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And remember Brad - CBM gas to power is not a new invention or a new market or a new source of energy. It is tried and tested and delivered and accepted the world over (where there is gas) - except the good folks in Botswana seem to think it is difficult or unreliable or not really wanted for them.

So if you are going to use an analogy as like Henry Ford building his first prototype - remember that doesn't actually fit the basis of your argument.

When Tlou manage to deliver one car or one project or one anything that generate one dollar of revenue, then I promise to start changing my mind. In the mean time .......

It would actually be refreshing if either of you could come up with sensible views to counter some of mine. Your default positions of simply reverting to attempted personal insults is not a good look for either of you.

First listed on ASX in 2012, then AIM in 2015, then BSE in 2017, then delisted AIM 2024, and having to rely upon supply chain finance to provide the funding to deliver their first gas to power revenues - then again, neither of you seem particularly concerned about how a pageant queen or an ugly pig looks. To you, they all look the same.

Tlou has all those things - has had most of them for near 5-8 years. And is still a pre-revenue company struggling to find a way to raise finance and DELIVER an actual project they said was their CORE strategy since 2015 ......... But you and Winni and others are happy to accept excuses and reasons for failure to DELIVER STRATEGY, trotting out excuses to suit your own peace of mind. Winni still deludes himself he takes the long term view - er anyone that properly understands the investment game in Energy sector knows it takes years to deliver major projects.

2MW of gas to power is NOT a major project; and Tlou after 6 years cannot deliver a minor project ! That is FACT - I love that your dislike of my posts continues to dominate your inability to admit a company's failure. Did someone mention 'naivety' .......

Maybe one day the penny will drop with you Winni.

From the waste paper basket in Gabs:

The Directorate on Corruption & Economic Crime has embarked on "lifestyle audit" on a number of high-profile figures including 2 formers Ministers and senior personnel at both Jwaneng and Orapa mines. This publication has learnt that the onslaught started on Friday where former Minister of Minerals was visited to check if he is living beyond his means. Details are still sketchy but sources say itis going to be a long game. Yesterday (Monday) the operation continued. This time around it was in Ruretse at ex-Minister of Lands & Water Affairs. The operation's scope remains the same but questioning his lifestyle because of his them position where the ministry was dishing out a number of millions and billions of pula.

Another damming article doing the round on Moagi says:

Moagi found another cash cow at BPC where mostly Chinese companies wanted solar projects and wanted an assurance from BPC that upon completing solar stations, BPC will buy electricity from them. The Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) were meant to have those Chinese companies accessing finance from Chinese government to finance the projects. Moagi benefitted millions of pula in kickbacks and ensured that those PPAs are signed and that he officiates such signs, none of those projects have been completed to date. Some Chinese companies even went to the extent of installing very expensive solar systems at his farm in Sandveldt which was once visited for investigation by DIS but report shelved by DIS DG.

And trust me - there is lots more where this came from.

I seem to remember our resident expert on TG and Tlou frequently telling us how great Moagi was for Tlou and CBM. Well let's see when the pigeons return to roost.

'good enough that TG was able to retire imho and leave his company in a wonderful position'

The Change of Managing Director said that TG 'has stepped down as MD and CEO with immediate effect and for personal reasons'. Had he stepped down due to retirement, surely the wording would have said exactly that. But it didn't. The newspapers I gladly pick up from the floors and bins of Gaborone establishments + loose bar conversations are rife with stories of corruption and shenanigans throughout the Masisi era, captured Ministers, captured Permanent Secretaries, paid-off civil servants acting on behalf of their payment Masters. BPC is essentially a failed SOE institution and rumours of mis-management and favouritism abound aplenty.

Did TG retire ? We will find out at some point ahead. Brad says he did - but on what basis ? Forensic audit teams are due to arrive in Gaborone in July and a few chaps have squeaky bum symptoms currently.

You must be an incredibly patient man then Winni. I wonder when you will think the mgmt team have had enough of a crack of delivering on strategy and just one project ....... In 5 or 10 or more years perhaps ......

What happens if Kala turns out to be yet another false dawn - will that test your patience perhaps.

