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Calls for stronger regulation of Starlink's expansion in Africa
The rapid expansion of Starlink's satellite internet services across Africa has prompted a growing chorus of concern from local industry experts, telecommunications companies, and internet service pro...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 09:52hrs | 470 | by Staff reporter
South African fiber providers are gradually forming local monopolies
The South African fiber internet market, once praised for its Open Access model, is now seeing a rise in monopolistic practices by Fibre Network Operators (FNOs) that control neighbourhoods, estates, ...Published: 25 Oct 2024 at 14:27hrs | 101 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe subscribers push Starlink to limit
THE overwhelming demand for cost-effective internet services is pushing newcomer, Star Link, to the edge with consumers experiencing unexpectedly slow speeds this week, especially in Harare, due to co...Published: 10 Oct 2024 at 07:56hrs | 3006 | by Staff reporter
Starlink users in Zimbabwe experiencing slow speeds
The Starlink internet service experienced significant slowdowns in Harare on Tuesday, with experts attributing the disruptions to high demand and congestion. Many users reported connectivity issues th...Published: 09 Oct 2024 at 16:55hrs | 7308 | by Staff reporter
Chinhoyi's Varsity Heights bowls over Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reaffirmed the government's dedication to creating an inclusive learning environment that meets the diverse needs of students across Zimbabwe. His remarks came during ...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 10:14hrs | 2739 | by Staff reporter
PowerTel says not moved by Starlink
PowerTel Communications says it will not lose sleep over the recent launch of Starlink in Zimbabwe adding it can match the speeds and affordability of the globally recognised satellite internet giant....Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 10:13hrs | 150 | by Staff reporter
What Zimbabweans need to know about Starlink, and how to order
GREAT news for internet users across Zimbabwe - Starlink has officially launched nationwide services as of September 7, 2024.After months of anticipation and a slight delay, Zimbabweans can no...Published: 07 Sep 2024 at 16:08hrs | 2974 | by Staff reporter
NetOne takes Anti-Drug campaign to Tsholotsho
Mobile network operator NetOne this weekend took their Anti-Drug campaign to Tsholotsho. The campaign coupled with the generous donation of sports kits, brought together a community in a unified effor...Published: 03 Sep 2024 at 21:06hrs | 178 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Revolt at MTN over CEO's 'female favourite'
An ugly battle is brewing at MTN over the direction Africa's biggest mobile network operator is taking under group CEO Ralph Mupita, with executives threatening to quit en masse over his leadership st...Published: 01 Sep 2024 at 11:58hrs | 4562 | by Staff reporter
TelOne panics
TelOne Zimbabwe has partnered with Eutelsat OneWeb, a subsidiary of the French-based satellite operator Eutelsat Group, to strengthen its internet services ahead of the anticipated launch of Starlink ...Published: 02 Jul 2024 at 06:36hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sets technical modalities for Starlink implementation
Zimbabwe is on track to finalize technical arrangements enabling it to adopt Starlink, a high-speed, cost-effective broadband service, becoming one of the few African nations to do so. President Mnang...Published: 23 Jun 2024 at 10:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Regime not ready to fight corruption
The story of Wicknell Chivhayo has once again exposed the failure of this regime to apply its biting teeth to the scourge of corruption, which has destroyed the country's moral and economic fibre....Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 15:10hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Ex- ZOL executive appointed IMC managing director
IMC Communications, the exclusive distributor of Starlink services in Zimbabwe linked to Wicknell Chivayo, has appointed Mr. Denny Marandure as its managing director. Mr. Marandure, an IT expert and f...Published: 12 Jun 2024 at 06:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa donates 100 laptops
Five primary schools in the Midlands province have recently received a donation of 100 laptops and accessories from President Mnangagwa, marking a significant step towards enhancing the integration of...Published: 30 May 2024 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Internet providers bemoan high taxation
ZIMBABWE'S internet access providers (IAPs) have raised concern about high taxes which they claim are impeding their ability to operate and forcing them to pass the costs to customers, Standardbusines...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mukuru distributes millions in aid to vulnerable Africans
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, March 19, 2024 - Next-generation financial services platform, Mukuru (www.Mukuru.com), has successfully distributed millions in aid to disadvantaged recipients in Africa throu...Published: 19 Mar 2024 at 12:41hrs | 10 | by APO
'US not Prosecutor-General of the world'
THE United States of America is neither the Prosecutor-General, nor the Judiciary of the world, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Dr Jenfan Muswere has said.Reacting to...Published: 09 Mar 2024 at 09:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mbare boy scales high to rule Google
ZIMBABWEANS are well-known for their resilience and undying desire to overcome obstacles in their way.Tech guru, Dr James Manyika, the senior vice president of research, technology and society...Published: 09 Mar 2024 at 09:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa assures food security for urban dwellers
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday reiterated that his Government will ensure that all the vulnerable households across the country receive food aid, including those staying in urban centres.Speaki...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 05:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to launch rail fibre optic project
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is expected to launch the second phase of the National Rail Fibre Optic Project today in Somabhula on the outskirts of Gweru, Midlands Province, as the country scales up the moment...Published: 07 Mar 2024 at 05:05hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
TelOne mulls decommissioning copper cable infrastructure
THE country's landline telecoms provider, TelOne, says it will be decommissioning some of its copper cable infrastructure to stem rampant vandalism, which cost the firm US$1 million last year....Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 10:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lawyer sues journalist over 'falsehoods'
Prominent lawyer Tino Chinyoka has sued a journalist from a state owned publication for US$100 000 for allegedly publishing falsehoods where he claimed a magistrate stopped a lawyer from lying in cour...Published: 04 Feb 2024 at 17:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge to Victoria Falls fibre optic cable testing completed
IMPLEMENTATION of the Zimbabwe National Broadband Plan (2023–2030) is on course, with a test run for the fibre optic cables that run from Beitbridge to Victoria Falls and Harare having been complete...Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 10:17hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Is China good for Zimbabwe?
