Denis Gomo

[Denis Gomo @Barrelscrapper]

Ndimi mune muromo uri pedo nenzeve dzevanobika policies. Musanyeperwe kuti hee precious metals refinery haitangike....manyepo ega ega. Vazere vana vevhu who can conceptualize, design, construct and commission those things at a scale affordable to the nation or the investor. Harness that skill and let such a refinery be put up in Zim so that we stop exporting jobs to countries that don't even like vana vevhu.

[Denis Gomo @Barrelscrapper]

@matigary He looks tense. He had to do this hoping he can have a problem free entry and visit into Zimbabwe

[Denis Gomo @Barrelscrapper]

What will the people do with their R1mill each if no one works to produce the goods and services to buy with the R1mill.

Imagine going to Shoprite and finding it closed. You ask, what's happening, then a passing gogo says there's no one there, everyone is at home sitting because Ndabandaba said we don't have to work anymore.

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@mrgmdluli @sewelankoana Nothing. They will be safe.

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@NdumoZindela @Markosonke1 @CheckersSA No one is coming to train anyone. Train yourself. No one is coming to save you. You just want things delivered on a platter.

[Denis Gomo @Barrelscrapper]

This guy is so wrong and confused on many many levels. First he doesn't want foreigners, then says if he is president South Africans must not work, he will give them money and let migrants work for them.

He says South Africa will be the 2nd most beautiful coubtry after USA. Bruh!! Have you ever been to the USA? Have you seen the urban decay, degeneration, dirt, druggie infested and homeless infested streets of America? The crumbling infrastructure? Bruh!!

He says after miners have mined their diamonds and gold, none will leave the country. So what will be the purpose? To put them in our mothers ' display cabinets? Has he ever heard of the word "trade"?

Then lastly, no one should work...each person must be given R1mill per year. Then who will produce the goods and services? Have you ever heard of the word inflation? People will eat each other on the streets. There will be cannibalism. People just work. Goods have to be produced. Services must be sold. We can't sit at home. Bruh!!

[Denis Gomo @Barrelscrapper]

Education is important...so if no one works but just sits at home with R1 mill in their bank accounts, who will produce the goods and services to buy with the R1mill? Shops will be empty, no shop workers, no deliveries to shops, Noone at warehouses, Noone at bakeries and factories producing the goods. No one even working at the tarven to sell you booze. Even sex workers....no one workinh. Your eyes will go red from being horny. There will be hunger I tell you. There will be the worst food riots you have ever seen. Women and kids will be rape*d because there will not even be sex workers. The result will be fewer goods and services available against too much money floating around. That, my lady, is the classical definition of inflation. Welcome to the Zim dollar scenario.

Man was made to work. Without working, there's no living. That's why working is called "making a living".

[Denis Gomo @Barrelscrapper]

@Markosonke1 There's a 50% chance your previous Uber drivers were Zimbabwean. Now imagine waiting 1 hour for a ride, only to get it at 3 times the normal price.

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@MviringiHosia @NothiwaniD19229 @PicknPay @PPC_Cement @StandardBankZA @OldMutualSA Hazvibatsiri kuenda kuma tuck shops kuMbare to buy products produced in SA then imported into Zim. The jobs that manufactured those products are the same jobs now being denied to vana vevhu. Chikoro chinokunetsaiwo comrade. Pamberi nekudzidza.

[Denis Gomo @Barrelscrapper]

You're missing the point Comrade. There's nothing wrong with PPC opening cement manufacturing in Zimbabwe. That's investment and job creation. That's what we want. What we don't want is the dumping of finished products in Zimbabwe while the jobs are kept in South Africa. Then when Zim locals follow those same jobs they are chased away and killed. Government must change policy so that no finished goods that can be localy made will be allowed in anymore, to encourage local manufacturing and bring people jobs. Products from Unilever, Colgate Palmolive, Nivea, etc, must all be manufactured locally. Their commercial importation must be banned totally.

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@Angel5067276467 @The_Vimbai Not counting those who have since died especially during Covid.

[Denis Gomo @Barrelscrapper]

Time for economic policy gloves to come off. Zim needs to be aggressive in making sure that toothpaste etc consumed in Zim is manufactured locally with locals benefiting from jobs. All minerals where Zim is one of the top producers globally must never leave unbeneficiated: ferrochrome, PGMs and Base metals, lithium etc. Let's create jobs for our people.....not everyone can run their own thing/business. Some rely on employment.

[Denis Gomo @Barrelscrapper]

Many manufacturing entities that we grew up knowing fled Zimbabwe for SA with the advent of democracy in SA. Can measures be taken to have all manufacturers whose products are full on our shelves incl PepsiCo, Colgate Palmolive, Nivea, Unilever, etc, come back and set up manufacturing on Zim soil. Can we have the bulk of beneficiation and refining of mineral products done and finished in Zim. That way our people don't have to be regional laughing stocks due to perenial migration kunopemha mabasa kunze uku. Can policy continue improving for a continually better operating environment for investment? Can the powers that be increase 4-fold the tarrifs of these goods that come into Zim? Can those who smuggle these products into Zim be hunted down and made to pay very high tarrifs without punishing the innocent? (For example, if 2 people in a bus are caught in Chivhu by Zimra without properly declaring all, may they pay 3 times more duty and panalties than what they would have paid at Beitbridge, and be made to pay at Chivhu, instead of returning the whole bus to Beitbridge).