Imagine your celebration when you can say you were right Brad and everybody else was wrong !

Now let me see - did someone post recently ....... 'try getting off your high horse and reviewing the rubbish you write before posting!'

I just love when message boards degenerate into slanging matches against each other. Problem for you is I wont stoop to your child like level. I write what I think about a stock; when folks read negative or opposite views to the herd, they do what all good herds should do - rally around, circle themselves and defend of fight back.

However quite why a few of you cannot accept someone saying feck all is likely to happen here for a decent chunk of time is pretty telling about this particular herd. By and large, all here are meaningless shareholders in the grand scheme of the share register, so why you are so quick to boil and froth is entertaining.

Why dont you stick to your point of view; leave me to my point of view; keep the personal insults to yourself - and lets see how this pans out in the next 2-3 years. Cause that is what it is going to take to get all the blocks in place. People's desire to buy a house or a car of ZIOC in the short term - well yes, we all dare to dream. And usually we wake up.

With the near total lack of comms from Ben + a new website coming soon (message on existing website) + other generally positive news emanating from Zimb about various projects and investment inflows = soon time for Ben and Kavango to crank up the PR pitch machine. This being my long way of saying - take a punt and Buy now ahead of the crowd ...........

It never ceases to amaze me why small shareholders on message boards post rubbish bravado messages telling management they need to do this or that or the other. Get a life for crying out loud. Better still, get some understanding that buying 0.00001 per cent of a company's shareholding means you have got zero per cent voice in the grand scheme of things.

The former Xstrata guys that have made a move on Zanaga don't care one i-ota about you / any of us. In time, we will become an irritant, an itch, and when and if they decide to eliminate us, rest assured they will not have our best interests at heart. It will be at a time of their choosing, most likely after a prolonged and depressed price period, or worse, diluting us to even more meaningful positions than most here already hold.

Lads - you might feel great about yourself posting most of the shoite that you do. The only fools you are fooling is yourself and those here stupid enough to think along the same lines.

My advice - Buy your shares, stick them in the bottom drawer, subscribe for their emails and check in every now and again (2 or 3 times a year). Delivering any mine is a long process; delivering one with the complications that ZOIC mine has even longer. If at all.

GLTA and DYOR

All good now Brad or Cherry. 2 wrongs make everything all right. what does 3 do I wonder .....

Man you really do like posting verbose amounts of pure phiffle.

I guess since there is nothing to talk about on Tlou, you have to revert to talking about you and your travails on share transfer migration and dealing incapabilities. ie its all you you you you. What a bore fest !

Well actually you and he had this room for ages. But no matter, we are now being wowed by what AI / ChatGPT has to say about the merits of ZOIC. That is no doubt fascinating to read.

Yeah, but that is because it is mostly you and MM posting. And we all know what angle MM comes from, don't we. He was 5 quid or 5quid 50 if memory serves me correctly. Nuff said !

Oh so i am not filtered again. make up your mind brad - we all know you love being the centre of fantasyland here.

You really do seem to like the sound of your own posts. Tell me this then - with you having posted so regularly and supportively of ZOIC, how come the rest of the market does not share your view of the unlocked value here as yet? I mean, how much longer is it going to take for everyone else to come around to what you saw light years before anyone else...... What was your share price prediction a while back again ?

I have not changed my argument or basis one little bit. Govt and military cannot develop an iron ore mine and simply sell the ore on global markets or even sell beneficiated products on open markets IF they steal the project from Rio Tinto. Nobody would touch the stuff !! That is my argument.

If they want to go after small scale bauxite mines locally, then somebody should sit them down and spell out what signal that sends to the large lending institutions about Guinea jurisdictional risk. Maybe you could focus your efforts on trying to educate them instead of worrying about me.....

Nice to see you muppets over on hotcopper - as usual, it is more about shutting me down that acknowledging Tlou management have been incompetent for years. GG was touted as "that man" by Tidd83 back in 2017 - I wonder does he turn up to work these days. What actually is there for the Management team to do now that they have turned over the future to Kala ??

Still the muppets will keep hammering on me rather than focus on the appalling display of management incompetency over many years !