“A society doesn’t just crumble politically and economically. It also will have crumbled socially” — Phathisa Nyathi (1951 – 2024) said this to me at the Bulawayo Art Gallery in 2010. I begged him to put it in a book. I don’t think he ever did, but then again, he left us 80 books.
I always want to throw-up in my mouth when I hear a grown human being say they are not political or that they doesn’t vote in life – nonsense! Whether we live in a kingdom or a republic, politics governs our lives. People tell us funny things like, “the government did this”, “the media does that” – but are you following up on the individuals and their daily individual processes that make up government or the media?
Everyone wants a better life, and yet many people are apathetic with voting, electoral issues, and media watching (yes, write a Letter to the Editor please).
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2002 – underage
2008 – chose not to vote (violence)
2013 – ✅ + referendum ✅
2018 – ✅
2023 – ❎ (140 countries allow Non-resident citizen voting, and Zimbabwe isn’t one of them)
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2022 – ✅ (Council elections)
2025 – ✅ (The polling station was deadass empty. I was literally the only person I saw voting)