Kudos for mixed-use, can the system take the increased load though?

The best deal you’ll ever make is not gettin’ into a bad one

Everyone saying Elon Musk is the world’s first trillionaire is conveniently ignoring the entire country of Zimbabwe

This article is not about Kudakwashe Tagwirei. It is about what Zimbabwe has become — and what it is about to become, possibly this very week, if Parliament passes Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3. Tagwirei is simply the most visible expression of a system in which money buys power and power protects money. Remove him from the story tomorrow and the architecture remains, waiting for the next occupant. That is why this article is about all of us: about what we permit, what we normalise, and what we are prepared to defend. Let me begin with what I know personally. Tagwirei, at 57, is a young brother to me. He is my neighbour. I once had lunch with him and was impressed by his recounting of his early career. We served briefly together on the Presidential Advisory Council. It emerged before my resignation as Vice-Chairman that he had more access to President Mnangagwa than the entire PAC put together — which explained why he attended few meetings and said little. The PAC was created to give the President counsel beyond his cabinet: independent professionals serving without reward, out of patriotic duty. Senior civil servants worked to keep it ineffectual. They saw it as an unwelcome layer of transparency. Proverbs 15:22 teaches that plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed. Had that wisdom prevailed, Zimbabwe might have avoided the debilitating state capture to which it has now been subjected. THE WEDDING AND THE TAPE In 2013 the Guptas flew wedding guests into a South African air force base for their niece’s Sun City nuptials, financed with money meant for poor farmers — the moment their overreach became visible to a nation. Tagwirei’s $20 million wedding for his son was not a slip that exposed power; it was a deliberate exhibition of it. The opulence screamed a single message: we no longer belong with the people. The leaked audio that followed — “I am the next president” and claiming influence over military commanders, intelligence, police and the judiciary — cannot be authenticated. Tagwirei has consistently denied presidential ambitions. The tape proves nothing on its own. But authenticity is the wrong test. The right test is whether the claims map onto observable, documented behaviour. On that test the audio is unusually plausible — not because we can trust the recording, but because it largely describes things happening in plain sight. THE DOCUMENTED RECORD Consider what requires no tape at all. Tagwirei has been reported since 2019 as the largest shareholder in CBZ Holdings, Zimbabwe’s biggest bank, through a roughly 30 per cent stake held via nominee accounts. CBZ in turn acquired stakes in First Mutual, the state commodities exchange, and the e-passport payment monopoly. Whoever sits behind that structure holds a hand on the tap of who in this economy gets liquidity and who does not. From 2016 to 2019 his firm Sakunda ran the billion-dollar Command Agriculture programme without open tender. The Sentry, a Washington-based investigative organisation, found Sakunda received about US$1.28 billion while supplying inputs worth roughly US$1 billion. Sakunda denies wrongdoing. The structural pattern — public programme, private intermediary, state-protected returns — is on the record. In April 2024 the Mutapa Investment Fund paid a reported US$1.6 billion — about 5 per cent of GDP — for the private stake in Kuvimba Mining House, in Treasury Bills, to undisclosed individuals. The Sentry traced the holding to entities linked to the Kudakwashe Tagwirei Trust. He denies any link. The authorities, tellingly, refuse to name who received the money. Read the full article below

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Take into context that our peers have credit facilities operating above critical mass we don't. What's pushing the printing press?

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When you were taught to value companies based on discounted future cash flows but you just saw a company with no cash flows IPO for a trillion dollars

Just paid 32% of my invoice in charges via Ecocash Mastercard. Hawala, here I come 😐. Wtf

From my vantage, the advantages of having a golf course in a neighbourhood far outweigh the benefit of squeezing in an extra 17 residential stands. A golf course is open land with trimmed grass edifying or beautifying the aesthetics of the land. Urban planning is about beauty as well. It is breathing space, scenery, drainage, leisure, property value and civic dignity all rolled into one. That this is even being allowed to happen tells us there is something rotten in the state of Denmark.

I still think there is incredible alpha in podcasts nowadays You have CEOs of multi billion dollar companies and investment firms speaking in length about their product and strategy Many of them end up on niche podcasts that are extremely underrated and not listened to by the masses Then you have CEOs of smaller funds, startup entrepreneurs and private companies detailing their entire journey on how they got from zero to one Just lots of actionable knowledge laying in the open, there to be picked up The caveat is that you must act on what you learn. Many people use these as a form of escape to feel like they are being productive without ever doing anything

Out of curiosity. Is it structurally feasible to better socio-economic diversity in cities of colonial foundation? Taking into account, perceptions, financial consequence and all

My favorite rule in sales ”When a man walks in an ask for a blue suit ... you sell him a blue suit" I learned this both in leasing apartments and raising capital. Don't try and sell someone on something they don't want.

The restraint from calling this an AI product is appreciated. Still unnecessary but let's push.

"How is Botswana adjusting its posture given the whole debacle with diamond values & trade." Recurring thoughts

The Onion will be out of business soon

Been saying this for a while, but will repeat it for emphasis: “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.

Crazy times