Atiane

[Atiane @SomeonesDota]

@KingJayZim White car probably stopped to give way to range rover so black car should have stopped right behind and not attempt to overtake. RR maybe realised too late that they were given way but black car wasn't having it.

[Tazo @TheLifeZoomer]

Just received a heartbreaking WhatsApp audio from the man who taught me everything I know about boilermaking. Prostate cancer.

A man who once had everything under control. The Zimbabwean economy brought him to his knees, and now cancer too… as if life felt he hadn’t suffered enough.
It broke me to hear him ask for $30 transport money, not even $100. Just $30😭

This is why I will continue to grateful for every little thing in my life. I hope we all do out there.
Many who once carried others are now fighting battles of their own.😭

[King Jay🇿🇼 @KingJayZim]

Ol’skooling with my big Sis Stel, the General Manager and CEO of “Back In Our Day Pvt Ltd” 😆 , eldest of the Magnificent 7 siblings ,at her crib in #BeautifulZimbabwe where vibes, memories and soft life met under one roof.

We spent the evening travelling back to an era when unlocking the house phone with a hair clip was considered advanced telecommunications engineering 🤣📞. One quick “click-click” and suddenly you were calling somebody’s daughter after midnight while praying nobody picked up on the extension line in the bedroom.

Earth, Wind & Fire on full blast.
The Commodores.
The Whispers.
Tower of Power.
The Dazz Band.
Midnight Star.
Starpoint.
Shalamar.
George Benson.
The O’Jays.
Al Jarreau.
Pure groove.
Saturday-cleaning-the-house-with-polish-and-ammonia soundtrack 😅

Sis Stel together with my late Uncle Newton MHSRIP and Uncle Norman shaped my musical taste early. If you grew up around people with serious vinyl collections and giant speakers wrapped in wood veneer, your ears were trained properly from childhood 😄
And by the way… those telephones are ORIGINALS from around late 1978. Sis kept them all these years. That typewriter is the actual machine she used when she worked as a PA back in the day. Zoom into the Pitman shorthand book there 😄

Youngsters won’t understand this… but back then a typist was elite level 😅
Student nurse were prestige.
Telephone operator at The Exchange was Celebrity status.
Bank teller at Founders, Beverley or Barclays? Ahhh… automatic street credibility in the ghetto 🤣🤣

Back then if your girlfriend worked in an office and carried a handbag full of carbon paper, Tippex and shorthand pads… you were basically dating royalty 😭😂

#HappinessIsOurBusiness
#TheKingIsAround
#OldSchoolVibes
#BeautifulZimbabwe

[Tazo @TheLifeZoomer]

I met my father for the first time at 14.

Before that, he was just, a concept.

My parents separated when I was under 5, so I have zero memory of him in my childhood.
1988,mum took us to Lusulu, Lupane to meet him and also to meet Grandma.

That was also the first and last time I met my paternal grandmother.

The visit? Awkward.

He had another wife and 4 kids.
To be fair, they treated us well. We played, ate, laughed, no issues there.

But when he called me?

I would freeze.

Couldn’t say “Baba.”
The word felt foreign.

I’d just walk up and stand there like I’m waiting for further instructions 😅

He’d ask, “Kungani ungasabeli kanti?”
(Why don’t you answer?)

How do you explain that the word “Baba” never lived in your mouth to your own father?🤷🏽‍♂️😀

Fast forward - Form 4.

Mum could only afford 3 subjects.
I needed 7.
From memory - total sum required was around ZW$400. That included other associated exam registration fees.

She wrote to him for help.

His reply?
“I have other kids here that I have to look after.”
The tone in the letter was not nice at all.
Mum made the mistake - left letter on the bed.
Read it while she was at work.

That line - still echoes.

I almost missed my O’levels.
Deadline passed.
Got a 2-week grace period.

I still studied all 7 like the money was guaranteed.
(Delusion or faith - You decide 😅)

Last day of the deadline, money showed up.

