What a beautiful tribute to Diogo Jota 🥹❤️
Cristiano Ronaldo wears his teammate's 21 jersey on the first anniversary of his untimely passing.
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I met Nigerian businessman Mr Aliko Dangote, who is in Zimbabwe to explore investment opportunities.
Zimbabwe and the Dangote Group have signed a global agreement focusing on energy, cement, fertiliser, and infrastructure development, advancing our Vision 2030 agenda.
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Four days ago, I mentioned on this timeline that reducing the amount of money travellers are allowed to take out of Zimbabwe from US$10,000 to US$2,000 would affect informal trade, the bedrock of Zimbabwe’s economy.
The regime scoffed at what I said, but now the Bankers Association of Zimbabwe has echoed the same concerns. What must happen now?
BAZ stated that this move will lead to price increases, disruption of informal import trade, more transactions going underground, shortages of basic commodities (as Zimbabwe even imports basics like toothpicks), job losses, reduced income, and a decrease in forex circulation, further increasing the price of hard currency.
Why is Mnangagwa’s regime so resistant to common sense and professional advice?
Decisions that seem irrational from an economic perspective are driven by corruption, with Mnangagwa and his goons prioritising their own personal interests over the well being of the country.
Kana uchida kuona kuti 5 Am masikati enda kuMbare,
I actually believe Mbare is the current economic hub of Zimbabwe,yes kumaTuckshop kunofamba mari asi Mbare mahwani💪💪
Went to meet this mudhara who does potatoes,(I met him here)his truck of 1700 potatoes was emptied by two people,each sack was going for $7,20,l mean he was given $12 240 in one go by these two mambuya!
When l saw the ladies wanzi waburitsa mari wacho they are just like the ordinary mambuya who will be just chilled imomo.
Apa the Madhala said this was poor quality potatoes,l need the money to harvest the rest.
l hope to go and see this massive production and learn one or two,his annual revenue from soya beans and potatoes is around $300 000.
These are the juicy and sexy stories that keeps me awake and even pakati peusiku ndimutsei
Help me in congratulating my first son Tanatsa Daniel Mliswa (TD) who has turned 16 today. It's great seeing him grow. I have told him he needs to catch up with me, not in the number of kids, but work& achievements. I'm confident that he can do it as he is on course already.
I have seen many analytical posts detailing why former South African president, Jacob Zuma is doing what he is doing, and what his ultimate goal is if he succeeds in his political and electoral endeavours.
The missing link in these analytical pieces is REAL information from Jacob Zuma himself or his inner circle; what we are being mostly fed are just wild guesses.
Last year I mentioned that Zuma told a delegation of visiting Zimbabweans at Nkandla that he would run as an ANC breakaway candidate.
Jacob Zuma wants to be premier of KwaZulu-Natal in a coalition deal if his plan succeeds.
He knows that he can’t be president of South Africa again, and he is not stupid to think that he can now be one.
But he keeps pushing that narrative to deceive the media and ordinary citizens into not thinking about what he really wants, KZN Premiership.
KwaZulu-Natal is South Africa’s second biggest province by numbers after Gauteng, and it is the second biggest economy again after Gauteng.
Put differently, KZN’s economy is four times bigger than the Zimbabwean economy by Gross Domestic Product.
Zuma wants to be in charge of that KZN economy, he will be in charge of an economy which is FOUR times bigger than that of Zimbabwe if he succeeds, so it is a big deal.
He basically wants to create what the DA has in the Western Cape, and be the guy in charge, the big kahuna.
To do that, Zuma realized that he needed a political party, and that his political party needs to run for elections, but more importantly, that he also needs to run for elections himself to remain relevant.
That is why he challenged the Independent Electoral Commission’s decision to stop him from contesting in the May 29 elections.
Zuma’s hope is that his biggest scalp in KZN is the ANC, the party that he hoped in previous elections in KZN because it was his political home.
The Zulu King is also perceived to be in bed with the ANC, so Zuma wants to damage the ANC’s chances in KZN, and probably end up going into a governing coalition with the IFP, what his folks are calling the "local people coalition."
