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Vol 66 No 4

Published 21st February 2025


Zimbabwe

Innovation delusion

On 28 January, President Emmerson Mnangagwa hosted ‘inventor’ Maxwell Chikumbutso at State House to demonstrate a ‘self-powering vehicle’. At the event, covered by state media and widely publicised on the president’s and government’s social media, Chikumbutso supposedly used a ‘microsonic energy device’ to convert radio waves into infinite energy to power the car he ‘built’. A quick Google search reveals that Chikumbutso’s device is a portable solar power station that costs about US$100 on Amazon attached to a Chinese-made electric SUV.

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