Technology

By Staff Writer Panguro Media is proud to announce the official launch of its On-Demand channel on Vimeo. We have been working hard to create the first aggregator and legal sales platform for Zimbabwean film and TV content. This has happened in close collaboration with the filmmakers themselves, and Panguro…

By Edwin Chabuka On the 12th of April Steward Bank released their new mobile banking app to the public under the name Square 2.0. Now we say new because the first iteration of this app was to a number of people basically everything you got using their USSD *210#. Square…

By Edwin Chabuka Kwesé Play launched a little while back and its purpose was to aggregate as many of the popular online streaming sites onto one device. Here we are talking your YouTube, your Netflix, Your Red Bull TV and more. Currently Kwesé play is only available in South Africa…

By Farai Mudzingwa The Kulibot is the first bot which allows people to top up their airtime and buy ZESA prepaid tokens via Whatsapp. The process… The process you follow is simple and straightforward. Users interacting with the bot will be prompted to respond to options offered by the bot…

By Alvine Chaparadza Working under the banner of implementing widespread reforms in Parastals and State Enterprises, the government has decided to merge Postal and Telecommunication Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) and Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ). Potraz’s function of overseeing the telecommunications sector and BAZ’s oversight function on broadcasting will…

By Leonard Sengere The government, through the Finance Minister Chinamasa has shared its plans to reform State-Owned Enterprises. In that plan, we found out that both Telecel and NetOne are going to be partially privatized. Today, the government owns 100% of NetOne. The Telecel situation is not as straight forward.…

By Farai Mudzingwa The Zimbabwean Government is believed to be importing a mass facial recognition system, Cloudwalk Technology, as they look to ramp up security efforts. The system is being imported as part of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The Belt and Road Initiative is a is a development…

By Alvine Chaparadza 1. Government has been consistent in emphasizing the critical contribution expected from the State Enterprises and Parastatal (SEP) sector towards the revival of Zimbabwe’s economic fortunes and in this regard has for some time been pursuing a programme of SEPs reform designed to enhance performance, improve service-delivery…

By Leonard Sengere We have all watched as EcoCash’s dominance has increased in Zimbabwe to near monopoly levels. The mobile money service has become an essential payment method in this country. Most of us signed up for the service and so were not surprised as details of the dominance were…