Clive

I call it as I see it.

[Clive @cliivezw]

@PacheduZW So heartbroken

[The Mushroom Company 🇿🇼 @The_Mushroom_Co]

A business owner who runs a company with a turnover of $1 million a year, making $100k profit before tax, and paying 20 staff to do so. Using average numbers, the guy pays all his taxes, and declares the whole profit a dividend.

After paying his IMTT, dividend taxes, corporate taxes, he walks out the door with just over $60k after all these horrible taxes that disincentivize honest work. His capital has been at risk in a dangerous environment.

The government, during the same year, has earned over $250k from this poor sucker's business. Through import duties, PAYE, NSSA, Zimdef, Standards levy, VAT, IMTT and all the rest. Add in the dozen licenses the guy needs to open his front door, and it is very clear who the major beneficiary is, when our guy gets up to go to work.

A ratio of about 4 bucks to government for every dollar you can keep. And the things you buy with your leftover dollar have a tax component in them, so your dollar doesn't get a dollar's worth. So it's probably closer to 80 cents, or a 5:1 ratio.

You would think governments would treat us a little better.

[Tafi Mhaka @tafimhaka]

In early 1982, Dambudzo Marechera returned to Zimbabwe for the first time in almost eight years to take part in a Channel 4 film adaptation of The House of Hunger, the book that had made him the first African winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize.

The House of Hunger was deeply rooted in Marechera's own life: the poverty of Vengere in Rusape, the death of his father, St Augustine's Mission School in Penhalonga, the University of Rhodesia, police harassment and exile. Yet he refused to present those experiences as straightforward autobiography. He fused memory with dreams and invention, disrupted chronology and scattered versions of himself among different narrators and characters.

Marechera saw the finished film in public for the first time at the 1983 Zimbabwe International Book Fair. Disoriented by the experience and affected by heavy drinking during the fair, he broke down.

Marechera remained in Harare, often sleeping in doorways and typing Mindblast on a park bench in Cecil Square. He turned the aftermath of his return into a fierce attack on corruption, hypocrisy, materialism and political conformity in independent Zimbabwe.

The 29-year-old's return should have been a celebration.

Instead, he discovered that Black Sunlight, his second novel, had already been banned.

The House of Hunger had carried Marechera home.

Mindblast recorded what he found there.

[Doug Coltart ⚖️🇿🇼 @DougColtart]

The President signing #CAB3 is NOT the end of the road! Here's why the President can't just take away our rights. The Constitution says it MUST go to a referendum. Please share this video and together let's demand that they #LetThePeopleDecide!

[Tatman @Tatman18]

@Lexmurungu But why are they wasting taxpayers money to just go and watch a pile of garbage? How much did they use on this tour?

[Makgalemela @dubereuben]

@HistorySAZAR Joshua Nkomo the greatest of all revolutionaries in Rhodesia and Zimbabwe whose history was erased deliberately.

[geraldine jackson @JacksonGerry]

How do you get an endless supply of money?

[K @begottensun]

Company De-Registered for not filing annual returns. $5.2 Billion folks. mega Deal folks. They want 2 extra years folks. Till 2030 … if you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention. Nkosikona Holdings. 🫵🤣

[Freeman @freemanchari]

Operation Chiverevere. The message is simple - leave the constitution alone.
- One man One Vote.
- Leaders must come and go.
- 5 yrs is enough.
- Old people must rest.
- No to 2030!

[Carlton Zundu🇿🇼 @Old_Hararian]

This MP has shown why it’s risky to have unelected leaders. While some are calling it unfortunate, the reality is she isn’t speaking out of ignorance—she’s speaking that way because she isn’t directly accountable to the public, only to the system that placed her there. Imagine a president chosen by MPs; when citizens demand answers, that president could respond in exactly the same dismissive way.

[Grok @grok]

The "real thing" he means is raw citizen power—mass protests, unified public resistance, or whatever it takes on the streets to block the term extension. Not courts or legal arguments, since he sees the grab as obvious and unstoppable by lawyers alone. Basically, people over process.

[Clive @cliivezw]

@adv_fulcrum @Laque_davis @Grok what is the "real thing" being referred here?😆

[Davis Laque @Laque_davis]

1. This letter, read together with that leaked voice call recording, has proven four things beyond reasonable ground.

Firstly, it proves that Jonathan Prof JN Moyo, who handled Tshabangu on behalf of the Harare regime, has been doing the same with Fuzwayo to keep ED in office.

[Clive @cliivezw]

@drjaytee87 Happy birthday bro, more life to you.

[Clive @cliivezw]

@fortunechasi Beautiful moment, congrats Chibabest!

[Hon. Darlington Chigumbu🇿🇼 @chigumbu_]

It has been a very busy holiday.
We did 5k cabbages pa village, and the target is 15k.

The cost so far is less than the cost of buying an iPhone 17 ( young people take note).

@villageadv
@SaMutasao @valezinhumwe

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Sometimes things do work after all

[Freeman @freemanchari]

662 children are enrolled at Chingwizi Primary School. 303 boys and 359 girls. The Grade 7 pass rate is 7%. Only 10 out of 80 students proceed to secondary school. We can change this narrative. I believe safe learning environment an take the pass rate to > 50% in 3 years. Let's do this https://t.co/VWQNqoSEhe

[African Hub @AfricanHub_]

Africa's New record at 380m the proposed Zanzibar domino in Tanzania is to be the tallest in Africa.

A joint venture of Tanzania's AICL Group and Edinburgh Crowland Managemnt Ltd signed a contract on 24 August, 2021 with New York City and Dubai-based architect xCassia that will see the latter come up with architectural designs for the Zanzibar Domino

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