Tendai Malvin Chikuyo🇿🇼

Business | Economics | Governance 🎩| Practical thinking for real-world growth.

[Tendai Malvin Chikuyo🇿🇼 @TMChikuyo]

It's festive season; it's traveling time. Does speeding save time?

Short answer: very little time—often none—and it greatly increases risk.
Why speeding rarely saves time:
Math reality
Over short distances, higher speed saves minutes or seconds, not hours.
Example:
100 km at 100 km/h = 1 hour
100 km at 120 km/h = 50 minutes
→ You risk your life to save 10 minutes.
Real-world conditions
Traffic, roadblocks, tollgates, buses, potholes, animals, rain, and police checks cancel out any speed gains.
One slowdown wipes out all “saved” time.
Human limits
Higher speed = longer stopping distance and less reaction time.
Most fatal accidents happen not because people planned to crash, but because they had no margin for error.
Festive season factors
More tired drivers
More pedestrians and children
More drunk driving
More road enforcement
→ Speeding actually increases delays, not reduces them.
What truly saves time:
Leaving early
Planning rest stops
Keeping a steady, legal speed
Avoiding peak travel hours
Bottom line:
Speeding trades certainty of arrival for the illusion of speed. You don’t arrive earlier—you just arrive less safely, or not at all.

Safe travels this festive season.🎊🎆🎈

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

My entire life changed when I learned to recognize things that don’t matter. The world will pressure you to care about every single thing. To chase every problem. To take every slight personally. To have opinions on everything. Reject that trend. Focus on a few, ignore the rest.

[y @ysuckme]

we stress too much for a life that can end at any time.

make sure to live.

[Tendai Malvin Chikuyo🇿🇼 @TMChikuyo]

@ChikomoPrazen Actually who should initiate the idea of amendments? Because in our case everything is hap hazard? Don't we need an independent board to handle amendments and not this party led initiatives?

[Tendai Malvin Chikuyo🇿🇼 @TMChikuyo]

@ChikomoPrazen Also what are the interests of all stakeholders to these amendments? Can they find a common ground? If the process is clearly inclusive friction will be minimum. The process ought not be handled by persons with direct or personal interest. Nation first!

[Tendai Malvin Chikuyo🇿🇼 @TMChikuyo]

Spend most of your time on what you can control, some time on what you can influence, and very little time worrying about what you can neither control nor influence.

[Tendai Malvin Chikuyo🇿🇼 @TMChikuyo]

Will this amendment leave Zimbabwe stronger, fairer, more stable, and more prosperous for future generations?

[Tendai Malvin Chikuyo🇿🇼 @TMChikuyo]

@toyinomotoso How?

[Brian Tamuka Kagoro @TamukaKagoro77]

#LetFreedomSing Seed Time and Harvest Time, by Brian Tamuka Kagoro

Let me repeat the words the Bishop said to me,
"Anyone who sins with or for you (for whatever reason) will one day sin against you. The ones who truly love you do not aid you in lies , bloodshed , political smear campaigns, or falsification of facts. "

The Bishop said this to me twenty years ago . Often, when you participate in a grand plan , a scheme, plot, or conspiracy, both truth and empathy become the first casualties, followed by commonsense and foresight.

In the heat of the moment, when the prize or outcomes you seek seem within easy reach , the tendency is to focus on winning by any means necessary. An obsession that thinks that the end judtifies the means. In such emotive pursuit of short term goals , many tend to overlook the fact that the seeds of the destruction of the very thing that they are building are carried within the cleans that they're employing.Lies and prejudices do not give birth to truth and integrity. Today, you may participate in the smears against one innocent opponent, and tomorrow, you will be the target . As long as the earth remains, there will be seed time and harvest time . You will reap what you sow , 60 times , 70 times, or 100-fold . Zviuya zvirimberi , uzalutheza olulenkume !!

Momentum is a deceptive thing, and populism is addictive . It can make you totally unaware and sometimes unconscious of who or what you are as well as what you are not . Remember that any monkey that goes up a very high tree exposes its bottom. And any elephant that eats too much marula fruit will stagger , stumble , and fall.
If you doubt me, ask a speeding driver after a fatal accident or one drunk to excess trying to swim . Noise and visibility are not always equivalent to progress. Listen for the silence. It has a loud story to tell.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.

[Tendai Malvin Chikuyo🇿🇼 @TMChikuyo]

Most people react to events. Strategic thinkers shape events.

[Brian Tamuka Kagoro @TamukaKagoro77]

#LetFreedomSing
Over decades of engaging African leaders, I have consistently underscored seven hard truths — not theories, not abstractions, but patterns repeatedly validated by data, history, and lived experience across the continent.

