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Strive Masiyiwa rings Mnangagwa
ECONET chair and founder Strive Mayisiwa telephoned President Emmerson Mnangagwa informing him about his company's US$10 million donation towards government strategies to combat the cholera outbreak....Published: 2 hrs ago | 2913 | by Staff reporter
Harare City Council to apologise to Econet
The Harare City Council has said it will apologise to Zimbabwe's largest mobile telephone company Econet Wireless after municipal officials attempted to steal humanitarian aid meant to stem Zimbabwe's...Published: 2 hrs ago | 717 | by Staff reporter
Corporates and cholera philanthropy
IT was recently reported that Econet Zimbabwe founding chief executive officer and now majority shareholder, Strive Masiyiwa issued a social media statement that questioned the transparency of the use...Published: 2 hrs ago | 111 | by Takura Zhangazha
Harare needs $1 billion to end water woes
HARARE needs over $1 billion to end water and sewer reticulation challenges, which are the source of recurrent cholera outbreaks currently blighting the nation, newly-elected mayor Peter Gomba said ye...Published: 3 hrs ago | 51 | by Staff reporter
Ministers, MPs' cars suspended
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government yesterday suspended plans to buy new vehicles for the new Cabinet ministers and Members of Parliament and channelled the money towards fighting the cholera ep...Published: 3 hrs ago | 830 | by Staff reporter
Cholera fund cheats named and shamed
Harare City Council has named the four officials it suspended on allegations of inflating the prices of goods that were supposed to be bought to combat the cholera outbreak. The four are Phili...Published: 3 hrs ago | 368 | by Staff reporter
Econet launches Cholera Crisis Fund
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe's banking subsidiary Steward Bank, yesterday launched a $2 million National Cholera Crisis Fund that is meant to raise funds for the cholera crisis that has engulfed some part...Published: 3 hrs ago | 73 | by Staff reporter
Over $29m mobilised for Zimbabwe cholera
Government has so far mobilised $29 million out of $64,1 million required to fight cholera, amid indications that the outbreak has been contained with the number of patients visiting health institutio...Published: 3 hrs ago | 46 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tours Glen View cholera centre
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is currently touring the two cholera treatment centres in Harare – Glen View 1 Polyclinic and Beatrice Road Infectious Diseases Hospital.Speaking in Glen View, P...Published: 21 hrs ago | 1016 | by Staff reporter
Cholera: Harare City Council caught sleeping on the job
The ongoing cholera outbreak started on 1 September in Glen View 3, Harare and has since spread, killing 30 people with 5 463 cases having been reported to date. As usual opposition elements hav...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 14:28hrs | 4067 | by Elijah Chihota
Cholera fund 'fraud', Harare City Council workers suspended
SOME Harare City Council officers have been suspended from work with immediate effect following allegations of overcharging for goods and services to cash in on a $10 million donation from Econet Grou...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:37hrs | 1061 | by Staff reporter
Econet celebrates 20 years of ZSE listing
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe yesterday reached a major milestone after completing 20 years since its shares were listed and first publicly traded on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE); a month after Zimbab...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:17hrs | 54 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T Khupe bemoans cholera outbreak
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) led by Thokozani Khupe hsa lamented the outbreak of Cholera especially in Harare urging the stakeholders and well wishers to chip in to curb the problem....Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 09:03hrs | 1536 | by Stephen Jakes
Top entrepreneurs, firms talk service innovation
A CUSTOMER service symposium held last week attracted Zimbabwe's top entrepreneurs and firms, including quoted companies who gathered in Harare to explore strategies on how the country could catch up ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:03hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
Govt rolls out Cholera vaccines
In the coming weeks, Government will begin administering cholera vaccines in selected suburbs in order to contain the current outbreak that has claimed more than 28 lives in the past two weeks, a Cabi...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 07:39hrs | 487 | by Staff Reporter
ZSE ignores 'Mthuliphoria'
The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) slipped into the red unperturbed by the excitement showing across markets on the appointment of new treasury chief, Mthuli Ncube, it has emerged.Slipping into...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 21:48hrs | 1266 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cholera death toll rallies
THE death toll due to the cholera outbreak that has hit Harare and other parts of the country has increased to 25, with more than 3 700 people hospitalised as government availed a paltry $1 million to...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:26hrs | 1929 | by Staff reporter
Dirty City Mayor lifts lid on cholera
