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“Potholes will be there because we live in the situation of a climate change there are rains water the the streets get washed out” ANC SG Fikile Mbalula “We are not talking something that you know is falling from the sky we talking about what government is going to do to help” @MbalulaFikile

"You listen to Star FM when I'm driving home - pedestrian content. Not constructive to the image of Zimbabwe, to say the least, Honourable Minister, very poor.And these little fellows who appear on Star FM, sometimes ZTV, they have no sense of cultural beauty. Nothing. And some of the language is very, very unpalatable to hear. There are certain words you cannot use in the public domain, and you must respect the listeners accordingly." - Speaker Mudenda. @StarfmZimbabwe @ZBCNewsonline

Dear @stripe I've been in tech for nearly a decade now. I wrote my first line of code on a computer in 2017; before that, I was writing it on paper, and since then I've spent a lot of time around builders here in Zimbabwe, in classrooms, at meetups, in late-night WhatsApp groups, on teams shipping software to the rest of the world. In all that time, one problem has come up more than any other. It isn't talent, and it isn't ambition. It's money, or more precisely, how money moves. We don't have proper access to payment gateways. No @stripe. No @paystack. And when you can't get paid, you can't build a business. You can only build a project. Every year our universities and colleges produce thousands of graduates who want to solve real problems, in health, agriculture, finance, logistics, government, you name it. Some of the most important problems in this country are going to be solved by them. But a product without a way for money to flow through it isn't a startup. It's a demo. AI has made this gap even more painful. A developer in Bulawayo or Harare with a laptop and good tools can now build in weeks what used to take a team months. More people than ever are able to start companies here. Then they reach the checkout page and stop. What do we do instead? The lucky few register companies abroad, open foreign bank accounts, and jump through expensive hoops just to accept a card payment. Everyone else relies on workarounds, a friend's account in another country, informal transfers, "just send it via..." None of that is good for founders, for customers, or for compliance. And the old reasons for keeping Zimbabwe out are weaker than ever. The US sanctions program on Zimbabwe ended in 2024. We came off the FATF grey list in 2022. Stripe Tax already lists Zimbabwe as a supported country. Some of the groundwork exists. Payments still don't. We have a real tech ecosystem here. We have the talent. We have people who keep building through power cuts, currency changes and every other obstacle this country throws at them. What we don't have is the infrastructure to build end to end. So here's my ask, respectfully and directly. @stripe @paystack, is Zimbabwe on your roadmap? If not, what exactly is in the way? And would you consider an invite-only pilot for vetted Zimbabwean businesses receiving USD payments? I'll personally help put together the first group of companies. And to every Zimbabwean founder and developer reading this, reply or quote with what you're building and what you'd ship if payments weren't the problem. Let's show them the demand is real. @patrickc @collision

Aljazeera is agenda setting. That said That said, Zimbabwe has been to soft and lenient on South African companies that have been extracting our platinum and shipping it out. They must build refineries here.

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UPDATE | SABC News reporter Nomvuyo Ntanjana brings us the latest from Kempton Park following the cocaine bust at OR Tambo International Airport. The drugs were intercepted on a flight from Brazil and are not linked to any travellers. Police investigations are ongoing.

Delegates singing and dancing during the 38th ZIMTA Annual National Conference in Harare.

ZIMBABWE CONSIDERS NUCLEAR ENERGY Energy and Power Development Deputy Minister Honourable Yeukai Simbanegavi says Zimbabwe is undertaking preparatory activities to inform a national decision on nuclear energy. She led an inter-agency delegation on a capacity-building visit to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria, followed by a tour of Hungary’s Paks Nuclear Power Plant. #ZBCNews #NuclearEnergy #EnergyDevelopment #Zimbabwe

WATCH March and March leader Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma says the movement is dealing with a legal case that requires R1 million in funding.

Idziwo idzi you should stop consuming alcohol and expecting to give a proper digestive tract of facts & context of the reality. I see the yearn to be a relevant mouth piece but we have so far concluded that your pub talk is neither a reality, tested nor tried. You should stick to pub talks only thank you very much.