My mum’s cousin brother stepped in.

I wrote all 7 subjects - grateful.
But I also watched my mum struggle to pay that money back later.
Painful to watch.

She eventually did.

Now here’s the funny part,

Today in family WhatsApp groups, when contributions are needed,
people act like we all started life on the same level 😅
Also my dad is still alive. That word “baba” still a strange concept.😭

Meanwhile I’m there remembering:
“Some of us almost didn’t even write O’levels, please be gentle” 😂

Life looks stable now.
But I know how thin that line was.

Sometimes survival isn’t about strength,
it’s just one person showing up at the right time.

Be honest:
what’s one moment in your life where things could have gone completely left, but didn’t? 👇

[Tazo @TheLifeZoomer]

Australia.

[RUKEVWE👸✨ @Ruky_Baby27]

I woke up in the middle of the night and noticed something on the bedside table… a pack of pads.

That was when it clicked, my wife’s period must have started while we were asleep.

The funny thing is, before we went to bed she had told me all the things she planned to do the next day… cleaning the house, cooking, taking care of everything as usual.

But seeing those pads, I knew today might be a little harder for her.

So I quietly got out of bed without waking her.

I swept the house and cleaned every corner exactly the way she likes it.
Then I went into the kitchen and cooked all the meals she had planned to make.

By the time I was done, the house was calm, the chores were finished, and the only thing left was to take care of her.

So I prepared a warm vegetable sauce, the one she usually craves during her period, and served it for her.

A little while later she woke up.

She looked around the house… everything was clean.
She walked to the kitchen… the food was ready.

Then she looked at me with the most beautiful smile.

And honestly, that moment was my greatest reward.

In my years of marriage, I’ve learned something simple but powerful:

Love isn’t always in big speeches or expensive gifts.
Sometimes it’s just in quiet acts of service that say,

“I see you…
I appreciate you…
and I’ve got you.”

Because in marriage, the little things often mean the most. ❤️

©Becky & Smart

[Yeu Tarie⚘️ @YeuYves]

Cucumber and tomato salad, sprinkle of herbs and grilled chicken.

Simply delicious and deliciously simple 😋

@TeamFuloZim @KingJayZim

[Atiane @SomeonesDota]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[De Christian Life @DeChristianLife]

It's the little things that matter

[Candacy Rutendo Gurupira @candacy_rutendo]

💜

[Atiane @SomeonesDota]

@JajaPhD 😅😅😅😅😅😅

[Sidonia P Alphonse @MinisterSidonia]

God won’t let you marry just anyone!
What you carry is precious and can’t be tainted, spoiled or destroyed by wolves.
BE PATIENT.

[K @begottensun]

If you catch a trusted employee stealing from you, remember it’s only the first time they have been caught. When you run a business in Zimbabwe, 10%-20% Kurimira Makudo.

One of my mentors runs a huge fruit export and logistics brand in zim. They recently uncovered 60 tons a month disappearing to theft from staff.

Theft in Zimbabwean companies goes entire systems and departments deep. From Guards, receiving, accounts , management and even cleaners. Often the entire system process is corruptible.

Another friend who runs a supermarket discovered his staff stocking their own products in his store. Kutoisa Cooking Oil yavo whilst he has to pay the rentals and rates. Ivo pocketing their sales as stock take can’t catch them.

At Fresh in a Box in 2021 during Covid we discovered a huge grift in our systems when suppliers of produce were some of our warehouse staff and partner drivers. They become gate keepers to our procurement, got farmers to sell to them , say $1 for 4 cabbages and they would sell back to us at $1 for 2. 🤡🤣 . It was a clever new accountant who realised that the invoices from about 10 suppliers had the same design Text logos and phone number. The depth of the theft was impossible to quantify. To them it was a victimless crime, “takango negotiator mdhara tikaisa zino”.

That’s the problem with scale. Even the most robust systems will have Makudo look for creative ways to circumvent.

