Mkellz_mozy

Singer_Songwriter_Civil Engineering Technician _ all round sophisticated introvert ✌🏽

[TeamLH44 @Ndi_Sandra]

Some debates we have here are as a result of kushaya chaiko. If we had washing machines, we wouldn’t debate about panty-gate. If we had geysers, no one would need to heat water for anyone. May we be freed in this lifetime.

[Zakes Bantwini @ZakesBantwiniSA]

DJs/ producers, siyacela 🙏🏾 Tone down the AI vocals. Ngeke phela, Sbali. The world is full of real voices waiting for a moment, please give them the mic 🎤

[Mkellz_mozy @_Molkay]

@Pk_hvs @T_a_t_e_n_d_a @JMafume Jaywalking is a survival skill in Zim with the mshika shika and kombie mad driving … they have a long list to fix before they get to jaywalking

[Le rata depth gore. @Ketso28]

@lindsss_n Consume more. We can’t stand your sober thoughts mama. 🙏

[OCTO8ER ⚖️ @badgal_zaee]

The economy so bad you gotta call off work just to go make some money😂😂😂

[STREAM RADIO MHERE 📻 @uMehliseli_]

Zim needs more small live music venues à la Jazz 105. It’s a very important element for artist and scene development

[Mkellz_mozy @_Molkay]

@advocatemahere We need to bring back shame , accountability and a regard for optics

[Mkellz_mozy @_Molkay]

@Qudakwashe07 Happy birthday Zay

[Mkellz_mozy @_Molkay]

@Qudakwashe07 We all know what you love to eat pleasure… but food it is kwacho

[Mkellz_mozy @_Molkay]

@Qudakwashe07 Nhaiwe Zay 😱😂😂😂

[Erastus Uso @UsoErastus]

I saw a video captioned
“And if he taught us to pray, he must have intended to answer” Phewww

[Mkellz_mozy @_Molkay]

@Makomborerol

[𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝑾𝒆𝒊𝒓𝒅𝒐🤎🥀 @dorothdanielle]

4Stages of life in Zimbabwe

1.Birth
2.15 Billion
3.Varume ava ngavasadaro
4.Death....

[Hon. Takudzwa Titus Nyanhanga @SirTitusVeTech]

To marry once, and marry right 🙏🏽

[acidburns @TheAcidBurns3]

Your government is testing what you'll tolerate and a lot of us are tolerating way way WAY too much.

[Nqobizitha Mlambo @cdemlambo]

Ropafadzo's words ...

[Fadzayi Mahere🇿🇼 @advocatemahere]

🔸Let me be clear - thieves who perform “philanthropy” are still thieves. Trying to charity wash your corrupt activities and expecting us to praise you for it is a crude insult to our intelligence. Musatambe nepfungwa dzedu.

We need new leaders.🇿🇼

[𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐙𝐖 @CrimeWatchZW]

Naison Marufu has responded to @Zimra_11’s decision to introduce taxes on content creators. Thoughts? : Munotanga mafunga here musati mataura or kuita zvimwe zvinhu.

Some of the things that these government institutions do, they even offend common sense 🙌

You want to tax Content creators, but cannot lobby for them ... Painful...That is the contradiction sitting at the heart of Zimbabwe’s digital economy.

Zimbabwe has no formal monetization agreement with Meta or Google. Content creators are using foreign details ... South African bank accounts, relatives abroad, VPNs .... to unlock what their own country cannot give them. And now ZIMRA wants a cut of money that technically, by platform rules, was never supposed to reach Zimbabwe in the first place .
This is ambush economics.

Content creators are already paying taxes where they are registered ... which is not in Zimbabwe ... because the Ministry of ICT has no formal relationship with Meta. They file where the platform recognizes them. They comply where the system exists. Zimbabwe is simply not on that map.

