Zimbabwe uproar as roads named after Emmerson Mnangagwa

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Zimbabwe uproar as roads named after Emmerson Mnangagwa

Zimbabweans have reacted with disbelief to news that the government has approved plans to rename major roads and buildings after "national heroes" - including 10 streets named after President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Many of those honoured fought in the 1970s guerrilla war against white-minority rule and went on to become prominent figures in independent Zimbabwe.

Other African leaders such as Congo's Patrice Lumumba, Jomo Kenyatta and Abdel Gamal Nasser are to have roads named after them, along with international leaders such as Cuba's Fidel Castro, Leonid Brezhnev of the former Soviet Union and China's Mao Zedong.

Many Zimbabweans took to social media to express concern that the cabinet spent time discussing the renaming of roads and buildings when the country was in a dire economic crisis.

Zimbabwe uproar as roads named after Emmerson Mnangagwa

Ten roads, including one of the main roads in the capital, will be renamed after President Mnangagwa.

www.bbc.com

 

[TysonRoux]

LOL

We should soon see street names and money appear with Zupta name and image.

 

[TysonRoux]

African leaders love the medals, fake military ranks and streets bearing their names

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

It's the african way ..... false or undeserved glory at any cost, fark the peasants

 

[Tokolotshe]

LOL

We should soon see street names and money appear with Zupta name and image.

"The Spear" would be more appropriate.

 

[The Trutherizer]

Renaming road/street/whatever after politicians seems to always come with a major fracas/hassle.
Why can't they just learn and stop naming things after politicians? Neutral things like trees and objects would be so much less of a pain in the neck.
It's such a simple concept that one would think by now fearless leaders everywhere would have figured it out. But no. Somewhere somebody always seems to come up with the bright idea of imposing their own hero worship of select individuals from within their own ranks upon others.
Street names could be valuable navigation clues even. Imagine that! Useful street names - My hat... I don't get paid enough. Rofl.

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

It's the african way ..... false or undeserved glory at any cost, fark the peasants

and yet they apparently reacted in "disbelief" ... it is indeed the african way, as predictable as the sun rising tomorrow, wtf "disbelief"?!?

 

[ForceFate]

Reminds me of this Idi Amin caricature.

 

[Nanfeishen]

along with international leaders such as Cuba's Fidel Castro, Leonid Brezhnev of the former Soviet Union and China's Mao Zedong.

Even China , the bastion of so-called communism , doesnt celebrate revolutionary leaders with Street names , idiots.

In mainland China today, Sun Yat-sen remains the only modern politician commemorated in road names: no Communist leader, such as Mao Zedong or Deng Xiaoping, shares this privilege.

List of streets named after Sun Yat-sen - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Spliffcat]

Zimbos going to be eating street signs, there is nothing else.

 

[Creag]

Op-Ed: Zimbabwe Under Emmerson Mnangagwa

Two years ago Zimbabwe’s National Army carried out a putsch that removed President Robert Gabriel Mugabe. Once the coup was carried out Zimbabwe’s parliament began a process of ‘impeaching’ a President who was already under ‘house arrest’. The global spin on that putsch was that this was a ‘military assisted transition’ and there was a global silence to accept this narrative because a lot of people, especially Zimbabweans, were just desperate because of the collapsing economy. South Africa too proved to be a key decision broker and the presence of hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans in South Africa swayed the political class there to say ‘anything but Mugabe’ and this was shared by global power especially the British. It is reported that the British embassy to Zimbabwe played a critical role to ‘package’ the putsch as a ‘military assisted transition’ and the propaganda worked for while.

Op-Ed: Zimbabwe Under Emmerson Mnangagwa

While the President has had a great public relations team what is emerging is that the transition in 2017 was a false change.

www.cnbcafrica.com

 

[Alan]

Many of those honoured fought in the 1970s guerrilla war against white-minority rule and went on to become prominent figures in independent Zimbabwe.

Other African leaders such as Congo's Patrice Lumumba, Jomo Kenyatta and Abdel Gamal Nasser are to have roads named after them, along with international leaders such as Cuba's Fidel Castro, Leonid Brezhnev of the former Soviet Union and China's Mao Zedong.

Nothing for western leader friends of the revolution like Jimmy Carter.

 

[RonSwanson]

African leaders love the medals, fake military ranks and streets bearing their names

That is sooo true!

 

[RonSwanson]

Reminds me of this Idi Amin caricature.
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caricature? It is s likeness...

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[RonSwanson]

It is not even confined to heads of state, here is Riah Phiyega with her four medals of dishonour:

It all started out with Jackie Selebrity, Mr "low moral fibre", adding an "extra" castle to his epaulette:

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

Zimbos going to be eating street signs, there is nothing else.

bullcrap! there is land!

they're all insanely wealthy beyond your racist colonial comprehension: they have the LAND!!!

 

[TysonRoux]

It's the african way ..... false or undeserved glory at any cost, fark the peasants

There is a western example !!!!!

Trump blames ex-diplomat for not hanging his picture. Here's the truth - CNN Video

Trump makes at least 18 false claims in a 53-minute interview with morning show, "Fox & Friends." CNN's Daniel Dale checks two of those claims.

www.cnn.com

Trump blames ex-diplomat for not hanging his picture

 

[ForceFate]

bullcrap! there is land!

they're all insanely wealthy beyond your racist colonial comprehension: they have the LAND!!!

It's the politicians that own land. Ordinary Zims have to make do with what they had before Mugabe went on a rampage.

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

It's the politicians that own land. Ordinary Zims have to make do with what they had before Mugabe went on a rampage.

nah, can't be, all those 10 year old "war veterans" occupied land of the racist colonials, now they are rich just like mad bob promised they would be!

 

[ForceFate]

nah, can't be, all those 10 year old "war veterans" occupied land of the racist colonials, now they are rich just like mad bob promised they would be!

They were just accessories.