@AskEmmy0 Brother you dont help for recognition. If you feel a way about it you stop helping and move on. You only can effect what you do in this world not how others react to it
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Thembinkosi Chunga
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Thembinkosi Chunga
@Thembichunga
I am a ( not young) entrepreneur in Africa. trying to make a dollar out of fifteen cents
Harare, Zimbabwe Katılım Mayıs 2010
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I paid my younger brother's university fees for 4 years. Skipped meals. Wore the same shoes for 2 years. Told my girlfriend to wait. She waited.
The day he graduated, he stood up at the party and said:
"I want to thank God and my parents."
I was sitting right there. 🧵
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Iran is not on a suicide mission. It is on autopilot. And nobody in Tehran can reach the controls.
In 2003, Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari watched the United States decapitate Saddam Hussein’s centralised command structure in three weeks. He spent the next four years at the IRGC Strategic Studies Centre designing a military architecture that could never be decapitated. In September 2007, he was appointed IRGC Commander and immediately restructured Iran’s entire military into 31 autonomous provincial commands, one per province, each with independent headquarters, command and control, missile and drone arsenals, fast-attack boat flotillas, integrated Basij militias, pre-delegated launch authority, stockpiled munitions, and sealed contingency orders. The doctrine was built for one scenario: the death of the Supreme Leader.
That scenario arrived on 28 February 2026. The doctrine activated within hours. It has been running ever since.
The question nobody has asked is whether anyone inside the Islamic Republic can turn it off.
No. The reason is constitutional.
Article 110 of Iran’s 1979 Constitution vests sole command authority over all armed forces exclusively in the Supreme Leader. He alone is commander-in-chief. He alone appoints and dismisses military leadership. No other institution, not the President, not the Parliament, not the Guardian Council, not the judiciary, possesses constitutional power to issue military orders or rescind the Supreme Leader’s directives.
Ali Khamenei issued the pre-delegation orders. Ali Khamenei is dead. Mojtaba Khamenei was appointed successor on 8th March. He has not spoken. He has not appeared. He has issued no verifiable order. He was wounded in an airstrike and has never addressed his nation in his life. The sole constitutional authority that could override 31 autonomous commands exists in an office occupied by a man who may not be capable of exercising it.
Ghalibaf can reject ceasefires. He cannot order the IRGC to stop. Pezeshkian can issue statements. He cannot countermand a provincial commander in Bushehr launching anti-ship missiles at a tanker. The Guardian Council can vet legislation. It cannot revoke firing authority issued by a dead commander-in-chief whose orders remain legally binding until a living one explicitly rescinds them. No living one has.
The 31 commands are not disobeying. They are obeying. The last orders said: fight independently, with whatever you have, for as long as it takes, without waiting for instructions that may never come. Those orders were designed to survive the death of the man who issued them. That was the entire purpose of Jafari’s twenty-year project.
For insurers: no counterparty can guarantee cessation across 31 independent actors.
For diplomats: no signatory can bind commands they do not control.
For military planners: no single headquarters whose destruction ends the campaign.
For Gulf states: each faces localised harassment from the adjacent Iranian province’s fast-attack boats, drones, and coastal missiles without any central coordination to intercept or negotiate with.
For markets: seven P&I clubs modelled the probability that all 31 commands would simultaneously honour any agreement and concluded near zero. That calculation has not changed because the constitutional mechanism that could compel compliance does not functionally exist.
The doctrine was not designed to win. It was designed to make losing impossible. Jafari studied how centralised armies die. He built one that cannot.
The machine runs without a pilot. The pilot is dead. And the constitution says only the pilot could have turned it off.
Full analysis in the link.
