@bee_liciousss This can only be aquantuo. When they sent me the same price for an item i bought for $80 after it arrived at thier hub, I asked them to forward the package to ishop. My bill went from 4k to 2k. Closed my account afterwards.
this is probably an unexpected opinion coming from me... entrepreneurship is over-sold and self-awareness is under-sold 👇🏾
The not so popular truth is, most people would be happier with a good salary than a successful startup.
But social media continues to push a generation to optimise for lives they don't actually want.
Entrepreneurs like me get a lot of likes and followers when we tell people to quit their jobs and chase their dreams.
But here is the context that we nearly always miss👇🏾
Entrepreneurship can be really really boring - you will have to do things you do not enjoy.
You will deal with big, hard, stressful problems, every day - including bank holidays, christmas and any other time off - for years.
If you're lucky enough to be successful, the problems will get bigger, not smaller.
You will not have one boss. You will have hundreds - every customer, every investor, every employee. You will answer to them 24/7.
You will probably work 3x the hours you do now, have 10x the stress and a tiny probability of significant success.
A recent survey found 87.7% of founders deal with at least mental health issues. That's not a bug. It's a feature of entrepreneurship.
You'll see your kids less. You'll probably earn less (for years, maybe forever).
You will probably pay yourself last and as little as possible.
You'll struggle to switch off. Forever. Your phone will probably become a prison.
And here's the punchline: If you succeed, it all gets harder.
More money = more complexity. More growth = more anxiety. More success = more people depending on you.
In life, when you find yourself following someone else's playbook, you are at risk of winning someone else's prizes. All I'm saying is be intentional.
I'm not AGAINST entrepreneurship, I'm FOR self-awareness.
Truth "wealth" is probably👇🏾
✅ Knowing what game you want to play and why
✅ Having the courage not to play other people's games
✅ Understanding your real strengths and weaknesses
✅ Designing within them, not against them
Happiness is not about the structure, the social media post or the story.
Happiness is about alignment. Building a life that's aligned to whoever you are!
This does the beg the question, why do I do it?
If I'm honest, the answer is probably....I don't know.
It's probably some blend of lower t trauma, my inability to fit inside normal structures like school and conventional work-places (I was fired a few times), my adhd brain that makes working on something for 14 straight hours feel like 7 minutes and some childhood self-esteem issues.
Whatever the reason, this is who I am and what works for me.
This is the weird way I make myself happy and fulfilled.
To someone that is not me, it would probably feel like torture.
And to me, their life would probably feel like torture.
And that’s the thing… when you create a life that feels like home to you, it will probably look like hell to tourists.
Please know what you are not!
A DANGEROUS CENTRALIZATION OF POWER OVER LAND
By Dingindaba Jonah Buyoya
The Lands and Deeds Registry (Amendment) Bill of 2025, presented as a mechanism to strengthen integrity in Zambia’s land administration, risks achieving the opposite. While it purports to clean up fraudulent or irregularly issued Certificates of Title, it introduces a dangerously centralised authority by empowering the Chief Registrar to cancel land titles administratively, with limited judicial oversight and weak institutional safeguards. In a country where land remains one of the most contested and emotive issues, historically linked to identity, inequality, and economic opportunity, such power must be treated with caution.
It is always shocking how lawmakers believe the best way to resolve any loopholes in law is by increasing grip by increasing regulation by government. It’s always this passion for regulation. It is shocking!
One can accept enhanced regulation if the current laws are being followed and they’re failing. Unfortunately, most Zambians will tell you that enforcement of laws in Zambia is so poor that you wonder whose idea it is to introduce new ones. Maybe start by enforcing what already exists correctly?
Under the proposed Section 57A, the Chief Registrar may, upon application by an "interested person," cancel a Certificate of Title if it was issued in contravention of the law, in error, or obtained through fraud or misrepresentation. The procedure laid out gives the Registrar 90 days to act on the application, and if the titleholder fails to respond within 30 days, cancellation may proceed without further inquiry. Even when responses are filed, the Registrar retains wide latitude to decide whether they are satisfactory or not. Aggrieved parties may appeal to the Minister, and only thereafter to the courts or the Lands Tribunal.
This structure presents several problems, honestly. First of all, it collapses the judicial principle of the right to be heard before an impartial tribunal by concentrating quasi-judicial power in the hands of an administrator. This reverses the hierarchy of legal redress, instead of the courts being the primary arbiters of land disputes, they become the last resort, accessible only after exhausting administrative channels that may already be tainted by bias or political interference. Let’s not act like government structures are not compromised.
The Bill fails to provide a clear legal standard or burden of proof that an applicant must meet when requesting cancellation. What qualifies as “fraud” or “misrepresentation”? Can historic political land allocations be challenged under this clause? Could a legitimate buyer be stripped of land rights because a prior transaction, unknown to them, is deemed irregular? Without specificity, the Bill opens the floodgates to malicious or politically motivated applications, especially in rural Zambia where record-keeping is poor and land ownership is often informal or contested.
Placing appeals under the jurisdiction of the Minister, before they can proceed to the courts, politicises what should be a purely legal question. This is particularly alarming in a context where government has previously been accused of using state institutions to target political opponents, settle business rivalries, or reallocate land to allies. The appearance of neutrality is as important as neutrality itself in a democracy, and this Bill undermines both.
To be clear, Zambia does need stronger mechanisms to tackle fraudulent titling, which has plagued the Ministry of Lands and led to painful disputes, especially in peri-urban and newly developing areas. The solution, arguably, cannot lie in removing legal protections for those who hold Certificates of Title in good faith. It must lie in institutional strengthening, digitisation of land records, transparent dispute resolution mechanisms, and investment in the Lands Tribunal, not in giving unchecked powers to a single bureaucrat or Minister.
Historically, land has been a point of injustice in Zambia, from colonial-era dispossessions to post-independence inequities and unregulated informal settlements. Land reform must therefore be rooted in justice, equity, and rule of law. Bill 13 of 2025, in its current form, risks entrenching uncertainty and opening the door to executive overreach under the guise of administrative efficiency.
Parliament must do more than rubber-stamp this Bill. It must scrutinise it rigorously, consult widely with legal experts, civil society, traditional leaders, and landowners. What is at stake is not just administrative tidiness. We’re talking about the very foundation of land rights in Zambia.
@TaizyaVvellz @MJSLIM1 @ZedAnime_@NerDOtakUzm Is there any platform that you guys are using to add people interested in reading it so they receive a notification when it's released?