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South Africa is also experiencing economic decline. When an economy increasingly relies on constructing massive shopping malls as a store of capital, liquidity becomes immobilised in fixed assets, constraining credit intermediation and productive lending, traditionally major sources of banking income. As lending contracts, banks become increasingly dependent on transactional fees and service charges to sustain profitability.
#LetFreedomSing: Impoverishment Is a Political Choice
By Brian Tamuka Kagoro
A society begins to die the moment it treats poverty as a crime and the poor as people abandoned by both God and history.
Poverty is not a character flaw. It is not a moral failure. It is not a lack of effort or always the result of laziness. It cannot always be addressed through changing choices and personal effort .
Impovershment is engineered.
It is manufactured by elites who convert political, economic, and cultural power into inherited privilege, then market the outcome as destiny. Through deliberate political and economic choices, they build ladders for a few and walls for the many. The result is intergenerational poverty, systemic exclusion, and shrinking opportunities for working people, while a tiny minority accumulates wealth, influence, and immunity.
According to the World Bank, 847 million people live in extreme poverty. Nearly 71% of them are in sub-Saharan Africa, a region that only returned to pre-COVID poverty levels in 2025. This statistic represents broken dreams, stolen futures, and postponed possibilities.
The Plain Truth: wealth is too often class, race, gender, and caste advantage dressed up and introduced to society as "merit."
Many become wealthy not simply because they possess extraordinary business genius, but because they enjoy extraordinary proximity to political power. When privileged access dries up, many glittering business empires suddenly discover gravity. Tenderpreneurship loses its magic. Unpaid taxes emerge from hiding like relatives at the reading of a will. The miracle fades, and the myth of self-made success begins to wobble.
Jean-Paul Sartre warned us in Being and Nothingness that when having replaces being, possessions become substitutes for human essence. In such a world, philanthropy can become a sophisticated laundering machine, washing extraction, corruption, and structural violence in the fragrant detergents of generosity.
A school here. A food parcel there. A scholarship somewhere else.
Meanwhile, the machinery producing deprivation continues humming in the background.
The systems remain untouched. The injustice remains profitable.
The Bible says :
"Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute."
Proverbs 31:8
And so let me ask you:
Where are the 9.8 million children orphaned by AIDS?
What became of the child-headed households forgotten by the state and abandoned by weary donors?
Who answers for the devastation wrought by structural adjustment programmes, HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, and decades of policy failure?
How come our governments do not have coherent and compassionate social welfare systems?
How are they addressing the soaring levels of unemployment, substance abuse,and despair?
These are not accidents.
They are consequences.
It is always easier to blame the victim than to interrogate the system. The oppressor's ledger rarely records the damage caused by acts of commission or omission. Its mathematics is selective. Its memory is convenient.
As African wisdom reminds us:
"Anything that has horns cannot be neatly wrapped and concealed."
And:
"You cannot burn down the house and then hope to hide the smoke."
History is approaching a reckoning.
The smoke is visible and the horns are protruding.Glitzy public relations, philanthropy, and political theatre cannot disguise a social order built on exclusion.If we normalise inequality we will eventually inherit instability. If we abandon justice we will eventually lose peace.
The poor are not a problem to be managed. They are citizens whose dignity has been deferred.
And freedom will never truly sing while millions are forced to survive in a choir of hunger, unemployment, and hopelessness.
The future is calling us to choose differently.
Not charity instead of justice. Not pity instead of rights.
Justice. Dignity. Opportunity. Freedom.
For poverty is not inevitable.
It is a political choice.
And so, too, is its end.
I have now listened to the whole @winkydonline album. Next week I will review one track per day.
In my humble opinion, Tete-A-Tete is the most consequential album ever recorded in Zimbabwe in the new millennium. I cannot think of any other album from this era with such deep social commentary, the kind that makes you laugh, reflect and, at times, cry. I did cry as I listened to some of the tracks.
He touched the raw nerve of our struggles, and he did it with remarkable depth. This is music for thinkers, music for those who seek substance.
I want to tell him that he has earned his colours. What this record needs now is international promotion. To his fans, spread the message far and wide.
He did the work, now spread the word. I want to end by saying this is not Zim dancehall. This is authentic reggae.
I hope and pray that Reggae Land gives him a slot. He deserves it.
Well done, Winky, you have made every ghetto yute proud, you have made every patriot proud. You are indeed one of the best of your generation in Africa. Please @DavidRodigan , listen to this album from Zimbabwe, you will thank me.
Last night I said that I usually read on long haul flights. Listening to this album was more than reading, it nourished the mind.
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Most people don’t know about this powerful anti-aging secret.
Glycine is classified as a non-essential amino acid because the body can make it, but many people are still deficient. Most glycine in the diet comes from collagen, yet modern diets provide very little.
An ancestral diet included nose-to-tail eating with plenty of collagen, while today most people eat only lean, tender muscle meats. As a result, a large percentage of adults have chronically low glycine levels.
Glycine plays a critical role in red blood cell health, DNA and RNA production, bile salts, and glutathione, one of the body’s most important antioxidants. Your body prioritizes these essential functions first, which means other areas can become depleted.
Glycine is also vital for the immune system and quality sleep. When levels are low, your skin may not get enough support, contributing to visible aging. It also impacts fascia, tendons, cartilage, arteries, and the gut lining.
You don’t necessarily need a glycine supplement; just focus on increasing collagen intake instead. Add collagen to your coffee or a shake, and pair it with vitamin C to support absorption.
Dr. Eric Berg, DC, not MD; information only
PUBLIC INTEREST NOTICE: 16 years ago a guy named Christopher Dickson then running Pride Real Estate in Harare duped me of a good amount for a stand in Charlotte Brooke. I had done all the due diligence, from deed verification, Local authority checks, conveyancing etc. Dude was selling the stand to multiple people and withdrawing funds from a trust fund.
He was arrested (HH179-11) for multiple counts of fraud. Not sure what happened after that. I see he is back on the prawl with an unregistered company called Income Properties. They have listed 20 properties.
I don't want anyone to fall prey to this habitual criminal. It is people like Dickson who made us to start https://t.co/omnnPeLSAh. We only approve builders that we can fully verify their track record.
We are also going to be launching a property listing platform for legit sellers & buyers only very soon. Please beware of dicks like Christopher Dickson & if you want a project done in Zimbabwe by trusted contractors put it on https://t.co/omnnPeLSAh!
My guys @BancabcZW cooked on this episode
A gweta explained Francis Chirimuuta
Deed of Grant
Vs
Deed of Transfer
Vs
Sectional Title
Vs
Share Transfer
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'Ndine land...I want to do clusters'
'Do you know any good developers who can do my scheme'
'Please link me up with pension fund to fund my clusters'
I will be sending this to all who ask the above...it's important, it's urgent.
And I'll show you the offtake rate 😢