Bhekinkosi Nkomo

Entrepreneur| Philanthropist| Fertile Mind| Forex Trader| FX Consultant| Cofounder and former Chairperson of TROVOCO.

[Bhekinkosi Nkomo @BhekiAccion]

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

[Bhekinkosi Nkomo @BhekiAccion]

@TateMavetera Still vague, will administrators of business whatsapp group need licenses? Who your linked in statement seems to clearly say so while this follow up is vague as they come.

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

This is our Zimbabwean habit of telling each other why things can’t happen instead of finding ways to make them happen.

Every problem should have a solution.
If Cerevita has too much sugar, surely the solution lies in talking to Nestle about how this can be fixed.

If Mazoe needs adjustments to be accepted on mainstream retail markets, we should speak to Schweppes and get them to resolve the issue.

When I was growing up, some people told me my idea of becoming a successful international journalist from Murewa or Glen Norah was a joke.
Those same people are now nurses in England, after I helped them achieve their dreams by assisting them in moving there.

I focused on solutions not impediments!

Let us not be a nation that only points out why things can’t be done—let us focus on how they can be done!

[Bhekinkosi Nkomo @BhekiAccion]

@freemanchari Keep going broe, if only we had more people proposing smart solutions like you always do we would be far as a movement and as a country at large.

[Bhekinkosi Nkomo @BhekiAccion]

@Untold_11 @Thuso1Africa @nyebe_official @bozzie_t @ChaibvaG @DrLoupis @AfricanHub_ Are you normal?

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

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There are NO sanctions against Zimbabwe, there are sanctions against 11 people including entities involved in CORRUPTION, the looting of public funds and the plunder of the country’s natural resources and the naked and documented abuse of the security system jailing people who are innocent.
They were sanctioned under the Global Magnitsky Programme.

Their names are;
1. Emmerson Mnangagwa President
2. Constantino Chiwenga Vice President
3. Auxilia Mnangagwa First Lady
4. Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei
5. Sandra Mpunga (Tagwirei’s wife)
6. Obey Chimuka (Tagwirei Partner)
7. Oppah Muchinguri Defence Minister
8. Godwin Matanga Chief of Police
9. Stephen Mutamba Deputy Police Chief
10. Walter Tapfumaneyi CIO
11. Owen Ncube was State Security Minister

Entities
Sakunda Holdings run by Tagwirei
Fossil Agro run by Chimuka
Fossil Contracting run by Chimuka

Anyone saying there are sanctions on Zimbabwe is not only ignorant, they also assume that the people they are telling are ignorant.

The reasons for these people and entities being sanctioned are corruption and abuse of citizens through abductions and use of state institutions to not only steal, but to violate Zimbabwe’s constitution.

How one can be angry that people that have stolen money from Zimbabweans meant to build and run hospitals should not be exposed and sanctioned is beyond logic, how one can say people responsible for abducting their own people and jailing them and at times killing them is beyond me.
How anyone can support the arbitrary arrests of innocent citizens and their imprisonment, as is the situation right now, is beyond me!

2500 Zimbabwean women die every year giving birth simultaneously because the only hospital in Zimbabwe only has ONE maternity theatre built in 1977.
This is caused by these people.

Zimbabwe has done for three years without a single working radiotherapy cancer machine and as a result it now has the highest rate of cancer deaths in the world due the looting and corruption authored by these people.

Pensioners have no access to the money they contributed because of these people, it has been stolen and this is what they were sanctioned for, if you see nothing with stealing from the old then you are mentally deranged.

Publicly central hospitals don’t even have basic medicines like paracetamol because of this corruption, I could go on but we all know how Zimbabwe is so messed up.

Right now we have over 70 political prisoners, jailed yet they committed NO crime, journalists are jailed for exposing corruption and citizens end up running away from being abducted and jailed.

You can find full details on this website;
https://t.co/iHuPTdP3oX

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

There are times when you think you are spiting someone, when in fact, you are destroying yourself.

One such instance was when Robert Mugabe and his colleagues in ZANU (before it became ZANUPF) thought they didn’t need unity with ZAPU, as General Josiah Tongogara had demanded, and when they considered teaching Ndebele in regions outside Matabeleland as emasculation.

Zimbabwe has paid a huge price for those two decisions, and I will explain why.

