Lloyd Mataruse

[Dandaro Online @DandaroOnline]

#dandarostreets Entrepreneur Thelma Chimbganda has publicly called out Econet Zimbabwe after her US$17 monthly data bundle vanished in just four days—despite her SIM card being physically removed from her phone for most of that time.

​After crossing into Mozambique, Chimbganda swapped her SIM card out, only to return to Zimbabwe to a notification that almost 10GB of data was gone. To make matters worse, Econet Customer Care provided a trail of contradictory excuses—blaming international roaming, general social media use, and eventually a mysterious 4.2GB download at a time Chimbganda has photo evidence of being in a client meeting.

​With shifting explanations and unresolved queries, subscribers are demanding clear answers about network billing accuracy and transparent data tracking.

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[K @begottensun]

This guy must be visiting my house all the time.

[𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐙𝐖 @CrimeWatchZW]

WATCH | A young woman who runs a charity organisation, The Blessing Basket, recently shared a heartwarming video of her helping an elderly woman with a small monetary donation.

The young woman explained that the woman, a single mother of five from Epworth, walks long distances to nearby suburbs collecting empty plastic bottles for recycling so that she can provide for her family and pay her children’s school fees. While collecting bottles, the mother passed by her house and asked for some drinking water, which she gladly gave her, and the woman continued on her way.

However, the young woman said her heart would not allow her to simply let the woman go without offering further assistance. She followed her and gave her US$10, encouraging her to go home and rest for the day. She also promised to visit her home soon to see where she lives.

The young woman is appealing to members of the public to contribute towards groceries, school fees, or any other form of support. Those wishing to assist can contact her on:
📞 0783923017 (Call)
📞 0775897287 (EcoCash – Christine)

Every contribution, no matter how small, can help make a difference.

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

“We can have another session, to sit and discuss this counter-revolution, how it has manifested itself, what it does. This mobilisation now against so-called undocumented Africans, Comrade Vavi was correct. There's money behind it. There's purpose behind it. It's organised. It's not spontaneous. It doesn't come from the mass of the people. It comes from someone who wants to mobilise, very consistent. You can see the result, with this objective.

As Nkosazana (Dhlamini-Zuma) was saying when she was sitting there, just look at these Africans when we were playing Mexico, who supported Mexico against South Africa. You can see a lot of the noise around the continent. A lot of it based on wrong information.

But gradually, you are seeing this marginalisation of South Africa from the rest of the continent, which the counter-revolution wants. And there are people who are mobilising today to achieve that objective. What will the ANC do about all of that? I don't know.”

Thabo Mbeki,
Former South African President.

[Tawanda Nyambirai @tawandan1]

There are some people who will never accept you. It doesn’t matter how good you are or how brilliant your ideas are. They may even take your brilliant ideas and use them, but still reject you. There are other people ever so genuine, so open minded and willing to give you a chance to prove yourself. The tragedy of life is that you may never know who belongs to the former or the later category until you go all out to prove yourself to them. I am not talking about the choice of the name, TN CyberTech Bank. At least not yet. I am talking about how the NMB Bank of our time lost the bid to be the advisor on the demutualisation of Old Mutual!

De- mutualisation in Zimbabwe was and is still illegal. After failing to get the law changed when Hebert Murerwa was Minister of Finance, Old Mutual called for Corporate Finance institutions to propose how they could assist Old Mutual to de mutualise in Zimbabwe. The presentations were going to be received by a distinguished team from Old Mutual Zimbabwe and Old Mutual PLC. At NMB, we mounted the most powerful team one could imagine. Dr Julius Makoni, Mr JA Mushore, Mr PF Timba, Mr D Kundishora and Tawanda Nyambirai. That was our team. The first and the last time we did that. We were going to make our presentation. If Dr J T Makoni was convinced that we had got the mandate, he would give me a signal to produce and handover our presentation document.