NEW Harare mayor, Herbert Gomba says the central government and Zanu PF should take responsibility for the cholera outbreak which has so far claimed the lives of 21 people, alleging that a caretaker c...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:26hrs | 593 | by Staff reporter
Econet joins fight against cholera
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe has mounted a massive public awareness campaign to fight the cholera crisis in the country, which is reported to have already claimed 21 lives. The company has also started of...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:14hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube embarks on stakeholder listening & consulting roadshow
Minister of Finance and Economic Development Professor Mthuli Ncube embarks on stakeholder listening and consulting roadshow, starting with private meeting with fifty captains of industry.&nbs...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 12:46hrs | 8121 | by Agencies
Zesa under fire over EcoCash purchases
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) has increased its minimum EcoCash prepaid electricity token to $10 from $2, much to the chagrin of customers who say the hike caught them by surprise. ...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 06:32hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
Outrage over Zesa's $10 minimum purchase via EcoCash
The Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) has increased its minimum EcoCash prepaid electricity token to $10 from $2. ...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 08:26hrs | 2240 | by Staff reporter
Fake EcoCash messages used to swindle tyre trader
A Blue Circle Bus Company employee reportedly manufactured fake EcoCash payment messages and used them to swindles a tyre trade of $58 000 worth of goods, a court heard.Modern Nyika, 47, was c...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 17:14hrs | 2057 | by Staff reporter
US sanctions on Zimbabwe - truths, history and lies
A new regime of US sanctions has just been signed into law, opening a fresh front in the increasingly polarised political debate in Zimbabwe.Critics say they hurt the economy, while supporters...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 19:01hrs | 5606 | by newsZWire
Steward Bank launches revolutionary app called Square World
Steward Bank Zimbabwe has launched a Housing Development Scheme and Mobile Banking Application targeted at Zimbabweans living abroad.The mortgage facility will be available at zero deposit, on...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 07:41hrs | 3055 | by Agencies
Chamisa challenge weighs down ZSE
THE Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE)'s market capitalisation lost over $200 million last week as the market indices continued to be held down by the uncertainty around elections, ZSE data shows.A...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 06:43hrs | 2846 | by Staff reporter
NGO official in court for fraud
A 44-YEAR-OLD Chitungwiza man, who on two occasions allegedly duped a supermarket after masquerading as a non-governmental organisation (NGO) official, and used fake documents to buy groceries on cred...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 07:46hrs | 202 | by Staff reporter
Investors cautious till election resolution
TRADING on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) was down last week as investors were weighing their options and exercising extreme caution ahead of an announcement of the election results, trading data h...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:20hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
'Inflated' Ecocash fares rile commuters
COMMUTERS in Bulawayo have expressed frustration over inflated EcoCash fares charged by kombi and taxi operators despite adoption of mobile transport payments.Commuters who spoke to Business C...Published: 03 Aug 2018 at 07:12hrs | 790 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Stock Exchange sneeze before elections
The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) closed slightly lower during the last few days of official trade before the general elections set for tomorrow.After close on Thursday, the All Share Index fe...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 09:59hrs | 170 | by Staff reporter
'New dispensation', same old lies
Ag shame! On the 6th of July I came across a shockingly screaming newspaper headline ED creates 60 000 jobs, I was in the sprawling border town of Beitbridge.Being one not to quickly believe o...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 07:43hrs | 330 | by Ishemunyoro Mupokosera
Maitengwe finally gets mobile connectivity
THE era of reliance on mobile connectivity from neighbouring Botswana is over for Maitengwe community in Bulilima West constituency following yesterday's official commissioning of a shared base statio...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 06:54hrs | 323 | by Staff reporter
'New dispensation', same old lies
Ag shame! On the 6th of July I came across a shocking Sunday Mail headline screaming ED creates 60,000 jobs. I was in the sprawling border town of Beitbridge. Being one not to quickly believe or write...Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 09:44hrs | 381 | by Ishemunyoro Mupokosera: MDC Alliance Candidate for Mudzi South Constituency
Strive Masiyiwa inks Cape to Cairo fibre network deal
Telecom Egypt has signed a memorandum of understanding with Liquid Telecom to enable the pan-African group to complete Africa's terrestrial fibre network stretching across the African continent, the c...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 07:17hrs | 862 | by Reuters
