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#Lesson 1
The driver transports sugar from Triangle, across the country. He was like a professor to me for those few hours and I was a keen student, absorbing knowledge from my master.
Tongatt again exports a lot of sugar to Mozambique, which is repacked and sold to India...under a different name.
Act local but think global... many companies are frustrated by sanctions while Tongatt is getting around them. This is not a secret...what can you export today?
He told me of a white man in Chiredzi who was so poor that most people thought he was an ex-prisoner on the run. The "ex-prisoner" approached a white owned trucking company, looking for a job but he was not given any.
White people support each other, they do not give each other fish but
teach their under privileged brothers how to fish. Is it true about black? We seem to have a strong pull him down mentality.
Tongatt gives small holder farmers fertilizers and deduct the money after selling the sugarcane. However, some unscrupulous farmers take the fertilizer to Harare and sell it tobacco farmers.
Our rent seeking mentality has destroyed our bread basket of Africa into a begging basket. The give me it now mentality, is sinking our Zimbabwean ship faster than sanctions will do. Get rich quick mentality is poisonous.
During the land reform program, most farmers took farms with sugarcane which was ready for market. They just harvested it and sold it to the millers.
What most of the farmers did was to collect the money, buy luxury cars instead of purchasing tractors, seeds....
The see me, I have made it mentality destroyed our agricultural sector. Vafana vanozoti shiri yabvuta rekeni...a slave has become the master, its a fool's paradise indeed...it's all about harvesting and zero planting
Most of the white farmers whose farms were taken moved into trucking businesses. Now they are making a lot of money out of it. Tongatt provide them with fuel enough to deliver the sugarcane around the nation.
However, to get the transport contract with Tongatt, at least 5 trucks are required with zero milage.
Crowd funding if used wisely has the power to unlock wealth. The goal is not to eat alone but to hunt as a pack and share the spoil. That's how white people create wealth while we queue for jobs! Hapana basa pano, a sign as common in our towns as road signs.