Trevor Tshuma

The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has decided to increase interest rates by 25 basis points amid heightened inflation. businesstech.co.za/news/finance/8…

A rare albino buffalo in Bangladesh — nicknamed 'Donald Trump' for its distinctive blond tuft — has been spared from Eid al-Adha sacrifice after a last-minute government intervention, a Home Ministry official said reut.rs/4utVg7Q

How AI is forcing McKinsey and its peers to rethink pricing ft.trib.al/heqNE7a | opinion

@bbmhlanga VP might be a decoy

Top drawer stories, the question that bags an answer is - will Vice President Chiwenga act or he will just continue speaking in parables?

@baba_nyenyedzi I agree with you on this one. I think empowerment policies should focus on what businesses will do for the poor communities when given a license to operate, rather than giving ownership to someone who contributed nothing towards the formation of a business.

Unfortunately socialism eg BEE impedes capital. Deng abandoned Maoism. Will the next leaders in Africa abandon socialism? When across the continent there has been a rise in nationalism and welfare states? While Thabo Mbeki is right, the reality calls for more action x.com/SABCNews/statu…

@daddyhope People focus on the result which they see but not the process which led to the result.

Today I just want to take time to thank every Zimbabwean who has helped me over the past 11 years as I built the Boer goat breeding business that was inspired by the late Professor Sam Moyo. One day, while sitting with him on his veranda at his Borrowdale home, he told me something I have never forgotten. He said, “You will never become wealthy by earning a salary. You can live comfortably, but real wealth often comes from building something of your own.” When he discovered that my parents had left me a rural home, he and his partner, Beatrice Mtetwa, who is my lawyer, encouraged me to do something productive with that piece of land. That conversation inspired me to start Hopewell’s Boer Goats, which by the time I left Zimbabwe in 2024 had become the third biggest Boer goat breeding business in the country. Prof Sam Moyo then sent me to speak to Professor Lindela Ndlovu, a renowned Zimbabwean animal scientist and former Vice-Chancellor of the National University of Science and Technology. He specialised in animal science and livestock production, including goats. He is the one who truly opened my eyes to the business potential of Boer goats. Initially, I thought I was simply going to do ordinary goat farming. But Prof Ndlovu advised me to focus on high-value breeds such as Boer goats, Kalahari Reds and Savannas. However, because I was coming from Murewa, he specifically recommended Boer goats, explaining that they would adapt well and perform strongly in that environment. What struck me most was how he explained the business model. He told me that my target market should not be people buying goats for meat because pure Boer goats are expensive. Instead, my market should be farmers looking to breed and improve the quality of their own herds. He explained that a mature male Boer goat can weigh between 100 and 120 kilograms live weight, while the average indigenous Mashona goat weighs around 20 kilograms. When you crossbreed the two, the offspring can weigh between 60 and 70 kilograms. That is where the commercial value comes in. Farmers buy a quality Boer buck (male), breed it with their indigenous goats, and then sell the heavier crossbreeds for meat production. That conversation completely changed how I viewed livestock farming. It stopped being just farming and became genetics, business, strategy and long-term value creation. I remain forever indebted to Profe Lindela Ndlovu for his guidance, wisdom and generosity with knowledge. May his soul rest in peace. So, I want to thank everyone who assisted me on that journey, especially during difficult periods when the business was moved from the village after ZANUPF thugs targeted my operation and tried to steal the goats, a story so embarrassing that it was broadcast internationally. But this post is not about that pain. It is about gratitude. When I started in 2015, we were selling six-month-old Boer goats for US$450 each, and sometimes we would have 40 goats born in a single cycle inside one week. Forty multiplied by US$450 is US$18,000. Instead of spending the money, I reinvested it back into the business so it could grow. That money helped me build world-class goat pens not only at my ancestral home, but also on two other pieces of land that I rented from people who had acquired farms through land reform but were not using them productively. Today, those properties remain with the owners, and I am genuinely happy because they are now successfully running their own goat businesses. By the time I left Zimbabwe, I had developed such a strong genetic pool that I was now selling one-year-old Boer goats, commonly known in livestock breeding circles as “four-tooth” goats because of the stage of their permanent teeth development, for between US$2,000 and US$3,000 each. What made these goats valuable was not just their size or appearance, but the quality and traceability of their genetics. Their bloodlines had been documented and officially recorded in South Africa, with lineage records that could be traced back nearly 30 years. Buyers were not simply purchasing a goat, they were investing