Here are a whole bunch of very cool hacks. Im personally going to have to bookmark this one because I wont remember what to do by the time one of these situations arrives. Guess I will remember the wrench bucket handle atleast. ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
WATCH | Mayor Mafume fumes over growing number of tuckshops in Harare.
Mafume has expressed concern over the increasing number of tuckshops being built across the city, following a viral video showing a row of tuckshop structures under construction next to Kwayedza High School in Highfield's Ward 26.
@matinyarare So there was no any other means for Zim to get these machines for as long as the sanctions remained.
I applaud the removal of sanctions but balance me here
Children under ๐ are not allowed at tobacco selling points. Letโs work together to safeguard our childrenโs rights.
๐จReport children at tobacco selling points to TIMB arbitrators, sales supervisors or classifiers at those selling points.
โThe GMB has settled all its previous outstanding USD obligations and is only left with 17.27% of the ZiG Payments as at 20 May 2026.โ
#PostCabinetBriefing
In the topical immigration debates taking place in South Africa, many ignorant people have been manipulated by politicians and individuals with political ambitions who are exploiting that ignorance for their own agendas.
But not everyone is ignorant to the real issues at the heart of the crisis. Some voices within South African society, including from the white community, are now speaking openly and calling things for what they are.
The reality is that immigration in South Africa is not simply about foreigners. It is also about failed governance across the region, corruption, unemployment, economic collapse, weak border management, and political leaders who refuse to confront the root causes driving migration.
Increasingly, some South Africans are beginning to recognise that blaming migrants alone will not solve the deeper structural problems affecting the country.
But who cares about facts and accurate narratives when all that is needed are emotions to drive people into doing things they have been wrongly told will mitigate their suffering and the abject poverty in which they live?
The tragedy of populist politics is that it feeds on desperation, not truth. People who are struggling economically become easy targets for manipulation, especially when they are constantly told that vulnerable groups, rather than failed leadership and corruption, are responsible for their hardships.
Who cares about all the corruption coming out of the Madlanga Commission? Who cares that hospitals are being looted while billions that should have been used for healthcare, schools, roads, housing, and service delivery are instead being squandered on Ferraris and lavish lifestyles for politically connected elites? Nobody cares about those facts.
The public is deliberately distracted from the real criminals destroying society. Instead of confronting corruption, state capture, and political failure exposed before the Madlanga Commission, people are encouraged to direct their anger at the easiest and most vulnerable targets, foreign nationals who are themselves trying to survive poverty and economic hardship.
That is how populist politics works. It protects the powerful while turning the poor against one another manipulating their ignorance.
Open Letter to @NelsonChamisa
โIf you do something once, it is a decision. If you do it twice, it becomes a habit. But when you do it more than three times, it becomes character.โ
Dear Nelson,
I have known you for 31 years and have always โ and still do โ consider you a close friend and brother. Back then, there was no MDC opposition party to speak of, no @NehandaRadio, and none of the political prominence that surrounds us today. We were simply ordinary students at Harare Polytechnic trying to find our way in life.
Over the years, you have done exceptionally well in rising through the ranks of leadership โ from Youth Leader, to Spokesperson, Organising Secretary, ICT Minister during the GNU, Vice President, and eventually President of Zimbabweโs main opposition movement.
Throughout this journey, we developed a clear understanding of professional boundaries and mutual respect. I own and run a media platform that gives space to voices that may either criticise or praise you in equal measure. I have always appreciated the fact that you understood and respected this principle, and never sought to censor our work.
In return, I have respected our friendship and never abused our proximity for personal or journalistic advantage.
It is therefore deeply disheartening that, 48 hours after a defamatory article was published by Simba Chikanza on ZimEye falsely claiming that I recorded your conversation regarding Advocate Thabani Mpofu (@adv_fulcrum), you have chosen to remain silent and avoid setting the record straight.
You are the only person who knows who was on the other side of that phone call. While you have every right to protect the identity of that individual, it is unfair to remain silent while false accusations are being levelled against a long-time friend and colleague.
Unfortunately, your silence โ as has happened in other matters which I will not get into here โ creates a vacuum that people inevitably fill with assumptions and speculation. One cannot entirely blame those who may conclude that your silence suggests some level of complicity in the breeding of these claims.
I have engaged you privately and encouraged you to do the right thing because, apart from the interviewer, you are the only other person capable of authenticating the recording and confirming that the person you were speaking to was clearly not me. Yet despite this, you have chosen not to correct the record.
That is troubling โ not just politically, but personally.
Over the years, Simba Chikanza has made defamatory allegations against several people associated with your political space, including @advocatemahere, @PedzisaiRuhanya, Hopewell Chin'ono (@daddyhope), @JamesonTimba and many others.
Allowing such falsehoods to continue unchecked has inevitably led many to question whether these attacks are random, or whether there is active encouragement behind the scenes regarding who should be targeted next.
There are currently two separate audio controversies being discussed publicly. The first was the Daily News recording in which you were heard criticising your colleague Jameson Timba.
The second recording (attached here for purposes of clarity) โ the one now falsely linked to me โ was not released by the Daily News. It was allegedly leaked by the very person whose identity you appear resolutely determined to protect.
That naturally raises difficult questions about why you are prepared to protect that individual at the expense of long-standing friends and comrades.
This situation mirrors closely that of another dear friend of mine, Luke Tamborinyoka @luke_tambo). He gave you years of dedication and service, often at great personal sacrifice, yet in 2023 you quietly imposed another candidate in Goromonzi West after Luke had emerged victorious in the much-criticised โBereka Mwanaโ voting exercise.
Luke narrated his painful experience in an open letter to Domboshava residents, circulated in polling-station-based WhatsApp groups in Domboshava, which we later published on the Nehanda Radio website in July 2023.
One could conclude you have a perchant for sabotaging your own friends and comrades, even when they would not in any way have sought any benevolence from you.
While your friends and comrades are left exposed, you appear comfortable briefing and confiding in a publisher whom many Zimbabweans consider deeply reckless and unstable. The day you eventually fall out with him, you may come to appreciate the importance of choosing and screening confidants carefully.
Should he one day find himself before a court of law (given the many people he has defamed) he may be required to substantiate his allegations and there is every chance he will seek to protect himself by pointing in your direction.
You have been warned repeatedly by many people about his conduct and disposition, yet it increasingly appears that you may have found utility in that recklessness because it can easily be weaponised politically against both friends and perceived opponents alike.
I could easily have used this letter in anger to retaliate or reveal matters shared in confidence, but I have deliberately chosen not to do so because I still believe in conducting myself professionally and responsibly for the greater good.
In 31 years, our phone calls must number in the thousands, and not a single one has ever been recorded by me โ something you know better than anyone else.
If you ultimately choose not to correct the record, so be it. I am more than capable of defending myself publicly and politically.
I am not particularly concerned about what Simba Chikanza writes because, quite frankly, very few serious Zimbabweans consider him credible. My greater concern is your apparent unwillingness to tell the truth on a matter that should be straightforward.
What irks me the most is that I never expected this from a friend, a comrade, and a Pastor.
God is definitely not in this.
Lance Guma
Managing Editor
Nehanda Radio