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February 4, 2025

Zimbabwean President And Politicians Duped By Local’s ‘Radio Wave Energy Invention’

President Mnangagwa praised Chikumbutso as a brilliant inventor whose invention has never been seen before anywhere in the world, making it a first of its kind.

[Image: DeptCommsZW / X]

Senior Zimbabwean leaders, including President Emmerson Mnangagwa, are reported to have been duped by claims that a local inventor had created an “ultrasonic” generator that turns radio waves into power.

Zimbabwean officials were a bit too quick to believe that the “groundbreaking technology” uses radio waves to power generators, motorcycles, and electric vehicles using a “microsonic” energy converter that turns radio frequencies into “pure energy”.

Zimbabwe’s official presidential communications account on X last week posted a statement – and a video – saying that Mnangagwa met with the “inventor”, Maxwell Chikumbutso, at State House to discuss this and other “inventions”.

According to the presidential communications, “President Mnangagwa praised Chikumbutso as a brilliant inventor whose invention has never been seen before anywhere in the world, making it a first of its kind.”

In the post – and others belonging to official government accounts – Chikumbudzo is lauded as the brains behind several inventions, including a vehicle made in partnership with an unnamed Chinese vehicle manufacturer.

Things however took an awkward turn when a well-known Zimbabwean journalist and Harvard fellow Hopewell Chin’ono revealed that the ‘groundbreaking technology’ was actually a portable solar power station sold on Amazon for $109.

“So a whole president was conned and his state security was so useless that it allowed this to happen? I am just disappointed by the dunces who were defending this conman – it shows how terrible our education system is!”

To make the whole thing even worse, the other inventions by Chikumbutso, touted by President Mnangagwa as world-firsts, turned out to be nonsense, including a radio frequency-powered television, and an electric car that he claims to have invented by himself but turned out to be a Kaiyi X3 Pro – an electric SUV sold on Made-in-China.com.

President Mnangagwa’s government seems to have now distanced itself from the whole mess to save face. After all, it’s embarrassing to fall for such obvious lies. You know, like “I will be better than Mugabe,” or “I will put the people’s interests above my own”.

The truth, however, is that after making a poepol of the president and his men, Chikumbutso is likely headed for Beitbridge right now.

[Source: TechCentral]