Tourists currently visiting Mana Pools, Kariba and other major attractions in Zimbabwe pleading with Minister of Tourism and Hospitality Industry Barbara Rwodzi in Shona to ensure key roads are fixed to facilitate movement and avoid national disasters.
Over the weekend, we put up the first four of a series of over 20 billboards being erected across Harare this month. Borrowdale Road, Newlands, OK Marimba, Tendeseka. Look up: that green is ours. Radio and digital campaigns start today too.
Kose is a super app built in Harare, by a Zimbabwean team, for the way this city actually moves, eats and does business. We launched quietly in May. I'll be honest: it was a cold start. Bugs, hard lessons, long nights rebuilding. We did it anyway. What's live today is the platform we always dreamed of shipping.
In the app right now: rides where you see the fare before you commit. If the price isn't right, you make your own offer and the first verified driver to accept takes the trip. Every trip tracked. Cash accepted. Kose Send moves parcels across town. Kose Care puts school runs in the hands of vetted, trusted drivers. And the marketplace is live: Kose Eats for food, Kose Shop for groceries, Kose Rx for pharmacy delivery, Kose Pros for skilled professionals. One app. The whole city inside it.
Now the part I'm proudest of: how we treat drivers. Most platforms take a cut of every fare, so the harder a driver works, the more gets taken. We flipped that. A Kose driver pays a simple weekly subscription and keeps everything they make. One hundred percent theirs. They see what a trip pays before accepting, choose their hours, and rate riders too. Every driver who signs up this month gets the first 30 days free.
Why? Because we believe a happy driver equals a happy ride, and therefore a happy customer. You feel it the moment you get in the car. It's painted on every billboard: Drive it. Keep it. Every single dollar.
If you're reading this thinking about your own hustle, this is your sign. A kitchen? Kose Eats. A shop? Kose Shop. A licensed pharmacy? Kose Rx. A skill, from plumbing to hair to tutoring? Kose Pros. Signup takes minutes in the Kose Merchant app (links below).
Referrals pay both ways: riders earn for friends who join, drivers earn for drivers they bring. Codes are in the app.
So here's my ask, and I'm making it a dare:
Download Kose and take one ride or order one meal: https://t.co/JsPfQQw4LQ
Know a driver? Send them the app and the drivers WhatsApp group below. No commissions, and 30 days free this month.
Own a business or a skill? Get the Kose Merchant app below.
If nothing else, share this post. It costs nothing and moves everything for us.
The big platforms can buy their way into a market. We can't. What we have is better: people who want to see a Zimbabwean team win.
We're starting with Harare. Next: every town and city in Zimbabwe, then across the borders.
Zimbabwe first. Africa next. Thank you for riding with me.
Links:
Drivers app: https://t.co/hyDRGgxVjI WhatsApp group: https://t.co/4PIvp3C2aR Merchant: https://t.co/XgL334LWX9 · https://t.co/ynB5zk0yg1
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The link below is a full text of the official speech delivered by the then Prime Minister Robert Mugabe in April 1980 on the eve of Zimbabwe’s formal independence is available. https://t.co/TugojG6K2i
PLEASE READ AND RETWEET.
Good day, Hopewell.
My name is Caroline and I'm writing to appeal to you for help. My friend ,Sharon Nyika had kidney failure in 2024 and it's been very difficult for the family ever since. They have a donor , her mother . Now the issue is the money to cater for the bills for the surgery and upkeep in India where the transplant is to be done . There is a GoFund already and I'm appealing to you to help us get the word out there. I know you have a huge following and also as an influential person many people might be inclined to help if they see it on your page. Thank you so much sir.
Here is the link to the GoFund.
https://t.co/vGJzvicTFr
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If we won, it would mean that I wasn't alone in believing that the world didn't have to be a cold place, unforgiving place, where the strong preyed on the weak & we inevitably fell back into clans & tribes, lashing out against the unknown & huddling against darkness. - Pres. Barack Obama