Maxwel Dondo

views are my own.

[Gerrard Anko Ged Belts @MacBelts]

Zimdaily remain undefeated

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

Zimbabweans are oppressed in Zimbabwe because of the solidarity it gets from your leaders!

It is not my fault if you don’t have the intellectual capacity to understand the symbiotic relationship between your government and ours. White South Africans laugh at you when they see you chasing poor black people through the streets while the real problem is staring you in the face.

Now you can start the insult machine, but it won’t change your reality until the day you understand that, just as you needed global solidarity to defeat apartheid, we also need your solidarity to end our oppression.

Our oppression will not end while you bury your heads in the sand and refuse to confront the forces that sustain it which you are voting for every election and help creating illegal immigration in your country.

You see the families of your leaders, who benefit from the oppression in Zimbabwe, donating money to ZANU-PF, yet you think nothing of it.

Instead, you choose to chase an old woman selling tomatoes in Soweto. If you believe that is the solution, it says more about your ability to identify the real source of your problems than it does about hers.

[𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐙𝐖 @CrimeWatchZW]

WATCH | Tariro urgently needs US$20,000 to undergo a life-saving kidney transplant. Her mother has selflessly offered to donate one of her kidneys, but the family needs financial assistance to cover the cost of the transplant procedure.

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[Bambi @khafid100]

Fergie needed someone to nullify Pirlo and JS Park said hold my beer 😅

[Retired Elder Rex M.E Midzi @RexMidzi]

But vana Rex takangwara hedu munotitukirei ko ?

😂

[𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐙𝐖 @CrimeWatchZW]

PLEASE SHARE🙏🏾 | Please help us find Blesed Shumirai (23). She was last seen in Manyame Park, Chitungwiza on 22 July 2026.

She had recently returned to Zimbabwe from South Africa, where she had been living with her mother and father. After returning, she was staying with her aunt in Manyame Park. She left home without taking any clothes or personal belongings and has not been seen since.

If you have seen Blesed or have any information about her whereabouts, please contact [phone] immediately or report the information to your nearest police station.

@PoliceZimbabwe

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

ANC veteran pockets R1 billion from a state-owned enterprise in a corrupt deal. But no, we are told the real problem is the illegal immigrant selling tomatoes on a street corner in Soweto.

Corruption on this scale destroys economies, yet the blame is shifted onto the poorest and most vulnerable instead of those looting the state. That is when education should intervene.

African politicians know how to keep poor and uneducated people distracted from the real issue. They are told that illegal immigrants are the reason they are unemployed and poor, while the political elite loot public resources with impunity.

Tragically, there is no shortage of poor and uneducated people willing to defend the politicians responsible for their misery while attacking people just like themselves, whose only “crime” is that they come from another country.

[𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐙𝐖 @CrimeWatchZW]

Hi Crime Watch, yesterday at around 7:00 pm, I witnessed something suspicious at the corner of St Patrick's Road and Airport Road. A man driving a Toyota Wish changed his vehicle's number plate using black insulation tape, altering it from AFS 2219 to AES 2219.

I don't know what his intentions were, but this made me suspect that he could have been trying to conceal the vehicle's identity, possibly because he was planning to commit an offence or had already been involved in one. I thought it was important to report what I saw in case it helps with any investigations.

@PoliceZimbabwe

[Tafi Mhaka @tafimhaka]

One day, Charles Mungoshi's daughter Tsitsi heard a crash inside the bathroom at their Harare home. When her brother forced the door open, she squeezed through the narrow gap and found her father lying on the floor.

This marked the beginning of the illness that slowly changed his life.

Over the next decade, the celebrated author of Waiting for the Rain, Coming of the Dry Season and Branching Streams Flow in the Dark underwent brain surgery, suffered a stroke, lost much of his memory and gradually lost the ability to walk and speak. Throughout it all, his wife, Jesesi, cared for him at home.

Charles Mungoshi died at Parirenyatwa Hospital on 16 February 2019, aged 71.

Zimbabwe had lost one of its greatest storytellers, a writer whose profound, unforgettable fiction in both Shona and English illuminated the complexities of family, memory, love, loss and the human condition.

[David Coltart @DavidColtart]

It is a national scandal that the Office of the President and Cabinet has spent more this year than the entire Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education.

