question is whether there is demonstrable "talent" within the regime that has led to success in these areas.
Zimbabwe’s economic performance under ZANU-PF has been consistently poor by international standards.
- Since Mnangagwa took power, the economy has faced severe challenges, including hyperinflation, currency instability, and a GDP per capita that remains among the lowest in the region—estimated at around $1,774 in 2023 (adjusted for purchasing power parity, per World Bank data).
- While the regime introduced the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) currency in 2024 to stabilize the economy, its impact remains uncertain, and inflation has historically eroded public trust and economic gains.
- The agricultural sector, once a regional strength, has not recovered to pre-2000 levels following the Fast-Track Land Reform Program, with food insecurity affecting over 5.5 million people in 2023-2024 due to drought and policy failures.
These outcomes suggest a lack of effective economic management talent capable of reversing decades-long decline.
- On governance and civic administration, Zimbabwe scores poorly on international metrics. The World Bank’s Governance Indicators for 2022 rank Zimbabwe in the bottom 10-20% globally for rule of law, control of corruption, and government effectiveness.
- Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index gave Zimbabwe a score of 24 out of 100 in 2023 (where 0 is highly corrupt), placing it 157th out of 180 countries.
- Public services, such as healthcare, sanitation and water supply, have deteriorated, with recurring cholera outbreaks—7,000 cases and 100 deaths reported by October 2023—highlighting administrative failures.
- Infrastructure development, a stated priority under Mnangagwa’s “Vision 2030,” has seen some projects (e.g., road rehabilitation), but progress is slow and heavily reliant on foreign loans, particularly from China, rather than domestic capacity or innovation.
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With Zimbabweans arriving from Scotland, Newcastle, Stockton-on-Tees, Leeds, Wakefield, Leicester, Nottingham there was a very much 'Northern' flavour to the day. However the good showing {again} from the contingent from CCC Southend provided some 'balance' but in practice it was all a very much friendly affair - we even enlisted a couple of visitors to the Zimbabwe Embassy to agree with our aims - whilst they waited for the timid Embassy Staff to open their doors - we presume because a group of free thinking Zimbabwean were outside.
Again, this time a well dress CIO emerged from the Embassy to scuttle off to MacDonalds!
We have added this write up of our Demonstration and Petition handover, to our web section called "Mismanagment" as that fits well with the target of our 'complaint' regarding the desperate need for Electoral Reform - that being ZEC - the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission. A sub-set of a {normal} government tasked with organsising the full voting process - from registration, to counting the votes and declaring the winner.
Unfortunately ZEC fails of every metric possible - for their Electoral Mis-management - due in large part to being subservient to the ruling regime {illegal -as it has no electoral mandate based on votes actually cast} - namely Zanu PF. The party tasked by Robert Mugabe to effect a One-Party-State in Zimbabwe since before the 18th April 1980! Mugabe, and now Mnangagwa are communist inspired zealots - who shun, ignore and debase all democratoic norms. The
Indeed revelations by deepseek and GROK3 {two powerful AI based Research aids} both confirm the catalogue of democratic failure within and without Zimbabwe. see this article which explores the cladestine interplay between the supposed Zimbabwean revolution, and the British MI6: Zim History Post Independence 1 of 2 articles
Furthermore within our petiton {CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD OR READ THE PETITION as SUMBITTED} we aver that Zimbabwe is not a democracy - in fact very far from a democracy - as this deep reseach below expertly reveals. This is why Zimbabwe needs to be re-cast a democracy - as promised back in the days before 18th April 1980. See our current Flickr Photo Log of the day with a few videos as well. FLICKR 5th March 2025
Milton Bingwa's Article Introducing the Blockchain Voting Practicalities
Milton Bingwa's article which was published to coinside with our Electoral Reform Petition to the UK PM. In addition, this will also be forwarded to the FCDO, Commonwealth Secretariat, and the UN
""A History of Electoral Fraud; Zimbabwe’s political landscape has been dominated by Zanu PF for over four decades, with recent elections under President Emmerson Mnangagwa doing little to convince critics that real democracy has taken place.""""Blockchain technology offers a unique approach to voting that could address many of these issues head-on. The technology is decentralised, transparent, and immutable, meaning that once a vote is cast, it cannot be altered or erased and the ledger is public for anyone to view, which provides full transparency. This could make it nearly impossible for the ZEC or Zanu PF to manipulate election results.""
Petition Extracts
""Radical Electoral Reforms: Key Components and Success Factors: Diaspora Voting Rights;
Why It Matters: Over 900,000 {or as many as 2-5 million!} Zimbabweans live abroad, many driven by economic necessity, yet they are denied voting rights despite their constitutional entitlement under Section 67. Including them could shift electoral outcomes, given their significant remittances ($340.5 million surplus in 2022) and potential opposition leanings.""
Estonia has been using blockchain technology in its elections for years, offering a secure and transparent voting system. Switzerland’s city of Zug, known as Crypto Valley and has also tested blockchain voting at a municipal level. Even in Africa, Sierra Leone trialled blockchain to audit its 2018 elections, showing that the technology can work on the continent.These examples prove that blockchain voting is not just a futuristic dream but a viable option that could transform Zimbabwe’s electoral process. It offers a way to restore public trust, which has been eroded by decades of mismanagement and corruption and voter intimidation. SOURCE: Link Here and HERE from the Financial Times re Estonia
But at this time, and for the last 45 years Zimbabwe has never been a Democracy: https://x.com/i/grok/share/caXZunRTBl9Dava0tz21b3yYn
Your supposition, as articulated by the Zimbabwe Human Rights Organisation (ZHRO), that there is little evidence of Zimbabwe being a democracy under Emmerson Mnangagwa’s leadership aligns with a significant body of observable data and analysis, particularly when viewed through the lens of the detention statistics we’ve explored and broader political dynamics. Let’s evaluate this systematically, considering key democratic principles—free and fair elections, rule of law, freedom of expression, and protection of human rights—against the evidence from Mnangagwa’s term (November 24, 2017, to March 1, 2025).