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@CrimeWatchZW @Muyeradziva00 Sad development. The appetite for cash deals in zw is appalling. What need do they have that necessitate 100% pay in 3 months. A 20% deposit n the rest of fees can be spread over the year - make life easier for one another

Good day Crime Watch. Please post for me and Hide ID. I’d like to put the spotlight on a certain college in Harare called Harare Institute of Public Health (HIPH), to be specific. A tragic incident occurred a week ago, were a female student enrolled at this public college committed suicid€ due to a balance due on her tuition fees. I have a child who enrolled at the same college in February. Prior to enrollment the college tells you all the requirements and tuition payment terms, etc. If you can't pay the whole tuition at once, you can pay 60% upon enrollment (February), then 20% end March and the final 20% end April. They further assure you that no student will be turned away due to outstanding tuition fees (I was told this in person upon enrolling my child), not knowing that it's just a tactic to get you to enrol with them! Unfortunately the deceas€d had a 20% balance for the semester due by April. On the 15th of April she and a large number of students were denied access and turned away due to balances. This was on the 15th, meanwhile they have said fees are to be paid by the end of the month. It seems at that time the parents/guardians could not raise the amount required for her to return to college. Thus leading to the tragic incident where the student decided to €nd her lif€. She was buri€d over the weekend. This could have been avoided. What are the priorities of this college? Yes, we know that most of these colleges are money-making ventures, but at whose expense? It’s unfortunate that this particular college seems to be more interested in demanding money at the expense of quality education, and charging exorbitant amounts for poor quality student materials. Such a young promising life cut short because of a money-centered institution! RIP Courage Rutsate 🙏 😢 💔 @hiphzim

@ZBCNewsonline Sad news did the NSSA Occupational Safety team investigate the accident before site was tampered with. Where are comments from NSSA and other bodies tasked with occupational safety

Three men were been killed in a horrific industrial accident in Workington, Harare.

@ProfJNMoyo @DougColtart @HStvNews @ProfJNMoyo you are not the alpha and omega of knowledge, stop telling to conclude that everyone except you is correct, your arguments are the only reasoned abd valid. Kauk mhani

With all due respect @DougColtart, unless you think you are beyond criticism, merely pointing out that you make unsubstantiated assertions and draw bare conclusions (using emotive political language) such as in the attachments below (which you posted as proof of your "arguments") cannot be an insult. Your attachments are not an argued or reasoned case, they're an action-pamphlet (a manifesto) reeking of politics, telling people what to do and not what to think, where logical reasoning and corroboratable evidence would help them to reach their independent conclusions and independently decide what action to take!

#CAB3 increases the President’s control over: - elections - courts - Parliament - prosecutors - traditional leaders Makes our Parliament undemocratic Takes away our right to vote for the President & gives it to that undemocratic Parliament Deprives us of a say in a referendum

@CrimeWatchZW @DrK3819 @Zimra_11 @wicknellchivayo @ZANUPF_Official @hon_pedzaiscott zigananda zvose lead the way