My solution was simple. But one that only I could come up with at the time. Although the Insurance Act expressly prohibited demutualisation in one section, there was another section that allowed the transfer of insurance business from one insurer to another. My solution was that Old Mutual was to register a new Insurance Company and get it licensed as an Insurance Company. Then apply to the Minister for the transfer of the insurance business from the Mutual Society to the Registered Insurance Company. The transfer of insurance business from the Society to the Registered Insurance Company would effectively achieve the objective of demutualisation without violating the law that prohibited demutualisation. The combined Old Mutual team clapped hands for me. And my team was very proud of me. Dr JT Makoni gave the signal, and I released the document. The Old Mutual team confessed that we were the only team that had given the solution. So we left thinking that we had the mandate in the bag.

A few days later, we learnt that the mandate was given to Barclays Bank. A Bank named after its founder’s son in law, James Barclay. Barclays was to copy and implement our solution without acknowledgment! I was upset. I contacted Beatrice Mtetwa then at K& I. Thorough as she is, Beatrice searched and found out that the Old Mutual advisors had omitted to register the Insurance Company as an insurer. They had transferred insurance business to a Company that was not even registered as an insurer. This always happens when you copy other people’s ideas. If you check, the gazetting of the Insurance company was only done after Beatrice sent our letter of demand in which she pointed out the omission.

Old Mutual sent Lyshon Chipango to negotiate. He negotiated with my bosses, James and Julius. The matter was settled above my head and I was persuaded not to pursue the litigation. I later understood that it was impossible for an indegenous bank to be trusted to handle the demutualisation.

So, the demutualisation of Old Mutual and of the other Insurance Societies that followed was based on my model. I never got paid for it. I never got credit for it. But I understood that I could not be accepted to handle the process even if I was the originator of the innovation on which demutualisation in Zimbabwe was effected.

I never stop trying to convince people. I always hope that they will support my dreams. I get disappointed most of the times. But I also win at times.

[eight2fivehub @eight2fivehub]

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[Fadzayi Mahere🇿🇼 @advocatemahere]

🔸There is comms and there is comms. This is how Senegal announced their World Cup soccer team. Before they’ve kicked a ball, they’ve told you who they are, teeming with national and cultural pride. This is how it’s done.

We need new leaders.🇿🇼

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇨🇳 BYD's CEO was spotted riding the subway to the Beijing Auto Show.

Wang Chuanfu took Line 15 like everyone else. Runs a $150 billion company, still takes public transport.

Best marketing BYD never paid for.

[Nyaradzo Moyo @nyarydhliwayo]

Please retweet, the solution might be on your timeline. 6yrs ago, I started @YanayaLifestyle with a simple idea,
which grew through wins, mistakes, and people who believed in us. Our smoothies became our best-selling product, so I took a risk and built a factory to bottle them.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

We live in a sick world.

[K @begottensun]

If you ever get to earning $10k per month or $120k per year of stable income , you quality of life and decisions totally are no different to someone earning 50k per month, for the average person.

Now I’m not including oligarchy who buy planes and million dollar Maybachs. I’m talking about the average persons wealth. When you live in the house you always wanted. You drive the car you want. The new iPhone is an after thought. Holidays can be anywhere in the world. Spend the night in any hotel. After $10k per month, you stop auditing your every subscription. Your kids go to the Schools you want. You don’t look at the prices on a menu. You reach terminal velocity of life.

Now. You can get serious shocks to the system. (I had one with Covid 2021) . When you see how easily your nice life can come crumbling down coz of how fragile life is.

The truth is … the difference in quality of life between a person with $1million dollars and a person with $10million is a rounding error. Especially in Africa. Worse in Zimbabwe. I dare say a $500k net worth individual and a $10million worth individual can not be separated on class in Zimbabwe. There is NO different Restaurant that can separate them. A $120k a year man/woman can send their kids to Any SCHOOL& University in Africa. Probably the world.

Worse with tech now democratising “wealth”. You now can use the same phone and Apple Watch as the richest person in the country. You have access to th same Ai models?

That’s why we will need to shift from a “things” mindset to a “value” mindset. Coz things mean less and less daily.

Talks for coming to my Ted Talk.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Microsurgery robot stitches up a corn kernel showing millimeter-level precision

[Documenting Saylor @saylordocs]

20 years ago the YouTube founders were depressed that they only had 40 uploads

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

My brother @nickmangwana, you cannot treat your people like this. It is dehumanising. These are the very actions that turn citizens not just against your government, but against its leadership.

