R. Chi

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@Joe__Bassey There was an uproar against Kenyans going theee in the first place. As they say where u come from... noone can stop reggae!

If you believe that members of the Kenya-led security mission in Haiti were involved in rapes according to the United Nations, that means you can easily be misinformed. Why are there no names of the culprits, just ages of victims? The United Nations is peddling fake news via its mainstream media just to evade the remaining payment for the Kenya-led Haiti operation.

@alloysiusattah @gyaigyimii Pressure on the power grid and driving prices up for the rest of industry due to higher demand, depletion of clean water sources used to cool the chips powering AI, brainbdrain and dumbing down and subversio of intillegigence etc etc

@gyaigyimii What does an AI center mean in this scenario? Genuinely curious 🧐

We are about to spend $250 million on ai Centers when the 1 million coders is not even making proper headway.

This has now gone beyond what is acceptable. Harare has been allocated all the Zimbabwe versus India matches and now all the Australia matches. I am outraged that Queens in @CityofBulawayo has not been allocated a single match out of the 6 which will be played. Please would @ZimCricketv advise how this is deemed acceptable. I trust that @ZimbabweSrc will investigate this.

@businessXplain 💔

USA COMPANY BUYS LAND IN SA Equinix, a Nasdaq-listed data centre operator, has bought land worth R890-million in Johannesburg and Cape Town as part of a R7.5bn plan to add 160MW of capacity in South Africa. The decision targets rising demand from artificial intelligence and cloud services across Africa. Managing Director Sandile Dube (pictured) said all funding comes from the company's balance sheet. Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana named data centres critical infrastructure in February. Full story - ln.run/ZAIJV

@SizweLo @Makgxnagalx @MainlandAfrica @benmandava

@Makgxnagalx @MainlandAfrica Damn😬 The secondhand embarrassment I’m feeling right now🫣🙈 Anyways, let me leave you with this: x.com/i/status/18646…

Is there any innovation at industrial scale that can be attributed to chartered accountants?

@zenzele @citezw Bayeeeethe!

The @citezw advance team is off to Nkayi for the Chief Dakamela cultural festival. We will be livesteaming the event on our Platforms.

Kuomboka Ceremony 2026❤️🇿🇲!

These were the text messages back then in the village in Zaka.

@SizweLo Ditto for the rest of SADC

Serious industrial nations don’t take accountants as seriously as South Africa does. In industrialising nations, like Vietnam and surrounding states, for instance, the most prestigious roles are found in engineering or industrial management because the economy is physically building things. Meanwhile, in South Africa, SAICA’s CA(SA) is viewed as the ultimate golden ticket. But it’s not only in developing/industrialising nations where accountants take a back seat. In the US, Germany and Japan, CEOs are generally product people or engineers, while in South Africa, a massive percentage of JSE-listed CEOs are chartered accountants. The reason for this is that the South African economy has been deindustrialising for decades, so the existing companies don’t grow by inventing new things or expanding production. They “grow” through the financial engineering of mergers, acquisitions, cost-cutting, and “tax optimisation”. The consequence of this is that if you compare SA to an employment-dense industrialiser like Vietnam, you find that the latter focuses on vocational excellence. Over there, an accountant is just a back-office functionary who supports the factory. The hero is the plant manager who meets a production quota. But South Africa, to its detriment, is obsessed with compliance excellence. The factory, if it even exists, is a “risk” to be managed, and the chartered accountant is the high-priest who tells the board if that risk is acceptable. By taking accountants this seriously, South Africa has perfected the art of measuring value, but has neglected the art of creating real tangible value. The worship and adoration of the CA(SA) is a symptom of a services-led economy that has skipped the labour-intensive industrialisation phase, and this is primarily why the unemployment epidemic cannot be resolved.

