What is so ‘nefarious’ about standing up to repression, brutality and corruption?

Guest column:Tendai Ruben Mbofana

HAVING already written an article on Wednesday morning, and spent the day submerged in other activities, the only thing I was looking forward to that evening was a well-earned rest and relaxation — but, hearing the Zimbabwe regime continue in its reckless accusations that all those standing up and speaking out against repressing, brutality, and corruption in the country are engaging in “nefarious activities”, miraculously injected in me renewed energy to pen another piece — as my heart and mind would have never given me any rest until I did.

As someone who has been loudly standing up and speaking out against these “triplet vices” for over three decades — but, which have since taken on a more abominable form ever since the so-called “new dispensation” usurped power through a military coup d’etat in November 2017 — I have never thought of myself as engaged in some “nefarious activities”.

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