We have hundreds of thousands of children out of school because BEAM hasn’t been funded adequately. When children are out of school for even one term their entire education is seriously compromised.

There’s simply no excuse for this no matter how the Ministry of Finance seeks to spin this.

[uplifted @upliftedvision]

Ibrahimovic was a beast 😳 I still wonder why he hates Ronaldo.

[kiiza @kiizaian3]

26 seconds of Carrick ball are a pure magic.

[Chino @ChinoUTD]

🚨 Rio Ferdinand on why Michael Carrick is so excited about Shea Lacey:

“I asked Michael what impressedd him most about Shea. I thought he’d mention the dribbling. Or the left foot. Instead he said, ‘He gives me options.’

I asked him what he meant. He said, ‘If they man mark Bruno, I can put Shea there to free roam and move Bruno somewhere else. The plan they’ve spent all week working on disappears in five seconds.’

Then I watched Shea against Atletico . The freedom. The little spaces he kept finding. The penalty he won. Suddenly I understood what Michael meant.

The biggest compliment you can give a young player isn’t that he’s talented. It’s that a manager starts changing his tactics because of him.”

[Misheal Clinton ✪ @Mish_clinton]

I keep seeing people overthinking the Dorgu situation and I just don’t get the fuss.

He’s a left-back who can shift out to either wing without breaking a sweat.

At 21 and on wages that won’t blow a hole in the wage bill, he’s exactly the kind of low-risk, high-upside option you want in the squad.

He doesn’t need to start every single match either; that’s the beauty of it.

Right now the team needs depth out wide, especially on the left if Hall comes in.

Dorgu slots into that role perfectly: covers the full-back spot when needed, gives you options higher up the pitch, and doesn’t demand the kind of minutes that mess with the balance.

He’s not some flashy headline grabber, but he’s practical. Young, flexible, affordable, and ready to fill the exact gaps we’ve got.

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

The example you gave of Ethiopian Airlines as a success story is an outlier, as it is one of the few large, consistently well-run state-owned airlines on the African continent.

A couple of years ago, I had dinner with Ethiopia’s former Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, and he explained to me why Ethiopian Airlines has been such a success.

It is run like a proper commercial business, with minimal day-to-day government interference. The government owns the airline, but it does not run it. That distinction is critical. You do not see hordes of ministers and politically connected individuals flying for free, as happens with many state-owned airlines elsewhere in Africa. Flights are not delayed because the airline is waiting for the Prime Minister, cabinet ministers, or other senior government officials to board.

Management is given the autonomy to make commercial decisions, including appointing executives, opening or closing routes, procuring aircraft, and running the airline according to business principles rather than political considerations. This operational independence has repeatedly been cited by the airline’s leadership as one of the key reasons for its success. You can’t say the same about Air Zimbabwe or South African Airlines.

Another important factor is that Ethiopian Airlines has developed its own ecosystem. It invests heavily in training through its aviation academy, maintains its own aircraft through world-class maintenance facilities, operates a profitable cargo business, and has consistently reinvested its profits into expansion rather than relying on government bailouts.

Instead of being a drain on taxpayers, it has become one of Africa’s most profitable and respected airlines.

That is the difference between state ownership and state control. Governments can own strategic national assets, but when politicians interfere in day-to-day operations and appoint executives based on patronage rather than competence, those airlines almost inevitably fail.

The important point for you to note Oswell is that Ethiopian Airlines is an outlier not the norm.

[🇿🇼Kwalaz🇿🇼 @Madzidady]

My wife was selling some chocolates and she ate one and then she came to me and said; "mukwasha! mukadzi wenyu atora chocolate 1 saka ndikudawo mari yangu." Nhai ndozvinoitwa business racho here???

🤣😂😅🤣😂🤣

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

When Air Zimbabwe’s new Harare–Gatwick route was announced, I made the point that we should not be celebrating the launch of a new route oblivious to our realities. Instead, we should be asking who is managing it.

Air Zimbabwe did not fail because it lacked aircraft. At Independence, the ZANUPF government inherited a fleet of 21 aircraft from the Rhodesian government. Today, only one or two aircraft are operational. That tells you the problem has never been the availability of planes; it has been the quality of management.

