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Power cut closes Bulawayo businesses
BUSINESSES in Bulawayo are counting losses following a five-day blackout in parts of the city centre due to an electrical fault at a Zesa substation in Belmont industrial area. The fault has a...Published: 7 hrs ago | 143 | by Staff reporter
Stanbic Bank to step up COVID-19 mitigation measures through digitisation
Leading financial services institution, Stanbic Bank, is banking on its top-notch innovative mobile and internet platforms to ensure its clients are well served throughout the 30-day lockdown....Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 11:33hrs | 451 | by Staff reporter
Banking sector job losses to intensify in 2021
MORE job losses are looming in the banking sector as the sector intensifies the digitisation process in 2021 businessdigest has learnt.Digitisation is expected to result in more closure of ban...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | 1008 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe banks weather the storm
ZIMBABWE'S banking institutions remained profitable during the year ended December 2019, reporting net income of $6,4 billion, an improvement from $389,9 million reported during the corresponding peri...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 07:04hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
'Soldiers marching on empty tummies'
PARLIAMENT has exposed government for its failure to address the plight of soldiers by not providing essentials that include medical aid and allowances, as well as adequate food rations, resulting in ...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 06:28hrs | 1257 | by Staff reporter
JSC pushes for digital delivery of justice
THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) is pushing for an electronic justice delivery system which will improve efficiency and help litigants access their files in a timely manner.In its strateg...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 16:19hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
Stanbic shuts two more branches
STANBIC Bank Zimbabwe says it is closing branches in Hwange and Westgate, Harare, in line with its digitisation strategy.Early this year Stanbic discontinued operations at the Chitungwiza and ...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 06:37hrs | 653 | by Staff reporter
Gringo laid to rest
Comedian Lazarus Boora, better known as Gringo, was yesterday buried at his rural home in Rukweza village, Nyazura, with mourners describing his death as a great loss to the local film industry. ...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 05:36hrs | 354 | by Staff reporter
Power cuts push Econet losses
DIVERSIFIED telecommunications group Econet Wireless suffered exchange losses in excess of $6 billion in its financial year and reeled under rolling power cuts that hit the country last year.I...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 06:35hrs | 356 | by Staff writer
TelOne increases internet connectivity
THE Government through TelOne has continued with its initiative of increasing Internet connectivity in the country, a move meant to tap into the increasing advancement of technology.This comes...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:48hrs | 578 | by Staff reporter
Why it's time for Africa to adopt a regional digital financial identity
According to the World Bank Group's Identification for Development, 1.1 billion people globally, including women, children and refugees, lack any form of officially recognised identification. This is ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 19:28hrs | 308 | by Nkosinathi Ncube
ZTV, spare us the torture
In the past 21 days, television has become an integral part of most people's entertainment.Yes, we have social media but the small screen is supposed to be a cheap and reliable source of fun a...Published: 19 Apr 2020 at 07:49hrs | 638 | by Staff reporter
Digitisation progress charms Govt
MANY communities in remote areas now have access to radio services following the successful roll-out of Government's digitisation programme that has so far seen the installation of six gap filler tran...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 07:21hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
Calls to diversify energy mix grow louder
CALLS for Zimbabwe and its regional peers to diversify the energy mix are growing in the face of biting climate change, whose effects have been erratic rains or too much rains in some areas, impacting...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 05:37hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
Stanbic to close two branches
STANBIC Bank Zimbabwe says it will close its Beitbridge and Chitungwiza branches next month as it adopts a digitisation strategy, which allows clients to conduct transactions and other services online...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:33hrs | 714 | by Staff reporter
Stanbic enhances digital banking
Stanbic Bank is stepping up the digitisation exercise hot on the heels of being named Best Bank of The Year in 2019 by leading financial magazine, The Banker, at a gala in London. The bank wil...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:29hrs | 191 | by Staff reporter
WorldRemit sees volume of remittances to Zimbabwe almost double
