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Dokora on the offensive again
Underfire Education minister, Lazarus Dokora.PRIMARY and Secondary Education Minister, Lazarus Dokora, is under fire again — this time for rushing the education curriculum review process without...
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Tourism players riled by prohibitive taxes
THE coming into effect of a recent directive by the revenue collector to levy a 15 percent Value Added Tax on foreign visitors has dampened the spirits of players in the hospitality sector. The...
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Banking sector to shed more workers
ZIMBABWE’s troubled banking sector, which last year lost at least 1 500 jobs, could shed a further 1 000 jobs this year due to an escalating liquidity crisis in the country, a workers’ union for the...
View ArticleTom Jackson on leaving HumanIPO and starting Disrupt Africa
By L.S.M Kabweza Last week, just a few days into the new year, HumanIPO, one of the few blogs focusing on the wider Africa, announced it was shutting down. It’s supposed to shut down today actually...
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ZESA defaults
POWER utility, ZESA Holdings, is saddled with a staggering debt amounting to about US$800 million, with most of it now due but insufficiently covered, the Financial Gazette has established. This...
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Agric ministry cancels US$30m debt
CSC lost its market dominance when the European Union banned beef imports from Zimbabwe in 2001.VITAL documents containing details of a long-standing inter-parastatal debt deal made in 1996 between the...
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Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga to quit
ONE of the most powerful women in opposition politics, Priscila Misihairabwi-Mushonga, is considering quitting politics which she feels has continued to be too tumultuous for her liking, the Financial...
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Didymus Mutasa faces dismissal
WAR veterans, youths and women in ZANU-PF are baying for the blood of former ZANU-PF secretary for administration, Didymus Mutasa, who stirred a hornet’s nest when he published a damning statement in...
View ArticleJust how ready are we for internet dating in Zimbabwe?
By Nigel Gambanga Long before social media received a global definition from Mark Zuckerburg’s Harvard dormitory experiment, a lot of people had been experiencing the opportunity of the internet as...
View ArticleEnough with pathetic government websites, can’t something be done already?
By Nigel Gambanga This is going to sound pretty obvious to a lot of people who don’t see anything positive coming from our country but Zimbabwe has a lot of pathetic government websites. Yes, that’s...
View ArticleSaving data on Android devices
By Garikai Dzoma There is a saying doing rounds in the capital when referring to “Gold digging” people: “Anodya mari kunge Android.” The simile, among other things, suggests that Android phones will...
View ArticleSaving data on Android devices
By Garikai Dzoma There is a saying doing rounds in the capital when referring to “Gold digging” people: “Anodya mari kunge Android.” The simile, among other things, suggests that Android phones will...
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Acting wisely in life
James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.Dealing wisely in...
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Indian home cooking
It’s been a slow start getting out and about in the New Year. Extra centimetres everywhere made gym the priority and a visiting friend — a very talented cook — has been a consistent taskmaster in...
View ArticleFacebook Videos: New YouTube-like features an opportunity for content creators
By L.S.M Kabweza You’ve probably heard that Facebook is continually becoming better at being YouTube than Youtube itself. It started back in September when Facebook started allowing you to see how many...
View ArticleZIMURA and Econet attempt to kill local music piracy. What’s their silver...
By Nigel Gambanga Another revenue stream for Zimbabwean music can’t hurt, right? That’s what everyone has said over and over again. It’s just that the options that have been working elsewhere aren’t...
View ArticlePodcast: TelOne Broadband, biNu, Telecel subscribers, MoJo & Hellomukoma
By Nigel Gambanga We are back again with the latest Techzim podcast covering all the stories that were topical in the past week. Issues discussed in this podcast include the turnaround that TelOne is...
View ArticleCIMA goes completely digital
By Garikai Dzoma The CIMA 2015 syllabus makes it a completely digital course. Image via Explore CIMA We have already looked at how the local Examination Board, ZIMSEC, have a Joker up their sleeves for...
View ArticleLooking for developers and designers in Zimbabwe? You could try Ndiringe
By L.S.M Kabweza “Do you know a good developer that I can work with” is a question I get asked often. My response changes every so often depending on whoever is top of mind then and sometimes, when...
View ArticleThe Nokia 215: Will it save Nokia and make Microsoft an African brand?
By Nigel Gambanga If you follow tech, missing out on the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) highlights is a bit of a downer. There are a lot of things that come from each edition that push the envelope in...
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