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By Leonard Sengere The latest reports from the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) show that in the 11 months from January to November 2017 Zimbabwe had a trade surplus of about $185m with South Africa. This after we exported goods worth about $2.18 billion to our southern neighbours compared to…
By Trycolyn Pikirayi “It’s the back to school promotion!” For a long time, my heart always sank whenever these type of adverts started. Not that I hated school to be honest, but I hated waking up early – I still do! Anyway, it’s that time of the year again when…
By Vendetta Mtunzi Star FM recently made a clear announcement to music artists on their Facebook page and on a flier that circulated on social media saying they do not accept nor will they play any music sent to them via email or any social media platform as they wanted…
By Leonard Sengere Last week, Techzim ran a story discussing the government’s plan to privatise most of the state owned enterprises. In that story we talked about how privatisation has to be done right otherwise it will fail like it did in Zimbabwe in the 90s. Parastatals are just businesses…
By Trycolyn Pikirayi Currently, there are no laws that directly govern Internet Service Providers (ISP) such as ZOL, Powertel, Africom and Telco. You might have assumed that these are being regulated by the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ), but no. However, it is the Internet Access Providers…
By Leonard Sengere Econet wants to construct a solar power plant at their Data Centre in Willowvale. Let’s look at the notice concerning their application for an electricity generation licence first and then look at possible reasons why they are going that route. Does it even make sense for them…
By Vendetta Mtunzi The cash crisis in Zimbabwe has everyone turning to use plastic money almost all the time and Commuter omnibus owners seem to have jumped in to make life easier for their customers. A commuter omnibus owner of the Pamushana Africa Transport, AKA Old Trafford has recently adjusted…
By Trycolyn Pikirayi Kangai has responded to ZACC’s decision to dismiss his allegations against the minister of ICT and Cyber Security, Hon Supa Mandiwanzira. Well, we can’t possibly have expected the whole #SupaGate saga to end at ZACC dismissing Reward Kangai’s claims just after a few months of investigating such…
By Trycolyn Pikirayi Are you one of those whose new year’s resolutions are “to be more productive by cutting out on social media”? something you’ve been telling yourself you were first introduced to social media. If we were in Ghana, I would be saying no worries right now, but oh…
By Leonard Sengere MTN South Africa conducted a 5G technology and applications trial at its head office in Johannesburg in partnership with Ericsson. 5G refers to fifth generation mobile networks or wireless networks. The two companies are collaborating on the rollout of 5G technologies in South Africa. The trial, which…