WorldRemit, the market-leading money transfer provider, has revealed that Zimbabwe was one of the top five recipient countries in Africa for remittances in 2019, and continues to grow rapidly....Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 07:15hrs | 2369 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe braces for paperless courts
While piles of paper still rule in all Zimbabwean courthouses, the new Commercial Court Division of the High Court, which is getting ready to move at the end of the year into Bristol House now under r...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 05:55hrs | 38 | by Staff rpeorter
AfDB to upgrade Zimra audit software
Government is working with its strategic partners to improve its capacity to collect revenue, use and account for it, cent-by-cent. In one of the steps to achieve this, a $11,6 million program...Published: 10 Jan 2020 at 09:25hrs | 464 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe needs more young persons on listed company boards
As a shareholder of every listed company on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange and a Councillor of Institute of Directors Zimbabwe (IODZ) there is a need for Transforming Zimbabwe's Boardrooms for sustainabl...Published: 16 Dec 2019 at 09:12hrs | 272 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
6 new TV channels to go live in next three months
Zimbabwe will have six television channels in the next three months as the Second Republic moves to ensure diversity in the broadcasting industry, a Cabinet minister has said. Information, Pub...Published: 14 Dec 2019 at 07:59hrs | 527 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo regrets
Part 2 of the Newsday interview with self-exiled former Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo. ND: It has been two years since you left Zimbabwe, are you at liberty to tell us what life has ...Published: 30 Nov 2019 at 15:29hrs | 10465 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo describes Chiwenga's return as bizarre
Vice-President Costantino Chiwenga returned home last week from China where he was receiving treatment. He arrived aboard a Chinese plane and the Chinese deputy ambassador to Zimbabwe, Zhao Baogang, l...Published: 30 Nov 2019 at 11:48hrs | 4933 | by Staff reporter
New taxation rules for large multinationals on cards
AFRICAN revenue administrators including Zimbabwe are considering an urgent review of tax incentives granted to large multinational companies whose growing virtual presence in the continent has prejud...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:15hrs | 235 | by Staff reporter
'Cyber security vital for investment'
INCREASED public and private sector collaboration is required in creating a secure digital environment for the sustenance of business investments and consumer protection, Information Communication Tec...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 04:56hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF, govt must pay ZBC for live broadcasts'
PARLIAMENT has recommended that the struggling State broadcaster Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) must be supported through the fiscus and that it must be paid for outside coverage of national ...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 06:03hrs | 818 | by Staff reporter
Mobile money brings hyperinflation back
Hyperinflation is making an unwanted return to Zimbabwe. We don't know how bad it is because the government has suspended publishing official figures until 2020. But an IMF mission to the country in A...Published: 30 Oct 2019 at 07:47hrs | 1771 | by Staff reporter
Ecobank Zimbabwe wins top bank award
PAN-AFRICAN financial institution Ecobank Zimbabwe Limited came tops at the prestigious Zimbabwe Independent Banks and Banking Survey that was held at a colourful ceremony in the in the capital yester...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 05:26hrs | 412 | by Staff reporter
StanChart remains committed to maintaining presence in Zimbabwe
Standard Chartered remains committed to maintaining presence in Zimbabwe and its digitisation strategy - which has seen the country's oldest bank closing most of its branches - should not be interpret...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 06:30hrs | 361 | by Staff rpeorter
Mnangagwa's govt to issue 40 community radio licences, claims Mangwana
Government has started working on licensing 40 community radio stations countrywide as it steps up efforts to achieve total broadcasting coverage, an official has said. Secretary for Informati...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:41hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
10 ICT students to leave for China
TEN Zimbabwean information communication technologies (ICT) students will this week leave for China under an incubation programme of global technology giant Huawei Technologies called Seeds for the Fu...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:17hrs | 331 | by Staff reporter
Is there any need for Zimbabwean banks to be technologically updated?
If a bank is stuck in last century thinking with last century leadership such cultural strategy will lead to eventual failure.I was in a hotel for lunch with a friend, when he asked me: "What ...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 10:24hrs | 1032 | by Elvis Dvene
Is there any need for Zimbabwean banks to be technologically updated?
