Christianity taught me to fear God. Spirituality taught me to know God. There’s a difference between worshiping out of guilt and connecting out of truth 🤷🏽♀️
Canadians are getting a tax break. Starting December 14, we’re pausing GST and HST for two months to make groceries, kids clothes, and other essentials tax-free.
South Africa’s Rand Merchant Bank conducted research on 31 African countries and produced a ranking chart for the best and worst places for investment among those 31 countries.
Zimbabwe ranked 31st out of 31, making it the worst place to invest.
Yet, when we warned the Zimbabwean tyrant Emmerson Mnangagwa and his regime that they were damaging the country’s investment prospects through corruption, abuse of power and the destruction of the judiciary, they dismissed our concerns.
Rand Merchant Bank assessed economic performance and potential, market accessibility and potential, economic stability and investment climate, and social and human development.
Zimbabwe performed the worst in all these categories, even being outdone by war-torn countries like the DRC.
When we say state pillaging and corruption drive away genuine investors, this is what we mean.
You can’t spin this with cheap and crude propaganda when your neighbour tells you that you are the worst place for genuine investment.
This research conducted by South Africa's Rand Merchant Bank provides a sobering assessment of Zimbabwe's investment climate, underscoring the severe impact that corruption, poor economic performance, and weak social and human development have on Zimbabwe's ability to attract and retain investors.
Social and human development includes healthcare, human rights, employment and salaries and living standards.
Genuine investors seek a stable and transparent business environment, which requires strong institutional frameworks, a commitment to the rule of law, and respect for human rights.
Not a place where the president is the mafia don and controls public procurement through his criminal cartels!
Emmerson Mnangagwa and his criminal syndicates are the worst thing that ever happened to Zimbabwe, he has taken the country back to the 1940s.
He can’t even put pain killers into central hospitals or provide clean drinking water in any of Zimbabwe’s towns and cities!
You can get the full report here via this link 👇🏿
https://t.co/RLvDBLqCVD
The DA recognises the bold decision by new Home Affairs Minister, Dr Leon Schreiber @Leon_Schreib, to extend temporary visas for foreign nationals waiting for visa approvals. This decision will reduce the 145 000 visa backlog. Read more: https://t.co/ecdFtd6YyA
Nothing is permanent - not joy, pain, or grief. Not power, powerlessness, despair, triumph, or loss. Just as it comes to us unannounced, it also goes. Ours is to learn to live and make it through it all. Life.
The new South African Home Affairs minister Dr. Leon Schreiber says he wants work visas to be expeditiously processed.
He said that these work visas for highly skilled foreign nationals are critical for South Africa’s economic growth.
https://t.co/w2DVoahahs
Why didn't corruption impede economic growth in China? 🇨🇳
How did it, at the same time, contribute to China's socio-economic problems today?
Answers in a nutshell @INETeconomics ���
https://t.co/bXYokG2eYL
🇿🇦 The DA is proud to rise to the challenge & take our place, for the first time, at the seat of national government where we can introduce our track record of good governance, zero tolerance for corruption & pragmatic policy-making.
This gentleman would never hurt a fly. In fact, his weakness is that he is too peaceful and law abiding. A genuinely good man and a patriot. Free him. It’s a duty.
Hon @JamesonTimba is not a criminal. He is simply a citizen of good standing who opened his doors for youths to celebrate a day important to them. Free Timba, Free Avondale 78.
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This is Jameson Timba in prison uniform, a very senior opposition leader in Zimbabwe.
You must know him today if you didn’t already.
He is in jail after being arrested last week with his son and 70 other young people who had met at his home to commemorate the 1976 South African Youth Day.
Timba loves mentoring young people!!!
Jameson Timba has lost a lot from supporting the struggle against tyranny in Zimbabwe.
That is why every sane Zimbabwean should stand up for him and the 70 others who are in jail with him!
This is a man I met around 2006 when he owned a thriving IT business in Harare and Bulawayo.
He chose to support the struggle against corrupt rule and tyranny and lost all the contracts he had.
He was part of Morgan Tsvangirai’s political backbone.
I remember meeting him at O.R. Tambo Airport in September 2008 when I was flying back home with Morgan Tsvangirai.
Timba had just landed from Harare.
He was fleeing from the 2008 post-election violence, while Tsvangirai was returning home after being in hiding in Botswana for months.
We were driven to the airport by Strive Masiyiwa’s security and team of drivers.
My then boss, Tim Singleton, who now heads the Sky News foreign desk, flew me to Johannesburg to be on Morgan Tsvangirai’s flight back home.
I was the ITV News producer covering Zimbabwe and I had a very good relationship with Tsvangirai who agreed that I would get exclusive access to film for our News at Ten programme on ITV News in the UK.
As we went through VIP security at O.R. Tambo, Tsvangirai was told that one of his lieutenants had landed and wanted to see him before he flew out to Harare. It was Timba!
“Do you have money,” Tsvangirai asked Timba.
With tears overwhelming him, Timba simply said, “I will be fine, but our people have been brutalised and are in submission.”
This man is a warrior for democracy who never makes noise about what he has done for the struggle or what he has lost because of it.
It makes me cry when men like him are persecuted, lose everything, and we fail to even talk about their persecution and suffering!
Timba shouldn’t be in jail for meeting with young people at his private residence.
The captured and shameless courts in Harare must release this man and the 70 others!
They were beaten up. Some can’t even walk, and yet ZANU-PF wants to join the @commonwealthsec while doing this!
Remember Timba in your prayers. Remember the 70 young people who were arrested with him.
This shouldn’t happen in a democratic country;m, well, Zimbabwe is a dictatorship!
It's gut-wrenching to think of the injustices Timba and the 70 are facing, and the brazen abuse of power by the authorities.
It is sad that the recognised CCC faction is quiet while Timba and the 70 others are being persecuted!
We cannot let their stories be forgotten or overlooked.
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