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86
BREAKING: Iran’s Parliament Speaker just killed the ceasefire. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, March 10: “We are certainly not seeking a ceasefire. We believe the aggressor must be struck in the mouth. We will break this cycle of war, negotiation, ceasefire, war.” This arrives the same day the Wall Street Journal reports Trump’s advisers privately urging an exit. Oil crashed from $119.50 to below $91. The market exhaled. Iran’s second most powerful elected official just told the world the exhale was premature. Here is what every actor is actually doing while the ceasefire dies. The IRGC launched Wave 33 this morning. One-ton warheads on Kheibar Shekan missiles targeting Tel Aviv and the Fifth Fleet. Codenamed “Labbayk ya Khamenei” for a Supreme Leader who has not spoken and may not be conscious. General Mousavi announced no warhead below one ton from this point forward. Thirty-one autonomous provincial commands continue firing without central orders. The doctrine does not need a ceasefire because it was built to function without one. Seven P&I clubs, Gard, Skuld, NorthStandard, Steamship Mutual, American Club, Swedish Club, London P&I, covering 90% of global tonnage, cancelled war-risk cover on 5 March under Solvency II. Zero have reinstated. Hormuz crossings collapsed from 138 daily vessels to approximately 2. Premiums surged from 0.05% to 1-3% of hull value. The DFC’s $20 billion backstop has produced zero confirmed large-scale VLCC transits. Force majeures have cascaded from QatarEnergy to Saudi Aramco to Kuwait Petroleum to Bapco to Aluminium Bahrain to Yeochun NCC Korea to Formosa Taiwan to PCS Singapore to SCC Rayong Thailand. The naphtha-to-polyethylene chain feeding Asian manufacturing is broken. Ghalibaf’s rejection ensures it stays broken. China is not intervening. It is collecting. MizarVision publishes AI-labelled satellite imagery of every US asset in theatre. Shadow fleet vessels deliver drone components at night. The PLA is learning American reaction times, electronic warfare effectiveness, and interceptor depletion economics in the most comprehensive live-fire intelligence collection it has ever observed. Beijing does not need the war to end. It needs the war to teach. Russia is harvesting. Urals at yearly highs. Power of Siberia delivering 38.8 billion cubic metres to China. Putin evaluating a preemptive halt of European energy to redirect at Hormuz-inflated prices. The war finances Ukraine without Moscow firing a shot. The Houthis have resumed selective Red Sea strikes. If Bab al-Mandab activates alongside Hormuz, both chokepoints bracketing the Arabian Peninsula close simultaneously. Ghalibaf’s rejection extends the timeline in which that can happen. Twelve days. One Supreme Leader dead. One invisible. Thirty-three waves. Seven clubs withdrawn. 138 daily transits reduced to 2. Five navies deployed. Zero commercial transits restored. Zero insurance reinstated. Zero ceasefires. Zero negotiations. The war has no political exit because Ghalibaf closed it. No commercial exit because the actuaries closed it five days earlier. No military exit because the doctrine was designed to outlast every strategy conceived by the adversaries it was built to fight. The market priced a quick war. The doctrine priced a long one. Ghalibaf just told you which. Full analysis in the link. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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Thembinkosi Chunga retweetledi
There is NO shortage of Land. Drive up and down the country and you see that there was NO need to “take back” land from White farmers considering the millions of Hectares government could have allocated. In Gutu NONE of the A2 farms left by our grandparents are currently producing more than subsistence after 80yrs in our “black” hands.
Give the Zvigananda any plot on the Zambezi and let’s see if they can make it a Tourist attraction. They won’t. They want the already built one which they will abandon after a few braais with their girlfriends.
Look what happened to Lion & Cheeta park. Snake Park etc.
Property and commercial rights are the bed rock of a functional economy. If you can lose millions in investments because a minister “ can’t remember signing the lease” then we are fucked.
A minister signs thousands of documents a year. The stamp and signature are th ONLY reminder they need.
Anyways. They will eventually be out of whites to bully. After that, they come for KwaTerry and any thing else dope. HazviGUTI zvigananda. Take take take. Never plant. Never nurture just take.
𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐙𝐖@CrimeWatchZW
Terry William Kelly (73), who invested millions of US dollars into Chewore Lodge, has lost the property after Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court cancelled a 25-year lease agreement. Chewore Lodge is a well-known safari destination with visitors from around the world. Kelly operated the lodge for 15 years through his company, Suscaden Investments, under two leases and a settlement agreement issued by ZimParks, which accepted rent and treated the lease as valid for many years. The courts later ruled that the lease was invalid because it did not have clear approval from the responsible minister. Although the lease document carried the former Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri’s signature and a former ZimParks official confirmed it was received through official channels, Minister Muchinguri denied signing it. Because no one could prove she personally signed the document, the courts ruled against Kelly. This decision ignored the fact that the government allowed Kelly to operate for years and benefited from his investment and rental payments. Kelly now faces eviction without compensation due to a failure within government processes that was beyond his control. The state’s acceptance of the lease for years was dismissed, leaving Kelly to bear the full loss. As a result of the Supreme Court ruling, Kelly is expected to lose all the millions of dollars he invested in Chewore Lodge, a high-end tourism project in the Zambezi Valley.
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Thembinkosi Chunga retweetledi
The claim that Zimbabwe cannot plausibly be a ~$52bn economy because poverty remains high rests on a neoclassical assumption that GDP must translate into broad welfare.