Tongogara’s idea of returning home under one party, rather than ZANU and ZAPU, would have avoided the massive bloodshed that came with Gukurahundi. Teaching Ndebele across the country wouldn’t just have brought unity, it would have helped Shona speakers who are now spread all over South Africa. Ndebele wasn’t just a language; it could have been a commercial tool for Shona speakers in conducting sound business in South Africa.

But because our leaders were blinded by ethnic politics and lacked vision, they plunged the country into genocide.
Today, Shona speakers struggle in Matabeleland and South Africa.
I mention Shona speakers because all the Ndebele speakers I know speak Shona out of pragmatic necessity.
Learning languages broadens the mind, each new language opens new perspectives.

In 1979, General Josiah Magama Tongogara, who led the ZANLA forces based in Mozambique, suggested that all the liberation armies return home under one banner, with the leadership to be chosen locally, as the ANC did in 1991.

Vocal voices in ZANU, led by Mugabe, opposed the idea because they thought it meant sharing positions. Mugabe, in particular, was worried about his position because he knew Tongogara didn’t consider him fit to lead the country.
Tongogara was the authority in ZANU, he was feared, and for good reason, as he was ruthless.

Edison Zvobgo told me they opposed Tongogara because they didn’t need ZAPU, since they had the numbers as a “Shona-based party,” given that Shona speakers are the largest ethnic group.

So they returned home and contested the elections as two separate parties, PF-ZAPU and ZANU.
The “PF” in “PF-ZAPU” stands for “Patriotic Front,” which was added to ZAPU’s name in 1979 as part of a merger between ZAPU and ZANU to form a united front for negotiations at Lancaster House in England.

The refusal to unite by the Shona element in ZANUPF sowed the seeds that eventually led to the genocide of the 1980s, which was only halted in 1987 by the Unity Accord, amalgamating the two parties into what we know today as ZANUPF.

This demonstrates that Mugabe and his Shona colleagues, including a few Ndebeles like Enos Nkala, were shortsighted.
Had Tongogara survived, the genocide might not have occurred.
Nkala didn’t like Joshua Nkomo at all, Nkomo led ZAPU and was the more senior between the two leader of the parties.
Nkala’s hatred for Nkomo was personal, Nkomo had a child with Nkomo’s sister who he didn’t marry.

The second aspect of this post is the language issue. I have always advocated for Ndebele to be taught across the country, not only because 17% of our population speaks it, but also because, as we have seen in many post-colonial states, language binds people.
Nelson Mandela, an African statesman, spoke eloquently on the importance of language and learning each other’s languages when he spoke in Afrikaans.

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart,” Mandela said.

Speaking each other’s languages would have united us, instead of the divisions that ensued.
Secondly, the most widely spoken language in Southern Africa is Zulu, also known as isiZulu.
Zulu is the home language of about a quarter of South Africa’s population, with approximately 12 million speakers, representing around 23% of the country’s population.
It is also understood by more than half of South Africans.

Many Zimbabweans, unable to find opportunities at home, go to South Africa, with most of them coming from Shona speaking regions due to demographics. Unfortunately, many struggle to communicate with local communities, and not all of them are fluent in English.

Had they been taught Ndebele in school, which is a variation of isiZulu, they would have assimilated well into local communities in South Africa.
However, due to the refusal by Shona-speaking leaders in ZANUPF, who saw this as submitting to the Ndebele ethnic group, it never happened.

Those two decisions cost the country unity, which could have been achieved at a lower cost than we ended up paying through the massacre of around 20,000 people, imagined unity for that matter.

The language aspect would not only have united the nation but would have been a commercial advantage for Shona speakers.
However, due to the backwardness of our political class, their lack of international exposure, and tribalism, it never happened.

There is a financial cost to this too. Just consider how much easier it would have been to conduct business with South Africans without having to resort to broken English.

The financial benefits of having a common language, like Swahili in East African countries such as Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, are significant.
A common language facilitates trade and business transactions among people from different countries. Swahili has helped break down language barriers and enabled smoother communication in East Africa, leading to increased trade and economic growth.

Swahili has also fostered regional cooperation and integration, resulting in shared economic benefits. The East African Community (EAC), comprising Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and South Sudan, uses Swahili as one of its official languages.
It is estimated that the economic benefits of Swahili as a common language in East Africa range from US$5 billion to US$10 billion annually.
This figure reflects increased trade, tourism, job creation, regional cooperation, and education and research benefits.

But because of tribal politics, Zimbabwe missed the opportunity to connect more closely with the biggest economy in Africa, right next door, through language integration.
By refusing to purportedly “submit” to a smaller tribe, we missed the chance to adopt a language spoken by 12 million people in South Africa and understood by 30 million South Africans.

