“Let me stop you right there…”
Caribbean nation Guyana is booming after discovering oil. BBC’s Stephen Sackur puts it to President
@presidentaligy
; lobbyists say oil is bad for the climate.
Dude wasn’t having it. Mans was ready!
@eshonge
Lessons! Never go into interviews unarmed. The man’s Comms team obviously anticipated all the questions and crunched all the numbers. Lovely to see
Congrats to Zimbabwean born chemical engineer 24-year-old Stephanie Travers for landing one of the world’s coolest jobs: Out of 7,000 candidates, she’s been named Trackside Fluid Engineer for Lewis Hamilton and 5-time F1 champs Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS
Salute to the Zimbabwe national netball team, who today qualified for the Netball World Cup - for the first time ever!
The tournament is in Liverpool, 2019 ✊🏾
Local lawyer watches in utter shock as those SA lawyers argue their case in plain English, without using any big Latin crinkum-crankum sesquipedalianism…
Former Zimbabwe Warriors coach Charles Mhlauri now running a thriving egg business, Benabour Farm, near Byo. Doing 8,000 eggs a day.
Great stuff.
(Vid via
@tandazaniz
)
Yah. Reminder that ‘good’ journalism costs money. The resources put into this; putting people on assignment for 2 years, flying them around the world (at short notice), gadgets, paying people. Our newsrooms may have talent, but can barely send a reporter to Chitungwiza. Levels.
Sad to hear that Brian Rusike has passed away.
He is the man who wrote the famous song “Ruva Rangu” (ndiwe chete, ndiwe muridzi wemoyo wangu).
It is arguably Zimbabwe’s best known love song, and has been covered by many artistes over the years.
RIP, and thank you🙏🏾
Me when any Zimbo🇿🇼 is competing in anything, ANYTHING - football, wine tasting, netball, beer drinking, sadza eating - best believe you will find me there like....
I remember when I was a reporter at The Standard & called Roy Bennett. Didn't know then that he spoke Shona. I kept asking for Mr Bennett. He kept shouting back "ndati ndivo vano VaBennett". And I was wondering which fella is this taking me for a fool in that Manyika accent. RIP.
“Amafighter afikile kwelishumi, ndithi vuma kamnandi…”
The way Malema closed his speech though 👌🏾 striding forward, the rising platform, the music…
His team really put some thought into optics. Love it.
#EFF10thAnniversary
The other day, I said to him: “Your room is a mess.”
He replied: “That’s what makes it special.”
Now he has gazetted a Statutory Instrument barring any “disturbments”.
In my own house!
So, Mt Pleasant residents invited party candidates to discuss issues affecting their area and their proposals.
Mt Pleasant CCC MP candidate
@advocatemahere
and CCC Ward 17 council candidate Happymore Gotora have turned up. The Zanu candidates have not.
Two empty chairs 😏
In the Independent Republic of Borrowdale Brooke, they now have their own sewage treatment plant, built at a cost of US$660K, in addition to their own petrol station and border control. Goals.
Let’s talk solar projects in Zimbabwe.
[Small thread on current solar projects, and planned ones]
This is Harava, building a 20MW solar farm in Seke. Initial phase of 6MW done and company is now scaling up. According to Harava, the plant would provide power to 45 000 home
The passion this man had for the arts ran deep.
Playwright.
Co-founded Chipawo in the 80s, a platform for developing young talent. Some of Chipawo’s products; Danai Gurira, Chiwoniso Maraire, Chipo Chung.
A real Zimbabwean hero.
RIP, Stephen Chifunyise 🇿🇼
It takes a special kind of immorality to buy yourself a Range Rover while running a broken down institution.
An immorality sadly normalised by our comrades for decades now.
Next time you be in church singing, “you’re Alpha & Omega, we worship you our Lord...” (or other variations😁) remember the composer: Pastor Erasmus Mutambira.
(Also composed the worship song ‘Blessings and Honour, be unto theeeeee’ and others).
“Unsung” Zimbabwean legend!
Was “kuma tuckshop” where the “real economy” is.
Manufacturers now supply more to these guys than to formal retailers.
One truck to the supermarket, 3 downtown kune mari.
Our bent currency economics.
The Obamas are 'Becoming' a billion-dollar brand; Michelle got a $65m book advance and a $50m Netflix deal. She gets paid $225K to speak.
Barack makes $400K per speech.
Violence should be strongly condemned. The loss of human life in Kwekwe yesterday is unacceptable. Let ideas be the basis for winning the hearts and minds of the people and not violence.
The removal of the “Mbende/Jerusarema” Drumbeat which heralded the starting and the ending of News Bulletins on ZBC has divided opinion. Some believe it’s a progressive thing whilst others bemoan the loss of our signature cultural expression. What are your views?
Engineers 👏🏾
So, part of the Beitbridge border expansion is this 11.4 million litre reservoir, to supply water to the town.
How they built it: the roof weighs 1,500 tons and they float it up using water, then rotate it by hand to lock it into place.
[🎥 Raubex]
The comrades in Tanzania have just completed the remarkable Julius Nyerere hydropower project:
• $2.9bn (Govt funded)
• 9 turbines, producing total 2,115MW (Tz’s peak demand 1,400MW)
• Built by Egypt’s JV Arab Contractors + Elsewedy Electric
• Started 2019
Hongera sana 🇹🇿
Years ago, Uganda privatised electricity. Now, the govt says because it’s in private hands, power is too expensive for consumers. Electricity generation and distribution is going back to the state
Today, Chibuku launched a new banana flavoured ‘Super’.
Last year, Zimbos drank 3.72 million hectolitres of masese, the highest in 5 years.
To meet rising demand, Delta is opening a new Chibuku plant.
Not a masese fan, but whoever came up with Super is product genius.
In 1949, brothers Paul and Rob Halsted opened a company in Bulawayo. They called it Halsted Brothers Ltd. They traded in hardware for mines etc. First Harare branch opened in 1964, then Mutare and Kwekwe in '74.
Then in 2014, Halsted rebranded.
Generational chakuti...
Some people are doing this Harare thing differently...
The new Sibiti Private Residential Estates, in Greencroft.
Seen quite a few new properties like this coming up.
What’s the demand like?
This is why
@ThulasSims
is winning over other 'foreign correspondents'. So much colour detail, nuance to his coverage.
The advantage of knowing the terrain. 👏🏽