I am therefore not surprised by what happened yesterday. A professionally run airline should never cancel or disrupt a long-haul service simply because one pilot falls ill.
Airlines routinely maintain standby flight crews for each aircraft type they operate. That is standard industry practice because unforeseen circumstances are part of aviation. But someone slept on his job in Harare.

The problem in Air Zimbabwe’s case lies in the arrangement it entered into. This route is not being operated by Air Zimbabwe pilots but by a foreign crew supplied under the aircraft lease arrangement. Instead of having a reserve crew, Air Zimbabwe failed.

A competent management team would have ensured that Zimbabwean pilots were trained and certified on the leased aircraft from the outset. That way, if a member of the foreign crew became unavailable, a qualified Air Zimbabwe pilot could immediately step in and operate the flight.

Air Zimbabwe can’t fly the aircraft because they are banned to flying into London because the Zimbabwean aviation authorities who certify them failed an audit.

The absence of such contingency planning reflects a serious management failure. It reinforces what I have said for years that governments have no business running commercial airlines. Airlines are businesses, not government departments.

Britain does not own a state owned airline. The United States, the world’s largest economy, also does not own a state owned airline. South Africa owns one and it is a total mess. Private airlines compete, innovate, create jobs, generate tax revenue, and bear their own commercial risks. Governments should concentrate on governing, creating sound economic policies, and regulating the aviation sector, not trying to run airlines.

When a state-owned airline loses money, it is not the airline that ultimately pays the bill. It is the taxpayer. Every operational failure, every bailout, every poorly negotiated lease, and every management mistake is financed by public funds that could have been spent on hospitals, schools, roads, or other essential public services.

If I were ever in a position to make such a decision, I would privatise Air Zimbabwe and allow competent private investors to operate it on commercial principles. Government’s responsibility should be to create an environment in which Zimbabwean entrepreneurs can establish successful airlines, compete fairly, create employment, generate tax revenue, and connect Zimbabwe to the world.

Keeping a chronically loss-making, dysfunctional national airline alive simply because of sentiment or politics serves no one. It merely transfers the cost of poor management onto ordinary taxpayers, who are forced to subsidise an airline that has repeatedly failed to operate as a sustainable commercial business.

[𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐙𝐖 @CrimeWatchZW]

At the end of June, I had an experience with scammers I met through Facebook Marketplace. I sell mobile phones, so I advertise some of them on Facebook Marketplace. These people got my phone number from my advert and contacted me on WhatsApp saying they wanted to buy a Samsung S24 Ultra.

I was speaking to one of them, who claimed he lived in Chegutu. He said his sister, who lives in the UK, would send the payment through WorldRemit. We spoke in the evening, and the following morning he told me his sister had sent the money to my phone. I could see the WorldRemit message, so I believed him.

He then said he was sending an InDrive driver to collect the phone and put it on a bus to Chegutu before 8am.

When the InDrive driver arrived, I took down all his details first. Luckily, there is a WorldRemit office near where I stay. I gave the driver the phone but asked him to move slowly because I wanted to collect the money first. I told him I did not fully trust the buyers, and he agreed.

When I got to the WorldRemit office, I was told the money had already been collected and that the reference number I had received was an old one that had already been used.

I immediately called the InDrive driver and told him to return with the phone. I also informed the buyer that I could not collect the money. He claimed it was probably a system or network problem.

As soon as the InDrive driver returned with the phone, I received another WorldRemit message saying the system was back to normal and that I could collect my money after two hours.

Around the same time, I received a call from a landline number. The caller said the money for the phone had been sent and that because the system was now working again, I should hand the phone to the InDrive driver.

I refused. I told him I would only release the phone after I had collected the money two hours later. That is when we started arguing over the phone.

I then realised they were scammers and told them the deal was off. In the end, I paid the InDrive driver myself because he had no idea he was being used in the scam.

It is a long story, but I still have all the WhatsApp chats and the phone numbers they used. These criminals are stealing from innocent people.

[Maxwel Dondo @maxdondo]

@MthuliNcube01 No Prof. Please invest in systems that can help you report viramented budgets properly. This will show you that the over utilisation in one cost centre has a corresponding under under utilization in a different cost centre with an explanation clearly showing approval of that.