I want to conclude on this issue by emphasising that our failure to engage in strategic thinking has led us to believe that teaching French in our schools is a form of submission to a former colonial power. Instead, it is a business decision that would expose our people to the African market of French-speaking countries, which have a combined GDP of around US$300 billion.
There are 29 French-speaking countries in Africa, with 21 of them being officially designated as Francophone countries, meaning that French is either the only official language or one of the official languages in those countries.

If I were president today, Ndebele and French would be compulsory in all schools, from primary level to O-Level.
This would be a commercial decision that would open the French-speaking African world to our people, from business professionals to truck drivers.

Nations are not built by leaders without vision, they are built by visionaries like Lee Kuan Yew, by leaders who understand that speaking multiple languages broadens the mind and makes you a better person.

How can we unite our people across the continent when they cannot even communicate with one another?
Colonialism is a fact of history that cannot be undone. Anyone who believes that learning colonial languages to navigate the world is wrong is living in the past.

Zimbabwe was colonised by Britain using people who could speak our languages.
Did it make them any less capable because they spoke Ndebele and Shona, did it dehumanise them.

Robert Moffat, a Scottish missionary who befriended the Ndebele king Mzilikazi Khumalo in the 1820s, learned to speak both Ndebele and Shona.
George Westbeech, a trader and explorer, was fluent in several African languages, including Ndebele and Shona.
Frederick Selous, a British explorer and hunter, was proficient in several African languages, including Ndebele and Shona.
Charles Helm, a missionary who lived among the Shona people, became proficient in their language. The list goes on, these men understood that you cannot do business with someone when you cannot communicate with them.

Similarly, many of our people miss out on business and professional opportunities because they cannot speak the languages that would open those doors. Let us broaden our minds and avoid being so limited in our understanding of the world.
Let us learn from the mistakes of post-colonial leaders in Zimbabwe. Making a mistake is one thing, what is important is learning from it.

We can and should do better. We, the Shona speakers, should not just speak broken Ndebele when we go begging for votes in Matabeleland.
The Ndebele already speak Shona, so let us reciprocate.

White children in Britain speak French and Mandarin, yet China is considered their adversary and they mock the French.
Yet I vividly remember when Tony Blair became Prime Minister, he flew to France and addressed their parliament in French in 1998.
American leaders like George W. Bush speak proficient Spanish, though their mother tongue is English. The English go to the Arab world after learning Arabic, and they run Dubai today.

If you understand that these are business decisions, you will discard the archaic idea that learning another language is submission.
Here is the sad thing, the people who make these decisions make sure that their own kids speak French, Arabic, Mandarin and even Portuguese.

Grace Mugabe speaks fluent French, General Chiwenga’s wife speaks fluent Mandarin, and so does Collins Mnangagwa.
It is wise, and they know it. Yet the children in the ghetto are deprived of those opportunities because of empty, nonsensical political ideologies.

Have a great weekend.

[Bhekinkosi Nkomo @BhekiAccion]

@AneleAndTheClub Feeback on the Panyaza Panic Button app.
That things works like magic, got involved in an accident, 20 minutes of trying to call police and ambulance no help until l downloaded that pressed the button, got a callback, police and 3 ambulance came in minutes.

[Thandekile Moyo @Mamoxn]

Freeman Chari’s findings can’t be disputed by our feelings and emotions,
I too feel that the data is disappointing,
But my disappointment cannot be the point from where I argue against research findings.
The options are simple:
1. Share the data you are using to dispute his.
2. Explain your points of argument- defining the points of agreement & areas of disagreement.
Simple.

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

Here lies the fresh grave of Mnangagwa’s latest victim, taken because there are not enough maternity theatres in Zimbabwe.

I have decided that I won’t let these women become just another statistic, we must name them, the world must know them!

Her name was Unotidaishe Gumbo.
She has joined the list of 2,500 pregnant women who die every year while giving birth in Zimbabwe.

The largest hospital in Zimbabwe only has one maternity theatre, built in 1977 by Ian Smith.
ZANUPF has never built a single maternity theatre at this hospital, even though it costs only US$37,000 to build one.

The Zimbabwean tyrant personally oversees the looting of public funds meant to build and maintain these maternity theatres and hospitals in general!
He runs a criminal network of crooks, fraudsters, and criminals who loot public funds from the Zimbabwean state using the tender system.

