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[TMadondoro @TMadondoro]

Thought for the Day:
"Schneider Electric + Foxconn partner to scale next-gen AI data centers." Two giants teaming up to power the AI buildout is a signal: the bottleneck is no longer chips — it's energy and infrastructure. The next decade of AI gets built in factories, not just labs.

[TMadondoro @TMadondoro]

Thought for the Day: French street artist JR ("the French Banksy") turned Paris's Pont Neuf — its oldest bridge — into a walk-through cave you can enter for free through Jun 28. His line says it best: "You enter into the darkness, and emerge into the light on the other side." A small reminder that public art still cuts through the noise.

[TMadondoro @TMadondoro]

Obama

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

More than 40 years ago, I arrived in Chicago in search of an idea. I was a young man looking for purpose, who believed deeply in America, was inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, and wanted to be a part of something larger. The America I believed in was one where everyone has opportunity, everyone is seen, everyone belongs—because that was an America that had a place for me, too.

[TMadondoro @TMadondoro]

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
Qantas announces a 22-hour nonstop London→Sydney flight for late 2027. It's a quiet win for endurance engineering — proving distance no longer limits where we can live, work, or build. The world keeps shrinking for those bold enough to cross it.

[TMadondoro @TMadondoro]

Thought for the Day: A Mexican immigrant took a $28/hr welding job at SpaceX — his stake is now worth over $1M. Proof that showing up, doing solid work, and getting in early on something real still beats every shortcut. Build where the future is being built.
Have a strong day. ⚡

[TMadondoro @TMadondoro]

This shows there is a much bigger problem than what meets the eye. Business permits

[The Instigator @Am_Blujay]

Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
Imagine someone setting up a plant like factory to make fake booze 🥃

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

To George and Laura, Bill and Hillary — we're grateful for your friendship, counsel, and devotion to this country. And to Joe and Jill, thank you for being on this journey with us.

[TMadondoro @TMadondoro]

Snakes on the road😂

[Lawrence Kitema @lawrencekitema]

More reasons why men die early.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

To everyone who helped bring the Obama Presidential Center to life, thank you. Michelle and I are so grateful for all your dedication and hard work over the years.

I got a little teary-eyed tonight thinking about my mother-in-law, Marian Robinson.

[TMadondoro @TMadondoro]

We were once sold ESAP as Zimbabwe’s salvation. Today, CAB3 is being packaged as the next great gift to the nation. History, it seems, has a habit of repeating itself.

What they are?

CAB3 (Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment Bill No. 3, 2026) is a proposed constitutional amendment introduced in February 2026. Its key provisions include replacing direct popular election of the President with election by a joint sitting of Parliament, extending presidential and parliamentary terms from five to seven years, enlarging the Senate with presidential appointees, and repealing the Gender Commission and National Peace and Reconciliation Commission.

ESAP (Economic Structural Adjustment Programme) was adopted in 1991 when the Government of Zimbabwe abandoned its highly interventionist economic strategy in favour of a market-driven approach. Its major objective was reorienting the economy toward the production of tradable goods through exchange rate depreciation and liberalisation.

Nature and origin

CAB3 is framed as a technical governance reform, but critics argue its cumulative effect is a fundamental reordering of the constitutional system that increases presidential authority while weakening mechanisms for popular participation and democratic accountability.

ESAP was a five-year economic reform programme substantially financed by the World Bank, IMF, and Western donor countries. It was externally driven, whereas CAB3 is domestically initiated by the ruling ZANU-PF government.

Impact on institutions

CAB3 moves Zimbabwe’s institutional architecture in a direction that weakens judicial independence, reduces electoral credibility, expands executive control over the legislature, and abolishes accountability institutions — changes that critics say would be assessed negatively by major development finance institutions like the World Bank and IMF.

ESAP included privatisation, subsidy withdrawal, trade liberalisation, and civil service retrenchment, with public spending impacted significantly — including a 39% decrease in health expenditure by 1994, and secondary school fees rising by 150% in one year.

Social consequences

Under ESAP, by 1992 doctors and nurses were referring to “ESAP deaths” — deaths caused by patients’ inability to pay for hospital care or medicine. The working class was brought to the brink of widespread destitution, and more than half the population was receiving some form of drought relief by late 1992.