If a bank is stuck in last century thinking with last century leadership such cultural strategy will lead to eventual failure.I was in a hotel for lunch with a friend, when he asked me: "What ...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 07:51hrs | 1241 | by Elvis Dvene
Epson to set up office in Zimbabwe
Swedish information communication technologies (ICTs) giant Epson Europe BV will set up office in Harare next week in response to President Mnangagwa's pro-investment reforms under the New Dispensatio...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 07:04hrs | 444 | by Staff reporter
Rainbow Tourism Group trading update
The company delivered a strong performance in 2018 achieving revenues of $34.3 million which was 27% above the prior year despite an increasingly challenging economic climate. This performance w...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 07:00hrs | 406 | by Rainbow Tourism Group
Digital economy key for economic growth
Digitisation of the economy can immensely contribute to the country's growth and realisation of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's vision for the country to attain an Upper Middle Income economy status by...Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:38hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
'ZBC losing $220 million annually'
Only 10% of the country''s population is paying for television and radio licences, resulting in the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) losing $220 million potential revenue annually, Parliament h...Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:42hrs | 980 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe courts to go digital
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba has appointed a nine-member committee to spearhead the digitisation of courts by year-end, a development expected to cut litigation costs and to reduce time taken in resolvin...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:20hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
Swedish company eyes education sector
Sweden's information communication technologies giant Epson Europe has expressed keen interest in partnering the Government in the digitisation of the country's education system. This was reve...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:09hrs | 95 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe set to modernise 6,000 schools
Primary and Secondary Education Minister Paul Mavima last week said Government would modernise 6 000 schools through adoption of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) before year-end.H...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 11:31hrs | 1119 | by Staff reporter
'Information as a threat to national security'
We publish the full presentation by the Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Senator Monica Mutsvangwa at the Zimbabwe National Defence University in Harare last week....Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:13hrs | 386 | by Senator Monica Mutsvangwa
BAZ boss grilled over issuance of radio, TV licences
BROADCASTING Authority of Zimbabwe chief executive, Obert Muganyura was yesterday grilled by Parliament over issuance of Oracle Virtual Directory (OVD) webcast radio and television licences this year ...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 10:50hrs | 557 | by Staf reporter
AIPPA, POSA repeal starts
Government is working on four Bills that will lead to a repeal of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA) and the Public Order and Security Act (POSA) as the two pieces of legi...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 06:51hrs | 560 | by Staff reporter
Digitisation project gathers momentum
THE $173 million digitisation programme that is expected to help improve the quality of the country's broadcasting services is now 35 percent complete and is anticipated to be over by 2021, an officia...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 10:40hrs | 145 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe education minister court Google and Facebook executives
Primary and Secondary Education Minister Paul Mavima last week said the Government was close to luring American multinational technology companies ,Google and Facebook, to assist in digitising the cou...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 05:35hrs | 504 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa hands over radio receivers
INFORMATION, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa has called on Zimbabweans to use information as a tool to foster unity and development than abuse it to denigrate each other...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:34hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions divide Mnangagwa's new dispensation
The sanctions must go mantra has sharply divided the Emmerson Mnangagwa led New dispensation. A twar between ZANU PF Gokwe Nembudziya Member of Parliament Mayor justice wadyajena AND THE Ministry of I...Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 09:40hrs | 5381 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe govt to procure digitisation transmitters
Government says it will soon procure 32 digital transmitters and set-top boxes it requires to finalise the digitisation programme.Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services minister Moni...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 05:29hrs | 172 | by Staff reporter
Parly takes Mangwana to task over national commemorations
MEDIA, Information and Broadcasting Services ministry secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana last week came under parliamentary grilling over his request for $220 000 to be channelled towards national commemor...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 05:50hrs | 1105 | by Staff reporterq
Ndavaningi Mangwana grilled in Parliament
Newly-appointed Media and Information permanent secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana yesterday received a baptism of fire when he appeared before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Media chaired by Pri...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 07:08hrs | 957 | by Staff reporter
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