Lloyd

Doctoral Student (Financial Accounting)
Lecturer in Accounting & Finance || IFRS Expert || ISA Expert

[K @begottensun]

Had a tough but fascinating talk with form 1 to 4 students at a 🇿🇼 high school in today. The topic was money.

My core message was simple:

Money is earned through value exchange.

You do not “get” money.
You earn it by offering goods or services valuable enough for other people to exchange money for.

Just like you don’t “get” a degree; you earn it.

I can tell a lot about a person about how they speak about money:
Let get that paper (not manufacturing it)
Getting that bread (not baking it)
Making Cheddar? (That’s valuable)

I tried to challenge how we speak about money. Instead of saying:
“Let’s go get money”.

We should ask:
“How do I become more valuable?”
“How do I create more value for others?”

Because if you can consistently provide value, you will never truly have “no money.”

Value can be:

Good food
Convenience
Security
Education
Entertainment
Skills
Technology
Solving difficult problems

A plumber earns because plumbing is valuable to people who cannot plumb.
A developer earns because software can solve problems.
A musician earns because joy and entertainment are valuable.

Then I asked the students what they wanted to become.

A large number said:

IRL streamers
YouTubers
TikTok influencers

A few said app developers.
Nobody said accountant.
Nobody said scientist.

What struck me was this:

Many of them admire wealth outcomes without understanding value creation.

One student said he wants to be like Elon Musk.

I explained:
Elon Musk became wealthy because he created massive value at scale, through payments, electric vehicles, internet infrastructure, rockets, communications platforms, and engineering companies.

Another said he wants to be like Mark Zuckerberg.

But the important question is not:
“How do I become Zuckerberg?”

The real question is:
“What value did Zuckerberg create for billions of people?”

Then someone said they wanted to be like Wicknell Chivayo.

Everyone laughed… 🤣

But... Whether you like him or not, whether you agree with the value he’s creating benefit to society or not, he’s creating value to someone or something. Could be at the detriment or others, who knows. But someone finds it valuable. You don’t get that rick without creating VALUE!

Pablo Escobar and Michael Jordan both have created value … for better or worse.

A lot of young Zimbabweans today can clearly see money… but cannot clearly see the value system behind it.

With people like Strive Masiyiwa, it’s easier:
We understand the value created through Econet and telecommunications.

The danger is when young people only see the money at the end, without understanding the years of value creation underneath it. Behind the slay queen with the orange iPhone, is a satisfied overweight married businessman.

Zimbabwe desperately needs a generation obsessed not with “looking rich” , but with becoming genuinely useful to humanity by creating value!!

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk

[Abhinav @mutant1879]

Elon was too harsh on him, but I think you are overcorrecting. A credential isn’t the achievement itself. It’s a signal of expected competence.

If someone can build the product, prove the theorem, discover the molecule, write the system, or solve the hard problem, then the work is the proof.

Once you’ve proved yourself through the actual work, the credential shouldn’t matter at all. At that point, you have the real thing.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

An Oxford academic has warned that students using AI can obtain a degree without reading any books

Katherine Rundell warns that reliance on AI is creating a ‘vast counterfeiting of knowledge’ in universities 👇
https://t.co/NrCYEikAJC

[UC Berkeley @UCBerkeley]

The largest study of undergraduate AI use—surveying 95,000 students across 20 research-intensive public universities—suggests the deeper story isn’t misconduct. It’s how quickly AI literacy is becoming a new form of educational privilege, varying sharply by subject and socioeconomic background.
https://t.co/RQ4E3V9m6U

[Times LIVE @TimesLIVE]

The University of the Free State will cease AI detection tools by July 2026. https://t.co/1fSRIBe5kl

[MOFED&IP @ZimTreasury]

Government Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) participating in the ongoing International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) Financial Statements Working Workshop in Masvingo are making steady progress in addressing key financial reporting issues.

Zimbabwe adopted accrual-based financial reporting in 2019 and is targeting full IPSAS compliance in the 2025 financial statements, which will be reviewed this year.

Through this hands-on engagement led by @ZimTreasury, participants are working around the clock to improve the presentation and quality of financial statements produced by IPSAS-implementing entities.

This collaborative effort reinforces the Government’s commitment to strengthening public financial management, enhancing transparency, and promoting accountability in the management of public resources, in line with Treasury Circular No. 1 of 2026.

[MOFED&IP @ZimTreasury]

Are you a researcher ready to help shape Zimbabwe’s economic destiny? If so,here is your chance. Submit your abstract for the Zimbabwe Economic Development Conference 2026. This year we are running under the theme, "Smart Infrastructure for an Upper Middle-Income Society."

Due date for submissions is 30 April 2026.

#SmartInfrastructure #CallForAbstract
#SmartInfrastructure #CallForAbstract

[X Daily News @xDaily]

NEWS: Globe Telecom completed its first live trial of Starlink's Direct-to-Cell satellite service in the Philippines, marking the first DTC test in Southeast Asia.

