Congratulations to Zimbabwean artist Portia Zvavahera, whose painting "This is where I travelled [3]" sold for £307,200 (about US$407,000) at Christie's in London this week.
The sale sets a new auction record for her work, surpassing the previous high of US$355,600 achieved in New York in 2023.
It fills me with joy to see Zimbabweans rising to the very top of their professions on the world stage. Portia's success is a reminder that Zimbabwean talent can stand shoulder to shoulder with the best anywhere in the world. When one of us scores, we should celebrate their work.
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Rwanda is building a track completely from scratch, and Formula 1 is so sure they will deliver that they have already put pen to paper on a 10-year contract.
Meanwhile, South Africa, with an existing track that has fallen out of shape, isn't trusted to get anything done because the South African risk premium is simply too big.
Global capital now views South Africa as a dangerous, untrusted hazard while treating Rwanda as the absolute gold standard for institutional trust.
Formula One Group does not sign a decade-long agreement on raw hope.
They signed with Rwanda because Kigali has built an unshakeable reputation for flawless executive execution.
When the Rwanda Development Board guarantees a timeline, the regulatory red tape is liquidated overnight by a disciplined, single-window executive.
Global capital knows that a promise made in Kigali is a mathematical certainty.
Rwanda turned a blank plot of dirt in Bugesera into a low-risk, elite-aligned asset. Conversely, modern South Africa has become a dangerous, volatile bet that international investors simply refuse to underwrite.
Having the physical layout of Kyalami means absolutely nothing when your entire state apparatus is viewed as a structural liability. You cannot invite a multi-billion dollar global enterprise to a country crippled by terminal municipal decay, and deep institutional rot.
F1 teams cannot run their multi-million dollar telemetry systems on the gamble that local public utilities won't collapse mid-race.
South Africa's existing track falling out of shape is just a symptom of a much larger, systemic pathology.
The state is so deeply fractured by bureaucratic infighting, political posturing, and chaotic policy vectors that it cannot provide a credible, bulletproof sovereign financial guarantee to underwrite hosting fees.
The institutional decay is so severe that South Africa can no longer be trusted to manage, maintain, or secure projects of this level of complexity.
In the brutal arena of global statecraft, historical prestige is completely worthless if you are priced out of the market as an operational danger.
Rwanda won this contract because it aggressively engineered international trust, while South Africa mismanaged its massive head start into total structural irrelevance.
F1 didn't bypass South Africa because of politics, it bypassed South Africa because of math.
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BREAKING: Formula 1 will return to Africa after it was confirmed Rwanda will host races from the early 2030s 🚨
A 10-year agreement has been signed for the African Grand Prix, presented by Visit Rwanda 🏎️
A cyberattack targeting supermarket refrigeration systems across France has left shelves empty after hackers remotely raised temperatures to 50 degrees Celsius, triggering fires and forcing hundreds of stores to discard food.
BREAKING: South African jurist Navi Pillay, who fought apartheid and called out Israel's genocide in Gaza, wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
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The nature of life is that there is uncertainty. No one knows their fate or what happens tomorrow. In other words there are known knowns - things we know we know. Then there are known unknowns - we know there are some things we do not know
It’s a grey area. That grey area is ok for most people. It’s that grey area that some impatient folks can’t put up with, creating a market for maporofita, n’anga, manjuzu, palm readers, masvikiro and so on. They provide information to fill that great area, true or false.
Because uncertainty is a known unknown, add to that unknown unknowns - anyone can tell you anything as long as they can claim they have a Bluetooth connection with God and heavens.
Some folks even pay a lot of money to break that black box of uncertainty - to hear and see what’s inside.
It’s a cesspool for the superstitious and a snake pit for the ambitious.
That’s what’s been happening in the Pentecostal church community and the white garment mapostori space in recent years.
Kana tichishaura batai mazwi, kuitira mangwana.
Africa has secured a seat at the global AI supercomputing table.
Cassava Compute’s NVIDIA-powered “Mufungi” supercomputer in Cape Town has been ranked 36th on the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful computing systems.
Mufungi is Shona for “one who thinks.” Now fully operational, the system brings high-performance computing closer to African researchers and businesses supporting AI development in sectors from healthcare and agriculture to finance and education.