in proven genetics, breeding quality and future herd improvement. That is how the business evolved from ordinary goat farming into a serious livestock breeding operation built on genetics, record-keeping and long-term value. Over time, I transitioned from breeding into trading and mobilisation after I left Zimbabwe. The business has evolved into sourcing quality goats from South Africa and supplying them to people in Zimbabwe who want to improve their own herds. I also want to pay special tribute to Dr Gerald Manyatelo, a state veterinarian in Gauteng, originally from Zimbabwe, who helped me immensely when I imported my first batch of goats in 2015. Without his assistance at that crucial stage, things could easily have gone wrong and I might have given up altogether. I hope my story inspires others. You can be a professional in one field and still build real wealth from something completely different. Too often, when people see someone succeed, they ask, “Where did he get the money from?” instead of asking, “How can we also learn and build something ourselves?” Zimbabweans are talented, hardworking and capable of building businesses if we support and encourage one another. I was saddened recently when a UK-based lawyer wrote on Twitter saying, “Hopewell has a house in Zimbabwe, another in South Africa and now one in England. Where does he get the money from?” And yet I am 55 years old. A decent house in areas like Chisipite, Borrowdale or similar middle to upper-income suburbs in Zimbabwe can cost between US$400,000 and US$500,000. By the time the Boer goat business had matured, one breeding cycle could generate around US$40,000 or more. Ten good cycles and you can buy a house. For half that amount, you can buy property in South Africa. With proper planning, discipline and financing structures, the same business can help you acquire property elsewhere too. The problem with many of us as black people is that we have been conditioned to question success instead of studying it. Instead of asking, “How did he build it and what can we learn from it?”, people ask, “Where did he get the money from?” We have normalised suspicion instead of inspiration. I have worked for decades as a journalist, documentary filmmaker, consultant and businessman. I built businesses, invested money back into them and took risks when many people were sleeping. There were years when I was waking up before dawn to go and check on goats before doing journalism work. Wealth does not always come from salaries. Sometimes it comes from building something patiently over time. At 55, I am now at a stage where I should be slowing down from some of the hard labour and beginning to enjoy the fruits of years of sacrifice, hard work and persistence. So for someone to act shocked that a man of my age has managed to build a comfortable life says more about what our country has become than it says about me. A society where success is treated as suspicious is a society that has been psychologically damaged by poverty and political failure. So today, I simply want to say thank you to everyone who helped me along the way. I will never forget your support. And to the man who inspired me to start this business, Professor Sam Moyo, rest in peace my dear brother. You were a great source of inspiration and wisdom. One conversation with you changed the direction of my life and taught me that true wealth is built through vision, hard work and creating something meaningful of your own. Your advice planted a seed that grew into something far bigger than I ever imagined. I will always remain grateful for your guidance and belief in me. One day I will tell the story of how, when my journalism licence was revoked, I turned to selling mobile phones and supplying networks like NetOne and Econet, and how that became a dream business that made a lot of money. While others were busy chasing useless things, a few of us, whom I shall name in my book, were flying to London three or four times a month to procure phones. That is the level of the journey some of us have walked quietly, without making noise about it. People only want to see the success, but they ignore or deliberately turn a blind eye to the hard work, sacrifice and risks that were invested behind the scenes. So once again, thank you to everyone who has walked with me on this journey in the Boer goat business, and thank you for supporting my work. You are simply too many for me to mention by name, but you know who you are. You trusted me when I was still a little-known breeder, and together we built a business that became one of the dominant names in the industry. Your support gave me the confidence and credibility to evolve beyond breeding into trading, sourcing quality Boer goats from South Africa and supplying them to farmers in Zimbabwe. That transition was only possible because so many farmers developed trust and confidence in my work and knowledge of Boer goats. For that, I will always remain grateful. I salute you all. And I want to encourage people not to support only me. There are many other small Boer goat breeders in Zimbabwe trying to build something meaningful for themselves and their families. Support them as well. Help them grow the same way many of you supported me. When we support each other, we create industries, opportunities and wealth within our own communities instead of constantly waiting for governments to change our lives.