As a result, Zimbabwean pregnant women now go to South Africa to give birth, fearing death in Zimbabwe.
Seventy percent of the women giving birth at Musina Hospital in South Africa’s Limpopo province are Zimbabwean.

The fact that so many pregnant women, including Unotidaishe Gumbo, have died due to inadequate functional maternity facilities and resources is a damning indictment of the regime's priorities and corruption.

The stark contrast between the government's lack of investment in maternity care and the relatively low cost of building a maternity theater is particularly striking and highlights the extent to which public funds are being misused and diverted for personal gain by Mnangagwa and his crooks.

A Land Cruiser costs US$400,000 in Zimbabwe after all the taxes and kickbacks, one Land Cruiser could build ten maternity theaters.
Yet Mnangagwa has bought over 1,000 Land Cruisers for his goons!
It is sad, but that is the reality.

Please pray for Unotidaishe Gumbo’s soul and RETWEET.

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

This is still not the full story.
Former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe referred to his own citizens of Malawian heritage as "totem-less people."

Zimbabweans labelled people from Mozambique as "makalusha" and those from Malawi derogatorily as "mabrantaya."

A Zimbabwean politician, Obert Gutu, called me a Mozambican simply because my great-grandfather was not Karanga or Zezuru, but Barwe.

So, let us be nuanced and examine how we have behaved towards others too.

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

The problem with Zimbabwean politics is that the struggle often becomes a personality issue rather than being driven by the cause at hand.
Even when it is evident that political figures are failing, people will continue to support them regardless!

This is why ZANUPF will remain in power, there is no clear cause above individual personalities to unite people. It is all about personalities!

When political struggles focus on personalities rather than causes or principles, it can lead to blind loyalty and a lack of accountability.

When citizens prioritise allegiance to individual leaders over commitment to the greater good, it becomes difficult to hold those leaders accountable and to implement necessary changes when they fail to deliver on their promises.

Many don’t want to hear this, but it should be continuously repeated!

[Bhekinkosi Nkomo @BhekiAccion]

@daddyhope Finally someone had to say it. The opposition is adopting the same hero worshipping shit that brought us here. It's like they want to create a ZANU lite kind of thing.

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

RETWEET

On the left is Feresi Chakanyuka, and on the right is Tafadzwa Mhiti, the two shameless magistrates who convicted Job Sikhala for crimes he didn’t commit.

Feresi Chakanyuka is so shameless that she used a law that doesn't exist to convict and jail Sikhala. She even disregarded a High Court ruling that clearly stated such a law doesn't exist!

Make them famous by RETWEETING them; it is time the whole world knows these accessories to repression and abuse of power!

There must be an online website that documents all these corrupt and captured magistrates, the opposition must learn to fight back using today’s tools like the internet and AI to expose these unprofessional and captured ZANUPF magistrates!

It is unbelievable that Feresi Chakanyuka could blatantly disregard the ruling of a higher court ruling and apply a non-existent law to convict someone!
Tafadzwa Mhofu, too, has proven that she is no better than Chakanyuka with her equally shameful role in this sham trial.

These names need to be known and remembered for posterity!!!

[Dr. Yvonne Maphosa @Yvonne_Maphosa]

We carried out a study on Bambara groundnut (roundnuts/indlubu/nyimo) in the Marula resettlement areas 🇿🇼. You know when a study is so fun, it doesn’t feel like ‘school’? 😁

We had a mutually beneficial relationship with the locals farmers. They would ‘give’ us indigenous knowledge which we translate into Science and use to improve the products we produce in ‘our’ spin-off company.
[‘Our’ because I’m just a researcher 😂]
And we would give incentives (seeds, farming aid, knowledge, bring in the right people to educate them etc)

Anyway, this particular study was amazing for me. Going out there into the real world, talking and working with real people, getting the much needed support from the government, using IsiNdebele and tjiKalanga to conduct interviews, working with the local officials, learning a lot about Agriculture…

…and the best part, we (the female local farmers and me) would make too much food than necessary every day and would forget about the study and talk about everything else. It felt like…. home 🥹😍

I love the Lab and the Pilot Plant BUT I love being on site, working in the field and going out to communities. Working with ‘real’ people. Translating indigenous knowledge into science… out there in the real world, that’s where I feel more alive.

PS: I’m still Proofing 😭
Publishing an article is such a lengthy (and annoying) process yhooo 😭

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

RETWEET

The Zimbabwean state is a crime scene!

