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Don Fortunato retweeted
$300K is enough to build such a school in Zimbabwe. If you are in power for 10 years, each year you can set aside $18 million for a school in each of the 60 rural districts. In 10 yrs you would have built 600 schools. Enough to cover our deficit and more!
Don Fortunato retweeted
Tonight, the American people sent a clear message — they want a politics that brings people together rather than divides them, and leaders who offer concrete solutions to the challenges they face.
These results were only possible because outstanding candidates stepped forward in every region of the country — including in areas once considered long shots. They came from different backgrounds and represented a range of political perspectives, but were united by shared values, a belief in public service, and a commitment to putting the people of their districts and states first.
We also owe a debt of gratitude to the thousands of election officials and volunteers from both parties who helped ensure a smooth election and carried out one of the most essential functions of our democracy.
While this administration has another two years in office, our job now is to roll up our sleeves, make changes wherever we have the power to do so, prevent further damage, and lay the groundwork for the future.
Don Fortunato retweeted
This is today's American leader 🤣🤣🤣
After listening to former President Barack Obama last night, we are then subjected to this drivel today. America has truly gone down the tubes and into the sewer.
Is this really the leader of the once great America? 🤣🤣🤣
Talking about Nicki Minaj's backside at a rally, at a time when his senseless war in Iran has sent oil prices soaring and fuelled inflation across the world 🤣🤣🤣
Don Fortunato retweeted
mawetera likened delegates who cheered General Chiwenga to dogs that must be beaten—and ED-aligned delegates applauded.
If ZANU-PF can publicly humiliate its VP and liberation-war commander, what respect can it have for ordinary citizens?
The rot took the mic—& received applause!
Don Fortunato retweeted
Exiled critic of Rwandan president found beheaded bbc.in/3TKimdt
Don Fortunato retweeted
Alongside the counterfeit prophets, Zimbabwe has cultivated an entire ecosystem of dubious characters whose fortunes appear less connected to productive enterprise than to proximity to power. They do not exist as isolated individuals; they are nodes within a wider architecture of State patronage, privilege and political connectivity.
This is perhaps the more uncomfortable truth about the much-celebrated narrative of record gold exports. Gold may leave the ground in record quantities, and the statistics may be proudly reproduced across the State media, but the deeper question is what happens to the wealth after extraction.
A nation can export record quantities of gold and yet remain materially poor if the resulting wealth is continually converted into private luxuries for a narrow circle of politically connected beneficiaries. In that sense, the problem is not simply corruption; it is the conversion of national productive wealth into private status and consumption through networks of patronage.
The tragedy is philosophical as much as economic: a country's natural resources become a means of enriching those closest to the machinery of power, while the population is left to admire the statistics of prosperity that never quite become prosperity in their own lives.
The gold is real. The exports are real. The wealth is real. What remains questionable is who ultimately owns the economic value created by the nation’s resources, and who merely owns the political connections through which that value is redistributed.
Don Fortunato retweeted
Mutapa is not a sovereign wealth fund.
It is government converted into a company with the doors locked and the curtains drawn.
This is what they did!
Take some of Zimbabwe’s biggest public assets.
Put them under one giant holding company.
Remove key entities from the ordinary public-procurement system.
Reduce Parliament’s ability to interrogate what is happening.
Let political appointees control the boards.
Then allow billions of dollars in contracts, investments and asset decisions to move through that structure.
In a country notorious for politically connected businessmen feeding on state contracts, we are supposed to believe this arrangement was designed for efficiency? @MthuliNcube01 @TembaMliswa @HonMachakaire @paultungwarara @Cde_Ostallos @paultungwarara
And within days, they all own private jets, mansions and helicopters including houses in Dubai?
And so begs the question ; HOW DOES A US$16.5 BILLION EMPIRE MAKE JUST US$21.7 MILLION? @zimlive @thestandardzim
The Mutapa Company like Biti said, is a cesspool for corruption; the perfect architecture for corruption.
