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It pains me how Zimbabwe exports strategic minerals like gold and lithium, yet imports the high-value products made from them. The world is moving toward clean energy, and lithium now powers electric vehicles, phones, laptops and energy storage systems. We sell the raw material, then buy it back as expensive batteries and electronics.
Growing up, we laughed at the story of Lobengula trading away wealth for sugar. Sometimes I wonder if we’re repeating the same mistake, only this time, it’s minerals for luxurious cars. Fancy cars and luxury imports lose value over time, but strategic minerals are finite national assets.
If Zimbabwe truly wants long-term prosperity, we shouldn’t just be digging minerals out of the ground. We should be investing in engineers, scientists, manufacturers and battery technology so we can export byproducts of the minerals, not exporting the mineral itself, information is free in this age, trained well, we could make electric cars here

I’m very concerned with the videos of South Africans attacking African immigrants, I get their argument but not their actions. Are the immigrants really the cause of the rise of unemployment in South Africa? Even if the immigrants go, the lives of these protesters will never change, I’ve seen the faces, it’s just low lives who have nothing better to do. They are fighting for scraps while 10% of the population is controlling 80% of the wealth is South Africa. I feel like it’s funded by powerful hidden oligarchs.

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