CAB3’s social consequences are prospective. Human Rights Watch reported in March 2026 that authorities had intensified a crackdown against critics of the Bill, with multiple cases of violence and intimidation documented, and opposing views being effectively criminalised.

Key similarity

Both have been controversial and opposed by civil society, and both have been framed by government as necessary for national development and stability while critics argue they primarily serve to concentrate power — economic in ESAP’s case, political in CAB3’s.

The fundamental difference is that ESAP was an economic liberalisation programme imposed partly by external creditors, while CAB3 is a constitutional power-consolidation bill driven internally by the ruling party.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire as SpaceX shares soared above $150 on its first day of trading. https://t.co/bq5ARi7rgB

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

FIFA have confirmed that Ghana midfielder Thomas Partey will be unable to play in Ghana's opening game against Panama in Toronto next Wednesday because the Canadian government have decided not to issue him with a visa.

[My Mixtapez @mymixtapez]

DR Congo national football team is going viral after arriving in Houston for the World Cup in leopard-print fashion 🐆🔥

[TMadondoro @TMadondoro]

@Cde_begar @JMafume Fake news

[TMadondoro @TMadondoro]

My 2 cents to Mr Kuda Tagwirei. The boardroom and the ballot box run on different rules. In business, you answer to shareholders. In politics, you answer to everyone — and they’re loud, unforgiving, and have long memories. Master one world before you gamble with the other. 🎯 #Leadership #Politics #BusinessAdvice

[TMadondoro @TMadondoro]

Word

[Creepy.org @creepydotorg]

In 2013, 8-year-old Maria Chelysheva became the only survivor of her family after a cellar full of rotting potatoes released toxic gas inside their home.

Her 42-year-old father, Mikhail Chelyshev, wanted potatoes for lunch. When he entered the cellar where the potatoes were stored, he collapsed and died.

When his wife and son went down to see what had happened, they suffered the same fate.

Maria’s 68-year-old grandmother called for help, but before anyone arrived, she also entered the cellar. She never came back.

Investigators later said the potatoes had been stored in an enclosed space for too long and had decomposed, filling the cellar with toxic fumes.

The family had no idea something as ordinary as rotting potatoes could become deadly in a sealed room.

Maria survived because she was the only one who did not go inside.

[TMadondoro @TMadondoro]

Thought for the Day:
Serena Williams, 43, is returning to pro tennis — not for legacy, not for one last hurrah, but to compete. After 4 years away and 23 Grand Slams already in the bank, she's choosing the arena again. That's the mindset: mastery isn't a destination.

[TMadondoro @TMadondoro]

Nerd

[SKI @skiistiredasf]

At just 13 years old, Alena Analeigh McQuarter made history as the youngest Black student ever accepted into a U.S. medical school.
Now 17, this brilliant young queen has already graduated high school at 12, earned a Master’s degree, interned at NASA, founded The Brown STEM Girl to inspire other girls of color, and continues blazing trails in medicine and science.
Her journey is living proof that when purpose, discipline, and brilliance collide, nothing can hold you back not even age.
The future is in incredible hands! 👏🏽

[TMadondoro @TMadondoro]

Big moves

[Zo Computer @zocomputer]

A big thank you to everyone who came and made our first NY Tech Week event a blast!

Everyone got to meet the Zo team and learn more about Zo, in our new office 🏡

We have 6 more NYTW events coming up this week and would love to see everyone there. Sign up on the link below!

[TMadondoro @TMadondoro]

They say, “A good dancer knows when to leave the stage”
Mnangagwa danced through liberation, through the coup’s curtain call, through elections stitched like worn-out cloth — but the drums have changed their rhythm. The crowd no longer ululates. A true muroyi of politics reads the silence between the beats. Zimbabwe does not need an encore from a man whose footwork has grown heavy with years of hunger and hollow promises. The stage belongs to those whose feet have not yet bruised the floor.

[ZimLive @zimlive]

A group of retired military generals and former senior civil servants say they met President Mnangagwa TWICE this month to advise him to abandon plans to extend his term but he told them: “Whoever wins, wins.” They warn that the constitution will not be sold to the highest bidder