In a searing critique, journalist Hopewell Chin’ono has lambasted Zimbabwe’s political landscape as transactional and ruthless, using the case of former ZANU-PF minister Walter Mzembi to illustrate a grim truth,  loyalty is a fleeting hashtag. Mzembi, detained without trial for nearly four months, languishes in a prison where “toilets are unusable, beds are nonexistent, and water is a luxury,” Chin’ono revealed in a Facebook post.

“A lesson from my first prison stint,” Chin’ono wrote. “Supporters cheer for a week, then vanish. Walter, once Mugabe’s foreign minister, is now forgotten. ZANU-PF insiders, who feasted with him, ignore his plight.” The public’s focus has shifted to Mnangagwa’s term limits, the 2030 vision, and factional disputes ,“but not Walter.”

Mzembi’s conditions shock , cold water baths, no beds, filthy cells. “In South Africa, prisoners sleep decently. In Zimbabwe, cruelty is policy,” Chin’ono said. “When we say ‘fix prisons,’ this is what we mean.” Sources claim his detention is punitive, not justice: “What does the country gain from this?”

“Power is temporary,” the post cautioned. “Treat Mzembi as you’ll be treated. Break this cycle of vindictiveness, or no one is safe.” Mzembi’s fate, a former tourism minister
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