Nick Tandi

[Nick Tandi @nicktandi]

@M_Jay94 The life of a swimming pool under poor management: blue → green → grey → no water → party inside the pool with no water → compost → maize.

[Nick Tandi @nicktandi]

Jonasi Gomora the new villain.

[Nick Tandi @nicktandi]

@penuelist_ It is temporary. It's a sentiment that can and will be countered.

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@begottensun @DavidColtart @JMafume Absolutely. May I add Vic Falls. Out of the country Kisumu. Very doable without major reform.

[Tinashe @baba_nyenyedzi]

I would like Cabinet, Parliament and council to sit with this photograph for an afternoon.

In fact, every high school teacher, whatever the subject, should ask students to write an essay on what they see here. The answers would probably take us closer to the solution to Zimbabwe’s problems than most policy papers.

Every boardroom should spend time with it too. For good measure, the Zimra board should take it on a weekend retreat and ask its economists to calculate how much OK has paid in taxes over the past decade.

Then they should look again at the pavement outside.

I am keeping this photograph for my book.

[Nick Tandi @nicktandi]

2. If your sweaty, greasy, chip-stained palms touch the gym equipment and someone asks you to wipe it down, put your headphones on them, play Shaggy’s It Wasn’t Me, and walk away while loudly chewing your Chappies gum.

Tips 3-5 coming tomorrow.

[Nick Tandi @nicktandi]

Gym tips for beginners

1. If those obnoxious, superhuman fit people grin at you, picture Constantine facing the devil! Pull out the crushed garlic from your gym pants. Watch that whole Wu-Tang Clan turn into bats and fly out through the air conditioning.

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@KingJayZim @ZimLingo When we arrived in Mutare skuru for chikoro was cool.

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@penuelist_ Framework to bucket conflicting issues perhaps?
1. Drivers: source country crises & internal enforcement gaps.
2. Impacts of source state and receiving state failure to respond to drivers.
3. Exploitation of genuine issue by criminals and hostile actors.

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@Solphendukaa Bat so. Great test.

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@SizweDhlomo There's a saying about family in general that goes: "we don't love them because they are beautiful; they are beautiful because we love them".

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@iAmKudaMaynard @PhillipSibanda8 I thought exactly the same.

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@RoryPetzer @LuckyGordy Wors-t fibre optic cable.

[Nick Tandi @nicktandi]

Much African development finance "advice" repeats obvious but broad “must-dos” focused on government financing not business. Some basics, like protecting the value of citizen's hard-earned savings will go a longer way.

https://t.co/XciuejwcSM

[Trevor Ncube @TrevorNcube]

I have been arrested. My passport seized. My citizenship stripped. As I write, @HStvNews , @bbmhlanga @olgamuteiwa and @FaithZaba sit in our courts for telling the truth to power.

Some of us have already paid. Some of us are paying still. We have no intention of stopping.

These past few weeks I saw a glimpse of the Zimbabwe I have dreamed of all my life. I watched the Flag fill our timelines. I watched strangers across class and politics draft submissions to Parliament. I watched ordinary citizens take time off the daily hustle just to be counted. For a brief and beautiful moment, we remembered who we are.

Make no mistake. Ian Smith's white minority rule has been replaced by ZANU PF's repressive black minority rule. The fuel cartel. The procurement carnival around Tagwirei, Chivayo and Tungwarara. Wealth that tracks state tenders, not honest markets.

We will not be freed by another strongman. We will be freed by strong institutions and an awake citizenry.

The nation and the Constitution above party. Country before everything else.

Read the full essay 👇
https://t.co/rSjUIZmi7v

[Nick Tandi @nicktandi]

@drDendere @begottensun City management dilemma: informality concentrates poverty and public bads. Criminalisation of informality treats symptoms of poor economic policy and is ineffective. Practical approach is to "facilitate" gradual (re) formalisation.

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@Thebestfigen The posing winged guardian :)

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@BeautyZhuwao @Namataii Air Zim inoita mapie?

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@FinLitBae Adhamburates.

[Zenzele @zenzele]

The closure of City Press in South Africa is more than the end of a newspaper; it is a reminder of the crisis facing journalism across the globe. Shrinking revenues, changing audience habits, platform dominance, and declining trust are forcing even historic newsrooms to shut down. When media institutions die, accountability suffers, and public memory fades. The question is no longer whether the media is in crisis; it is whether journalism can reinvent itself fast enough to survive.