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
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The National Dog
Varun Beverages' reported interest in Dairiboard starts to make a lot more sense once you look at what's happening to its core business.
Varun Beverages has recently seen falling revenue and profit margins, partly due to the sugar tax, but also because of stiffer competition from Delta and other players.
The most concerning issue is the revenue drop from $194 million in 2024 to $184 million in 2025, at a time when other players have been growing revenue by ~15%.
This may indicate weakness in the core beverage business, and perhaps explains why they have been diversifying into snacks and looking at beer as well.
This could also explain why Varun Beverages wants to reportedly buy Dairiboard, the dairy and beverage producer.
With the core business under pressure, adding scale and strong brands elsewhere becomes an attractive way to offset the slowdown, and Dairiboard fits that logic.
It has strong brands like Cascade and Pfuko Maheu, and it has scale, with $137 million in revenue in 2025.
The move would also be consistent with Varun's track record of aggressive dealmaking.
In South Africa, they have been very active: buying the Beverage Company (BevCo) for about $158.3 million in 2024, Twizza for $125 million in 2026, and, perhaps most interestingly, Crickley Dairy for $14.3 million in 2026.
Will Dairiboard be next?
PS I wrote a longer piece on Delta vs Varun Beverages. Comment if interested.
@baba_nyenyedzi The SADC protocol was supposed to remove borders for goods and people creating by now one country effect essentially of all the SADC member states
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🚨🇷🇺Moscow's streets look like shit because garbage keeps piling up after sanitation workers ran out of fuel during Russia's massive crisis.
Just kidding - This is London after the LGBTQ+ parade a city turned into a social, political, and literal dump.
#dandarostreets "Mafikizolo have got more than 5 Million fans in South Africa, not once have they stood up and condemned this xenophobic violence, Makhadzi has earned millions in Zimbabwe alone, but not once has she stood up for us and condemned this xenophobic violence in South Africa as well, so they must not come here, we don't want them! ", Mai Tt speaks out against booking South African musicians in Zimbabwe.
Thoughts on this...👏🏿💯✔️
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