Clifford A Chikerema

Tweeting as art rather than as chronicles of life. Chitova||CivilEngineer||BeatMaker.

[Clifford A Chikerema @mrchiksprod]

@TakudzTT Chibuku Super

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[Bla B @bla_bidza]

1/2 *📰 History Of Zimbabwe’s Economic Collapse*

🇿🇼 *1997 – $50000 TO WAR VETS WITHOUT BUDGET.* War veterans hold a serthxies of protests against Mugabe, pressing for gratuities and pensions. Mugabe buckles, and orders Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa to dole out ZW$50,000 each to over 50,000 war veterans. Total bill =ZW$3.5 billion. None of it is in the budget. Mugabe dismisses concerns, including from Murerwa, that the spending will bankrupt the economy.

🇿🇼 *CHAOTIC LAND GRAB.* The Government announces its intention to list more than 1,400 farms, many of them productive, for redistribution to landless blacks. The IMF and other donors threaten to pull out.

🇿🇼 *FISCAL INDISCIPLINE.* spread that foreign reserves are down to just a month’s worth of imports. Speculators, panicked by the flurry of bad news, start stocking up on US dollars. Desperate, the Government injects US$15 million to try and prop up the economy but its too late.

🇿🇼 *BLACK FRIDAY.* November 14, the Zimbabwe dollar plunges 72%. The stock market crashes 46%. That same day, by coincidence, there is a national blackout. The day comes to be known as “Black Friday”. In the aftermath, Government orders companies to shut down their foreign currency accounts, hoping the flow of US dollars onto the market will put brakes on the Zimdollar’s slide. But it has the opposite effect; confidence collapses even further, as does the stock market and the Zimdollar itself.
Investors head for the exits. McDonalds, the US fast food giant, abandons plans to open its first outlet in Zimbabwe.

🇿🇼 *1998 – NATIONWIDE RIOTS.* Riots hit the country in January after the price of basic goods rises by up to 50 percent, blamed on the collapse of the Zimdollar. Maize meal prices rise by 45% within a week. Army is deployed for the first time in years to quell the riots. “They will not hesitate to shoot,” Home Affairs Minister Dumiso Dabengwa warns.

🇿🇼 *1998 - DRC WAR.* Government introduces price controls and a range of tariffs on imports. In August, Zimbabwe enters the DRC war. Some estimates said the country spent US$1m a day to fund the war, further weakening the local currency.

🇿🇼 *1999 – FOREX SHORTAGES* Zimbabwe runs out of forex. Zimbabwe has defaulted on most of its foreign debt by mid-year. The IMF finally confirms its intention to withdraw funding. This leads to further exchange controls. The Government fixes the Zimdollar rate at $38 to USD way above its true value.

🇿🇼 *2000 – CABINET RESHUFFLING* Murerwa is reshuffled out. On August 1, new Finance Minister, Simba Makoni, bows to market pressure and devalues the Zimdollar to $55 to the USDollar, still lower than the parallel market rate of $60 for a USDollar. In the same week, unions, businesses and activists stage a nationwide stay away to protest the economic crisis.

🇿🇼 *2001 — RBZ PRINTING MONEY* A $500 note is issued, and is followed by another different $500 note within weeks. A $5 coin is also introduced.

🇿🇼 *2002 – MAKONI FIRED.* Mugabe rejects Makoni’s pleas for further devaluation. “Devaluation is sinister and can only be advocated for by our saboteurs and enemies of this government,” Mugabe tells him. Makoni is soon fired, and Murerwa is reappointed. Government shuts down all bureaux de change, accusing them of being “conduits” of illegal forex trade.

🇿🇼 *2002 IMF SUSPENSION* In June, the IMF suspends technical assistance to Zimbabwe because of arrears amounting to US$132 million. This had nothing to do with SANCTIONS.

🇿🇼 *2003 – RBZ PRINTS TRAVELLERS CHEQUE.* The RBZ introduces what it calls traveller’s cheques, in denominations of $1,000, $5,000, $10,000, $20,000, $50,000 to $100,000. Zanu PF loots a lot of travellers cheques from RBZ. They are hugely unpopular and are soon quietly phased out.

[Andrew Tate @Cobratate]

Many turn to prayer as a last resort.

When all else has failed they humble themselves.

The true magic of life appears when you start turning to prayer FIRST.

[Clifford A Chikerema @mrchiksprod]

Zvidzidzo zvedu zvese zvinobva kwevarungu
Ndosaka vatema tichichiva zvechirungu
KuSomalia vapedzana nepfuti dzakatengwa Hingirandi
Nemari nebhangi yeSwitsarandi
Ndopatinogwadamira iro world bhangi
"Tipei chikwereti chekubhadhara chimwe"
Vana vafa nayo nzara, chirwere chapedza

[m a y o r 🌴 @bxllyville]

Matchday, Zimbabwe take on Sri lanka for the first ODI in a 3 match ODI series in Colombo.

