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CABS records 32pct jump in income
THE country’s largest mortgage lender, Central African Building Society (CABS), recorded a 32 percent increase in total comprehensive income to $22,6 million income for the year ended December 31 2014,...
View ArticleSome quick facts on the Econet EcoShopper service and App
By Nigel Gambanga After all the promises made and all the work being put into its mobile money service, EcoCash bound to happen eventually. Econet is now giving online retailing a shot with the new...
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Ecocash Launches Eco-Shopper
ECONET Wireless’ EcoCash on Tuesday launched EcoShopper, a service that will allow users to buy groceries directly from their EcoCash wallet, in a development that is Zimbabwe’s first real drive...
View ArticleThe realities of e-commerce: What chance does Econet have in this space?
By Nigel Gambanga From the onset, I have to say that I don’t have a lot of faith in online retailing platforms that focus on groceries in a 2015 Zimbabwe. But this is a business, so faith isn’t...
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Government to prevent oral health diseases
GOVERNMENT has a mandate to prevent oral health diseases through creation and upholding of policies conducive to health and healthy lifestyles a government official has said. Speaking at the World Oral...
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ZPI to dispose some CBD buildings
ZIMRE Property Investments (ZPI) says it will dispose some of its buildings in the CBD as the company restructures its portfolios to focus more on the lucrative office parks and new property...
View ArticleWhatsApp, Facebook & the streets: the new markets for Zim content creators
By Nigel Gambanga Paraffin, Mukadota, Gringo, Mutirowafanza, Neria, More Time, Jit, Yellow Card, Flame. Seemingly random names, but all these titles register some significance with Zimbos that lived in...
View ArticleConversations on Zim’s Digital Future: Making money from YouTube
By Nigel Gambanga This is one of the discussions from the 2015 Digital Future Conference that was held in Harare Zimbabwe. Speakers were Teju Ajani from YouTube and Nqobizitha Mlilo of the Nafuna TV...
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Delta expedites US$17m Chibuku project
CONSTRUCTION of Delta Corporation’s US$17 million Chibuku plant at Fairbridge, just outside Bulawayo, will get underway in the next few weeks after the country’s biggest brewer last week received the...
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Diamond exports decline
ZIMBABWE’S annual diamond exports declined to 5,9 million carats last year from 8,9 million carats in 2013 after exhaustion of alluvial diamonds in Marange, figures from the Mineral Marketing...
View ArticleDrought: Hope Zim has learnt a lesson
Peter GambaraTHIS past week, government announced that over 300 000 hectares of crops had succumbed to the dry spell and indications are that some areas will experience food shortages this year. The...
View ArticleState pushes newspapers out of business
A RAFT of taxes and fees imposed on the media industry by government have militated against recovery efforts in the troubled sector , a 666-page report released by the Information and Media Panel of...
View ArticleGive someone a chocolate
Chocolate, for most people is very hard to resist. Comfort food as well as a luxury for celebrations, chocolate makes you feel good. Chocolate says ‘I love you’. Along with chillies and sex,...
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ZANU-PF guaranteed victory in by-elections
ZANU-PF is expected to easily win tomorrow’s by-elections in Mt Darwin West and Chirumhanzu-Zibagwe where it is contesting against fringe political parties. The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T),...
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NOIC acquires US$3,6m fuel depot
STATE-owned National Oil Infrastructure Company of Zimbabwe (NOICZ) has acquired a fuel depot in Bulawayo for US$3,6 million, as it moves to push its products in the southern and western regions, the...
View ArticleYour pastor needs your prayers
Hebrews 13:18 Keep praying for us… Most frequently church members are apt to judge, to laugh at, and to hold in derision, a church leader who has fallen from grace. Perhaps it has never occurred to...
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MDC-T is malicious, vindictive: Renewal Team
Cyril Zenda Own Correspondent“MR Tsvangirai may have turned 65 (sic) years today but his behaviour and deeds are infantile. His problem is that he has been young for a long time in the mindset… We...
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ZIFA boss cornered
AT least 25 members of the ZIFA Assembly this week endorsed a proposal to convene an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM), where the beleaguered ZIFA president, Cuthbert Dube, is expected to be kicked...
View ArticleZim’s Digital Future: Digital migration & opportunities for content creators
By Nigel Gambanga Who is going to benefit from digitisation? It turns out a lot of people at various stages in the digital food chain actually. One of the key presentations from the Digital Future...
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Government raids bank accounts
. . . as cash crisis bitesAS the cash crisis deepens, the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) has launched an unprecedented blitz on defaulters, going as far as raiding bank accounts of companies with...
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