FROM INBOX | Exposing double Standards by Doves Funeral Services
Dear all, I am very sad to write this. Sekuru vangu vakashaya on Saturday manheru mushure mekurwara zvakaipisa neSugar. Sekuru was employed by NRZ at a tender age of around 18 years. He worked there for over 40 or 50 years. Sekuru joined Doves Funeral Services at a very young age. He contributed to his Doves Funeral policy for over 25 or 30 years, and he only stopped making contributions when he was advised that his policy had matured. Time flies now sekuru varwara and is now old. He sadly passed way last Saturday at around 12 midnight.
Early Sunday tikati sekuru vanga vaine policy kuDoves regai tifone vazotora body for dressing. Takuudzwa kunzi huyai neLast receipt ramakabhadhara. Imagine vanhu varikuda receipt yakaitwa maybe 30 years ago, the person who does those payments is gone. Everyone was shocked by this. Fortunately, sekuru was wise; he joined the community burial society, and the local burial society managed to fill the gap that was supposed to be filled by Doves. This is was our nightmare experience with Doves Funeral services.
Please spread maybe we can get more attention from the management.
@doves_holdings
5 reasons you shouldn’t quit
1. You’re closer than you think. Galatians 6:9
2. Storms don't last forever.
Psalms 30:5
3. God didn’t abandon the plan.
Jeremiah 29:11
4. Strength grows in hard times.
Isaiah 41:10
5. One day, this will make sense. —and you will help someone else. Romans 8:28
Hold on, God is still writing.
Dear @gift_mugano
This is the kind of shallow cheerleading that keeps our beloved Zimbabwe trapped in tragic mediocrity. Your tweet truly reads like a propaganda press release written inside the Reserve Bank, not an independent assessment by a professor of Economics who claims to analyse policy. One who was supposedly advising the political alternative.
The so called “achievements” that you are celebrating expose either an astounding lack of understanding or a deliberate willingness to sanitise failure. You are a professor so it is the later in my view. A US$1 billion reserve is not “phenomenal” at all for a country with Zimbabwe’s mineral wealth. It is embarrassing for a professor to be doing what you are doing.
Kenya’s economy was smaller than Zimbabwe’s in the 1990s; today Kenya’s economy is nearly three/four times larger than Zimbabwe’s. Kenya’s foreign exchange reserves are currently around US$12 billion, a sharp contrast to Zimbabwe’s chronic shortages and a clear illustration of how sustained political stability, competent governance, and respect for institutions shape long-term economic outcomes.
A US$1 billion reserve is the output of a regime that refuses to transparently account for gold, platinum, lithium, chrome and diamond revenues. Countries with smaller economies hold far larger reserves because they do not loot their own minerals.
Calling this “unprecedented” without questioning how much should actually be there is naive my brother. Zambia holds about US$5.2 billion in reserves, while Rwanda holds about US$2.4 billion.
ZiG inflation figures mean nothing when the same government is busy manipulating the currency, forcibly converting USD balances and running a dual system that most citizens do not trust, and avoid.
Annual inflation collapsing from 95% to 18.88% is cosmetic when the currency has no market credibility, no convertibility, and no public confidence. Real inflation is experienced in shops, not in doctored RBZ spreadsheets.
No one, whether the citizens or businesses, is exclusively using the ZiG. Companies simply try to send the compulsory thirty percent back to the Government of Zimbabwe to meet statutory obligations such as tax, but even this is now becoming nearly impossible because ZIMRA increasingly expects any business earning in USD from exports to settle its obligations in United States dollars.
This contradiction exposes the absurdity of a currency that even the State does not genuinely believe in, yet forces citizens to pretend to use.
Export retention being paid on time is not an achievement. It is a bare minimum obligation of any functioning central bank. Praising the RBZ for simply doing what it is supposed to do is the definition of low standards.
Zimbabwe requires exporters to retain 70% of their foreign currency earnings, forcing the rest to be converted into the local currency (ZiG). This policy hurts mining and export oriented sectors because they need foreign currency for imports and operations, while the local currency is volatile.
“Managing money supply” means absolutely nothing when the very institution being applauded is the same one that printed the chaos into existence. The ZiG did not stabilise because of discipline, it stabilised because of coercion.
This kind of messaging Prof is the reason why public officials in a corrupt run system never improve. Instead of demanding accountability for disappearing gold revenues, the opaque Mutapa Fund, and decades of central bank misconduct, you are polishing shoes and pretending that crumbs are a banquet. This is embarrassing Prof, but each to his own.
Please do not forget to share pictures when you meet Mthuli and President Mnangagwa. Tell them that economies are not run or stabilised through propaganda from state media or from professors pretending to be analysts. Remind them that even if you shout “confidence” a thousand times, the economy will still behave like a stubborn donkey if the fundamentals are rotten.