Accountant, Investor, Advisor, Moderator and Sometimes Public Speaker. I am rising 🔥💥🙌🏾 - personal account unaffiliated
Lusaka, Zambia
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The only way to power all of Zambia would be if we started manufacturing the generation equipment. Some of the tech is 100yrs old.
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The wife bought a USB powered mosquito 🦟 catcher and I thought 💭 here is another scam, but look 👀
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A week in Harare 🇿🇼, a thread about being a Zambian visitor in Zim. You’ve seen the BBC coverage now here are the facts. We need African perspectives on African adventures
#RT and 👍🏽
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This is my sister Tinana Wonani, who ran for the position of Independent Member of Parliament for Nyimba constituency. She didn’t make it this time but the effort bravery to take that step is amazing and a reminder for all of us to dream big 💥
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Got to love Zambia 🇿🇲- where else in the world can an off duty security officer casually stroll into a take away to order lunch with a shotgun over his shoulder and nobody is worried?
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In 2010 with very little cash, I bought a plot with a friend and started building for the first time with zero experience. The beautiful outcome hides the series of painful lessons learnt in the process. I’m going to do a thread on how to do it ahead of a Jun webinar.
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I’ve moved from vowing to never getting married to attending weddings with my wife of 7yrs #muntuwandi
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There are local artists and there is Charles Chambata. He stands out as a master with carvings that make you say, I’ve never seen that before.
RT if you agree , I’ll post more of his incredible work later
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At a major anniversary! In 1968, Roy Clarke married Sara Longwe. Celebrating their 50th today! What a milestone 👏🏽 @SpectatorKalaki
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Minding my own business thinking of kandolo at Levy Mall then boom 💥 I hear a Saxophone 🎷player, a talented one, busking.
His name is Ahmed Zimba, 0974801827 akzee365@gmail.com
#RT share and like, if you agree, push him up.
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Leaving Zim with mixed feelings. The people were really nice, the city is safe, food was amazing but they really believe in the mantra😉“Use Ecocash”
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My 3yr old walked through the CBD of Lusaka for the first time. He was very concerned about the mountains of rubbish on the street. Kept on pointing it out and asking who is cleaning it?
If a little kid can see it, what are LCC doing? 🛻 #wecandobetter #thisisajoke
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Am here with my lady at the #StanbicMusicFestival - I tell people I already have everything I need in life.
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Really trying to understand how Zambia Airports think
Let’s build a $300m airport where you stand outside as you wait for passengers
I just don’t get it 🤷🏽
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Tasted these two and the local one is indistinguishable. This is an excellent product
#tklegend
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Went into a furniture shop at East Park Mall and was reminded of the fact that there are levels to this 🤣
To borrow a phrase from Dragons Den, “this investment isn’t for me - I’m out”
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We compete 365 days a year but today I’m nothing but happy for you, congrats Andrew, this is a fantastic achievement 👏🏾
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Teachers are discovering what accountants learnt 20yrs ago.
Studying a course doesn’t entitle you up a job, it only proves that you’re capable.
Many trained teachers have brilliant careers in Comms, HR, banking etc. #moveon
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Am I the only one wondering why ZESCO aren’t putting a plan in place to restart the coal power station in their HQ complex? ⚡️
#iwonder
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Serenaded by an amazing choir in the Woodlands Baptist Church as we celebrate the life of our departed brother Kakoma Mutenda a short thread on his life 🧵 #kakoma
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Sprinter Muzala Samukonga won the 400m at the Botswana Grand Prix on 29 April in a time of 43.91 - here’s why it’s an incredible feat we may never see again 🧵 #muzala 👍🏽 RT
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Drought 🌧️, load shedding, fuel shortages etc but by eye, I can see more money in circulation 💵
Queues in supermarket chains, activity in bus stations, traffic, new cars on the roads, iPhones in hands, ZRA collections, it’s counterintuitive.
@gchelwa 🤷🏽
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My late father said to me, “if you want extraordinary results, you need to put in an extraordinary effort” 🏋🏽🏃🏾🥊
Regardless of what the economy is doing in 2024, it will be my most successful
To give myself a head start, I’m working every single day of 2023
#worktime
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Society house a thread 🧵 - details are pretty sketchy so any additions or corrections are welcome
Designed by famed Serbian architect, Ivan Straus, the 20 floor Society House was Zambia’s tallest building when it was completed in 1973 #societyhouse @Wika_Kawina
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When I compare it to Nigeria, it’s night and day. In Lagos for example (that I visited this time last year), someone will tell you what the problem is and offer you 3 solutions.