Can every possible policy change be made to bring back our lost jobs? The jobs that we ceded to South Africa? Our people need to get the jobs in their own country, kwete Kubota vachonzi hokoyo.

[Denis Gomo @Barrelscrapper]

It seems your posts assumes there should be a stash of cash somewhere or a fat bank account that is filled where the wife just goes onokora to solve all problems that arise at home. That is not the reality in most households. The lack of such is also not failure in itself. KuDare Remachinda they also acknowledge that just because mukadzi, hazvireve kuti she has wisdom to take care of abundant resources. So for some wives, you give as you go.

On top of that if the wife does not tell you kuti hembe mwana akarasa juzu rechikoro or hembe dzava diki, who should? One also gets told kuti gas rapera so he makes a plan with his regular supplier to deliver gas. Hard things like gas, kutsvaga nyama kuma beef committee etc are for men. They will know it's time from kuudzwa.

As for fees and med aid, I agree with you. Those are recurring expenses and a man should plan to cover those when they are due.

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@PrinceOfMutasa How is the road to Beira? How large is the border and what's the ease of passing through it? In other words, what's the ease of doing logistics from Zim via Beira?

[Denis Gomo @Barrelscrapper]

By and large, the marches were peaceful, save for a few foreigners who chose to throw stones and rocks down at peaceful protesters and journalists from the balconies of flats in Hillbrow and CBD. That is provocation. They did that in with JHB metro police watching and metro police chose to do nothing about. They should have spotted where those rocks were coming from, entered the buildings and flushed out the offending individuals and checked their immigration statuses.

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John, please don't display your ignorance on a public forum. Zambia, Zimbabwe et al have a legal obligation to let transit Travellers through. What they will do when they get to their final destination is legally none of the transit country's business. Do yourself a favor and get a passport and travel not even far, just to Eswatini to experience some things. You don't even know what a border post looks like from the way you think.

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Your description has just reminded me of one fact...back in the early 2000s, I remember SA had a unique work permit that used to be issued at the border, for farm laborers. Some farmers especially in parts of Limpopo would wait after that border and pick up casual workers for the season. I think that permit was later abolished due to abuse - people were getting that permit then proceeding to work in other sectors and disappear in the country.

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@LeratoPillayZA Who told you that he was born in Zimbabwe and that his ID is fraudulent? You are the one committing an offense by posting his personal information on Twitter.

[Denis Gomo @Barrelscrapper]

You are right...one can't define the success and experiences of diasporans in one paragraph. Just as the lot who moved have varying qualifications skills and levels of education, and different personalities and preferences, so do the levels of their success. A lot of skilled and highly qualified ones of course have done very well in South Africa, if we focus on that destination alone.

A lot of them have excelled in their careers and are business leaders, earning a lot more that they would have ever dreamt of earning in Zimbabwe. The biggest names being the July Ndlovus, Ralph Mupitas and a whole lot more. The skills and exposure they have gone on to acquire are immeasurable. Even more ordinary people have gone on to acquire properties and multiple properties in SA where the property market is much kinder. With property ownership comes access to capital as one can borrow substantially against a property.

Many have built successful businesses of varying sizes in SA, acquired franchises and have gone on to be employers even of South Africans themselves. A lot more are doing all kind of work and trades at all levels and have managed to build back home. Then there are others whom circumstances back home forced them to cross illegally just to get a job to afford buying a loaf of hread for that day and feed themselves and folks back home. These are in lowly paying jobs, waitresses, waiters, farm laborers, domestic workers and construction workers. They are forced to seek cheaper accommodation in areas where the violence again foreigners will find them. And when they return, they are likely to come bavk with nothing. These are the lot that Charamba is probably talking about.

Onother context is the condition that the country was in when they left....2007 to 2009. Who can forget those years? It was crocodiles or death by hunger back home. They moved, settled, fed themselves and families back home and today they find themselves here. To talk about people doing better back home is unfair as back then, the economic improvements we see today were not there.

I remember where I worked in Zim those years, the senior qualified and experienced personel left enmass. The company was left with freshly minted graduate trainees who had to step up and fill those roles. Their growth was accelerated and today a lot of them are in senior management....positions they wouldn't have held had those seniors not left. These are some of the people who are doing well right now in Zim. A lot also took advantage of the pro-black business environment and started thriving businesses. A lot went into small scale mining, favored by the pro black mineral resources laws in Zimbabwe.

That said, over the years, this same economy has been slowly taken over by the Chinese. Other African nationals have taken other sections of the economy. As the masses returning from South Africa start swelling in numbers, they will seek opportunities and questions will be asked about which nationality has access to whatever level of economic activity in Zimbabwe. If Zimbabweans had a loose wire like South Africans, I'm sure in some future, we were going to see protests and questions about economic ownership of various sectors, start to be asked in Zimbabwe as they are being asked in SA.