The government confirmed the gap itself. Minister of ICT Tatenda Mavetera admitted in January 2026 that discussions with Google and Meta are ongoing but acknowledged “limitations” and gave no timeline . Meanwhile, ZIMRA issued Public Notice 25 of 2026 demanding voluntary disclosure by 30 May 2026 .... penalties waived, but interest still applies.

So one arm of government is “engaging” global platforms. The other is taxing income earned through back channels because the engagement produced nothing.

But wasn't the first move supposed to be pushing the Ministry of ICT to lobby for Zimbabwe to be on Meta's monetization map? Shouldn't that have been the opening gambit? Get the country whitelisted. Secure the payout pipeline. Formalize the relationship. Then, and only then, talk about tax withholding, registration thresholds, and voluntary disclosure. Instead, ZIMRA issued deadlines while ICT holds meetings that produce nothing. The cart is not just before the horse ... the cart is demanding fuel from a horse that hasn't been born.

ZIMRA has the power to tax. Does the Ministry of ICT have the power to lobby? Can you walk into Meta's offices and say "monetize Zimbabwe"? Because if you can't, then you're taxing air. You're demanding compliance for a system you haven't built. Creators are paying the price of your diplomatic silence.

Do ZIMRA and the Ministry of ICT ever communicate? The evidence suggests no. Or if they do, they are not listening to each other.

To be clear: using the source-based tax rule, ZIMRA is legally correct. If you create content while sitting in Zimbabwe, they consider the income source Zimbabwean .... even if the payment lands in an SA account. The Double Taxation Agreement with South Africa exists, but that requires disclosure and paperwork most creators have not filed .

It is possible for ZIMRA to track payments through TaRMS, monitoring mobile money and bank transfers that bring foreign earnings back home, and auditing public disclosures of wealth.

It is impossible for ZIMRA to force Meta or Google to write checks directly to Zimbabwean accounts. That is not their mandate and power. They tax what comes in ... they do not create the pipes for it to flow.

It is also hard for the Ministry of ICT delivering a monetization deal while US sanctions remain in place. US-based companies face significant legal risks making payments that could indirectly benefit sanctioned individuals. Even if the government negotiates, compliance costs will outweigh Zimbabwe’s small ad market. Google Adsense pays based on viewer location ... a Zimbabwean audience generates roughly 30 cents per thousand views versus up to $7 for a US audience.
The market is classified as operationally dead for advertisers.

Let's talk about the WhatsApp admin fiasco. 2024. Ministry of ICT floated a tax on WhatsApp group admins. A data protection license, they called it. The policy was so absurd that Meta's Terms of Service don't even allow third parties to charge admin fees for group operation. WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption means ZIMRA cannot see a single message without breaking the protocol. The policy was unenforceable from the first sentence. Yet someone in government said it out loud. Off the cuff. Zero technical understanding. Zero legal grounding. It died in public ridicule ... but it should never have been born.

So ZIMRA is correct to tax undeclared income. The Ministry of ICT is failing to deliver access. Meta terms make the workaround a violation. Sanctions are blocking the official route. The digital advertising market is too small to attract serious platform investment. And two government arms are operating as if they serve different countries.

ZIMRA has no legal relationship with Meta at all. They are demanding tax on income generated through a platform that does not recognize Zimbabwean creators.🤦

If your citizens must break a platform’s terms of service to earn anything, who is really breaking the law? The creator trying to survive? Or the government taxing a transaction it cannot see, cannot enforce, and cannot protect?

Until Zimbabwe gets formal monetization, asking creators to pay tax on income earned through loopholes you cannot close and channels you cannot open is economic ambush.

©The Marketing Maven

[Mkellz_mozy @_Molkay]

@tiichakunda @bosstongo @DavidColtart @CityofBulawayo @JMafume I think they are also still up in Africa Unity Square as well 🫩

[Mkellz_mozy @_Molkay]

@bosstongo @DavidColtart @CityofBulawayo @JMafume Forget it … Townhouse still got Merry Christmas lights up