My heart is deeply saddened by the Kariba boat tragedy, which has claimed 44 lives, while search and recovery efforts continue.
As a mother, I grieve with the families who have lost their loved ones and share in their unimaginable sorrow. My thoughts and prayers are with all the affected families, while we continue to pray for those still missing.
May God comfort and strengthen the bereaved families, guide the teams tirelessly involved in the search and rescue efforts, and grant our nation strength during this difficult time.
At least 15 people have died and 27 remain missing after an overloaded ferry capsized on Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba. Seventy-seven people were rescued as search operations continued.
Muammar Gaddafi gave up his nuclear program in 2003.
He negotiated. He complied. He handed over the centrifuges and the documentation and accepted international inspectors and did everything the West said a responsible leader should do.
He believed the deal.
He believed that compliance would produce security.
In 2011, NATO bombed his country for seven months.
Hillary Clinton, upon hearing of his death, after he had been captured, sodomized with a bayonet, and killed by a mob, appeared on camera and laughed:
"We came, we saw, he died."
Kim Jong-un watched this.
The Iranian leadership watched this.
Every government on Earth that was considering what compliance with Western demands actually produces watched this.
Gaddafi is the lesson.
Not the lesson the West wants to teach.
The lesson history actually teaches.
The empire does not reward disarmament.
It schedules it.
Digital Services Tax marwadzo 💔 | A US$206 online payment ended up costing US$273 after an extra US$67 in charges was added
Be warned, Zimbabweans! Using your local Visa cards to save money online is a total scam.
I recently tried to buy an airline ticket online from Harare to Swaziland. The online price was $206 USD. Knowing that local travel agents in town were charging $250 USD, I figured I would save money by using my TN Cybercash (formerly Steward Bank) VISA Card. I had $250 USD cash sitting in my account. When I hit pay, it rejected the transaction for "Insufficient Funds."
I went straight to the branch in Avondale for help. Even the customer service agent was shocked. She had to go to the back office to investigate. The answer she brought back was unbelievable: I needed at least $273 USD in my account just to clear a $206 USD transaction!
That is $67 USD in extra charges and hidden holds for a single online payment!
Is this highway robbery by TN Cybercash/Steward Bank, or is the Zimbabwean banking system completely broken?
We heard the government introduced a 15% VAT on international online payments, but banks are applying it so aggressively and adding massive "safety buffers" that it makes absolutely no sense to use our Visa cards anymore.
Why promote financial inclusion and digital cards when you penalize us for using our own hard-earned USD? Imagine... Travel agents are now cheaper than booking online!
📸Zim Price Check
Things I no longer tell a Zimbabwean, because they will not listen i just watch : 🔥
1. Stop buying luxury cars before you've built an asset portfolio that pays you while you sleep. A depreciating asset is not a flex, it's a slow leak bro a car depreciates fast
2. Stop the ad hoc holidays and "baecations" during your building years. That money doesn't come back with interest it comes back as regret. Build the base first, holiday later
2. Build homes, not monuments. Make them functional, cozy, beautiful not a 3-storey shrine to your ego on land that could've housed three tenants paying you rent. Your primary residence is a liability not an asset
3. Always live a few points behind your income. The gap is where wealth quietly grows
4. Your 20s, 30s and 40s are the build. It's only in your 50s the report card comes out , it will be clear who was compounding and who was spending for flex kufadza chaunga. By the time the 60s knock and it is retirement its almost game over , unless you are Colonel Sanders or Ray Kroc
5. Stop competing with the guy next door you don't even know if he's winning or drowning in debt run your own mile. Life isn't a race, it's a marathon with no spectators who matter. If you do good people talk if you mess up they will still talk. Do you wangu
6. The moment a purchase is for an audience instead of a purpose, you've already lost the plot and probably the money too. Imagine buying a car kuti 'vandione ' thats chibaharanzi LAST
7. Diversify before you decorate your life. Nobody's asset column ever grew because the ceiling was higher
8. A title, a car, and a big house mean nothing to a bank when the income stops. Build what pays you, not what impresses people
Love Rex
The National Dog
🔴Another South African Marvel Manganyi explains why local employers prefer Zimbabweans and other foreigners for certain jobs or in particular sectors.
He says it's a lie told by denialists or the uninformed that foreigners are preferred to South African due to cheap labour.
He says work ethic, resilience and great determination to do the job without behaving like a cry baby or weakling is the real explanation for that trend.
Many employers in certain sectors say they prefer foreigners because they work harder and hardly have excuses for non-performance or demand fat salaries and benefits without commensurate productivity and output to ensure company profitability.