Naison Marufu has responded to @Zimra_11’s decision to introduce taxes on content creators. Thoughts? : Munotanga mafunga here musati mataura or kuita zvimwe zvinhu. Some of the things that these government institutions do, they even offend common sense 🙌 You want to tax Content creators, but cannot lobby for them ... Painful...That is the contradiction sitting at the heart of Zimbabwe’s digital economy. Zimbabwe has no formal monetization agreement with Meta or Google. Content creators are using foreign details ... South African bank accounts, relatives abroad, VPNs .... to unlock what their own country cannot give them. And now ZIMRA wants a cut of money that technically, by platform rules, was never supposed to reach Zimbabwe in the first place . This is ambush economics. Content creators are already paying taxes where they are registered ... which is not in Zimbabwe ... because the Ministry of ICT has no formal relationship with Meta. They file where the platform recognizes them. They comply where the system exists. Zimbabwe is simply not on that map. The government confirmed the gap itself. Minister of ICT Tatenda Mavetera admitted in January 2026 that discussions with Google and Meta are ongoing but acknowledged “limitations” and gave no timeline . Meanwhile, ZIMRA issued Public Notice 25 of 2026 demanding voluntary disclosure by 30 May 2026 .... penalties waived, but interest still applies. So one arm of government is “engaging” global platforms. The other is taxing income earned through back channels because the engagement produced nothing. But wasn't the first move supposed to be pushing the Ministry of ICT to lobby for Zimbabwe to be on Meta's monetization map? Shouldn't that have been the opening gambit? Get the country whitelisted. Secure the payout pipeline. Formalize the relationship. Then, and only then, talk about tax withholding, registration thresholds, and voluntary disclosure. Instead, ZIMRA issued deadlines while ICT holds meetings that produce nothing. The cart is not just before the horse ... the cart is demanding fuel from a horse that hasn't been born. ZIMRA has the power to tax. Does the Ministry of ICT have the power to lobby? Can you walk into Meta's offices and say "monetize Zimbabwe"? Because if you can't, then you're taxing air. You're demanding compliance for a system you haven't built. Creators are paying the price of your diplomatic silence. Do ZIMRA and the Ministry of ICT ever communicate? The evidence suggests no. Or if they do, they are not listening to each other. To be clear: using the source-based tax rule, ZIMRA is legally correct. If you create content while sitting in Zimbabwe, they consider the income source Zimbabwean .... even if the payment lands in an SA account. The Double Taxation Agreement with South Africa exists, but that requires disclosure and paperwork most creators have not filed . It is possible for ZIMRA to track payments through TaRMS, monitoring mobile money and bank transfers that bring foreign earnings back home, and auditing public disclosures of wealth. It is impossible for ZIMRA to force Meta or Google to write checks directly to Zimbabwean accounts. That is not their mandate and power. They tax what comes in ... they do not create the pipes for it to flow. It is also hard for the Ministry of ICT delivering a monetization deal while US sanctions remain in place. US-based companies face significant legal risks making payments that could indirectly benefit sanctioned individuals. Even if the government negotiates, compliance costs will outweigh Zimbabwe’s small ad market. Google Adsense pays based on viewer location ... a Zimbabwean audience generates roughly 30 cents per thousand views versus up to $7 for a US audience. The market is classified as operationally dead for advertisers. Let's talk about the WhatsApp admin fiasco. 2024. Ministry of ICT floated a tax on WhatsApp group admins. A data protection license, they called it. The policy was so absurd that Meta's Terms of Service don't even allow third parties to charge admin fees for group operation. WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption means ZIMRA cannot see a single message without breaking the protocol. The policy was unenforceable from the first sentence. Yet someone in government said it out loud. Off the cuff. Zero technical understanding. Zero legal grounding. It died in public ridicule ... but it should never have been born. So ZIMRA is correct to tax undeclared income. The Ministry of ICT is failing to deliver access. Meta terms make the workaround a violation. Sanctions are blocking the official route. The digital advertising market is too small to attract serious platform investment. And two government arms are operating as if they serve different countries. ZIMRA has no legal relationship with Meta at all. They are demanding tax on income generated through a platform that does not recognize Zimbabwean creators.🤦 If your citizens must break a platform’s terms of service to earn anything, who is really breaking the law? The creator trying to survive? Or the government taxing a transaction it cannot see, cannot enforce, and cannot protect? Until Zimbabwe gets formal monetization, asking creators to pay tax on income earned through loopholes you cannot close and channels you cannot open is economic ambush. ©The Marketing Maven

@wicknellchivayo how they rob us.

Questions like these highlight the inherent limitations of prayer and the susceptibility of human credulity. It is said prayer changes everything. Nothing is impossible with God. What is your take.

@WillarShoko Why is ZITF not have 4 /5 editions, north east, west. South and central, spread over the years. May be 2 months apart

@bossTenX @OkaPhusisa @NicolaWatson13 Does your response answers your 1st comment

@MokoscoM @OkaPhusisa @NicolaWatson13 We also import grain

A Zimbabwean vlogger was shocked to find a full live chicken selling for about US$2 in India. In Zimbabwe, some of the cheapest chickens are around US$6, while even a day-old chick can cost roughly US$1. That price gap points to a deeper competitiveness problem: input costs, feed prices, energy, transport, finance, and market inefficiencies make local production expensive. If a chick starts at half the price of a mature bird elsewhere, it signals structural costs that make it hard for Zimbabwean producers to compete globally.

@BSaimba @OkaPhusisa Really??

@OkaPhusisa I worked in West Bengal around 2021/2022,imagine a bag of cement is around $1.30 (Rupees equivalent)retail and less than a $1 wholesale.India is ridiculously cheaper

@bossTenX @OkaPhusisa @NicolaWatson13 Did you consider that Europe imports bulk of fruits. Weather in Europe makes it difficulty to grow fruits, thus Locally produced are not prefered due to taste

@OkaPhusisa @NicolaWatson13 Fruits and vegetables are way to expensive here in Europe compared to Zimbabwe, what’s your point?

