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Dabson Mhofu Kanyoka 🇿🇼🇿🇦

@dabskays

Jan 3

WHILST the business environment in Zim is challenging, I found it easier to start a hustle in Zim than say in SA.

1. Wakambowona chigayo here in SA? 2018 I visited this pig farmer just outside Garankuwa on the outskirts of Pretoria. We compared notes & we agreed Zimbabwean

2. small scale pig farmer had it better in terms of sourcing input’s & marketing their produce. For her she bought all her straight feed (concentrate is very rare in SA) when selling she had a few abattoirs she sold to then she was getting less than $1.5 as compared to $3 in Zim

3. In Zim land in my experience is not very hard to come by, you can really go all out to try & lower your cost of feed from growing the majority of your own feed, the marketing is a little bit better because you have a variety of options on where to sell. This is the reason why

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Dabson Mhofu Kanyoka 🇿🇼🇿🇦

@dabskays

Jan 2

I WISH I knew this when I started doing hustles 23 years ago

1. Specialisation is king. I used to chase everything that was the in thing that was a mistake (right now I have a egg hatching machine at home that I bought time yezvihuta imagine R25 000 yakangogara for 7 years eish)

2. I get it when people say you must spread your risk after all I am an insurance person I understand concept of risk. In business that doesn’t work. Here me out, you are most likely to start a hustle in a mature industry, you must learn as much as possible from your mistakes &

3. others’ mistakes. When you are starting you need time maybe more than capital. You also need knowledge of numbers (accounting) & industry tips. I opened my 1st shop in 2001 in our village in Jekwa, Murehwa & was soon given another shop at an adjacent farm in Virginia Macheke

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Dabson Mhofu Kanyoka 🇿🇼🇿🇦

@dabskays

Jan 2

YOU NEED friction in your life to keep growing.

1. Do you ever wonder why some people keep on winning? The answer might lies in them never being content with the status quo. If you are a marathon runner, you will understand the moment you complete one, you need to start training

2. training for the next. Somehow humans thrive on being uncomfortable for them to keep growing. An example take a person who is in their country of origin & they end up in a foreign country. They start realising that their qualifications, experience no longer matter in a foreign

3. country & that they have very few opportunities in the new country. The realisation that the world does not owe them anything will switch on their survival instincts. World over immigrants on average tend to do better than locals because they have more frictions than locals.

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Dabson Mhofu Kanyoka 🇿🇼🇿🇦

@dabskays

Dec 22, 2022

IT SEEMS the issue of sharing cellphones with your spouse has to do with whether people do share secrets with their spouses

1. I learnt something important from my dad during his last days. My father had best friends when we loved in Kwekwe whom he considered his brothers.

2. when he became seriously ill vana babamuni were no longer coming home. When he became seriously ill he requested transfer to be closer to our rural home in Murehwa. We moved to Marondera in June 1990. As the 1st born I would spend a lot of time with him, I got to talk to him.

3. He said he realised too late that his wife (my mum) was his best friend because she was with him through the good times & the bad times. None of his friends came for his funeral

When you get married the pastor tells you that your spouse is now your best friend, that’s true

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Dabson Mhofu Kanyoka 🇿🇼🇿🇦

@dabskays

Dec 21, 2022

COMMUNICATION in a marriage including the thorny issue of cellphone privacy 🤪

1. Someone said cellphones in a marriage are now more private than private parts!

For me I surrendered my cellphone password in the 3rd year of our marriage. I just wish I had done it earlier.

2. When you hide your phone it gives the impression yekuti pane dzauri kutsikisa, perception is reality to many people.

In early 2005 I had travelled to Bulawayo for the annual sporting weekend. The following week I was working late in the office, I phoned MaNyoni from my work

3. contract cellphone. I forgot to cut, these damn contract phones 😡 I was talking to Sam my subordinate about this girl from another company wandakanga ndapfimba during the trip to Bulawayo. Ndakanga ndatove kuma penalty ndatonzi unondirovesa nemukadzi wako. I realised my phone

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Dabson Mhofu Kanyoka 🇿🇼🇿🇦

@dabskays

Dec 21, 2022

YOUR MOST important decision, whom you marry☝🏿

1. I reckon one of the most difficult things is to tell your spouse that I’m resigning from my job especially to sit at home, relocate to a difficult place such as Zimbabwe or to start or manage your hustle. I have done it 3 times

2. MaNyoni was the 1st to resign in early 2007. The previous year I had been appointed Bulawayo branch mgr. My wife had a comfortable job at the back office at head office in Borrowdale. She seeked a transfer also to Bulawayo & became a snr bank teller. She hated that job it was

3. also the era of Gideon Gono whenever Gono announced his eccentric Monetary policies it had a direct effect on banking staff in Zimbabwe, at times they would knock off at 7pm. Also on a normal day in banking hall a teller has to balance otherwise it will delay their knocking

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