What are your predictions?
#SRIvZIM

[Clifford A Chikerema @mrchiksprod]

@Zvoutete14 Oskiiidhi

[Mesut Özil @M10]

Arsenal Football Club is older than 25 years … so why should he know? 🫣 #YaGunnersYa ❤

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@Zvoutete14 Amakebhoi

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@chrisnyamuz Kurauone

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@uncleflo_ De Castila

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@hatiperi_wacho hope vanoita dzekugugula

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

Mosi, wamvela?

[WelBeast @WelBeast]

They called me a mad man.

[Andrew Tate @Cobratate]

Trump was not supposed to win the 2016 US presidential election.

He was not meant to be the president of the USA.

Elon Musk was not supposed to champion free speech.

Elon Musk was meant to bow down to the U.S. Deep State interests.

He was meant to be afraid to lose Tesla and SpaceX government funding.

He was meant to do "the smart thing".

He wasn't supposed to tell advertisers to go fuck themselves on live television.

I was not supposed to go as viral as I did.

I wasn't meant to become the most famous person on the planet in 2022.

I was not supposed to be the most viral personality on every single popular social media platform on earth.

Children were not supposed to hear me tell them not to blindly obey bullshit.

The people in control of Earth.

They have plans, schedules, CONTROL.

This is why you will always see the Mainstream Media bundle Me, Trump and Elon together.

Because we were not supposed to happen.

We weren't on the schedule.

We are three men who used sheer willpower to break free from our allocated confines.

I want you to understand,

YOU are not MEANT to become fuck-you rich.

It's not the set plan for you,

You are meant to be some employee in some company,

A plumber,

An engineer,

Burger-flipper.

Doctor,

Policeman.

Or maybe even a business owner,

BUT you are MEANT to fall in line when asked.

You are not supposed to be ABLE to say "Fuck you".

When they lock you in your house and close your business, you are MEANT to accept it and shut up.

They will keep you JUST poor enough, to guarantee it.

They don't want you to have fuck-you money.

Look at Elon,

Look at me,

Look at Trump,

We have FUCK-YOU money.

And we WILL say "Fuck you".

We are the epitome of free will, the indomitable human spirit.

Events that were not meant to happen,

WE WERE NOT ON THE SCHEDULE.

The people in charge did everything they could do in an attempt to get us to become who they wanted us to be.

I was offered over 50 million dollars and more, to stop talking about certain topics.

Instead, I chose jail.

Elon's been offered hundreds of millions to better "control what content" is allowed on X.

I'm certain there is more to come his way.

I guarantee you, Trump was offered hundreds of millions to allow Hillary to win.

You see the punishment they are instilling on him now for declining.

We are the poster children of the "dangerous epidemic of" whatever.

Because we cannot be bought.

We have fuck-you money and we WILL say "Fuck you".

I hope to empower all of you to be the same.

Be the thing they don't want you to be.

Be free.

[Dandaro Online @DandaroOnline]

#dandaronews Hip-Hop star Stunner shares advice to DJ Ollah after he resigned from Star FM.

What do you think about Stunner's advice guys...?! 🤔💯✔️

[Zimbabwe Football ⚽️ 🇿🇼 @zim_football]

🇿🇼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿💫
Trey Nyoni is on the bench for Liverpool this afternoon.

If he features today, he will become Liverpool’s youngest ever player to feature in a Premier League game at 16 years, 4 months. 🔴✨

#Zimbabwe #LFC #PremierLeague #YNWA #Zimfootball

[Clifford A Chikerema @mrchiksprod]

@hatiperi_wacho because ndo kufield kwavo as a socialite. the other 2 guys are just musicians. to be fare mai TT ngavachiitawo show pastage then we compare the numbers in both ends.

[EuroFoot @eurofootcom]

🇳🇬🗣️ John Obi Mikel: "My dad got kidnapped while I was playing for Nigeria at the 2018 World Cup in Russia."

"We were about to play against Argentina. Two hours before the game I got a phone call from my brother saying my dad got kidnapped."

"The first time he was kidnapped was shocking, but the second time was even more shocking because I was about to go into one of the biggest games of my life."

“I couldn't leave the room. I couldn't tell anybody. I was alone in the room for about 30 minutes, thinking what am I going to do?"

"But we're about to go into the biggest game of our lives. We're about to play against Lionel Messi and Argentina."

"Chelsea were very supportive. I remember Roman Abramovich saying 'do you want me to send people over? Because I know if I send people over, I can get your dad out' — I was like, how are you going to do this?"

"He said don't worry about that. Just let me know if you want that option, I can do it."

(@talkSPORT)

4/5 days after the game, John's father was released and rescued by police.