Cancel Culture

This article was shared previously shared via Facebook. This is  published it additional points.  "How Do We Keep The Momentum On #ZimbabweanLivesMatter? It should be more than just a hash-tag"    Insanity is doing the same thing twice and expecting different results, so said Albert Einstein. The #ThisFlag was a milestone in grassroots driven uprising, but we failed to keep the momentum because the movement was hijacked, there was concerted efforts to centralise the movement with various opportunistic groups forming, being co-opted by the main opposition parties,   foreign and domestic think tanks, NGO's jumped on the ride. This diluted the movement once centralisation took hold. Zanu PF was able to fight back by easily targeting the symbol of the movement and more centralised  groupings. What you also saw was the emergence of opportunistic celebrity style activists hijacking the movements to their own ends, some of the as a result are now ...