That assumption does not hold in structurally dual, enclave-driven economies.GDP measures value added, not income distribution. Zimbabwe’s growth since 2016 has been concentrated in capital-intensive sectors, mining, finance, construction, and commodity value chains, with weak employment multipliers and limited wage transmission.
Rebasing after a decade of structural change can easily reveal large GDP increases, as seen in Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya. High poverty alongside rising GDP is not unprecedented; it is a well-documented outcome where growth is unbalanced, informality dominates, and fiscal redistribution is weak.
The real debate should not be whether growth is “possible,” but how that growth is structured, who captures it, and why it fails to reduce poverty.
Tinashe@baba_nyenyedzi
GDP theory vs reality At Zimbabwe’s GDP per capita around $3,000, believing the economy is US$52bn, having 45% of the population in extreme poverty and over 70% in poverty is theoretically possible BUT improbable. And certainly never been seen in reality. Even Equatorial Guinea does not defy economic laws. Such a level of extreme poverty and poverty in general mean more of people live below the broader poverty line, leaving the median citizen poor. For the Zimbabwean unicorn case to hold, GDP would have to be unusually concentrated in one or two capital-intensive, enclave-style industries. Those sectors would likely contribute roughly 30–50% of GDP while employing few people and enjoying strong growth. Theoretical possible but not in reality. Even most resource-rich outliers do not sustain extreme-poverty rates this high at that income level. We are allowed to question and have robust discussion of GDP numbers and onus is on GoZ to fully engage in this discourse. It affects how investment decisions for the year are made.
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@Shadaya_Knight Whilst the motive you claim may be true, every man must know their responsibility in an issue. He may have been given an illegal order to speed, but he carried it out and his culpability is there. Hopefully, it's a good lawyer who represents him.
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Kayode Adeniyi is being used as a scapegoat in the Anthony Joshua accident by the Nigerian government
The man is being charged with reckless driving and manslaughter
But who's also being held accountable for not having emergency services in place? Is it not a crime for tax paying citizens not to have access to emergency services?
They want to cover systematic failure by punishing one poor man
Has it occurred to anyone that the poor man could have been under strict orders to speed?
Should he be arrested does it change the fact that emergency services are non existent in Nigeria?
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Thembinkosi Chunga retweetledi
#Pause . Christmas Day Reflection.
In most normal countries, a report that Parliament spent US$400,000 beautifying the private home of a senior public official would trigger public outrage, resignations, and serious questions.
In Zimbabwe, it barely causes a ripple.
Ironically, a recent radio poll one that affects nobody’s livelihood,generated far more anger and engagement than this revelation by the Auditor-General, reported by @CiteZW.
Celebrity drama, social media fights, and gossip routinely drown out issues that directly touch on corruption, public finances, and bread-and-butter realities.
The purveyors of corruption understand this dynamic very well.
Over time, society has been conditioned to normalise excess, excuse looting, and become easily distracted by crumbs. There is little shame left in being accused of corruption, or in flaunting ill-gotten gains.
Even more worrying is how acceptable it has become to kneel before those accused, hoping for a share of the spoils.
A quiet observation, nothing more.
Sadly, this damning revelation will likely never trend the way a radio poll or social media drama does.
But it matters.
Silence helps no one.
Zenzele@zenzele
$64,000 for curtains?! A @CITEZW investigation reveals Parliament splurged nearly US$400,000 of public funds on Senate President Mabel Chinomona’s private home. Bypassed tender laws Handpicked suppliers Public funds or a private piggy bank? cite.org.zw/parliament-spe…
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Thembinkosi Chunga retweetledi
Zambians & Africans at Large, have you noticed that since The AFCON began, Western soccer personalities like Fabricio Romano have not tweeted a thing on Africa's Greatest Football competition like they do COPA America ? This is exactly what the world thinks of us as Africans !
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@ChaChaChaE66353 @matigary @dereckgoto It is easy to write down such a response but by discounting concerns off hand it is obvious you haven't tried to start a business in Zimbabwe. You can't even get an unsecured overdraft from a bank to cover monthly shortfalls
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@matigary @dereckgoto Zimbabwe's tax regime in terms of compliance is far from being thorough both by corporates, SMEs etc and revenue authority. In a way this latest move will make companies to embrace tax planning and accounting into their systems at inception daily, weekly and monthly.
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Totally agreed @dereckgoto
These policies are created by a regulator class totally ignorant about the headaches of running a business.
Imagine an SME who is trying to make it getting bogged down every month by dealing with and doing Zimra’s job.
Next best thing is to just close that business, free yourself from the headache and try other things.