They fail to realize that major source of the problems is corruption. Billions are siphoned by corruption hinders their cowntry from development

@bbmhlanga Its an undeniable fact that Judiciary is captured. WHO the perpetrator is MATTERS. This is not same treatment afforded to all. Zanupf goons are immune to arrest, president can't instruct release of those criminals

If a person can be denied bail for a crime involving damage of a $10 window pane - committed in no aggravating circumstances, then what would happen to a murder charge. Yet bail is a right. This is not the law, they teach in Zim colleges.

EGonomics. Ncubenomics #zimcurrency

@VMusinachirevo Which company. By naming and shaming you may help the workers

So this guard at our complex is telling me that they earn 130 usd per month but they have gone almost 3 months without pay? They work from 6 to 6 for 5 days per week. No leave no money for the leave not taken and their employer is buying trendy cars? Most black employers are shìt

@Kenebechi1 @VehicleTracker8 @MurapaG LIFE is worth MORE. Two fools dont make a right, she was foolish in perpetuating an argument that seem to hv ended, the shooter was foolish to fire shots when it was not necessary Money, disrespect, insults, disappointment- can be lived with unlike gunshots from. I dont KNOW

@MokoscoM @VehicleTracker8 @MurapaG Do you know the situation that made her start selling at the road side? That she should allow every dick and harry to come eat free.

WARNING: ⚠️ Graphic A woman who had been cooking on the pavement for years was shot and killed in Wanderers Street, Hillbrow, JHB, by an unknown male suspect. The woman incident was a familiar face in the area and part of the daily life on the street. Police are searching for the suspect and a case of murder has been opened. Bad Boyz Security was at the scene. Source X: @Abramjee

@KingJayZim @CityofBulawayo @TeamFuloZim Wallet yakawanikwa here

Tuesday 21 April, 2026. Good afternoon from Tshabalala Extension in Skies. @CityofBulawayo Chicken Corner is the place to be . Off the beaten track . I'm here as Life Chairman of @TeamFuloZim to conduct one of my world renowned Taste Tests. #TheKingIsAround #HappinessIsOurBusiness

@Oliviasullvb He could join us, boxing and earn a decent living doing what he likes instead of beating other people for a song. Poor mental faculties Misplaced hate

@Am_Blujay Its like that there are valves that are being maintained/ refurbished at Millions rands yet the actual works + material cost does not come to 30% of wat is being charged. At times one is aligned to the wrong gang

My boy was charging Eskom R50,000 for relays that cost between R180 and R450 each , nah this is worse than greediness they speak about in the Bible 😭😭😭😭

@harare_1 @MunikwaGodfrey Wasted bullets. At a time the country needs men who can stand up, give their lives to dislodge the evil regime. People should learn to resolve issues amicably. I cant imagine the trauma to the kids

SAD NEWS 💔: A Harare man from Glen Lorne suburb allegedly shot his wife before turning the gun on himself on Friday in a suspected domestic violence incident linked to a phone call. Givemore Tawanda Madzinga, reportedly shot his wife, Nelisa Madzinga (40), injuring her on the shoulder before shooting himself  dead. The incident occurred at their home along Castle Close in Glen Lorne, in the presence of their four children aged 14, 12, 9 and 8. The couple’s misunderstanding is reported to have started on Thursday evening after Tawanda received a phone call from his suspected mistress. On Friday morning, he reportedly woke up and began assaulting Nelisa and their four children. Nelisa reportedly pleaded with him to go to ZRP Highlands for the matter to be resolved, but he refused. She then decided to make a report. As she was walking down the stairs towards the garage, she heard two gunshots and felt a sharp pain on her right shoulder blade. She proceeded to the garage, where she found Tawanda lying on the ground, bleeding from the nose. A neighbour rushed to the scene and took Nelisa to Avenues Clinic, where she was admitted to. “We heard gun shots and when we got into their house, we found that Tawanda’s body had a gunshot wound on the right side of the neck. “The wife said their misunderstanding started when Tawanda received a phone call from his girlfriend,” said the neighbour. A 6.35mm FN Browning pistol, registered in Tawanda’s name under his company and licensed, was found beside his body.  The body was taken to Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals Mortuary for post-mortem.