@ChikomoPrazen You cannot spin this one, just like we cannot spin the video of him saying he met Trump & that the US administration promised MDC $15 billion.

ONLY a FOOL would accept a media house that presents EVIDENCE of what a GUEST said in an interview MINUS the QUESTION that produced the answer. An interview is NOT a rally or a press statement where one speaks freely without prompt, it is a structured exchange of QUESTIONS and RESPONSES. Therefore, isolating responses from their QUESTIONS, CONTEXT, and PURPOSE is not journalism; it is distortion. What exactly was the QUESTION asked? What was the PURPOSE of the interview? What was the full CONTEXT of the exchange? Without that, you are not informing the nation—you are manufacturing impressions and feeding cheap gossip for “I told you so” narratives and political hate clubs. We are a nation that deserves RESPECT, ACCURACY, and FULL CONTEXT, not selective audio fragments designed to suit agendas. If you want to be taken seriously, report FULL Facts, otherwise you risk turning DailyNewsZim into a platform of MEDIOCRITY rather than credible journalism......!!!!!

@biggs_mhanda @chabvongodza @daddyhope There is nothing funny about what you said. The emojis makes you even more stupid than before.

@tretsh85 @chabvongodza @daddyhope It's not about English it's about you linking concepts that have nothing to do with each other simply because you want to tell us you are a business man 🤣🤣🤣

It is clowns like you who allow politicians to become dictators and to lie to the citizenry without accountability. I do not know why you are dragging my name into your nonsense. I did not force Nelson Chamisa to speak to the Daily News, nor did I force him to say the things captured in the recordings. Here is yet another video posted by @jahman_adamski of him speaking about someone who is supposed to be his close friend, Thabani Mpofi, in derogatory terms while talking to people on the other side of the political aisle. Now defend this one too. Let us see what excuse you will come up with this time in the face of his own words and his own voice. It is embarrassing for an adult like yourself to come onto a public platform like Twitter and start defending nonsense. This guy has done this to so many people, his friends, his colleagues, and many of them know that he is dishonest. Yet now you want to blame journalists for exposing his dishonesty. That is exactly why South Africans laugh at us as Zimbabweans and say we are clueless about politics. The culture of blindly defending leaders even when they are clearly wrong is part of what has turned Zimbabwe into what it is today. Here you have a situation of you defending him where he is attacking Jameson Timba, a man pushing back against the violation of Zimbabwe’s Constitution, and to you that does not matter. What matters to you is blindly defending a politician no matter what he says or does. That kind of politics is useless, and it is people who think like you who keep Zimbabwe trapped in this cycle.

@biggs_mhanda @chabvongodza @daddyhope I am not responsible for your failing to understand simple English.

@tretsh85 @chabvongodza @daddyhope What has that to do with being a politician or a business man?

@hwendec Ever heard of this saying comrade - “When you point one finger, there are three fingers pointing back at you”. Opposition politicians are in the same boat with ruling party politicians. Too much greediness.

Chinhu Chakanwirwa kare ichi kungoti hamuterere

@chabvongodza @daddyhope I am not a politician but a business man. What a stupid question.

@tretsh85 @daddyhope Why didn't you contest with your leadership qualities?

