The noise & signal around the departure of Steward Bank CEO, Kwanele Ngwenya
By L.S.M Kabweza How the resignation of Steward CEO, Kwanele Ngwenya, has been treated in the media and by sources inside the company itself is quite curious. At least 3 reputable media companies (The...
View ArticleLocal banks collapse & sputter: Are mobile money wallets & Bitcoin our safe...
By Nigel Gambanga It’s just days into the year and it certainly looks like the financial services sector is going to go through a very rough spell in 2015. Yesterday Allied Bank, a Zimbabwean...
View ArticleNetOne introduces Emergency Airtime. Why is it free?
By Nigel Gambanga Today state-owned mobile network NetOne introduced its own emergency airtime credit facility that extends 50 cents to any prepaid subscriber accessing the service on the *140#...
View ArticleWhy and how we can set up a clinic on every mobile phone
By Marlon-Ralph Nyakabau Tech entrepreneurs seem to be describing a nightmare when they share accounts of when they had to deal with the regulatory authorities whilst striving to introduce tech...
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NRZ top job attracts 40 applicants
At least 40 applicants are eyeing the post of general manager at struggling National Railways of Zimbabwe, an official.The new appointee is likely to be announced next month to replace acting general...
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TelOne recovers $100mln in debts
Telone boss, Chipo MtasaSTATE-owned fixed line operator TelOne sees four percent growth in revenue in 2015 after it recovered $100 million from debtors that would improve its working capital position,...
View ArticlePodcast: Zympay & remittances, Human IPO, P.O BOX Videos and NetOne Airtime
By Nigel Gambanga Here is the latest edition of the weekly Techzim Podcast. As we always do, in this episode we touch on the trending topics from the local tech scene. Under discussion was the P.O BOX...
View ArticleThree bad quarters in a row: Telecel continued to lose subscribers in 2014
By L.S.M Kabweza 2014 wasn’t a good year for Telecel Zimbabwe. It will go down in history as the year of the decline. It started with the losing 111,000 subscribers in the first quarter. And then in...
View Article2015 is all about broadband: How TelOne is positioning itself as an internet...
By Nigel Gambanga An article published today by the Source has qouted TelOne’s managing director, Chipo Mtasa, highlighting an anticipated growth revenue of 4% in 2015 for the fixed telecoms operator....
View ArticleLooking for jobs available in Zimbabwe? NetOne has a solution
By Nigel Gambanga If there’s one thing we’ve learnt from mobile network operators looking for additional revenue streams its that you can never get enough VAS services, especially in an environment...
View ArticleLooking for jobs available in Zimbabwe? NetOne has a solution
By Nigel Gambanga If there’s one thing we’ve learnt from mobile network operators looking for additional revenue streams its that you can never get enough VAS services, especially in an environment...
View ArticleAnother eCommerce startup launches. Will Pazimba be the ones to crack it?
By L.S.M Kabweza Zimbabwe is yet to have a breakout eCommerce success. Though a number of startups have made an attempt at it, so far the market is still wide open for one (or a few players) to be the...
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US$100m capital boost for Ecobank Zimbabwe
ECOBANK Zimbabwe is set to improve its underwriting capacity after parent company, Ecobank Transnational Incorporated signed a seven-year $100 million loan facility with the European Investment Bank,...
View ArticleZim’s declining economy: An Analysis
IN 2014 the economy contracted sharply – beer sales declined by 30 per cent and VAT collections by 25 per cent – both clear indications that the GDP was declining by at least 10 per cent and maybe 14...
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Zim banks cut 1,000 jobs in 2014
Allied Bank’s license was recently cancelled by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.BANKS in Zimbabwe cut 1,000 jobs last year, eliminating one post out of every six in the southern African country’s banking...
View ArticleFrustrated by bad customer service? Make a report on Hellomukoma
By L.S.M Kabweza Say a company sells you – on paper that is – a very fast internet package. But when you connect, all you get is internet so slow you can swear it’s worse than dial-up. In Zimbabwe you...
View Article“Free” SMS from biNu returns. Will Econet Zero-rating restore it to former...
By L.S.M Kabweza Remember the BiNu app? Essentially they were a free SMS app. The app could run on any feature phone, so essentially, biNu became a very popular “messaging” app. Because SMS was still...
View ArticleWe too are Human: Terrorism, Media and Africa’s ‘Othering’ of Self.
IN reading reactions to the differences of media coverage/global outrage at the terrorist attacks in Paris and those which occurred in the north eastern Nigerian town of Baga, one is struck by two...
View ArticleAn overview of fibre in Zimbabwe: What can we expect in 2015?
By Nigel Gambanga Let’s take a second to look at what the Zimbabwean broadband internet landscape was like around 2009 and 2010. We didn’t have as many options as we have now for internet access,...
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More bad blood in ZANU-PF
Ousted former justice minister Fortune Chasi cross swords with Martin Dinha.A BRUISING war of words pitting expelled deputy minister for justice, legal and parliamentary affairs, Fortune Chasi, and...
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