Elphas_ @Elphas24

Dear @nelsonchamisa, Thank you very much for your note. Please identify the specific lies and misinformation you claim I have peddled. Point to the precise statement, explain what is false about it and provide the correct facts. Simply accusing me of spreading lies without identifying a single lie is meaningless. You are a political actor and Zimbabwe’s leading opposition politician. You say that you are fighting for democracy, yet an essential part of democracy is the right of journalists to scrutinise, question and criticise political leaders, including opposition leaders. Criticism does not become propaganda merely because it makes you or your supporters uncomfortable. You say that you have “tolerated” me for too long. A politician does not tolerate a journalist. Journalists do not require permission from politicians to do their work. The language of tolerance suggests that you believe journalists should operate with your approval and that criticism is acceptable only for as long as you permit it. That is not democracy. That is dictatorship. I am aware that you have a powerful cultic following whose members may accept every word you say without demanding evidence. But as a journalist, I will not be intimidated or cowed by that following. I would rather stand alone telling an uncomfortable truth than join a crowd united by comforting untruths. If any statement I have made is factually wrong, identify it and I will respond with the evidence supporting what I said. If you demonstrate that I made a genuine factual error, I will correct it because that is what responsible journalists do. But if you cannot identify a single lie, then you should withdraw this blanket accusation and respond to the substance of my criticism. Journalism is not praise-singing, and scrutiny is not hostility. Democracy requires leaders who can answer difficult questions without labelling every critic a propagandist. I await your specific examples and will respond to each one with evidence.

Since posting this GoFund, I have received well over a hundred emails and WhatsApp messages from people asking me to organise GoFund campaigns or help them with money for this or that. I want to make something absolutely clear: this is not the kind of work that I ordinarily do. When you see me stepping in, it is because there is a genuine emergency or a desperate situation. I am now receiving requests from people asking me to help pay their rent in South Africa and Zimbabwe, to pay school fees for next year, and to assist with all sorts of personal financial problems. I do not do that. I only intervene in exceptional circumstances. For example, when examination results have come out and a child has achieved outstanding results but has absolutely no means of going to university, or when someone is facing a genuine humanitarian emergency. Those are the kinds of situations where I feel compelled to act. I am a journalist and a documentary filmmaker. Social welfare is not my profession. That responsibility primarily belongs to those who seek public office and ask people to vote for them. Take someone like Nelson Chamisa. More than two million Zimbabweans voted for him because they believed he had the capacity to govern the country. Before someone governs a nation, they should demonstrate leadership by helping to solve some of the problems affecting the people who placed their trust in them. Setting up scholarship funds for gifted students, helping vulnerable families access healthcare, fundraising for people in genuine distress, and creating sustainable community support programmes are exactly the kinds of initiatives political leaders should champion. That is not the responsibility of a journalist. My responsibility is to investigate, expose wrongdoing, tell Zimbabwe’s story and produce documentaries that inform the public. The reason I occasionally step in is because I sometimes encounter situations so desperate that I cannot simply walk away. I look at them and think, “My goodness, where are all the people who asked these citizens for their votes?” It should not take journalists to fill the vacuum left by politicians. Zimbabweans need to start holding their political leaders accountable. You gave them your votes. Ask them to help you. If they are not helping you, ask them why not. Every election season they promise to transform your lives, yet once the votes are counted, many disappear until the next campaign. A political leader with millions of supporters has the ability to establish scholarship funds, emergency relief programmes and community initiatives if they choose to do so. Those are the kinds of structures that political organisations should be building long before they enter government. Hopewell’s job is to report on Zimbabwe, expose corruption, tell important stories and, from time to time, respond to genuine emergencies where I believe I can make a difference. It is not my job to become Zimbabwe’s social welfare office or to spend my life running GoFund campaigns. I hope you understand why I have to draw that distinction. When I tried to establish what I called a Government-in-Exile, the idea was never about seeking power for myself. It was about creating a structure that could mobilise support for Zimbabweans in practical ways: raising funds for medical equipment in hospitals, providing scholarships for talented young people to study both in Zimbabwe and abroad, coordinating humanitarian assistance, and giving ordinary citizens hope where the state had failed. Instead of supporting that vision or engaging with it honestly, many of the very people you now praise fought me relentlessly through their sidekicks and surrogates. They attacked me day and night, while the overwhelming majority of people remained silent. They watched me being vilified unfairly and unnecessarily, yet said nothing. That is one of the greatest tragedies of our society. We often fail to recognise who should be doing what, how they should be doing it, and when they should be doing it. We tear down those trying to build institutions while excusing those who sought power but failed to shoulder the responsibilities that come with leadership. A society that cannot distinguish between those who expose problems and those who are elected to solve them will continue to go round in circles. Until Zimbabweans learn to hold the right people accountable and support initiatives that genuinely benefit the public, we should not be surprised when nothing changes. A nation that attacks those who try to build while excusing those who fail to lead should never be surprised by the state it finds itself in.

Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope

3 months ago

A few weeks ago, I came to the public and shared that Madzibaba veShanduko had contacted me and explained that he was facing a serious financial crisis. Many of you responded with incredible generosity, giving whatever you could afford to the GoFundMe campaign that I organised

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The EFF has secured a meeting with the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) to discuss the Waiver of Professional Fees for Unemployed Graduates/Early Career Professionals. We call on unemployed graduates, aspiring CAs, trainees, and early career professionals to share their experiences ahead of our meeting with SAICA. We welcome SAICA’s openness to constructive engagement!

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Dear @eNCA, I am deeply ashamed by the type of journalism displayed in this clip. As a trained journalist, and as a former eNCA journalist myself, I must say this is dangerous and highly questionable conduct, especially when a media crew is no longer merely documenting events, but appears to be facilitating or legitimising harassment. There is a major difference between reporting on an incident and becoming part of the theatre of intimidation. If a legal migrant is being surrounded, threatened or humiliated by a vigilante group, the role of journalists should be to document what is happening accurately, safely and fairly, while remaining conscious that the vulnerable person may already be under pressure or fear. Once a crew starts staging interactions, shoving microphones into faces in a way that amplifies intimidation, or giving a vigilante leader a platform without challenge or context, you cross from journalism into participation. It becomes even more problematic in South Africa, where xenophobic violence has previously led to deaths, displacement and mob attacks against African migrants, including Nigerians, Zimbabweans, Somalis and others, many of whom were legally documented, just like this man appears to be. Media coverage in such contexts requires extreme caution because images and narratives can inflame public hostility. Journalists can and should interview all sides, including controversial or vigilante figures, because journalism often requires engaging difficult voices. But ethical reporting also requires balance, context and humanity. A migrant should not be turned into a spectacle while the aggressor is normalised as an authority figure. Your crew should have avoided creating conditions where the victim felt cornered, exposed or endangered simply because cameras were present, with microphones repeatedly shoved between him and the aggressor. I am deeply embarrassed by the conduct of this eNCA crew. You should be ashamed of this type of journalism. This is precisely the kind of irresponsible media conduct that has historically inflamed violence in societies under tension. Journalists must never become participants in intimidation campaigns. In this clip, you are no longer acting as observers. You become actors within the confrontation itself, helping create a public theatre where a man who is legally in your country is harassed by an ignorant vigilante who does not even understand the law governing immigration and business ownership. A documented immigrant in South Africa has the legal right to start a business unless the conditions of their visa explicitly prohibit it. That is the law. Journalism must expose intimidation, not become the microphone of xenophobic vigilantism.

Congratulations Nkululeko Dunga on your appointment as MEC of Finance in Gauteng. Silence the noise. Do only what is best for our people! Salute!

@Savheya_Happie And at the centre of this collapse is Emerson Dambudziko Mnangagwa.

A coworker died yesterday morning😭. ​HR knew by 9 :00 AM, but they kept us working all day. They finally told us around 4 :30 PM, then had the nerve to say, "You can head home early if you need to"—knowing we all finish at 5: 00 PM anyway. ​This morning, it’s back to "business as usual." Some of my friends are literally sobbing at their desks, but they’re expected to work and be productive. No time to grieve. ​It’s a cold reality. Within a week, the company will have his job posted online. Within a month, someone else will be sitting in his chair. ​But his family ,his children will still talk about him every day,they will ask where is daddy , His wife will mourn him for ages ,he was the love of her life . ​At work, we are just a "resource" that can be replaced in a week. At home, we are the world. Stop giving your best energy to a desk that will forget you, and giving the "leftovers" to the people who never will.

I hear this Magaisa from Temu is mentioning my name. Tell the thing that I don’t waste time on his “kunanzva politics” nor am I keen to discuss with his kind. Thank you for paying attention to this stupid matter

@ali_naka Global projects 😂😂

Your nervous system relaxes when your finances are in order.

