By Batsirai Chikadaya Over the last few weeks, there have been some major shifts in options to buy pre-paid electricity on mobile money platforms run by mobile operators Econet, Telecel and NetOne. Seeing that “ZESA” (that’s what we call electricity in Zimbabwe) is a service that concerns the whole of…
By Nigel Gambanga Zimbabwe’s mobile penetration rate declined from 97% to 94.3% between July and August 2016 as the number of active mobile telephone subscriptions dropped slightly during the period. Articles appeared first on Techzim;Zimbabwe’s mobile penetration rate declines to 94.3% as active SIM card use in 2nd half of…
By Nigel Gambanga Information regarding the theft of this software was first shared on live radio when the Minister of Education Dr Lazarus Dokora was asked to respond to the allegations. More details on the allegations have since emerged. Articles appeared first on Techzim;More details of Ministry of Education’s alleged…
By Nigel Gambanga The Minister of Education Lazarus Dokora The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has been accused of stealing the idea for its eMAP online enrolment system which has been adopted as the primary registration platform for pupils seeking boarding school places for Form 1. In an interview…
By Batsirai Chikadaya The RBZ sent out a circular on the reduction of cash withdrawal charges to all banking institutions. The circular, No. 05-2016/BSD, states the background to the decision to reduce the bank charges, the revised cash withdrawal charges and cash withdrawal limits and even shows the exorbitant fees…
By Carl Joshua Ncube There are many other problems that we will explore in the following concept developed by me to define what the industry will now term as the “ANSWER”. Firstly let’s get the formalities out of the way. The reason that the creative industry in Zimbabwe is failing…
By Batsirai Chikadaya FBC Bank has a prepaid MasterCard which is used to make online payments and transact with outside the country. Today, one of Techzim’s readers alerted us that they visited the bank and attempted to load their prepaid Mastercard with money which included bond notes, they had $20…
By Nigel Gambanga Amazon has just launched Prime Video, its Video On Demand (VOD) pay TV service in over 200 countries around the world (Zimbabwe included) effectively becoming the biggest competitor to internet TV poster child Netflix in providing internet TV to a global audience. Articles appeared first on Techzim;Amazon…
By Batsirai Chikadaya Telecel has successfully integrated its mobile money platform Telecash directly with ZESA allowing its subscribers the convenience to make prepaid ZESA purchases from the comfort of their mobile devices anywhere and anytime. Speaking on the significance of the integration, Telecel’s Head of Mobile Financial Services, Ms Violet…
By Nigel Gambanga Liquid Telecom, the Pan-African carrier and subsidiary of the Econet Wireless Group has acquired a controlling stake in Tanzanian internet service provider Raha. Raha is one of Tanzania’s largest ISP providing fibre, satellite, WiMAX and WiFi solutions to over 1500 businesses and a segment of retail customers…