In Zimbabwe, the Ministry of Youths purchased 17 Nissan Navara trucks.
Only 7 were delivered, the other 10 were looted.
Out of those 7, four were not registered in the ministry’s name.

They steal, they are incompetent, and they don’t care because they know that Zimbabweans will just read and wait for the next looting scandal.

The gravy train continues to move with relatives, friends, their children, girlfriends, and surrogates on board, while hospitals in Zimbabwe don’t even have paracetamol!

It is appalling that government officials can so blatantly misuse public funds, and even more so that there are seemingly no consequences for their actions.

The complacency of the general public, who read about these scandals but don't demand justice, is a big part of the problem.

RETWEET

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

RETWEET

If the current Zimbabwean government were a person, it would be sentenced to life in prison for the continued looting that has been happening after the military coup!

According to the Auditor General’s 2023 report, the corrupt regime supposedly bought 3 buses, 60 motor vehicles, and 167 laptops; NOTHING WAS DELIVERED!

This shocking revelation is further proof of the widespread rampant corruption plaguing Zimbabwe under ZANUPF and President Mnangagwa.

The fact that the government can purchase so many items and not deliver a single one is a clear indication of serious criminal behaviour that must be addressed NOW by any means necessary.

It is upsetting to think that these resources, which could have been used to improve the lives of Zimbabweans, have been squandered by corrupt ZANUPF officials who prioritise their own greed over the well being of the nation.

Zimbabwean hospitals don’t even have paracetamol, pensioners are not being paid their pensions, and citizens don’t have clean drinking water.

The Zimbabwean Government and State are under the firm grip of a criminal mafia that won’t stop until STOPPED!

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[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

PLEASE RETWEET

Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Information and Publicity paid for 7 Toyota Double Cab vehicles through Solution Motors; NOTHING was delivered.

This ministry is run by Mnangagwa’s regime motor mouth propagandist Nick Mangwana, who is at the forefront of defending the looting and plunder by his regime and his party, ZANUPF!

Seven years ago, the Ministry of Agriculture paid US$207,540 for 4 vehicles through Solution Motors; NOTHING was delivered.

Solution Motors, owned by Innocent Sibanda, was paid $518,000 by the ZANUPF regime to deliver 10 cars, but only 5 were delivered, worth only about $100,000.

The same company was paid US$1 million to supply heavy-duty machinery in December 2017; NOTHING was delivered!

This company has a long-standing relationship with the ZANU-PF regime and is being rewarded with lucrative contracts, despite its inability to actually provide the goods it has been paid for.

While this looting and plunder of public funds was happening, ZANUPF made people like President Ramaphosa of South Africa look like clowns parroting the sanctions propaganda while the public purse is being pillaged!

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[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

PLEASE RETWEET

The engine of looting public funds in Zimbabwe under the Mnangagwa regime is the Ministry of Finance.

The ministry is purported to have given US$11.7 million to other departments, yet the Auditor General found that only US$8.4 million was accounted for.
US$3.3 million was LOOTED!

The Permanent Secretary, George Guvamatanga, is accused of asking for bribes to facilitate the release of funds to pay invoices.

The Minister of Finance, Mthuli Ncube, is a failed banker who is also a South African citizen and is building a massive mansion in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The fact that the Ministry of Finance, which is supposed to be responsible for managing public funds, is actually engaging in bribery and embezzlement is astounding.

George Guvamatanga's alleged role in demanding bribes to release public funds is not only reprehensible and indicative of systemic rot within the ministry, but it is also disgusting, especially as it is happening when Zimbabweans are dying in dilapidated hospitals.

Mthuli Ncube's involvement in these scandals, while simultaneously serving as the Minister of Finance and building a mansion in South Africa, is a blatant abuse of power. These men are corrupt, and one day they will pay a huge price for this plunder.

US$3.3 million could have built 89 maternity theatres, the biggest hospital in Zimbabwe only has ONE maternity theatre build by the colonial government in 1977.

PLEASE RETWEET

[Youth Accountability Initiative @YAI_Africa]

🌑RETWEET TILL IT REACHES THE GenZ

The youths have taken up the challenge to start setting an agenda to fight corruption and demand accountability!

#Accountabilityzw

@ZIMCODD1 @accountlabzw @amnesty_zim @TIZim_info @ali_naka @daddyhope @nickmangwana @nigelchanakira @namataik_