Dereck Goto@dereckgoto
Trading on Parole - ZIMRA’s 30-Day Leash on the Economy ZIMRA’s proposal to introduce a monthly renewable Tax Clearance Certificate (ITF 263) from January 2026 is being sold as modern, dynamic compliance. In reality, it is regulatory overreach that confuses bureaucratic control with sound fiscal policy and risks choking the very economy it seeks to tax. From an economic perspective, the flaw is clear. Development economics warns of the compliance cost hypothesis: when the cost of obeying the law rises too high, rational actors exit the formal system. Shifting clearance from an annual or quarterly cycle to a monthly one is not a marginal tweak; it hyper-inflates compliance costs. Large corporates absorb this through compliance teams. Micro and small enterprises, which dominate Zimbabwe’s economy, cannot. Time spent navigating TaRMS, reconciling filings, and chasing monthly clearances is time stolen from production and trade – a deadweight loss to GDP. The policy is also designed for fragility. It assumes near-perfect digital systems and administrative responsiveness. One outage, one delayed reconciliation, or one unresolved objection at month-end can instantly render a viable business “non-compliant.” This single point of failure can freeze segments of formal commerce overnight. The incentive effects are worse. Zimbabwe is trying to formalise its shadow economy, yet this policy pushes firms back into cash-only obscurity. Facing the risk of losing income access twelve times a year, rational operators will view formality as a liability. The outcome is a shrinking, not expanding, tax base. Liquidity is the final blow. The 30% withholding tax for non-clearance is not a nudge; it is capital extraction. In a liquidity-starved economy, freezing 30% of a gross invoice over a filing or system issue is fatal. For most SMEs, that money is working capital, not profit. This turns tax administration into a solvency crisis and slows the velocity of money. On the shop floor, the disconnect is stark. SMEs have no compliance departments. The “tax manager” is the owner. Expecting flawless monthly compliance amid power cuts, network failures, funerals, illness, and delayed payments is fantasy. Miss a deadline by days, and you effectively lose the right to trade properly next month. The psychological toll is severe. Where businesses once planned and breathed, monthly clearance creates permanent anxiety – a rolling probation where survival depends on never slipping. Long-term planning becomes impossible. Worse still, a monthly choke point for survival creates fertile ground for rent-seeking. This is structural, not moral. Desperation breeds shortcuts, turning compliance into a corruption risk rather than an efficiency tool. The verdict is unavoidable. This policy uses a sledgehammer to crack a nut and risks smashing the table the economy rests on. It assumes levels of digital stability, liquidity, and capacity that do not exist. If the goal is sustainable revenue and genuine compliance, the answer lies in reducing friction for SMEs, not tightening a thirty-day noose around their necks.
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@RegManditereza This is the issue with gvt agencies.. instead of dealing with and punishing non compliant operators, they set a new difficult policy that punishes compliant actors.
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I saw the below notification from ZIMRA. It’s clear that whoever proposed monthly tax clearances has no experience in industry. Requiring us to collect, verify, and file hundreds of clearances every month for every single supplier being paid, is an enormous administrative burden....in fact, it is a full-time job on its own. Instead of improving the ease of doing business, this adds another layer of unnecessary bureaucracy. I suppose this is what they mean by 'We are here to serve". This is sad 😢
ZIMRA@Zimra_11
Public Notice 69 of 2025 : ISSUANCE OF TAX CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE FOR YEAR 2026 TAX PERIOD
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Thembinkosi Chunga retweetledi
Hey, fam.
Let me step into the group chat with a small favour, eksé. I don’t ask for these often so allow me this one ,and brace for the proud father moment 😂😂😂
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@CorettaHus12103 @garyzerf
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@ali_naka The unfairness in parking enforcement alone is one issue that will cause headaches for them
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When Sudan sued the UAE with evidence that they are sponsoring the RSF which is committing genocide in the country, while bringing in Colombian mercenaries to work with them to commit the ethnic killings, the United Nations highest court the International Court of Justice on 5th May 2025 dismissed the case, saying that it could not proceed because the UAE had opted out Article 9 of the Genocide Convention, which means that it cannot be sued by other states over genocide allegations.
The United Nations is an accomplice to the genocide in Sudan.
Mohanad@MohanadElbalal
The UAE sent 57 Arms supply planes to their proxy genocidal RSF militia during October, 57!!!
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@Zvoutete14 The neighbor employs a.maid. the daughter doesn't. Very fair.
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My neighbor who has a 12 or so year old daughter ordered his maid not to wash the daughter’s clothes so the daughter washes her clothes on her own. Is this good or bad parenting?. Is it fair on the daughter to do her own laundry fully knowing that they’ve a maid?