Zero Trust policy. Micromanage every system. Constant audit. Become unpredictable. Be very very petty about systems. Incentivize whistle blowing.

Kurimira Makudo is painful. And in Zimbabwe, corruption can have entire departments and key trusted personnel involved. Even your family members. And NO MATTER HOW MUCH OR FAIRLY YOU PAY.

It’s the simple things owners overlook:
Who creates the Facebook page, Instagram page? Who owns the domain for your site. Who keeps the cash? What’s your receiving process and who signs off procurement? Where are your receipts printed? Do you insist on 3 quotations. Do you insist on Compnay papers and tax clearance from new suppliers? Do employees conduct business using their personal lines or emails?

Sweat the little things at all cost coz your “intern” leaving with the FB admin can cripple your established FB page. How many versions of some zim companies FB pages exists? lol. How may companies do you know with different emails to domains coz the “kid” they underpaid for the domain fucked off to Cape Town?

If you’re a business owner who doesn’t know where your website is hosted or how your emails route, who registers your business WhatsApp number and owns it at Econet , or doesn’t know who started their FB page or the admins, or the OTP that u locks it, you are already dead.

Who manages your Google analytics or Google Business Page listing ? Some kid from MSU who left 4 yrs ago?? Don’t do it.

@thabanimnyama you started me on this. We should do a space. I need to write a book baba. 🔥🤣🤡

[Atiane @SomeonesDota]

@Toke_Eji Oh no!!! Condolences 💔💔💔💔

[Atiane @SomeonesDota]

@Shoun_B 😂😂😂😂😂

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

Shout out to all the analysts breaking down the election issues for us in South Africa.

Here are the most important numbers for all of us to know as we share insights.

The ANC under Mandela won with 63% in 1994.
The ANC under Thabo Mbeki got 66% in 1999 and 70% in 2004.

It then got 66% in 2009 under Jacob Zuma, and under Zuma again, it got 63% in 2014.

It then got 58% under Cyril Ramaphosa in 2019, and we await to see what Ramaphosa will get tomorrow.

It will be catastrophic for the ANC to get below 50% tomorrow.
It will be the worst loss for the ANC in post-colonial South African elections and will force Cyril Ramaphosa to reflect.

Put simply, it will be the worst ANC result in the history of elections in South Africa since 1994.

The most successful leader in election victories has been Thabo Mbeki, taking the ANC from 63% to 70%.

I will share more views and insights after the election results are out, reflecting on what I think the result will mean for South Africa.

However, I personally don’t think that the ANC will drop below 50%.
It would be its worst drop since elections began in 1994 if it happened.

If that happens, then Cyril Ramaphosa’s grip on power, both in the ANC and the government, would be badly loosened, and I don't see him lasting the five-year term after such an electoral mauling.

Mandela and Mbeki never faced COPE as Zuma did, and they also didn’t face EFF, MK, and COPE as Ramaphosa now does. Ramaphosa inherited a damaged ANC, so tomorrow he will be receiving punishment not just for his rule, but also for that of his predecessors who presided over various types of ANC decay in the last 30 years.

For now, let me enjoy my single malt!

[Queen Lily🇮🇪🇿🇼 @Lisaphiri1]

Motivational post, especially for a girl child:- Work hard, believe in God, one day all will work out. Frame 1 is where I grew up, no electricity, no toilets, no water, everything was public. F2 and 3 is what I call mine now. Isn’t God great? Now I have toilets upstairs & down.

[Queen Lily🇮🇪🇿🇼 @Lisaphiri1]

Thank God for Tiktok, first attempt 😄. My house is gonna look nice I tell you

[🎙OLUOMO OF DERBY 🇳🇬 🇬🇧🇬🇭 🇿🇼 @Oluomoofderby]

UK 🇬🇧 fight jets are among allied forces ready to intercept Iranian drones heading towards Israel 🇮🇱.

[Atiane @SomeonesDota]

@BaloyiLeonard @ChrisExcel102 That Moreover is not make sure. In addition or additionally seems more appropriate