ADVICE TO ALL EMPLOYEES : 1. Build a home earlier. Be it rural or urban home. Building a house at 50 is not an achievement. Don't get used to government houses. This comfort is so dangerous. Let all your family have good time in your house 2. Go home. Don't stick at work all the year.  You are not the pillar of your department.  If you drop dead today, you will be replaced immediately and operations will continue.  Make your family a priority 3. Don't chase promotions. Master your skills and be excellent at what you do. If they want to promote you, that's fine if they don't,  stay positive to your personal development 4. Avoid office gossip. Avoid things that tarnish your name. Don't join the bandwagon that backbites your bosses and colleagues. Stay away from negative gatherings 5. Don't ever compete with your bosses. You will burn your fingers.  Don't compete with your colleagues, you will fry your brain 6. Ensure you have a side business.  Your salary will not sustain your needs in the long run 7. Save some money. Let it be deducted automatically from your salary 8. Borrow a loan to invest in a business or to change a situation not to buy luxury. Buy luxury from your profit 9. Keep your life,marriage and family private. Let them stay away from your work. This is very important 10. Be loyal to yourself and believe in your work. Hanging around your boss will alienate you from your colleagues and your boss may finally dump you when he leaves 11. Retire early.  The best way to plan for your exit was when you received the employment letter. The other best time is today.  By 40 to 50 be out 12. Join work welfare and be an active member always. It will help you a lot when any eventuality occurs 13.Take leave days utilize them by developing yr future home or projects..usually what you do during yr leave days is a reflection of how you'll live after retirement..If it means you spend it all holding a remote control watching series on TV , expect nothing different after retirement 14. Start a project whilst still serving or working. Let your project run whilst at work and if it doesn't do well, start another one till it's running viably. When your project is viably running then retire to manage your business. Most people or pensioners fail in life because they retire to start a project instead of retiring to run a project 15. Pension money is not for starting a project or buy a stand or build a house but it's money for your upkeep or to maintain yourself in good health. Pension money is not for paying school fees or marrying a young wife but to look after yourself 16. Always remember, when you retire never be a case study for living a miserable life after retirement but be a role model for colleagues to think of retiring too 17. Don't retire just because you are finished or you are now a burden to the company and just wait for your day to die. Retire young or whilst energetic to enjoy waking up for a cup of coffee, enjoy the sun, receive money from your business, visit nice place that you missed and spend good time with family. Those who retire late, spend about 95% of their time at work than with their family and that's why they see it difficult to spend time with their family when they retire but end looking for another job till they die. If they don't get another job, they die early 18. Retire at your house than at government accommodation so that when you retire you can easily fit into the society that raised you. It's not easy to adjust to live in a location after spending more years at company house or at government house 19. Never let your employment benefits make you forget about your retirement. Employment benefits are just meant to make you relax, get finished whilst time is moving. Remember when you retire no one will call you boss if you don't have a business 20. Don't hate to retire because one day you will retire either voluntarily or involuntarily Hope this will help you look at life positively

@daddyhope You go soft on Nyambirai because he's "big" when he's an "enabler" by saying it's his choices. But hammer individuals who are small in your following or not popular calling them stupid, sycophants or illiterate or sots of names in dictionary. What a world.

@IOL That's where someone will get themselves a gun, go straight to the person who caused their dismissal and Kill them or hire a hitman to kill them straight. People can be crazy when their whole life gets shattered like that

I drive an old Polo with no third party insurance, if I accidentally bump your vehicle ...I can only say sorry and wish you luck in trying to succeed with a civil action against me 😬

@Malatjie_ @Milla__K 😂😂😂

White privilege is real. Imagine if Paul O’Sullivan was Black and Zimbabwean, Dudula and March for March would have been on the streets. He insults Black South Africans and their leaders using derogatory names. He is not even qualified for the jobs he did for the state, yet there is silence, you would hear a pin drop. They are scared of white folks. Even the media calls him a forensic police investigator, yet he is not qualified for that.

Newzroom Afrika @Newzroom405

8 months ago

[WATCH] Private Forensic Investigator Paul O’Sullivan says Khumalo, Mkhwanazi and Mesemola are a gang of rogue police that belong in prison. @ZOLEKV_Q reports #AdHocCommittee

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Absa Strikes Again! Absa Group, is quietly sending a powerful signal about leadership continuity and institutional memory with the return of two exceptional women leaders who know the organisation deeply and are now re-entering it with expanded perspective, sharper tools and renewed purpose. **Nomonde White-Ndlovu | Chief Information Officer: Group Compliance Nomonde White-Ndlovu returns to Absa effective February, this time as CIO for Group Compliance, after previously spending more than nine years within the group. Her journey spans over two decades in South Africa’s technology ecosystem, with senior roles across financial services and multinationals, most recently as CIO of Bidvest Bank Limited. During her earlier tenure at Absa, she served on the #technology #executiveteam and led #governance, #risk and #compliance for the Group #IT Office. She holds an MBA from the GIBS Business School (Gordon Institute of Business Science) and a BA Law degree from University of the Witwatersrand.  In 2024, she scooped the Visionary CIO of the Year Award, presented by the Institute of IT Professionals SA. **Caroline Marwisa | Executive: Leadership Development Caroline Marwisa has also rejoined Absa, taking up the role of Executive for Leadership Development in January. Her career reflects depth, range and consistency. Prior to her return, Caroline served as Group Head of Learning at Old Mutual, where she led enterprise-wide leadership and learning strategy. Her earlier eight-year chapter at Absa included senior roles spanning Head of Leadership and Learning and Manager: Internal Audit. She also held senior positions at STANLIB, serving as Head of LISP Operations and Risk, as well as Head of Corporate Actions within Asset Management. Caroline Marwisa is a Chartered Accountant (CA(SA)) and holds a Master’s degree in Commerce (International Accounting) as well as a BCom (Honours) in Accounting from the University of Johannesburg. She also completed the Africa Development Initiative in Organisational Leadership through Absa Group Limited. Congratulations are in order! #AsanteOnBoards

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Whoever said “money can’t buy happiness” really knew what they were talking about 😔

Never ever try Panenka against Mendy

@Solphendukaa 🤣🤣🤣🤣