Testing was conducted across remote locations in Rizal, Batangas, and Bataan. Filipino users on standard LTE phones accessed data, voice, and messaging directly via satellite, with no specialized hardware required.

Globe and Starlink announced the partnership in February, making Globe the first in Southeast Asia and second in Asia to offer DTC service.

https://t.co/QYMNDAgtJp

[IFRS Foundation @IFRSFoundation]

The IFRS® Accounting Standards—Issued & Annotated Issued 2026 help users stay current with the changing needs of financial reporting. Whether you apply, audit, advise on or study the Standards, these volumes support your work. Discover the new editions: https://t.co/tJPDJNT2st

[Chakona_Nyasha @NYASHA_CHAKONA]

🚨In a humiliating retreat, @lupane_state Uni has been forced to scrap the modular learning system, admitting what we have known all along. You cannot manufacture doctors, engineers and lawyers in 3 weeks. @mhtestd you owe the half-baked graduates from the modular era an apology

[Penuel The Black Pen @penuelist_]

Deadlines we were all sold indirectly, that are the cause of high anxiety, depression & desperate, stupid decisions later:

Matric at age 18
Varsity degree at age 21
Honours degree at age 22
First formal job at age 23
First car at age 23
First property at age 25
Marriage at age 25
First child at age 26
Second child at age 28
Bigger property at age 30
Better car at age 30
Millionaire at age 35
Senior manager/executive at age 35
CEO at age 38
Start own business at age 40
Multimillionaire at age 45
Retire rich at age 50

99% of people will never reach most of these milestones, especially in these set ages.

Over 80% of people won't reach half of these

Some didn't even get to matric, don't have jobs & don't have kids... and they are celebrating their 35th birthday this year.

We urgently need to have these discussions with kids in primary school & high school, so that they understand that most people won't live their dream lives, there are many options out there, & everyone must move at their own pace.

[Retired Elder Rex M.E Midzi @RexMidzi]

Who will compensate the Black Majority for the effects of the Land Apportionment Act of 1930 ?

50 000 Whites Allocated 49 % of the fertile land , 1000 000 Africans forced on 30 % of infertile Land known as Native Reserves

Now that is a real LAND GRAB unjustified

If we want to talk compensation we must start here

We the descendants of those removed from ancestral Land want compensation for pain & suffering

Anything else that comes after is kerfuffle and we pay not any measure of attention

Viva the land reform programme with ZERO APOLOGY to grant

It was right and it was just

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

LOST AND FOUND👇🏿

“I helped a Clemence Shonhiwa with a lift from High Glen Shopping Complex to Whitehouse @ Puma Service Station along Bulawayo Road. He left his wallet with money in it.
I have circulated it in many whatsapp groups and facebook groups but no one contacted me. Maybe you can help as you have many followers.
He can contact me on [phone].”

[Dr MuVenda @Ndi_Muvenda_]

This young man named Brandon, couldn't let Lerato Thobedi and her 2 friends change a flat tyre by themselves on a busy road. He stopped and got his hands and white Tshirt dirty in order to change the tyre for them. His white girlfriend did not stop him from helping these ladies either.

[ZiFM Stereo News @ZiFMStereoNews]

Mystery behind the Guruve killer

GURUVE - There is something mysterious about the suspected Guruve killer, Anymore Zvitsva (32).

Members of the community say the face circulated by the police depicting the suspect isn't correct. Those who grew up with him have confirmed that this is not Anymore Zvitsva.

One community member said the real Zvitsva has a scar on his left cheek and is a bit lighter in complexion.

This raises the question of why the police released the wrong picture and whether they are searching for the wrong person. Who provided that picture they are circulating?

Another issue raised is that Zvitsva has a broken hand, and the reasons behind the injury are not known. How, then, is he managing to commit such heinous crimes with a broken hand?

Zvitsva is reportedly targeting widows' households and has a list of over 100 known widows in the community, along with 50 others. Why is he specifically targeting widows?

Despite heavy police deployments in the area, including sniffer dogs and drones, Zvitsva continues his killings. The military has also been deployed. Why are they failing to arrest him?

What is the real issue behind Zvitsva? The nation waits not only for answers but for the day the community is freed from fear.

Only time will tell.

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[I am Chege @_James041]

The Dead Cat Strategy.

[Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD @LORWEN108]

Most of your life was given to you, not earned.
That’s the part we never want to look at.

The most honest kind of gratitude isn’t “I deserve this.” It’s “I was given a life millions will never get.”

If your life is mostly a gift, not a reward—how are you using this precious gift?

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[willard shoko @WillarShoko]

Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education

All links to Resources return a 404 Not Found Error

SSL is also broken

The Contact US page is also broken.

@mhtestd I would like to submit my proposal to improve Tech in your ministry, but most online avenues are down, including the contact us page. Have done work in some of the institutions and they really need massive upgrades. One of the sites had a 100Mbps backbone capacity to all the divisions.