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Thembinkosi Chunga retweetledi
AGOA expired last week, & the Trump Administration seems not eager to extend it… AGOA gave African farmers & others DUTY FREE access to the US Market.
Due to US Sanctions, Zimbabwe NEVER benefited from AGOA… South Africa was the biggest beneficiary, & the consequences might be terrible UNLESS it quickly finds alternative markets.
This is a hard lesson for Africans: Increase trade amongst each other, remove the artificial barriers suffocating African trade…
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Thembinkosi Chunga retweetledi
We live in a society filled with envy, jealousy, and hatred, my brother. That is the unfortunate reality of the country we inhabit. Our leaders are merely a reflection of who we are as a people — destructive, corrupt, and self-serving.
When that destructiveness is combined with hatred, envy, and jealousy, it produces the toxic environment we see and battle against every single day.
But as I always remind my followers, no matter how dark it gets, good always triumphs over evil. It may take time, it may demand courage and endurance, but truth and integrity will always outlast deceit and corruption. You can’t destroy someone you didn’t build unless they allow you!
Africa, and our dear country Zimbabwe in particular, struggle not only because of what colonialism did to us, but also because of what we continue to do to each other. It is what I call the scarcity mentality; the belief that another person’s success threatens your own.
Even among the educated, those leading major organisations often work to undermine others who are equally educated and successful.
It is a deeply ingrained form of self-sabotage, a tragic inheritance of insecurity and competition born out of oppression. Sadly, this has become the nature of being a black man in Africa; fighting not only external systems, but also the internalised fear that there is not enough space for all of us to rise together.
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@advocatemahere While blame must be shared. Decision was made. Instead of watering the trees they have been allowed to die... This is shameful
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🔸Good morning King,
They planted the wrong trees and a number of citizens pointed this out at the time. If you look at all the beautiful trees that surrounded us growing up, most were indigenous and therefore low maintenance. If a tree requires a lot of watering in its infancy, you can’t plant that tree in May. Plant it in November. This is how you approach it if you’re sincere about making Harare more beautiful.
But we all know what happened - someone got the palm tree tender. The rest is history.
We need new leaders.🇿🇼
King Jay🇿🇼@KingJayZim
The Harare I grew up in would never have allowed this nonsense! Nxaaa! I am very disappointed, if not disgusted, at the state of the newly planted palm trees which were planted along several streets in Harare. I took my time before speaking out because I wanted to understand why the city fathers would turn a blind eye to the sorry state of these trees, but honestly it just doesn’t make sense. It’s not like the trees wilted and died overnight, this happened slowly and right in front of the councillors’ eyes, it’s a shame. Had these same inept councillors been in charge back in the day when jacaranda trees were planted, we wouldn’t be enjoying their beauty today. Are there no nurseries with reasonably tall jacaranda or flamboyant trees, say a metre tall? If not, why not? Harare City Council in the 80s had its own nurseries, what happened to them? And while I’m at it, let me say this, hopefully it stirs up a lively debate. Forget about the palm trees, let’s keep the theme, let’s replace them with jacaranda and flamboyant trees. If we plant them interchangeably, a jacaranda tree then a flamboyant tree then a jacaranda tree, maaan future generations will enjoy that contrast in colours, vibrant and awesome. I’m not even sure if they go into full bloom at the same time, but even if they don’t, we’ll enjoy their beauty during different seasons. For me personally, palm trees are just bland, haana dhiri aya, even shade haana ,so I say down with palm trees from now on. Anyway, once again, I’m very disappointed with the way the Sunshine City I grew up in has turned out, very disappointed. #Mxmmm
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Thembinkosi Chunga retweetledi
Is Tembisa Hospital an isolated case? I very much doubt this to be the case. It is very possible that many public hospitals have been, for many years, a massive cash cow for syndicates linked to politicians. SIU’s major weakness is not to reveal: POLITICIANS aiding and benefitting in Tembisa Hospital corruption!
The cruelty of it all: stealing from the sick, the poor and the marginalised! How do you drive those cars, use the looted from public hospital to live large with private healthcare? The shame and pure heartlessness of it all! Sies! Then the brutal murder of all those seeking to correct and expose such barbarity!
We can’t accept to be ruled by criminals and a com-tsotsi caste ready to kill for the self-enrichment using public resources!
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@AFCAMDEN @TheArsenal_ Seems like rules change depending on who you are. The quality of VAR in England is atrocious
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Thembinkosi Chunga retweetledi
Forgotten lives: The plight of Katanga mixed raced children by Japanese miner in Congo in the 70-80s...
The Japanese don't get the scrutiny they should be getting.
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