Pastor Shingi Munyeza a member of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Presidential Advisory Council (PAC) has suggested that social media will never achieve the desired change.
He said that if and when Zimbabweans have suffered enough, they will resort to strategies which were employed by “revolutionaries of the old.” Posting on Twitter, Munyeza said:
We have not suffered enough. If we have we would do what revolutionaries of old did. They put their lives at stake. Keep tweeting, you might be the first to bring change in Zimbabwe through twitter.
His remarks suggest a direct confrontation with authorities, a strategy that the masses, led by nationalist movements, used to attain independence from colonialists.
Munyeza speaks when Zimbabwe is in the worst economic and humanitarian crisis of the decade that is characterised by a huge deficit in power, medicines, mealie-meal and fuel, as well as the soaring inflation that has eroded workers’ salaries.
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