In Zim, the attitude was very different. It’s kind of “This is how it is”
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Today, for the 13th consecutive year, my mother and I gave a small prize to the best G7 Student at Sacred Heart school.
And for the 3rd time while we’ve been doing this, it’s also a national top score!!!!! 🏆
What a school, what a legacy 🙌🏾
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1. Harare is Beautiful
It’s like being lost in Lusaka. The avenues, some of the buildings, companies all look familiar. For those who havent been, Harare is a beautiful place but behind this face is an unusual economy. A friend said to me, “we’ve normalized the abnormal.”
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My thread 🧵 on poverty in the 1990s
Looking back, the 90s for Zambia was like an B rate action movie 🍿-completely crazy 🤯
In 120 months, we had the fall of a political titan in KK, a complete economic meltdown, a terror plot, a disputed election and a military coup
RT 👍🏽
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Shout out to Emirates
Before I get into the thread, Emirates served Popico on the flight down here! Amigo 🇿🇲 #registertovote #chwechwechwe 💪🏾
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Dynamism - when I first met this guy he was working an accountant at the office. Dedicated, first in last out. He left.
4yrs later I go to a comedy show and he’s headlining. Next he set up a media company, now he’s just a full blown entrepreneur 🙌🏾 Nkisu
hkcreations.org
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Don’t apply global economics to Zambia. During the global financial crisis, our economy grew. During the electric car revolution, we’re building lots of new gas stations ⛽️ 🤷🏾♂️ 🇿🇲
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Guys, is there any sense in a fridge this expensive? The accountant in me has rejected this 😵
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So proud of Z right now.
A friend visiting from Kenya lost his wallet on Thursday.
Three days later, we went back to the restaurant where it was last seen and the staff at Millas had kept it for him.
Even the money was still in it 🙆🏽
#zambia
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Yesterday I got to ask the question on our minds. How can we have a banknote that comes out of an ATM but is rejected when you try to deposit it?
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Despite transporting it more than 1500km, SA butter is cheaper than bringing it from Chisamba? This makes no sense
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Numbers don’t lie. Zambia’s GDP per capita is higher than that of Kenya and more than double that or Rwanda. We just do an awful job of promoting our country 🇿🇲
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Good day at the office 🔥 - thank you to the people that have trusted me, I will repay your faith in me with results
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4. Visa is globally accepted right?
Wrong. I learnt that there are two types of VISA cards, local and international. In a week in Harare, only the hotel, one restaurant and our cab driver accepted international cards. The restaurant Pariah State at Sam Levy had excellent food!
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My 4yr old son says to me, “I’ve seen a toy plane in my room, give it to me.” No chance, not the Nkwazi.
Dusting it down reminded me of why I bought it in the first place. A Zambian parastatal had operations in London and NY...... If they could do it then....we have work to do.
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At 25 I complained to my late father that my life wasn’t going anywhere.
His response was a turning point in my life
“It’s your own fault, if you want extraordinary results, put in an extraordinary effort”
Those words have carried me through all sorts of adversity #pushon
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3. It’s a cash economy
The physical local currency is in extremely short supply. In a week I didn’t touch a single bank note. Instead the economy is run on mobile money. Ignoring the fact that I was foreign, people kept on encouraging me to pay with Ecocash.
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Zambia is totally paradoxical.
One group of people say they are looking for opportunities and another in employment are so lazy they are barely bothered to serve clients 🤷🏽
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Motor manufacturers generally make reliable cars but in Z we invariably buy old Jap recons. Once it’s been in the sun for 10yrs, exported across the globe 🌍 etc and arrives in Zambia it’s a different beast. Here is a buyer’s guide based on my own & other’s bad experiences
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Debunking the myth that Zambians go to the US to suffer is Zig Founder, Christopher Chileshe. Bringing it back.
A young man with a vision for himself, Zambia and all of Africa. Believe in him, work with Zambians.
#visionary #zedguymakingit #hustlefreehustle
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Costs are rising faster than wages so the only way forward is to make better use of the money you already have. I’m issuing 10 tweets in 10 days to promote financial fitness over the Xmas period
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A 5 Star Presidential Address in which HH rejected hooliganism in markets, bus stops and other trading centers. “The police will confront you” IMO, he’s passed his first test of good governance, many more to come.
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2. Shock 1 - Roaming Doesn’t Work. Got to the airport and my roaming didn’t work. Bought a cross border WhatsApp bundle, waste of cash, doesn’t work. The phone occasionally rings, you pickup and can’t hear a thing.
