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On my way home along Shamva Road, back in Rhodesia this used to be a massive horticultural farm it was owned by the late former Deputy Finance Minister David Chapfika who died at a bridge a few meters away. What shocked me is the “farm” is filled with earth-moving equipment and foundations of houses are already in shape. The explanation is that the property development is being done by a Commercial Bank; maybe an estate repossession on collaterised debt and the bank converting the farm into a residential estate. Ndarwadziwa hama wee! Government needs to stop this as a matter or urgency. The farm is way out of Harare but the project is groundbreaking for all the farms just after Murewa-Mutoko: Shamva turn off will more likely be turned into property development. Please Government! Ndapota hangu! Stop this. This farming area is well known for horticulture for both export markets and Harare. Ndinzweyiwo wedetemba. Just stop this.
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Zimbabwe is overwhelmed by excessive car imports such that we now take very little cognisant of the roadside car-breaking and the environmental pollution around us. Ukatoita tag Mafume anotogona kukutuka. Bloody rural migrants. Highfields Gazaland, High-Glen Road is a mess.
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In Kenya, their new reconstructed roads they have street lights in the double-lane motorways.
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And so, while Mnangagwa and his so-called adviser claim they are “rehabilitating the Mazowe River,” what is actually taking place is called gold sluicing. Common in artisanal and small-scale mining, especially along rivers. Widely practiced in parts of Asia, and South America. Gold sluicing is a traditional method of extracting gold from alluvial deposits—gold that has been eroded from rock and deposited in riverbeds, streams, and floodplains. The process involves using sacking material such as burlap, gunny sacks, old feed bags, or coarse netting as matting to trap gold particles. Gold-bearing soil, sand, and gravel are fed into a sluice channel. Through gravity separation, the heavier gold settles at the bottom while lighter material is washed away. The riffles and gunny-sack mats trap the dense gold particles and allow lighter debris to pass through. The trapped gold is then periodically collected from the sacks. Only the gullible and the uninformed ana Mutisi can be deceived by this charade.
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Most people I engage with in Zimbabwean economic discourse have never walked the path I walked yesterday. They analyse the economy from distant vantage points, detached from the lived realities on the ground. There is far too much pussyfooting among economists, policymakers, and civil servants such as Jamwanda, Hon Prof Mthuli Ncube, PROFESSOR GIFT MUGANO (Ph.D), Tinashe, and many others involved in national economic conversations. The structural realities confronting Zimbabwe are visible in every street and marketplace. The economy is being overwhelmed by imported contraband, particularly cheap wearable goods, much of it counterfeit Chinese merchandise and low-quality plastic products that are environmentally destructive. At the same time, the excessive “tuckshopisation” of the economy has hollowed out formal commerce and productive industrial activity. Roadside vending has now been normalised as a substitute for sustainable employment and genuine entrepreneurship, yet this reflects economic distress rather than economic transformation. Informality is no longer a peripheral issue; it has become the dominant structure of economic survival. In my view, prolonged dollarisation and dependence on the US dollar have inflicted deeper and more irreversible structural damage on Zimbabwe’s productive economy than hyperinflation itself. It has accelerated deindustrialisation, weakened domestic production, incentivised import dependency, and entrenched a consumption-based informal economy. Yet very few seem willing to confront this reality with intellectual honesty.
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At this ZANU PF star rally today in Chipinge the under-fire Paul Tungwarara said Pasi nenhamo; a popular Tagwireyi slogan and his supporters did not respond well to that and they mumbled something saying Pasi nezviGananda. Looks like there is a growing new breed of factions in ZANU PF.
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