Talkers/Open Line – Zimbabwean Government Says No Official Deadline from SA Government

And then, of course, in the first hour of the show, we spoke to Dr. Frank Magwego, financial well-being researcher and founder of Thrive Wellness and Gibbs faculty member.

We were talking about the psychology of staying the course in your savings journey, the kind of self-talk that you need to get involved in, the kind of motivations you should be looking for.

And we took as an example the motivation by people who stay the course, who pay their monthly premiums for the funeral plan.

And what motivates them, why they keep on the course.

I mean, I know people that would rather die than miss a payment of the funeral plan.

The idea was to say, could we learn some of those principles to apply onto other savings methods other than the funeral plan or other investments? And if we've gotten off the wagon, how can we get back onto that? A great conversation with Dr.

Frank Magwege as always.

And then I saw an article earlier on where the minister in Zimbabwe is at pains to tell people that South Africa never gave the 30th of June deadline or the government of the Republic of South Africa never gave that deadline.

And it is factually correct.

The government never gave the 30th of June deadline that got people to start leaving the country and go back to different countries, back home to different countries in South Africa and other parts.

Yeah.

That repatriation and deportation period didn't start as a result of South African government's call for people to leave on the 30th.

And that minister makes it very clear.

But upon investigation, you realize that there are a little bit of, or there is an emergence of tensions in Zimbabwe as more and more people go back to Zimbabwe from South Africa.

Understandably so, it makes sense why that would happen because people are coming in, they're looking for space for school children, they're looking for other ways of making a living and people's lives are disrupted and people are uncomfortable about these numbers of people that are coming back to the country and we're hearing similar things in Malawi also.

And I made the comment to say, no, no, the minister's correct.

The minister's correct.

What he's saying is factual.

But actually what he's doing is he's trying to say, why are you coming back to Zimbabwe when South Africa didn't give you that deadline officially to stay there? And the reason for that is because they're worried about the instability that it's beginning to create in Zimbabwe.

Yeah.

and the possibility of the beginnings of rolling mass action against ZANU-PF because there are now increasing conversations about marches a la March and March in Zimbabwe against the ZANU-PF government.

In fact, there's one that is planned for the 31st of July to protest against, amongst other things, the decision by the government there to provide or to give President Ednangagwa further two years in his tenure as president of that country and many other issues that Zimbabweans feel need to be done to hold their government into account.

And so there's a bit of a nervousness that's beginning to happen in the government political class in Zimbabwe.

I've seen on various spaces where officials or people that are sympathetic to the ZANU-PF government are saying that we won't tolerate that kind of thing here in Zimbabwe.

And we know that they can be very suppressive.