cc #NorthernZimbabweans

Do you know that French-speaking countries in Africa take $500 million in loans every year just to buy school books from France? Not laboratories, not research centers, not teachers’ training: poor quality school books filled with caricatured faces of Africans and racial slurs. Borrowed money, disbursed directly to French publishing houses, in exchange for textbooks written in Paris, printed in Paris, and shipped to African children who will spend their entire education believing this is normal. According to French state media @lemondefr in an article published 12 years ago, the same French parent company, Hatier and its subsidiary Hachette, controls roughly 95% of the school manual market across “Francophone” Africa. And how do we fund such purchases annually through loans from the World Bank. And again, am not making up. It is clearly explained in the article published by Le Monde. Our nations do not even touch the money. The $500 million are disbursed directly as loans from the World Bank on behalf of our countries to the French publishing company annually to produce and print in France poorly written, racist school books that are shipped to our countries. We are the only enslaved people on the planet that take loans with interests to subsidize our own enslavement. I am telling Angola this because Angola just made French compulsory in its primary schools from age ten. And I want to be precise about what it has joined, because imprecision is exactly what keeps these arrangements alive. Two years ago, Macron stood in front of cameras and presented a government memo laying out exactly how Paris intended to arrest its accelerating loss of influence across Africa. The remedy prescribed was linguistic and cultural penetration of non-Francophone countries. Angola and Ghana were designated priority targets. João Lourenço and Nana Akufo-Addo were identified as men whose cooperation could be secured. France came bearing curricula, resources, and a check. Both men apparently found the terms reasonable although may be luckily for Ghana, it is yet to be deployed. Here is what is worth understanding about that check: France is not being generous. France is being desperate. The survival of French hegemony depends, structurally and existentially, on maintaining influence in Africa. 70% of all French speakers on earth live on this continent, concentrated in some of the poorest countries in the planet. Without Africa, the “Francophone world” is a provincial club with a prestigious accent and a shrinking membership. France does not “invest” in African language education because it loves Africa. It does so because without Africa, France is a medium-sized European country with a permanent UN Security Council seat it would struggle to justify. And Angola, a country whose economy is now robust enough that Portuguese nationals emigrate there looking for work, decided that the gift it would give its ten-year-old children is access to a linguistic corridor that covers less than 8% of global scholarship and connects them to none of their SADC neighbors. South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania: all English-speaking. The pragmatic choice, setting aside entirely the more principled argument for an African language, was obvious. The saddest part is not that France keeps trying. France’s self-interest is consistent and entirely predictable. The saddest part is that some of our leaders keep making it so effortless for Paris to buy our dignity.

@Farida_N Whoaaah...thats craaazy! They need to refund all of you your tuition and school fees.

Who Abolished Slavery? You think there is no correlation between how we Africans have been engineered to look down on ourselves and to genuflect before those who oppressed us?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Who abolished slavery? Ask any fourth grader in Togo, and the answer comes without hesitation: Victor Schoelcher. Wake me from a deep sleep with that question, and my subconscious will answer before my eyes are open: Victor Schoelcher. Twenty-five years after leaving primary school, the colonial curriculum still lives in me like a reflex. That is what was planted, and that is how thoroughly it took root. It is only the adult brain, the one lucky enough to stumble upon other literatures, other histories, other archives, that comes afterward to contest the first answer. But the first answer is always his name.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ That is what colonial schools taught. That is what post-colonial schools taught. That is what is still being taught today, by people placed in power precisely to ensure that the curriculum of self-erasure continues undisturbed. Because in Francophone Africa, the abolition of slavery has one face, and it is this French man. And in twenty years of academic formation on this continent, from primary school through university, including my own years as a history major at the University of Lome, not once, not in a single classroom, not in a single textbook, was the Haitian Revolution mentioned. Not once were we told that enslaved Black people organized, fought, and defeated the French army, that Haïti became the first Black nation in colonial Americas and the first nation in modern history to defeat a European power that practiced slavery through the resistance of the very people it had enslaved. Twenty years of “schooling”: not one mention of that historical fact. And this is just one example, on just one subject. Because not once throughout my entire education in Togo was I introduced to a Black mathematician, a Black physicist, a Black inventor, a Black philosopher. Not once. But for those of us who were cursed with France, the French apparently discovered more than 70% of world knowledge and wrote more than 80% of the world’s books, because our curriculum was designed to make us believe that the smartest, most resourceful, most intellectually gifted humans to have ever walked the surface of this earth were French. When the data actually tells you that France contributes approximately 2% of the world’s scientific innovation. Two percent. And we were built, from childhood, to worship that two percent as the totality of human genius. I imagine the same arithmetic applied to British, or Portuguese colonies, just with a different flag. This just one subject. There are decades of damage underneath it, layered and compounding. Which is why it is genuinely exhausting to wake up every single day and be expected to debate, with patience and good faith, people who were produced by these laboratories of engineered ignorance and who are entirely convinced that what was done to their minds was an education.

In country X it will certainly die!

Since we are in the mood to Amend the Constitution, how about we amend the recall clause on Members of Parliament under Section 129 to allow the people of 🇿🇼 to recall their non-performing MPs from @ParliamentZim. Right now, under the Constitution of Zimbabwe, MPs can effectively be recalled mainly through party mechanisms. Here is a proposed draft clause: Right to Recall a Member of Parliament. Right of Recall Registered voters in a constituency shall have the right to recall their elected Member of Parliament before the expiry of their term of office, in accordance with this section. Grounds for Recall A recall may be initiated on any of the following grounds: (a) Gross misconduct or abuse of office; (b) Failure to perform parliamentary duties, including persistent absenteeism without reasonable cause; (c) Violation of the Constitution or any law; (d) Loss of confidence by the electorate, demonstrated in accordance with subsection (3). Initiation of Recall Petition A recall process shall be initiated by a petition signed by not less than [20%–30%] of registered voters in the constituency. Verification and Referendum (a) The electoral body shall verify the petition within a prescribed period; (b) Upon a successful verification, a recall referendum shall be held within [60–90] days; (c) The Member of Parliament shall be recalled if a majority of valid votes cast support the recall. Limitations (a) No recall petition shall be initiated within the first 12 months or last 12 months of a parliamentary term; (b) A member of Parliament shall not be subjected to more than one recall process within a 12-month period. Vacancy Where a Member of Parliament is successfully recalled, the seat shall be declared vacant, and a by-election shall be held in accordance with electoral law. As it stands there is an ongoing survey to measure people's perceptions on this, see below👇🏾 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