1. The politician controls the state.
2. The state controls the Public company.
3. The company controls the asset.
4. The company awards the contract.
5. The connected businessman gets the contract. (Manhize, Tagwirei, Tungwarara etc)
The public pays the bill. Remember;
YOUR TAXES FUND THE STATE.
+ YOUR MINES AND COMPANIES FUND MUTAPA.
+ THE CONNECTED GET THE CONTRACTS AND THE LUXURY;
+THEN WHEN THE MONEY IS GONE, YOU PAY AGAIN
This is how modern looting works.
1. Push aside institutions that were supposed to stand between the politician and the public purse
2. You create a briefcase company.
3. You give it a tender.
4. You inflate the price.
5. You approve a variation.
6. You subcontract another friend.
7. You finance the project with public money.
8. You call the payment an “investment”.
9. And when anyone asks where the money went, you produce a contract.
10. The paperwork becomes the camouflage for the looting.
A tender board is inconvenient when you already know who you want to give the contract to.
Parliament is inconvenient when you don’t want questions.
Auditors are inconvenient when valuations need explaining.
Transparency is inconvenient when the public might discover that the same small circle of politically connected people keeps appearing wherever government money flows.
Mutapa solves those inconveniences by concentrating extraordinary economic power behind a corporate structure.
And then there is the insult:
They tell Zimbabweans this is their wealth.
Whose wealth?
If these assets belong to the people, then show the people:
Every contract.
Every bidder.
Every losing bidder.
Every beneficial owner.
Every politically exposed person.
Every contract variation.
Every payment.
Every loan.
Every asset sale.
Every related-party transaction.
Put the entire procurement register online.
Let Zimbabweans search it.
Let journalists search it.
Let Parliament search it.
Let auditors follow every dollar.
If these deals are clean, transparency will vindicate them.
If the people controlling Mutapa are terrified of transparency, then the obvious question becomes:
What exactly are they protecting?
WE ARE STILL PAYING THE FOREIGN DEBTS RUN UP AND MISMANAGED BY ZANU-PF GOVERNMENTS DECADES AGO. NOW OUT MINES, COMPANIES AND NATIONAL WEALTH SIT INSIDE MUTAPA WHILE POLITICALLY CONNECTED ELITES FEED ON STATE CONTRACTS.
WHEN THE BILL FOR THIS ERA FINALLY ARRIVES, GUESS WHO WILL PAY THAT TOO?
YOU. YOUR CHILDREN. AND THEIR CHILDREN.
Mnangangwa will bankrupt Zimbabwe!
@ibbosnr @BitiLawChambers @bbmhlanga
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Don Fortunato retweeted
The iconic Zimbabwean musician, Lovemore Majaivana, penned the stirring football anthem - "Badlala Njani?" "iTshilamoya ayila mathambo, kodwa idlala njani ingela mathambo." This powerful line tells the awe and admiration for the skillful and passionate play of Highlanders players. The song features tributes to several former Bosso greats, including the legendary @TymonMabaleka who produced the hit song. After a successful football career, Mabaleka transitioned into the music industry, becoming a prominent & sort after music producer. Mabaleka was an inspiration and played a crucial role in producing most of Majaivana's albums, showcasing a unique blend of footballing prowess and musical aptitude.
#Since 1926
#Bosso100
Don Fortunato retweeted
At the village, deep in the Zambezi valley on one of the funerals of the Lake Kariba ferry disaster in solidarity with the community, I sat with Tonga women of Kariba rural Nyaminyami. They asked me questions that cut deep. Does the government even know we exist? Are they coming to mourn with us also? Do they know our troubles? Do they know that we dont have roads? Do they know we dont have electricity even though its generated in our backyard? Do they see how we are marginalized? In this tragedy, their grief is raw, yet they remain invisible. They said to me we hear that government ministers are gathered in urban Kariba with tents and ceremonies, here in rural Kariba where a lot of victims are coming to be buried home no one came. No resources, no recognition, no solidarity. Their voices cut through the silence: “Do they know us? Do they know our pain?” This is why I chose to be here. Because dignity must be defended where it is most denied
Don Fortunato retweeted
As someone who spent years in a functional democracy, you know in your heart that what you are saying there belongs to Delish Nguwaya's geopomona garbage heap. Your problem is selfishness. Tichazvipedza hedu
Don Fortunato retweeted
From tomorrow, there will be Test cricket on every single day of August 2026. 🔥
13–17 Aug - Australia vs Bangladesh.