However he has left room for a very remote chance of a local alliance with a damaged but very desperate ANC to run KZN with Zuma as the Premier.
It all comes down to money, Zuma knows that this is his last chance at anything political.
Another five years is a very long period in life for a man who is 81 years old.
Another problem for the ANC in KZN came after the ANC's KwaZulu-Natal chairperson, Siboniso Duma's perceived disrespect towards the Zulu traditional Prime Minister, Thulasizwe Buthelezi, when he took the microphone away from the traditional Prime Minister who is the IFP leader and insulted him.
Politics is local, so says the political science statement of choice when explaining political outcomes.
This disrespect to the traditional Prime Minister was seen as an act of undermining the dignity of the Zulu monarchy, something that has put the King in a difficult situation, but to Zuma, he sees it as an opportunity and a campaigning tool.
More importantly, Zuma and his people are whispering a deadly question: how can the IFP want to go into bed with a political party whose provincial chairperson disrespected the Zulu monarch?
This is the Machiavellian Zuma at play, and he is good at it regardless of what we might think of him.
The ANC understood this very well that is why Siboniso Duma immediately apologised.
Zuma has people in the ANC and in IFP too, he plays the puppet master role to them because politics is local.
The DA obtained the second place in four provinces won by the ANC in the 2019 South African elections.
In KwaZulu-Natal, the Inkatha Freedom Party beat the DA to second place for the first time since 2014, but there was no MK then.
Voters are weird beings, with all the self-evident damage that Zuma caused to the South African economy and country's brand name when he was president, he still commands huge unconditional support which can be broken down into three parts:
1. Africans adore a lovable rogue.
Anyone who purports to be fighting against a perceived foreign enemy whilst masking their corruptness gets support.
Look at Mugabe, Putin, and Trump, they would win continental elections in Africa because generally our people don't read, and they generally don't apply critical thinking in their political perspectives.
Support is based on emotions and not facts and numbers, like how much did Jacob Zuma's presidency damage the South African economy?
2. Zuma is seen as a victim of those aligned with the capitalist order.
It is a mirage, but that is how he is seen especially after his jailing for contempt of court, something that many cautioned against when it was evident that it would create Jacob Zuma the martyr.
He tells his supporters that he is fighting for the blacks of South Africa, yet the biggest winner of his nine year presidency was an Indian family from Eastern Uttar Pradesh in India.
Hardly an act of Black Empowerment at all, but why allow facts to get in the way, Zuma is their hero regardless.
3. The final strand is the ethnic element which brings us to national politics when coalitions are being made if it gets to that.
Zuma is Zulu, and he will play on that in KZN, that is why he is caricaturing the ANC as "...the ANC of Cyril Ramaphosa".
It means "...he is not one of us, why vote for a stranger when you have Zuma your local warrior, one of your own," so goes the reasoning when speaking to his inner circle.
In the event that the ANC needs to form a national coalition government, Zuma sees himself as a possible Kingmaker too.
So he needs to dent the ANC badly in KZN so that he can come to it, or rather it comes to him for a national governing coalition deal.
Politicians appear angry with each other in public, but privately they are talking, they always do.
Zuma is talking to ANC heavy eights, and the ANC is talking to Zuma through his chosen proxies, everyone is talking to the other sides for possible post-election deals.
These are people who have known each other for decades and ate pap from the same plate together.
What matters more to them is power and the proceeds that it brings, not the purported ideological disagreements or having the people at heart.
If Zuma or his ANC comrades with him in government had poor Black people at heart, the Guptas would not have happened, but again such facts get in the way of good propaganda that positions Zuma as a great pro-Black political player.
Zuma is like Emmerson Mnangagwa; you dismiss them at your own peril.
They are super political tacticians, and they are ruthless when they need to be, yet they do it with a smirky on the face.
Both ran security arms of their ruling parties during the struggle for independence, so they know a lot about everyone in politics!
If their tactical skills were deployed to national interest pursuits, their countries would be flourishing today with nobody going to bed on an empt stomach.