Strive Masiyiwa bailed Mugabe's govt out
Telecommunications mogul Strive Masiyiwa says he assisted the government to buy grain at a time when the country was facing food shortagesIn conversation with CNBC Africa's Wole Famurewa as a ...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 17:00hrs | 2636 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's office speaks on sophisticated SMS campaign
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's office has said the text-messaging campaign that debuted this week was part of the ruling Zanu-PF's sophisticated online campaign that had absolutely nothing to do with ...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 17:21hrs | 6033 | by Staff reporter
'Hackers downloaded voters' personal data'
The Information Communication Technology (ICT) and Cyber Security ministry has said personalised, unsolicited campaign messages sent to potential voters' mobile phones by the ruling party could ...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 14:09hrs | 1732 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, Econet dragged to court over SMS
A Masvingo lawyer has taken the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), Zanu PF and its Gutu West candidate John Paradza as well as mobile telecommunications services provider Econet Wireless to court af...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 07:27hrs | 1357 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa pushing for full-scale SMS-Gate investigation
The rift between the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) and the country's opposition parties taking part in the forthcoming polls has widened in the wake of the short-message service (SMS) saga that ...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 14:35hrs | 5054 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF badly exposes ZEC
The rift between the Zec and the country's opposition parties taking part in the forthcoming polls has widened in the wake of the short message service saga that erupted on Monday. This comes ...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 09:15hrs | 1770 | by Staff reporter
Econet strengthening industry lead
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz)'s 2018 first quarter (Q1) sector report shows Econet Wireless maintained its customer and revenue market share lead on the b...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 07:15hrs | 295 | by Staff rpeorter
Fresh row over Zimbabwe voters' details
A fresh row has erupted between the MDC Alliance and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) over the release of voters' cellphone numbers - after Zanu-PF allegedly sent text messages to people solici...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 08:18hrs | 1989 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF breaks into Zec database?
STAKEHOLDERS in the harmonised elections have accused the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) of granting Zanu-PF access to the Biometric Voters Roll (BVR) database where the ruling party accessed reg...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 08:13hrs | 1105 | by Staff reporter
Mobile telcos' revenue down 5,8%
Zimbabwe's mobile telcos' revenue for the first quarter of 2018 decreased by 5,8 percent to $244,7 million compared to $259,711 million recorded in the same period last year as consumers continue to o...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 07:12hrs | 50 | by Staff reporter
Econet cheats clients - Customer complaint
It's very disappointing to grasp the fact that a big organization like Econet is trying by all means to cheat it's clients. When Econet clients want to buy data bundles, they are given a combi...Published: 08 Jul 2018 at 07:06hrs | 1113 | by Isaac
Mnangagwa opens official WhatsApp platform
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has opened a WhatsApp chat platform to connect with the people of Zimbabwe and to promote dialogue.For one to join the WhatsApp chat group, he or she should send a message ...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 07:15hrs | 1812 | by Staff rpeorter
EcoCash crash shows the vulnerabilities of going cashless
Although mobile money has become the leading transaction platform in Zimbabwe, its weaknesses came into focus this week after the dominant EcoCash network in Zimbabwe went down for two days, and left ...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 18:49hrs | 2921 | by Tawanda Karombo / qz.com
EcoCash glitches: POTRAZ seeks answers
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) has engaged Econet to seek clarification over the breakdown of their mobile transaction platform that plunged business to a ...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 15:55hrs | 2524 | by Staff reporter
Ecocash causes stir in Zimbabwe as customers cry foul of being swindled of their money
The Econet mode of money transfer, Ecocash has caused a stir in Zimbabwe since Monday as many users of the mode of transfer complain that they are failing to buy goods using it.Some complained...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 08:46hrs | 4306 | by Stephen Jakes
EcoCash glitches leave thousands stranded
THOUSANDS of Econet customers have been stranded in recent days as the popular EcoCash mobile money transfer platform has been misfiring.Subscribers have been struggling to make payments via E...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 07:17hrs | 465 | by Staff rpeorter
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