Charles Zvangu

Professional, playful & learning every day

[ZimTrade @ZimTradeAlerts]

Made in Zimbabwe 🇿🇼. Built for the world!

As part of ongoing efforts to strengthen export competitiveness & identify opportunities for market-led growth, we visited Paramount Garments to better understand production capacity & value-addition processes, & to discuss best options to boost visibility of their products in regional & international markets.

The visit gave us a better view of the work being done by Zimbabwean producers to improve standards, expand product lines, & position themselves for increased market access.

Our national export growth depends on strong local enterprises that are ready to produce, compete, & represent Zimbabwe in global markets.
#EnergisingExports

[Norman Matara @drnmatara]

You are applauding the principle, not the practical consequences. No doctor disputes that emergency care should be provided, but in Zimbabwe many private hospitals survive entirely on patient fees because government neither funds them nor guarantees reimbursement. Imposing an unfunded legal obligation effectively transfers the State's constitutional responsibility to private institutions. If hospitals are compelled to provide expensive emergency care without a sustainable financing mechanism, they will surely go broke and cut services, or even close. The result is not greater access to healthcare, but fewer functioning hospitals for everyone. Saving lives requires more than good intentions, it requires a system that protects patients while ensuring that the institutions expected to provide that care remain financially viable.

[Zimparks @Zimparks]

This is the view from inside the Sleeping Pool at Chinhoyi Caves.

Just like this famous Sleeping Pool, true strength and clarity come from within. Don't be afraid of the deep end or the challenges ahead. Keep your mind crystal clear, stay grounded and let your inner brilliance shine through the darkness.

Happy Monday! Let’s make waves.
#MotivationalMonday
#ChinhoyiCaves
#Chirorodziva
#VisitZimParks
#DeepFocus

[National Railways of Zimbabwe @NRZ263]

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[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

Lee Kuan Yew: What a country needs to develop is discipline more than democracy.
Democracy ends in undisciplined and disorderly conditions

The ultimate test of a political system is whether it helps establish conditions which improve the lives of the majority of its people.

[Fadzayi Mahere🇿🇼 @advocatemahere]

🔸Ndikazvitaura munoti ndakashata. Kahwiza ako hakashoti in most curricula muAfrica muno. We must adapt or die.

We need new leaders.🇿🇼

[Tazo @TheLifeZoomer]

Yesterday I presented a progress update on the multi-million-dollar project I’m coordinating and supervising. Instead of speaking in generalities, I presented clear metrics, current performance, and where we’ll be by specific milestone dates.

The only reaction from the two senior managers chairing the meeting was a series of smiles. I took that as a sign that my team is delivering exactly as expected.

This morning, during a separate senior management meeting, one senior manager remarked that, based on my presentation, I seemed to be the only person who truly knew what was happening on this critical work package. He described it as the “heartbeat” of the entire project. Without its timely completion, nothing else on site can be commissioned.

Later, my immediate manager shared that feedback with me in the corridor and invited me to set up a permanent workstation in his office.

Recognition like this is earned. It reinforces that preparation, ownership, and knowing your numbers matter.

The motivation is through the roof, and so is the opportunity to raise the bar even higher.

Stay tuned as I continue sharing project leadership lessons, practical insights, and real-world progress from the frontline of delivering major projects.

#ProjectManagement #Leadership #Engineering #FIFO

[𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐙𝐖 @CrimeWatchZW]

UPDATE | Hello Crime Watch. You are indeed a great help. Your post prompted a swift response from both POSB and Mama Money, which helped resolve the issue.

The POSB team contacted the Mama Money team, who requested the voucher number and traced the transaction through their system. They discovered that someone had attempted to collect the money at AFC Nelson Mandela about an hour after I had left the POSB branch. However, when the individual tried to collect the funds, AFC requested identification and found that the person's ID details did not match the information in the system. As a result, the money was not released.

Following the discussions that took place after your post, the teams from POSB and Mama Money worked together to investigate the matter. They eventually discovered that there had been a mix-up involving the last two digits of the recipient's phone number. The person who received the notification attempted to collect the money, but could not do so because the name and ID details did not match the transaction records.

The issue only came to light after your post, which prompted all parties involved to actively investigate and resolve the matter. Once the error was identified, I went through the verification process, and the issue was successfully resolved.

So l went and verified everything and the matter was resolved. Thank you so much. A special thank you to David M., the Public Relations Manager at POSB, for his professionalism, dedication, and swift intervention in resolving this matter.

@POSBZimbabwe

[Charles Zvangu @dan86035]

@Jamwanda2 Uku ndiko kuti mudhara 💯, Giraffe view, respect 🫡

[Charles Zvangu @dan86035]

@Jamwanda2 Imagine what would happen if we develop an industrial ecosystem around the Dinson steel plant full with Eng. Foundries, automotive components & assembly, Agric implements, Rail construction, tubes & other engineering alloys. We immediately address this challenge highlighted below

[Charles Zvangu @dan86035]

@Jamwanda2 We can’t put the ‘cart b4 the horse’, by first pursuing hi-tech value addition when basic foundational infrastructure lags. Recall the need for upstream, side stream & downstream facilities for provide real social impct. I accept however that X has limitations, offline is better

[Charles Zvangu @dan86035]

@Jamwanda2 Thank you for sharing this. Am glad to note we have convergence, indeed there is no question that our resources should ultimately bring jobs & socio economic transformation. To achieve this, we need to be structured and deliberate in policy planning..

[Charles Zvangu @dan86035]

@Jamwanda2 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Charles Zvangu @dan86035]

@RChikoo18078 @Jamwanda2 @_Barrister01 Am sure you would also recall back in the day, we use to receive Tati nickel concentrates from Botswana for refining at Trojan Nickel or Bindura Nickel, so am simply advocating for industrial synergy approach where gvt policy targets the full ecosystem rather than one mineral

[Charles Zvangu @dan86035]

@RChikoo18078 @Jamwanda2 @_Barrister01 Good question Rumbie, nothing is difficult, the technology is there tried & tested but for the investor, it has to make 1. Economic sense
2. Techno-scientific feasibility
The key bridge being gvt coming in with policy to attract investment in such refinery.

[Charles Zvangu @dan86035]

@Jamwanda2 @_Barrister01 @gift_mugano Were you still in the diaspora when we first have the Chrome bans 🤣🤣🤣? The point is not to say that such value addition spirit was wrong, but simply to highlight that a structured approach is key, let’s hear from the experts, simple.

[Charles Zvangu @dan86035]

@Jamwanda2 @_Barrister01 @gift_mugano What really shatters is to hear that the policy has been reversed or there is a climb down a year later, it helps no one to have a policy change when we have an opportunity to interrogate them on the basis of facts and our lived realities. Pushing back with superior arguments!

[Charles Zvangu @dan86035]

@Jamwanda2 @_Barrister01 Exactly, that’s my suggestion, mukuwasha wenyu @gift_mugano might assist again in this discussion. We take incremental steps once we have the steel and we become a battery hub for Africa, we can afford to take similar measures in other sectors

[Charles Zvangu @dan86035]

@Jamwanda2 @_Barrister01 Imagine trying to setup a multi million dollar refinery where you import every piece of equipment and structures from China/SA, it’s shooting yoself in the foot! We now have our Dinson, let’s develop our steel industry & take incremental steps to develop the full Lith sector

[Charles Zvangu @dan86035]

@Jamwanda2 @_Barrister01 😂😂😂, you are missing the point here leader, am simply suggesting a shift from these linear value addition and we have an industrial ecosystem approach where our lithium forms a regional nucleus for green industrialization in the same way South Africa does with PGMs