15–19 Aug - Sri Lanka vs India.
19–23 Aug - England vs Pakistan.
22–26 Aug - Australia vs Bangladesh.
23–27 Aug - Sri Lanka vs India.
27–31 Aug - England vs Pakistan.
- 19 straight days of Test cricket. ❤️
Don Fortunato retweeted
England were so frightened of Steven Smith in 2019 that they stopped trying to get the wicket at his end. Seven years ago today, it began at Edgbaston.
On this day in 2019, the boos did not make a difference, or perhaps they spurred him on. On his return to Test cricket after a year's ban for ball-tampering, Steven Smith made two hundreds, dragging Australia from 122 for 8 to a 251-run win at Edgbaston, a ground where England had lost only one Test since 2002. He became the fifth Australian to make twin centuries in an Ashes Test, and it was only the beginning.
The series that followed was a phenomenon. 144, 142, 92, 211, 82, 80 and 23. That is 774 runs at an average of 110.57, three centuries and a double, and 35.5% of everything Australia scored off the bat in a series where the team aggregated 2,180. He finished 333 runs ahead of Ben Stokes, the next-highest scorer in the series, and 421 ahead of Marnus Labuschagne, the next-highest for his own team. One man, more than a third of a team's runs.
But the numbers are only half of it. What made 2019 unforgettable was watching England slowly lose their minds.
Jofra Archer threw everything at him, the fastest spells of the summer, and could not make him look uncomfortable. And at one stage, rather than take the new ball, England kept the old one and bowled off-spin from both ends because Matthew Wade, already well set, had a slight weakness against it. Australia had lost four wickets, and England were targeting the man at the other end as if he were a number 10, seemingly uninterested in Smith's wicket at all. They looked like twitchy balls of mess, hands tied, because at the other end a wall was conspicuous, and no matter how much time or effort you throw at it, the wall always wins.
And because Smith is unorthodox, England assumed unorthodox tactics must be the answer. Everyone on the off side, bowling wide of the stumps. Then everyone on the leg side, bowling straight. Then most variations in between. Nothing worked, because nothing was ever going to.
That is peak Smith, one of the finest players of fast bowling I have ever watched. Looking the concept of pressure right in the eye, making a mockery of it, killing it with unparalleled tranquillity.
Don Fortunato retweeted
ZANU PF's ideology proclaims the supremacy of the Party over the government it leads. The Constitution of Zimbabwe proclaims a different—and superior—principle: the supremacy of the people, from whom all authority to govern is derived.
The future of our Constitution cannot be determined by any political party. It belongs to the people of Zimbabwe.
Let the people decide.
#LetThePeopleDecide #RestoreTheConstitution #Constitutionalism #Zimbabwe
Don Fortunato retweeted
At law, something wrongfully done is not said to have been done! It can be undone and done correctly!
Don Fortunato retweeted
Pakistan cricket is done and dusted. They don't have any skills nor talent to compete against any international team. The selection committee is consist on brain less people and a bunch of matric fail illiterate coaching staff is leading them towards more disaster.
They don't have any knowledge or education to guide the youngsters nor having any ability to make a right plan for them.
Don Fortunato retweeted
An Airbus A330 from Spanish airline Plus Ultra will land in Harare before midday to begin a new service between Harare and London under a wet lease partnership with Air Zimbabwe. The crew will be Spanish, while Air Zimbabwe handles bookings. First of 3 weekly flights on Wednesday