His country was one of just 3 to vote against today's UN resolution to recognise the Transatlantic slave trade and chattel slavery of Africans as a historical crime against humanity. They just voted against our ancestors, but they care about us you see🥹 Whenever you wake up...

All dominant civilisations and empires rise and then fall, this is a law of nature. But somehow, the West believes that it can prevent this from happening to itself by “studying history” and “learning” from the past. Westerners genuinely hope that if they can just learn to not repeat the mistakes made by past empires, their hegemonic dominance can somehow last indefinitely. Unfortunately, the reality is that the very things that make a civilisation great, eventually become liabilities, and there’s no opting out. Take the United States, for example. It became a global hegemon through the dollar being the reserve currency. The problem is that when your currency is the global reserve, capital markets become your primary export, finance becomes more profitable than making things, talent and investment flow accordingly and the industrial base hollows out over decades. America’s deindustrialisation caused by the dollar is now eating the US and the country cannot reindustrialise without losing its hegemony; but at the same time, continuing down this path of financial short-termism will guarantee loss of the hegemony. Rock and hard place. Trump’s tariff agenda is an attempt to escape this trap through pure political will and essentially ignoring the financial consequences. The early evidence suggests the trap is real and the financial markets will not cooperate. This is because to reindustrialise, the US would need a weak dollar to make exports competitive. But a weak dollar ends the reserve currency status. Ending the reserve currency status means the US government can no longer finance its military or social stability with mountains of cheap debt. The underlying point is that all dominant civilisations wither away because the structural conditions that enable their dominance eventually become liabilities. Rome didn’t lose dominance because Romans made avoidable errors, as many Westerners like to believe. Instead, Rome was trapped by its military system. Roman legions were the source of dominance, but funding them required taxation that strangled the provincial economies that produced the tax base. Every attempt to cut the military weakened the borders, while every attempt to maintain it weakened the interior. Catch and 22. So, the decline of empire is not about mistakes. The US didn’t necessarily err by making the dollar the reserve currency. The dollar system solved real problems such as rebuilding post-war Europe, and for the US, allowed it to expand its own economy and empire astronomically. In this sense, the eventual decline of the American system was built into the success from the beginning. So, “learning from history” is doomed to fail. The West’s insistence that it can “learn from the fall of Rome” is a coping mechanism against a physical inevitability. There’s nothing to learn, because there was never a fork in the road where a wiser choice was available.

Libya negotiated. Let's be precise about what happened to Libya. In 2003, Muammar Gaddafi made a strategic decision to abandon his weapons programs, open his country to international inspectors, and normalize relations with the West. He paid reparations for Lockerbie. He dismantled his nuclear program. He cooperated with Western intelligence against Al-Qaeda. He did everything that was asked of him. He negotiated. He complied. He normalized. In 2011, NATO bombed Libya for seven months. His own military turned against him with Western backing. He was captured in a drainage pipe. A mob sodomized him with a bayonet while Western officials watched via satellite feed. Hillary Clinton laughed about it on camera. "We came, we saw, he died." The man who gave up his deterrent in exchange for promises of security and normalization died in a drainage pipe while the people who made him those promises laughed at the footage of him being sodomized with a bayonet. And Libya, which had the highest GDP per capita in Africa, free healthcare, free education, housing subsidies, and a functioning welfare state, became a failed state with open slave markets within three years. This is what negotiated security guarantees look like. This is the documented outcome. Not a fringe case. Not a misunderstanding. The most complete, unambiguous illustration possible of what your weapons are worth the moment you give them up. The lesson is not complicated. The only deterrent is a deterrent you still possess. The moment you negotiate it away, you have nothing left to negotiate with.

@TrevorNcube Meanwhile one of the most expesive cities in Europe is reducing prices.

The same government that raised fuel prices by 39% in sixteen days is now forming a committee to investigate relief. You cannot make this up. Petrol at $2.17 per litre. The highest in SADC. The majority of workers can no longer afford to get to work. Kombi fares went up overnight. Almost everything else will follow. This is not a Middle East story. This is a captured-state story. The pump is a tax. The silence is the policy. open.substack.com/pub/allthingsz… #Zimbabwe #FuelCrisis #AllThingsZimbabwe

@begottensun Meanwhile...

Just got 18litres for $40 in chivhu. lol. Trump is a failure mhani.