But they are just ordinary politicians; ordinary politicians care about themselves first, and on rare occasions, the country comes second if it ill further their personal interests.
So while we are looking at the national issue post-May 29, Zuma’s focus is on KZN, and he will fight to be the real political King there. The first prize is being Premier.
This move will give him significant control over a major economic powerhouse within South Africa's national economic engine room.
Zuma aims to weaken the ANC's hold on KZN, possibly forming a coalition with the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) or even a damaged ANC if need be, but as long as he is in charge of such a coalition.
This plan hinges on heavily denting the ANC's strength in the province to position himself as a key player in potential national coalition negotiations.
Political elites in South Africa have survived on tenders like many African politicians, no wonder why Zuma would want to be premier of KZN, if he succeeds, it will be a new era of politics in South Africa, one that will require seat belts and helmets on.
How will the South African economy respond to all this if it comes to pass?
Check the exchange rate when it happens, the exchange rate always gives you the first economic indicator about how the world feels after elections in countries like South Africa with proper economic indicators.
South Africans will determine their political and economic fate on May 29, on that day they will determine Zuma's fate, and in so doing they will be determining their own fate too.
It will be a big day for Africa too because South Africa is the biggest and sophisticated economy in Africa, it successes or failures are tied to the whole economy.
So for the sake of the African economy, South Africa must and has to succeed, but it is South Africans who will determine that.
And much as you hate him or like him, Zuma will probably be part of that future if they trust his word.
Will it be a demotion to become Premier when he has been President, not at all, it is a political move.
The former British Prime Minister David Cameron is now the British Foreign Minister, there're may presidents too many to mention.
For Zuma, it will be about his own personal survival, economic personal survival.
Ndibetserei kuisa manja, kutenda Murewa, Hon Mudarikwa for the gift of 10 breeding goats to start a project in my village for my people. It's a very generous donation to empower people. I want to thank a man who is truly grounded and has done a lot for his own people in Murewa.
This is what 60 looks like.
Happy birthday to my better half — who happens to be one of the funniest, smartest, most beautiful people I know. @MichelleObama, you make every day better. I can't wait to see what this new decade brings you.
Sometime this year, Mnangagwa Jnr called PV Sibanda the Army commander and asked him to promote his brother Sean. Sibanda responded, " who are u to tell me that, I report to your father and not you"
#Zimbabwe : Wife HIV positive, Husband HIV negative and little Angel negative!
This message is for those infected, it’s not a death sentence!
Change your ways, take your medication 💊 religiously and live long ‼️
Blessings 💭
This generation has the highest chance of ending HIV, we will be unfair to the next generation if we don't use the opportunity, here is why:
1) If you are living with HIV, and you take the current medication say from today in 1-6 months your viral load will be suppressed meaning you won't transmit HIV to your partner even with unprotected sex and chances of transmitting HIV to your unborn/new baby will be close to none
2) If you are HIV negative and your partner is HIV positive, and you take your Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) pill daily you won't get infected with HIV (Remember Zimbabwe recently approved the 2 monthly PrEP injection, it can be here soon and it will of great benefit to those taking PrEP).
3) You can use condoms available everywhere including for free in public hospitals especially when having "casual sex". This will prevent you from getting HIV & other STIs like syphilis, gonorrhea etc also preventing unwanted pregnancy at the same time, that's the benefit of this preventative measure over others which just prevent HIV. If you are HIV positive the best gift you can give to humanity is using condom on the "unexpecting" partner, who may not be able to say no to unprotected sex, the teenager girls etc. remember >80% of new HIV infections in age group 10-19 are females.
4) And if a condom breaks or you are not sure of HIV status of partner you just had unprotected sex with, don't worry, there is an emergency option B, Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP), if you take this pill daily for 28 days starting within 72 hours post exposure (the earlier the better) then you are safe.
Today we have more tools to stop HIV than ever, do your part, see where you fit in
This above was motivated by some sad stats including that 67 % of people of all ages living with HIV and 88 % of children and adolescents living with HIV worldwide are in Africa, most burdened countries are in SADC.