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A special bow out to @Cristiano the #GOAT for a career that leaves an indelible mark on the international football arena.
A role model for future footballing greats.
Don Fortunato retweeted
$300K is enough to build such a school in Zimbabwe. If you are in power for 10 years, each year you can set aside $18 million for a school in each of the 60 rural districts. In 10 yrs you would have built 600 schools. Enough to cover our deficit and more!
Don Fortunato retweeted
Tonight, the American people sent a clear message — they want a politics that brings people together rather than divides them, and leaders who offer concrete solutions to the challenges they face.
These results were only possible because outstanding candidates stepped forward in every region of the country — including in areas once considered long shots. They came from different backgrounds and represented a range of political perspectives, but were united by shared values, a belief in public service, and a commitment to putting the people of their districts and states first.
We also owe a debt of gratitude to the thousands of election officials and volunteers from both parties who helped ensure a smooth election and carried out one of the most essential functions of our democracy.
While this administration has another two years in office, our job now is to roll up our sleeves, make changes wherever we have the power to do so, prevent further damage, and lay the groundwork for the future.
Why is @ZimCricketv not participating at the @HongKongSixes tournament? We need more of our lads getting serious exposure at the highest level. @kwirirayi @Merovaeous
You will be surprised that some shitty government leaders at the Russia-Africa summit will be willing to take up this offer to put their citizens on the guillotine. @zenzele
Don Fortunato retweeted
This is today's American leader 🤣🤣🤣
After listening to former President Barack Obama last night, we are then subjected to this drivel today. America has truly gone down the tubes and into the sewer.
Is this really the leader of the once great America? 🤣🤣🤣
Talking about Nicki Minaj's backside at a rally, at a time when his senseless war in Iran has sent oil prices soaring and fuelled inflation across the world 🤣🤣🤣
The recent pronouncement or resolution by @ZANUPF_Official to second public sector jobs to its members is as good as proclaiming that Zimbabwe is now Zanu PF & a blatant disregard of the constitutional republic our country should be.
The arrogance is out of the door @Leokoni
Don Fortunato retweeted
mawetera likened delegates who cheered General Chiwenga to dogs that must be beaten—and ED-aligned delegates applauded.
If ZANU-PF can publicly humiliate its VP and liberation-war commander, what respect can it have for ordinary citizens?
The rot took the mic—& received applause!
Don Fortunato retweeted
Exiled critic of Rwandan president found beheaded bbc.in/3TKimdt
The fact that a project of such national importance was called a "dhiri" tells you how these charlatans see Zimbabwe as their personal fiefdom.
G6 lifts the lid on the Gwanda solar deal!
At the funeral of his late brother, businessman Wicknell Chivayo’s brother, Joachim “G6” Chivayo, revealed how he allegedly sold his cars and raised US$220,000 after being told the controversial Gwanda solar project had been secured.
G6 claimed Wicknell later told him the deal had paid out US$5 million, and he expected to receive US$1 million as his share.
But things allegedly took a different turn. G6 said Wicknell stopped answering his calls while splashing money on luxury cars and international trips.
When he finally confronted him, G6 claimed Wicknell said the money was finished and offered him a US$400,000 car instead.
G6 said the experience showed that his late brother’s “hustling mentality” extended even to family.
What really happened to the Gwanda solar money?
Read CITE’s investigations into the stalled Gwanda solar project and the collapse of the legal case against the contractor.
Don Fortunato retweeted
Alongside the counterfeit prophets, Zimbabwe has cultivated an entire ecosystem of dubious characters whose fortunes appear less connected to productive enterprise than to proximity to power. They do not exist as isolated individuals; they are nodes within a wider architecture of State patronage, privilege and political connectivity.
This is perhaps the more uncomfortable truth about the much-celebrated narrative of record gold exports. Gold may leave the ground in record quantities, and the statistics may be proudly reproduced across the State media, but the deeper question is what happens to the wealth after extraction.
A nation can export record quantities of gold and yet remain materially poor if the resulting wealth is continually converted into private luxuries for a narrow circle of politically connected beneficiaries. In that sense, the problem is not simply corruption; it is the conversion of national productive wealth into private status and consumption through networks of patronage.
The tragedy is philosophical as much as economic: a country's natural resources become a means of enriching those closest to the machinery of power, while the population is left to admire the statistics of prosperity that never quite become prosperity in their own lives.
The gold is real. The exports are real. The wealth is real. What remains questionable is who ultimately owns the economic value created by the nation’s resources, and who merely owns the political connections through which that value is redistributed.
Don Fortunato retweeted
Mutapa is not a sovereign wealth fund.
It is government converted into a company with the doors locked and the curtains drawn.
This is what they did!
Take some of Zimbabwe’s biggest public assets.
Put them under one giant holding company.
Remove key entities from the ordinary public-procurement system.
Reduce Parliament’s ability to interrogate what is happening.
Let political appointees control the boards.
Then allow billions of dollars in contracts, investments and asset decisions to move through that structure.
In a country notorious for politically connected businessmen feeding on state contracts, we are supposed to believe this arrangement was designed for efficiency? @MthuliNcube01 @TembaMliswa @HonMachakaire @paultungwarara @Cde_Ostallos @paultungwarara
And within days, they all own private jets, mansions and helicopters including houses in Dubai?