1. Rushed, intelligence‑light reactions almost always backfire

Governments that respond to public discontent with hasty crackdowns or poorly vetted intelligence tend to accelerate the very crises they fear. In Nigeria (2020), the rapid militarised response to #EndSARS protests increased public mobilisation by over 40% within a week (SBM Intelligence).

In Sudan (2019), the regime’s knee‑jerk repression of protests contributed directly to its collapse within four months.
Quick reactions fulfil the enemy’s script: panic → repression → delegitimisation → instability.

2. Alienation from citizens is the fastest route to illegitimacy

When governments drift away from the people, legitimacy erodes — and external actors fill the vacuum.
Afrobarometer data shows that 71% of Africans distrust governments that fail to deliver basic services, and such states are twice as vulnerable to foreign influence operations.

Countries with low trust scores exhibit the highest susceptibility to external capture of minerals, security sectors, and policy direction.

Alienation is not a political inconvenience; it is a national security threat.

3. The real saboteurs are rarely NGOs or opposition parties

Blaming NGOs or opposition movements for national crises is politically convenient — and empirically false.

Transparency International reports that 70–85% of grand corruption cases in Africa involve senior politicians, bureaucrats, or security elites, not civil society.

The biggest illicit financial outflows — over $88 billion annually (UNECA) — are driven by corporate and political networks, not activists.
The real danger sits inside the system, not outside it.

4. Managed dissent is safer than suppressed dissent
History is unequivocal: societies that allow controlled expression of grievances avoid violent rupture.
Countries with open civic space experience 70% fewer violent protests than those that restrict it (CIVICUS Monitor).

Conversely, states that suppress dissent eventually face explosive uprisings.

5. The most powerful opposition in Africa is a badly run economy

No political party can mobilise anger as effectively as hunger, unemployment, and hopelessness.
Africa’s youth unemployment averages over 60% in several countries (ILO).
Every 1% drop in GDP per capita increases the likelihood of anti‑government protests by 5–7% (World Bank).

A collapsing economy is the continent’s most efficient recruiter of dissent.

6. External actors — including “friends” — have designs on African wealth. This is not paranoia; it is geopolitics.

Africa loses $195 billion annually through illicit financial flows, tax evasion, and predatory contracts (AU/ECA).

Over 30% of strategic minerals (cobalt, lithium, rare earths) are under concession agreements that overwhelmingly favour foreign entities.

Military bases from 13 external powers now operate on African soil.
Everyone wants a piece of Africa — except Africans themselves, who are too often sidelined.

7. Africa’s greatest strategic asset is its peopleNot minerals. Not land. Not foreign alliances. People.

By 2050, Africa will have 1.1 billion working‑age citizens, the largest labour force on earth (UN DESA).Countries that invest in human capital (education, health, innovation) grow 2–3 times faster than those that don’t (World Bank HCI).

Every additional year of schooling raises national income by 10% on average.
Empowering Africans is not charity — it is the highest‑yield investment any government can make.

8. Most African governments do not face crises because of NGOs, opposition parties, or youth discontent.
They persistently :misread the moment,alienate their citizens , under-invest in long-term development strategies, and pursue wrong priorities

[Tendai Malvin Chikuyo🇿🇼 @TMChikuyo]

@_fels1 Prayer + Action = Results

[Lawrence Kitema @lawrencekitema]

Sometimes we forget how blessed we are. A warm shower, food on the table, clean sheets, loved ones, and another day in good health and a sound mind—that’s a blessing worth being grateful for.

[David Coltart @DavidColtart]

I have just read @DMwonzora 's excellent opinion piece of #CAB3 published in @NewsDay_Zim today.

I respectfully concur with everything he has stated, in particular an argument that I have not employed to date, namely that the proposed changes are ultra vires (an effectively amend and diminish) Sections 67(1)(a) and (3)(a) of the Bill of Rights, namely the right of all citizens to vote in elections for public offices established in terms of the Constitution, which includes the office of President.

I also concur that because of this not just one referendum is required but two as is clearly laid out in Section 328 of the Constitution.

[Tendai Malvin Chikuyo🇿🇼 @TMChikuyo]

@begottensun I am glad you mastered this. Vanhu vanoba baba

[Lawrence Kitema @lawrencekitema]

Remember to treat people with love and respect. Even the person you see as a nobody could one day be your access to greater doors.

[Napoleon Hill Archive @NapoleonHilll]

Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.

[SokoAnalyst @SokoAnalyst]

Do not confuse movement with growth. Opening branches, hiring staff and buying cars can be expansion or ego. True growth is better margins, stronger systems and customers who keep coming back

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

“You don't have to be everyone's butterfly. Be a bee. Mind your business, make your honey, and sting people when necessary.”