By Staff Writer News reports often claim that because of Zimbabwe’s superior education, it has the highest literacy rate in Africa. Recently a politician in the country, Supa Mandiwanzira, echoed this “fact”. The data, unfortunately, suggests otherwise. There are at least 10 countries that are ahead of Zimbabwe in terms…
By Staff Writer Shamlessly copied and pasted from Pindula… with permission of course! Like most Zimbabweans, or at least the ones that I interact with, I was quite surprised when President Robert Mugabe announced the creation of an entire ministry to regulate social media: the new Ministry of Cyber Security,…
By Leonard Sengere We understand that there is excitement that there is a new pay-TV option to rival DStv. Kwesé TV is that option and for the first time in decades one can look beyond DStv and still get their entertainment fix. As comparisons were made certain statements were thrown…
By Trycolyn Pikirayi Like I said, I’m on a roll to help you save money. Actually, maybe we should call it the #cheapskate series, what do you think? ? Anyway, so EcoCash enables you to receive money from the diaspora in USD through the EcoCash Diaspora service. The sender however…
By Trycolyn Pikirayi Just went through the Telecel website, and I was surprised that Telecash actually offers some really essential services that EcoCash still doesn’t offer. Why the surprise? Well because to date, Telecash and OneMoney still share the remaining 10% or less of all mobile money transactions while EcoCash…
By Leonard Sengere Late last month the government made cash vending without a proper licence illegal. The Exchange Control Act was amended to empower the police to arrest illegal forex traders and seize whatever currency in their possession. If you still want to be a money-changer you have to obtain…
By Trycolyn Pikirayi Bank cards with US dollars ” data-medium-file=”https://t3n9sm.c2.acecdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Bank-cards-with-money-255×128.jpg” data-large-file=”https://t3n9sm.c2.acecdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Bank-cards-with-money-560×280.jpg”> There has been two announcements from CABS and ZB bank. Both are warning their customers (or whoever might need to use these banks) that their systems will be under upgrade, hence service disruption. Here’s more detail for each. CABS…
By Edwin Chabuka We take a look at how DStv compares with the new kid on the block Kwesé TV. Articles appeared first on Techzim;DStv vs Kwesé – How they compare …read more Read more here:: Techzim Feed…
By Leonard Sengere We recently looked at whether there is a fake news problem on social media, on WhatsApp especially and the evidence suggests the affirmative. That fake news problem was also noticed by the Zimbabwean government which responded by working on a Computer Crimes and Cyber Crimes Bill as…
By William Chui The initial title of my article was meant to be “We’re All Just A Bunch Of Wankers”. Absurd right? I know. However, I’m one to take offence for being labelled based on the actions of others and so I opted to title my article something tamer but…