And so begs the question ; HOW DOES A US$16.5 BILLION EMPIRE MAKE JUST US$21.7 MILLION? @zimlive @thestandardzim
The Mutapa Company like Biti said, is a cesspool for corruption; the perfect architecture for corruption.
1. The politician controls the state.
2. The state controls the Public company.
3. The company controls the asset.
4. The company awards the contract.
5. The connected businessman gets the contract. (Manhize, Tagwirei, Tungwarara etc)
The public pays the bill. Remember;
YOUR TAXES FUND THE STATE.
+ YOUR MINES AND COMPANIES FUND MUTAPA.
+ THE CONNECTED GET THE CONTRACTS AND THE LUXURY;
+THEN WHEN THE MONEY IS GONE, YOU PAY AGAIN
This is how modern looting works.
1. Push aside institutions that were supposed to stand between the politician and the public purse
2. You create a briefcase company.
3. You give it a tender.
4. You inflate the price.
5. You approve a variation.
6. You subcontract another friend.
7. You finance the project with public money.
8. You call the payment an “investment”.
9. And when anyone asks where the money went, you produce a contract.
10. The paperwork becomes the camouflage for the looting.
A tender board is inconvenient when you already know who you want to give the contract to.
Parliament is inconvenient when you don’t want questions.
Auditors are inconvenient when valuations need explaining.
Transparency is inconvenient when the public might discover that the same small circle of politically connected people keeps appearing wherever government money flows.
Mutapa solves those inconveniences by concentrating extraordinary economic power behind a corporate structure.
And then there is the insult:
They tell Zimbabweans this is their wealth.
Whose wealth?
If these assets belong to the people, then show the people:
Every contract.
Every bidder.
Every losing bidder.
Every beneficial owner.
Every politically exposed person.
Every contract variation.
Every payment.
Every loan.
Every asset sale.
Every related-party transaction.
Put the entire procurement register online.
Let Zimbabweans search it.
Let journalists search it.
Let Parliament search it.
Let auditors follow every dollar.
If these deals are clean, transparency will vindicate them.
If the people controlling Mutapa are terrified of transparency, then the obvious question becomes:
What exactly are they protecting?
WE ARE STILL PAYING THE FOREIGN DEBTS RUN UP AND MISMANAGED BY ZANU-PF GOVERNMENTS DECADES AGO. NOW OUT MINES, COMPANIES AND NATIONAL WEALTH SIT INSIDE MUTAPA WHILE POLITICALLY CONNECTED ELITES FEED ON STATE CONTRACTS.
WHEN THE BILL FOR THIS ERA FINALLY ARRIVES, GUESS WHO WILL PAY THAT TOO?
YOU. YOUR CHILDREN. AND THEIR CHILDREN.
Mnangangwa will bankrupt Zimbabwe!
@ibbosnr @BitiLawChambers @bbmhlanga
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Don Fortunato retweeted
The iconic Zimbabwean musician, Lovemore Majaivana, penned the stirring football anthem - "Badlala Njani?" "iTshilamoya ayila mathambo, kodwa idlala njani ingela mathambo." This powerful line tells the awe and admiration for the skillful and passionate play of Highlanders players. The song features tributes to several former Bosso greats, including the legendary @TymonMabaleka who produced the hit song. After a successful football career, Mabaleka transitioned into the music industry, becoming a prominent & sort after music producer. Mabaleka was an inspiration and played a crucial role in producing most of Majaivana's albums, showcasing a unique blend of footballing prowess and musical aptitude.
#Since 1926
#Bosso100
Don Fortunato retweeted
Reports that the Attorney-General's Office is providing “technical assistance” to ZANU-PF in reviewing its party constitution raise a fundamental question about the continuing conflation of party and State in Zimbabwe.
ZANU-PF is a political party. It is not the Government. It is not the State.
The AG represents Government, drafts legislation for Government, upholds the rule of law and defends the public interest.
The AG's Office is not the legal department of ZANU-PF.
A political party's constitution is its own internal instrument. If ZANU-PF requires lawyers to draft, amend or review its constitution, it should procure and pay for those services itself.
Public institutions belong to ALL Zimbabweans.
The State belongs to the people. It does not belong to the ruling party.
Zimbabwe must end the conflation of party and State.
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At the village, deep in the Zambezi valley on one of the funerals of the Lake Kariba ferry disaster in solidarity with the community, I sat with Tonga women of Kariba rural Nyaminyami. They asked me questions that cut deep. Does the government even know we exist? Are they coming to mourn with us also? Do they know our troubles? Do they know that we dont have roads? Do they know we dont have electricity even though its generated in our backyard? Do they see how we are marginalized? In this tragedy, their grief is raw, yet they remain invisible. They said to me we hear that government ministers are gathered in urban Kariba with tents and ceremonies, here in rural Kariba where a lot of victims are coming to be buried home no one came. No resources, no recognition, no solidarity. Their voices cut through the silence: “Do they know us? Do they know our pain?” This is why I chose to be here. Because dignity must be defended where it is most denied