You and I travel by air and get irritated by delays of a few minutes, how then do you justify holding citizens for days without explanation, with more than 28 buses detained and no clear communication? It is wrong, and it is unjust.

You cannot treat people like this and expect them to have respect for, or confidence in, your government.

The government has failed to create a conducive environment for job creation, it cannot provide healthcare, and it cannot deliver decent education. These people are simply trying to eke out an honest living under extremely difficult conditions.

Please have mercy on your citizens, they have suffered for far too long. Do not be so cruel to your own people. It is undignified, unjust, and deeply inhumane.

[American AF 🇺🇸 @iAnonPatriot]

Black man shows how he “keeps the rent low” in his area..

😭😭

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

1996. Steve Jobs is asked on television what went wrong at Apple. He hasn't worked there in over a decade. Within a year, Apple will buy his company NeXT and bring him back. Within 18 months, he'll be running the place.

He doesn't know that yet. Nobody does. At this point, he's running NeXT, a small software company, and Pixar, which just released Toy Story. Apple is falling apart. The stock is collapsing. The company has lost over a billion dollars. Its market share has dropped from 18% to around 4%. WIRED will put Apple's logo on its cover, wrapped in barbed wire, with the word "Pray."

The interviewer asks Jobs what happened. His answer is one paragraph, and it's basically the entire turnaround strategy he'll execute a year later.

He says when he left Apple ten years earlier, they were ten years ahead of everybody else. It took Microsoft a full decade to copy what Apple had built. But Apple stopped. "Even though it invested cumulatively billions in R&D, the output has not been there, and people have caught up with it." He says Apple's advantage over Microsoft has eroded. And then this: "The way out is not to slash and burn. It's to innovate. That's how Apple got to its glory, and I think that's how Apple could return to it."

When Apple bought NeXT in December 1996 and brought Jobs back as an advisor, things got worse before they got better. By September 1997, Apple was about 90 days from running out of money. The board made Jobs the interim CEO. He cut 70% of the product line, but not to save money. He cut it so the remaining 30% could be great. He launched Think Different. He built the iMac. Then the iPod. Then iTunes. Then the iPhone. Then the iPad. Every single one of those products was the "innovate, don't slash and burn" philosophy from this interview, applied over and over for 14 years.

He also says something in this interview that stands out. He says the most exciting thing in software is the internet, and the reason is "no one owns it. It's a free-for-all. It's much like the early days of the personal computer." He says if any one company gets a dominant position, "the rate of innovation is going to drop precipitously." He's talking about Microsoft. But he could be talking about 2026.

Apple is worth about $3.7 trillion today. When this interview was filmed, Apple was worth about $3 billion and falling fast. Jobs walked back into Apple nine months later with no title, no authority, and the same diagnosis he gave on camera in this clip.

Video: Steve Jobs Television Interview, 1996. Original broadcast footage.

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

Homeowner waits until construction job is nearly done—then calls ICE on 6 of her own workers.

Woman even provides the ladder used by agent to detain men—who she owes $10,000 for 3 day job.

"She called the damn law on us and now we're totally screwed!" men yell in Spanish. "They surrounded us!—They surrounded us!"

Agents even left behind the workers' van with doors wide open—filled with thousands of dollars worth of tools.

The arrest was broadcast live for about 30 minutes by a co-worker—identified as Bryan Polanco.

"Seeing it is not the same as experiencing it," he explains.

"I’ve seen many videos, and sadly today I had to experience it."

At the end of the video he gets the woman who called ICE on camera: "It is the same woman. Tidying up the house, and still with hatred in her heart."

The incident occurred in Cambridge, Maryland.

[Sasquatch Unfiltered @sasquatchvlogtv]

This gets me every time 🤣🤣🤣

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

He shows how little choices affect your life.

[𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐙𝐖 @CrimeWatchZW]

If you run a restaurant in Zimbabwe, here’s what you need:
1. ZTA Annual License
2. ZIMDEF Contributions
3. ZIMRA – VAT/PAYE
4. NSSA Registration
5. Council Shop License
6. Council Health License
7. Fire Brigade License
8. Music License
9. Food Handlers Certification
10. Gas Storage License
11. Liquor License (if applicable)
12. Generator License

With all these requirements, many restaurant owners feel their only option is not to formalise their business.