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By Nigel Gambanga Local print media company, Zimpapers, has appointed a new CEO and Chairman. With changes like this, and the way tech is rattling the news and media industry, this could be the start of a new season for Zimpapers. Will the leadership be agile enough to catch the…

By Nigel Gambanga Econet has an SMS Job Alerts service that you can sign up to use on your own, but you can’t unsubscribe from. It has a lot of SMS alerts that actually cost you 1 cent, even after you’ve tried to unsubscribe from it. …read more Read more…

By Garikai Dzoma The national power authority, ZESA, has failed to deliver on its mandate as the one source of power for the majority of Zimbabweans. The poor service delivery and lack of consistent supply is enough to prove that. Perhaps it is now time to consider players from the…

By Nigel Gambanga Weaving technology into any movement for social change sounds like a sexy campaign line and is easy to suggest, especially on a huge scale across national or continental boundaries. it’s the easy thing to do anyway – speak purposely about the importance of embracing tech for development.…

By Nigel Gambanga It’s funny how a loud campaign from a single service provider can bring out a lot of aggression from the competition, especially where the opportunity for added revenue streams is made apparent to everyone concerned. I’m referring to WiFi promotions that are now being pushed by every…

By Nigel Gambanga Mobile data is expensive and there’s nothing that can be done about it in the short term. Let’s not flood the regulator, POTRAZ, with our complaints. Our best bet is in the shift in economic conditions that might get operators to angle for our money with promos…

By Nigel Gambanga Listen to that…..silence. It seems like besides launching a group savings product, EcoCash has been rather quiet lately. I say this not because I was a fan of the product blitzkrieg that its parent company Econet launched on its mobile money competition last year. Far from it.…

By Nigel Gambanga Today Pan-African infrastructure group, Liquid Telecoms, announced an increase in its existing investment in the Zambian market with the acquisition of an Internet Service Provider called Realtime. This move comes on the heels of another strategic play for the retail consumer market that CEC Liquid Telecom (that’s…

By Nigel Gambanga Talent shortage is a big problem in tech, and if you ask anyway in Zimbabwe who’s cared to find the best man for any particular tech job, they quickly agree. Even here at Techzim, we’ve felt it. It’s sad that not enough has been done to fix…

By Nigel Gambanga The name Nicholas Mathonsi isn’t a household name, but in some weird way it should be, for millions of people. He’s the guy who passed a High Court order granting Telecel Zimbabwe the right to continue operations until it puts its house in order. If it wasn’t…