Xenophobes and those he analyses as radicalised lumpen will be very angry at this sober analysis by Dr Ndlozi. He will now join the misfortune of being labelled as “protecting the illegal foreigners”

President Trump will swear in Kevin Warsh as the next chairman of the US Federal Reserve on Friday, a White House official said reut.rs/43lLd8N

@bla_bidza The idea might be good but it must come last on the list of priorities.

I support this idea.

@CMukungunugwa He must buy equipment needed in hospitals first and restock medication. We buy chronic medication for our elderly parents in SA

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced that Zimbabwe will construct its own State House, moving away from the colonial-era Government House that has served as the official Presidential residence for decades. A new era, a new symbol of sovereignty and national pride. A new residence for Munhumutapa loading 🇿🇼

The Gates Foundation Trust, established by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, has sold 100% of its Microsoft shares in the first quarter of the year. dailyinvestor.com/technology/134…

This is tragic and painful to watch. A South African telling another fellow South African that they cannot work in another South African province simply because they come from a different province. Someone once warned that when xenophobes and Afrophobes are done targeting foreign nationals in South Africa, they will eventually turn on fellow South Africans. That warning is now becoming reality. Imagine a black South African telling another black South African that they do not “look like people from this province”, therefore they cannot work there. How painful is that? To be told in your own country that you do not belong because of how you look, how you speak, or where you come from. This is backward. This is dangerous. This is a tragic failure of critical thinking and leadership. South African leaders should never allow this poison to grow. History has already shown us where this type of thinking leads. In Rwanda, people were divided, dehumanised and eventually butchered on the basis of identity and appearance. We should never allow Africa to move anywhere near that darkness again. What is happening is unacceptable on every level. It is heartbreaking as a black African to watch fellow black Africans treat each other this way. Those of us perceived to be elites are often insulated from this madness because we live in affluent areas and work internationally. But what about ordinary people trying to survive? Are we now saying a carpenter from Gauteng cannot travel to North West to look for work because he “does not look like people from there”? Come on. This is bad. Very bad. Africa cannot progress while people are taught to hate one another over provincial identities, ethnicity or nationality. Leaders across the continent must stand up firmly against this nonsense before it destroys communities and generations. Africa needs unity, dignity, tolerance and opportunity, not this shameful politics of division.

Does Nelson Chamisa want Zimbabweans to simply sit back and watch Constitutional Amendment No. 3 being pushed through without resistance? Does he expect people to wait for him to return from America and only then decide when an opposition movement should emerge? I thought Chamisa himself told people to go and form political parties and opposition movements of their choice and to leave him alone. Now that some have done exactly that and are trying, in their own small way, to push back against Constitutional Amendment No. 3, why is he insulting and undermining them? Does he not realise that this strengthens the growing perception that there is some form of alignment between him and the faction pushing Constitutional Amendment No. 3, whose objective is clearly to ensure there is no meaningful resistance? Because what sensible opposition figure attacks people who are standing up against the abuse and violation of the Constitution by a ZANUPF faction? Why would anyone genuinely opposed to authoritarianism ridicule citizens attempting to resist it? At a time when Zimbabwe desperately needs unity against constitutional manipulation, attacking those trying to organise only weakens the broader democratic struggle and benefits the very people pushing these dangerous amendments.

@CrimeWatchZW The system is done with her just like it did with former leader of Dudula. The system’s focus is now on the new movement which is emerging in KZN

JUST IN | Operation Dudula president Zandile Dabula has resigned from both her leadership position and membership of the party. She said the decision came after serious reflection about the future of the organisation and her role in it. Dabula explained that some leaders felt Operation Dudula became a political party too soon, as it had already gained strong support as a community activism movement. She also said her vision no longer matched the organisation’s current political direction and admitted there were growing differences within the leadership over strategy and structure. Dabula added that she believes she can contribute more outside the political party structure and decided to step aside to allow the movement to continue on its chosen path.