@JMafume My take is that the Mayor has acknowledged poor workmanship although he is not taking responsibility. I applaud him 4 that. Very few public officials in Zim can engage without insulting the people they serve. For the 1st time J Mafume come get your flowers!
Over the weekend, we put up the first four of a series of over 20 billboards being erected across Harare this month. Borrowdale Road, Newlands, OK Marimba, Tendeseka. Look up: that green is ours. Radio and digital campaigns start today too.
Kose is a super app built in Harare, by a Zimbabwean team, for the way this city actually moves, eats and does business. We launched quietly in May. I'll be honest: it was a cold start. Bugs, hard lessons, long nights rebuilding. We did it anyway. What's live today is the platform we always dreamed of shipping.
In the app right now: rides where you see the fare before you commit. If the price isn't right, you make your own offer and the first verified driver to accept takes the trip. Every trip tracked. Cash accepted. Kose Send moves parcels across town. Kose Care puts school runs in the hands of vetted, trusted drivers. And the marketplace is live: Kose Eats for food, Kose Shop for groceries, Kose Rx for pharmacy delivery, Kose Pros for skilled professionals. One app. The whole city inside it.
Now the part I'm proudest of: how we treat drivers. Most platforms take a cut of every fare, so the harder a driver works, the more gets taken. We flipped that. A Kose driver pays a simple weekly subscription and keeps everything they make. One hundred percent theirs. They see what a trip pays before accepting, choose their hours, and rate riders too. Every driver who signs up this month gets the first 30 days free.
Why? Because we believe a happy driver equals a happy ride, and therefore a happy customer. You feel it the moment you get in the car. It's painted on every billboard: Drive it. Keep it. Every single dollar.
If you're reading this thinking about your own hustle, this is your sign. A kitchen? Kose Eats. A shop? Kose Shop. A licensed pharmacy? Kose Rx. A skill, from plumbing to hair to tutoring? Kose Pros. Signup takes minutes in the Kose Merchant app (links below).
Referrals pay both ways: riders earn for friends who join, drivers earn for drivers they bring. Codes are in the app.
So here's my ask, and I'm making it a dare:
Download Kose and take one ride or order one meal: https://t.co/JsPfQQw4LQ
Know a driver? Send them the app and the drivers WhatsApp group below. No commissions, and 30 days free this month.
Own a business or a skill? Get the Kose Merchant app below.
If nothing else, share this post. It costs nothing and moves everything for us.
The big platforms can buy their way into a market. We can't. What we have is better: people who want to see a Zimbabwean team win.
We're starting with Harare. Next: every town and city in Zimbabwe, then across the borders.
Zimbabwe first. Africa next. Thank you for riding with me.
Links:
Drivers app: https://t.co/hyDRGgxVjI WhatsApp group: https://t.co/4PIvp3C2aR Merchant: https://t.co/XgL334LWX9 · https://t.co/ynB5zk0yg1
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Dear Sir Wicknel
I write this letter to you with a heavy heart, moyo wangu wakaremerwa nekuti I'm helpless about the situation we're going through as a country. I'm a health worker at Sally Mugabe Central Hospital formerly known as Harare Central Hospital popularly known as Pagomo. The situation at the hospital is disheartening, we have resorted to praying for our patients because there is no other health care that we can offer tiri incapacitated zvatiri kudai. I don't even know where to start. Chekutanga chipatara hachina mushonga zvachose hachina, metronidazole chaiyo hapana hama dziri kunzi dzitenge and some of them can not even afford a bottle of water for their relative who is admitted. Which brings me to the next issue,munoziva mvura yedu ye city of Harare haimwiwe for many years now and in hospital tinototi ma relative atenge mvura yekumwa. Chipatara chikuru as Harare Central Hospital hachina mvura yekumwa in the hospital. I think we have 1 working borehole ine 1 tap ndoiri padhuze inoshandiswa nechipatara chese as a whole. So you can imagine trying to fetch water for hundreds of patients, is that feasible veduwe? We can only do so much as health workers pamwe pacho tinoremerwawo. Another issue our autoclave machine is not working, ma dressing pack hapana nekuti mushini hausi kushanda kuti tiwane zvinhu zviri sterile. Ma dressing pack akugadzirwa oendeswa kuParirenyatwa for autoclave odzoka tozosuka nekusunga maronda asi tinozvizova kuti hupenyu hwemunhu is a race against time and resources tiri kuisa hama dzedu at risk of complications dzatisingakwanise kurapa futi nekuti ma resources hapana. Improvisation yacho haichaite nekuti even zvekushandisa for Improvisation hapana. Tinokumbirawo kubatsirwa. We're watching our friends and relatives die everyday nekuti we do not have resources but we know kana muchida henyu munogona kutibatsira tatambura. Chemical chaiyo Sodium Hypochlorite inoshandiswa ku cleaner midziyo yemuchipatara kuti tisatapurirane zvirwere hamuna veduwe. Tinoziva kuti munhu anoita zvaanoda nemari yake uye tinokutendai nevamakatengera ngoro dzemoto makaita basa zvikuru makavasimudzira.Did you know that paGomo pane 3 ma ICU beds yes 3 chaiwo, munhu akauya aine condition iri kuda ICU anogona kufa asati awana mukana wekupinda imomo.2 ma Xray machine ndiwo anoshanda and arikutorwarawo zvokuti nenguva isipi anotisiya asi arikuda kubatsira hundreds of clients pazuva, kuma 11 chaiko in the morning unonzwa kuti machine wa overhearter hauchashande munhu anofa ne mismanagement nekuti mari yekuenda kuna private radiographer https://t.co/JzfnTiE5UZ can not sleep at night uchiziva kuti 3 or 4 patients died today under your care nekuti there is nothing you could do about it.Tinokumbirawo nemweya waShe dai mabatsirawo hama dziri muchipatara. Kuenda kubasa kwakutorwadza, it weighs down on your spirit kuti saka ndiri kuenda kunoitei kana sipo chaiyo yekuti ndigezese murwere hapana. Titengereiwo mushonga,tiisireiwo ma borehole varwere vawane mvura yekunwa, tigadzirireiwo mushini we auto clave,ma xray machine, ma ultrasound scan machine, renovate our ICU department and Emergency Room. Ukapinda muER yepagomo unoona kuti muno munoshanda nyasha kwete hunyanzvi hwana chiremba kana ana mukoti nyasha dzaJehovah chaidzo. Zviri zvema ambulance handichatotaure dai mambosvikawo paGomo. Pamwe munogona kutadza kupaziva ku Southerton, mamboonawo zvandiri kutaura nezvazvo. Takumbira tademba tibatsireiwo mukuru. Ishe vanodzorera pamatapudza.
Ndatenda
Ndini wenyu arikuchema
Mushandi wepaGomo
A friend shared this Go-Fund link this morning of a Zimbabwean man getting treatment in India who needs financial assistance.
Please RETWEET, every retweet will help him get something.
https://t.co/kpiwZayPE2
@daddyhope Dress code should be the starting point to judicial transformation. The judiciary should reflect growth of Zimbabwean legal system from colonialism to constitutionalism. It should reflect the richness of our indigenous laws and our diversity as a country
@DrThompsonLaw The river, whch could have provided plenty for all, remained as it was, untouched by hopes & dreams of fishermen and the villagers. Doc that's a tale of Zim, vast opportunities, resources and capable people but unable to fulfill the dreams of her children.