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Birthday dinner for the amazing @KupelaClarke
Mabula by Afrigonia, Acacia Park - they may as well call it amazing 🤩
Best restaurant in Lusaka ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
#brilliant 🔥 - 👏🏽♻️ 👍🏽
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Zambia is a strange place. You’ll have hundreds of mobile booths “competing,” lined up next to each other, all open at 8am when people are at work and close at 17hrs as people are about to head home 🤷🏾♂️
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Starting a series of tweets to help SMEs. The main focus is what I’m calling translation, the gap between planned and actual financial results.
Topic 1 - Accounting for a Farming Venture.
Many will try, few will succeed, this is why.......watch this space
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4. There is no change!
Heard USD was accepted again so I carried $200, trouble was, nobody had change to give. If you’re not spending the whole note, you’re encouraged to use Ecocash. Even if you sign up an Ecocash account, putting money on it is another challenge
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When banks shortened operating hours, they said it was due to Covid, post Covid, they haven’t extended again 🤷🏽
There is no competition in Z
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I don’t know why the wife likes hating on these shoes 👞, I’ll sort her out by buying her a pair on her birthday 🎂 #bomavibes @FMwenge
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We need to press the reset button on our crazy, 1950s transport system that says all buses must transit through town.
Half the people in the buses 🚌 clogging the CBD aren’t even going to town?
Why do we need experts to tell us things we already know?
#lccfixit
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I am so proud of Meraki, their range of goods, the quality of the product and the packaging are superb 💪🏾
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Entrepreneurship thread 🧵
Along Lukasu rd, Lusaka, behind ISL is an Ntemba called Browns.
This is a fascinating case study of entrepreneurship. Why are they growing when so many others are complaining? #zbusiness
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Why Zambia needs a new tax rate to spur economic development - a thread 🧵
This is a time to offer solutions and not complaints @gchelwa @FMwenge @selfstyledking @SimumbaTrevor
Agree, disagree, Like 👍🏽 RT
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The Card Machine is Not Working
I later learnt that “the card machine is not working” is code for we don’t accept international cards. Even in the departure lounge of the airport, the cafe claim “the card machine is not working” we were encouraged to pay with Ecocash 🇿🇼
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At the @AmChamZambia Thanksgiving Dinner, accompanied by the most beautiful woman here @KupelaClarke
Wearing the Zambian green
❤️ #emeralds
#things
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I can only encourage you to visit Zambia, we have a large South African community here that is growing. “It’s a strategy”
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The most exhausting part of a build is getting started 🤷🏽♂️
Finally deciding on what the plan is then finding the resources to do it.
I’m declaring it now, this will be the sight of our greatest triumph
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Vida Cafe, great coffee but am not sure about the need to shout South African chants like “Woza Wena” when you walk in?
So out of context, it’s the business equivalent of a fake accent 😂
Maybe it’s just me 🤷🏽
#beyou
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Next year I turn 40. I remember finishing high school at 17. What’s interesting and frightening is that if I intend to retire at 55, I have less time available to me between now and then than I’ve already spent in the ‘workplace’.... #nodignityinpoverty @FMwenge
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Promised a thread that analyses village banking and here it is. Village banking is THE buzzword in Zambian Finance right now, here’s a closer look at it. @fmwenge @sizaonde86 @missbwalya @monicamusonda
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Am I the only one who knows that this already happened? In 1984?
piped.video/yt0E-AkoM9U
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Farewell Kingsley Chinyama, mathematician and IT Analyst who’s joining KPMG Belgium’s 🇧🇪 Cyber Defence team
A golden talent with limitless potential 🙌🏾 #kpmg #newbeginnings #gamechanger
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Was taken out for lunch at East Park, glance down at the menu - whew 😥
Some eye watering numbers
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World class, from the packaging to the taste. @MushiliBeans RT, promote, buy in stores across the country #fwebene
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KKIA - The arrivals lounge is fabulous but completely impractical.
No shops and the people picking you up should wait outside, even if it’s raining 🌧️
I’ve tried to make sense of it but I can’t, maybe am missing something 🤷🏽
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My friend is building a specialist Mercedes Garage and it’s epic!!!
NK Motors 0977862815 Keran ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Meraki, frozen pizza and pies. This is an example of a Z business producing quality products at reasonable prices. Buy them in Shoprite.
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We are in Oxford - @KupelaClarke’s graduation day 👩🎓
Flying the flag 🇿🇲- Zambia ku chalo
Kupela ku chalo
@MukoshaMulenga jewels by eleoragems
@OneSquareK1
The story of our visit is interesting…a thread
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When people said Pick n Pay was closing at East Park I was skeptical but you wouldn’t pay premium rentals to have empty shelves would you? #sellittozambians #callme
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