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By L.S.M Kabweza Harare based technology and arts hub, Moto Republik, has been given one week by the Harare City council, to take down their creative containers structure, or have it demolished. Moto Republik has been one of the most visible tech & arts hubs locally, hosting a number of…
By L.S.M Kabweza We’ve just received information that the Mayor of the City of Harare, Bernard Manyenyeni, called off the demolition of Moto Republik. As reported earlier, police from the City of Harare had come to the tech and arts hub to demolish it apparently because it is an illegal…
By L.S.M Kabweza Harare municipal police at Moto Republik this morning just before they started taking the hub’s structure down. Credit Privilege Musvanhiri. Harare City Council attempted this morning to demolish one of Zimbabwe’s most prominent tech hubs in Zimbabwe, Moto Republik. The council said it was because it is…
By William Chui Bank cards with US dollars ” data-medium-file=”http://www.techzim.co.zw/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Bank-cards-with-money-255×128.jpg” data-large-file=”http://www.techzim.co.zw/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Bank-cards-with-money-560×280.jpg”> Over the last couple of months a lot has been happening on the money side. Techzim has covered it extensively here but still we’re yet to see someone take time out and spell it all out for us –…
By L.S.M Kabweza So every time we do articles about the POTRAZ reports, readers ask us for the download of the actual report. To peruse it themselves and deduct whatever is relevant for their businesses. So we include it in a latest report download article. But after a couple of…
By L.S.M Kabweza The current liquidity crisis in Zimbabwe has hit mobile money really hard. A report by the telecoms regulator in Zimbabwe, POTRAZ, says mobile money transactions in the last quarter of 2016, October to December, dropped 35% from the previous quarter. Since 99% of all the mobile money…
By L.S.M Kabweza The government owned Zimpapers, the largest print media house in Zimbabwe, is preparing to launch a new TV network, Zimpapers Television Network. A promo posted on YouTube last week introduced what the network will be about – giving people what they want in TV content. Talk of…
By L.S.M Kabweza The number of voice call minutes made in Zimbabwe has continuing to tumble as more and more people resort to WhatsApp for their voice calls. A report by Zimbabwe’s telecoms regulatory body, POTRAZ, that Techzim has received shows that there was an 8.6% drop in calls made…
By L.S.M Kabweza Local Bitcoin exchange BitCoinFundi says it processed about US $100,000 worth of transactions in 2016. The exchange founder and CEO, Tawanda Kembo, says they have been growing their total transaction value by about 16% month on month and are looking to reach $1 million annual transactions by…
By L.S.M Kabweza Remember the Facebook launches Bots Developer Challenge wrote about last month? There’s some good news for those of you looking to take part. As part of activities to promote the challenge, a local tech hub called Impact Hub Harare is working with Facebook to host a Bot…