Ethan Mukudzei

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[Ethan Mukudzei @bandakevy]

@CMukungunugwa @LynneStactia Absolute Nonsense.

[Ethan Mukudzei @bandakevy]

@hwendec It’s painful to think I woke up at 4am to vote for this. I voted because I believed in Nelson Chamisa and the vision he represented. Many of us didn’t even know you personally—we trusted the movement. Now we feel deeply betrayed.

[Ethan Mukudzei @bandakevy]

@Hon_Kasukuwere This isn’t new, Saviour. It was the same even during your time in Mugabe’s presidency.

[Ethan Mukudzei @bandakevy]

@TembaMliswa With all due respect, Sabhuku, this comes across as an insult to our intelligence.

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@MoviePlusx 6 7 vb

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@elachibinge @FaraiMazhindu @ngdupwa @freemanchari Z_

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@advocatemahere Hit the ground running.

[Paula White-Cain @Paula_White]

I CANCEL EVERY DEMONIC ATTACK AGAINST YOUR CHILDREN, MARRIAGE AND HOUSEHOLD IN THE NAME OF JESUS!

[Fadzayi Mahere🇿🇼 @advocatemahere]

🔸If you stand in solidarity with @bbmhlanga, RETWEET.

#WeStandWithBlessed🇿🇼

[Ethan Mukudzei @bandakevy]

@Welshman_Ncube Sellout in Chief.

[Duduzile Nyirongo @Dudu_Nyirongo]

This year, nothing will change if you don't change certain things, ways, associates, or habits in your life! You have to make a deliberate effort to change things. You have to be aggressive.
Show up when you need to show up. Take action where you must take action. .....

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[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

A man spent every evening in the pub drinking with his mates in Harare in the late 1980s/early 1990s.
He drove a Nissan Bluebird and rented the house he lived in Harare, he bought the car in finance for the same amount he would have bought a house in Glen Norah on a mortgage.
He sadly became envious of his neighbour, who had a lower-paying job, but bought the house he was renting and relied on public transport instead.

This was 1990. The man who bought the house took his family on holidays and asked me to look after their home while they were away.
At the time, I was in Form Six. Looking after the property meant going there at 8 PM and sleeping over, I was essentially safeguarding their home at night while they were away on holiday.

I enjoyed it, they would leave some cheese, soft drinks, crisps, and all the treats one could think of back then for me, his wife also left books for me to read, and I really enjoyed being there because it allowed me to read in peace.

From this couple, I learned an important lesson, that we should invest in a home and prioritise what truly matters before spending money at the pub every night or investing in a liability like a car before you have a home.

The man who bought the house used to walk with his children to the shops and back. In today’s world, misogynists might call him a “simp,” but he was simply ahead of his time, he was a loving dad and husband with his priorities in the right place and order.

Instead of just emulating him, I also took mental notes. What is the point of buying a car when that money could buy a home on a mortgage?
Most people from the ghetto want to buy a house in a nicer area, but in the world of property, you should start where you can and build up as your financial situation improves.

Buy in Budiriro or Glen Norah, then move to Houghton Park when money permits, and eventually, you will find yourself in your dream house in your location of choice, whether it is Chisipite, Borrowdale, Khumalo or Glen Lorne.

It is easy to get caught up in the trappings of material possessions and societal expectations while you are not taking care of things that will eventually take care of you in the future.
However, the man who recognised that a house provides stability and security for his family, and allows him to build equity over time, ended up in Borrowdale Brooke.
He understood the value of family time and experiences, such as taking his children to the shops, instead of prioritising evenings at the pub and going on holiday.

Starting small in property ownership and gradually upgrading as your finances improve is often the best path.
My father shared an analogy with me when I was 36, he told me that a man who bought the most expensive car in Rhodesia in 1971 has a car now either lying in a scrapyard in Harare or buried in the ground, a car is a liability that gets reduced to waste.

The same amount of money could have bought that man a house or houses. The one who chose to invest in houses instead of a car in 1971 is still collecting rent today, and when he dies, that asset will be passed on to his children who will continue collecting rent.

This is not to say one should not own a car, rather, these decisions should be made at the right time.

Some Zimbabweans in South Africa or Britain have access to credit, but what is the point of borrowing one million rand for a car when the same amount could buy a house in Johannesburg that serves as a stepping stone to an even better property in the future?

A man who bought a brand new car in 2017 instead of a home now owns a vehicle that has lost more than three-quarters of its value, a car that cost US$100,000 in 2018 is now worth US$25,000 today.
In contrast, someone who purchased a house for R4 million last year in January now has a property worth around R5.4 million. He or she can unlock the equity and buy a small flat for a million rands.

It is all about priorities and knowing when to invest in something that aligns with your financial situation, not just to impress others out there.
We should think beyond immediate gratification and we should always consider the long term impact of our financial decisions that we make today.
It is a lesson that applies not just to buying a home, but to many areas of life.

It is also these little things that we do in our lives that we pass on to younger people around us, this young couple got me thinking about life, they chose a home over a car, I learned something from them.
Look around yourself and see the cars being driven by those around you who actually are renting two bed apartments when they could be owning their own homes.

Paying rent is helping someone buy their own home, it is helping someone pay off their mortgage, buy progressive investments and not liabilities when you are not yet ready for them!

Now let us progressively look at the countries we live in across the African continent.
The people that you put in charge of government also should have learned these basic economic realities of life, today you have a president and government that prioritises buying Range Rovers over hospital equipment and medicines.
These are the same people who would buy cars on credit before they owned a home, they would buy an expensive car before applying for a mortgage.

The choices we make in life today might have the same consequences on a national scale if we are put in positions of power, the guy who drank daily at the pub will do the same thing if put in a position of power, only that this time he will be using YOUR money to do so!

That is why we hear Dr. Solomon Guramatunhu saying that a political leadership of a country is a mirror image of that society’, we have a national mind set that needs changing, we see it manifesting in our private lives and we see it at government level where 2,500 women die every year giving birth while our president priorities buying cars for Chiefs and for his bloated and incompetent bureaucracy.

We see him flying private jets when presidents and prime ministers of richer countries like Singapore fly economy on commercial airlines.
How many people around you in your country would think that a president flying private jet when his hospitals have no medicines is wild and mad?

How many people would think that a CEO having four cars paid for by the company while workers bringing in that money have no company bus is bad?

Mindset!! Why would someone who drunk himself to death every night while renting suddenly worry about hospital medicines or whether the youths have jobs when he never worrried about that for his own family or himself?

Why would such a person worry about Zimbabwe the country when he couldn’t worry too much about his own family or whether he had a home to call his own?

We are products of our own upbringing, we are products of our past, the good thing is that we can reflect on the past and see what we could have done better and more importantly accepting that we are on the wrong track.

Exposure also matters, part of me and many others like me is not bothered about cars because in my early twenties, I went to university on the same daily train as CEOs of British companies, judges, top journalists and investment bankers working in London City, a car is not important in a normal society, what matters most is how public transport works.

Those who grew up in Zimbabwe in the 1980s and early 1990s knew that they could get a bus at a particular time to the city from the townships, we had a system that worked before those who would rather drink every evening became firmly in charge.
They would rather the national railway company collapse as long as they have their Germany limousines and Japanese off-roaders are paid for.

What we become in our adult life is a product of how we were built in our formative years, repeat after me, cars a liability, homes are an investment.
Keep saying this daily into your kids and those around you so that we bring up a new type of African kid who thinks about everyone else and not just themselves!

It starts at home at a young age, you should bring up builders not destroyers.

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