IMAGINE your father having an "all-weather friend" who appears to stand by him in every situation.This seemingly "all-weather friend", however, looks away as your father brutally batters your ...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 09:10hrs | 11 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
CCC undoing is a strategy of innovating around the familiar
To put it bluntly, Zimbabwe's main political opposition party, the CCC, in its present construct, is wasting the people's time, resources and mostly emotions as they continue to prove through unbeliev...Published: 09 Dec 2023 at 18:56hrs | 12 | by Brian Sedze
Government processes Old Gwanda Road construction papers in record time
THE Government has been commended for processing the Old Gwanda Road construction project papers in record time with the investor optimistic of receiving the green light to commence work before year-e...Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 08:21hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Shingi Munyeza loses property over debts
BUSINESSMAN and church leader, Shingi Munyeza, is now bankrupt after his upmarket house and an assortment of movable property was attached over debts.The development has turned him into a tena...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 19:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe likely to approve Starlink
Zimbabwe has received Starlink's application for a licence to provide satellite internet services and it is likely to be approved, information minister Jenfan Muswere said on Monday.Muswere, w...Published: 18 Sep 2023 at 21:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to clear its foreign debt by the end of 2025
ZIMBABWEAN Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube says Harare will do all it can to clear its foreign debt by December 2025 to open fresh lines of credit that would help in revamping the floundering economy....Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Econet in massive base station upgrade
TELECOMMUNICATIONS giant, Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, has announced plans to upgrade 500 of its base stations and deploy equipment to 300 additional sites by the end of the year, a move aimed at expandi...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:22hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Powertel to invest US$50m towards network expansion
POWERTEL Communications, a subsidiary of Zesa Holdings, has revealed plans to invest in excess of US$50 million towards network expansion and rural datafication, as it increases connectivity across th...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 06:32hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
TelOne chokes under ZWL$20.5 billion govt debt
TelOne is struggling to recover about ZWL$20.5bn in unpaid obligations by the government which has affected the viability of the State-owned fixed telecommunications network operator.The gover...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 17:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Two open-heart surgeries at Parirenyatwa
A LOCAL team of doctors recently conducted two successful open-heart surgeries at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals, marking the resumption of the complex medical procedure that was last done in 2018....Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:37hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
TelOne suffers US$7,4m loss
SATE-OWNED telecom firm, TelOne, says government's delay in paying its debt has caused a loss of US$7,4 million on its balance sheet as the local currency continues to depreciate.The Zimdollar...Published: 30 Jun 2023 at 14:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa receives Afreximbank award
STRIVE Masiyiwa, the founder and chairperson of the Econet Group and Cassava Technologies, has expressed his appreciation at the recognition he received at the Afreximbank's Pan-African Business and D...Published: 25 Jun 2023 at 18:21hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Canada-based Zimbabwean receives first AI-powered bionic arm
Growing up in Zimbabwe missing part of her left arm, something like a bionic limb replacement was "beyond imagining" for her and most others who needed them.Now, after finally receiving her fi...Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:15hrs | 1 | by Kevin Jiang
PowerTel committed to bridging rural digital divide
INTERNET service provider, PowerTel Communications (Pvt) Ltd which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Zesa has reaffirmed its commitment towards bridging the digital divide riding on the infrastruc...Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to convert coal to fertiliser
A Zimbabwean government-owned entity, Verify Engineering, is preparing to use locally available coal to develop ammonia-based fertilisers as the country ramps up agricultural productivity."We ...Published: 14 May 2023 at 12:42hrs | 22 | by Takudzwa Changadeya
Edd Branson mobilises $100 million for African telecoms sector
Zimbabwean businessman and investor Edd Branson has entered the mobile telecommunications space with a 100 million fund to buy equity in African GSM operators.Branson and his consortium are ey...Published: 11 May 2023 at 06:58hrs | 1 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
High emotion at Chief Sigola memorial service
Chief Zephania Sigola who died on Monday will be buried at his Springvale Farm in Esiphezini, Matabeleland South province today.His aunt, Mrs Eunice Mntungwa, confirmed the burial arrangements...Published: 05 May 2023 at 06:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Trains collide head-on in Zimbabwe
THREE National Railways of Zimbabwe crew members suffered injuries when two goods trains were last Saturday involved in a head-on collision at Rutenga in Masvingo Province, leading to one of the train...Published: 09 Apr 2023 at 12:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cannabis production doubles in Zimbabwe
THE production of industrial hemp doubled to more than 40 tonnes last year, with the country exporting about five tonnes to Switzerland.The number of players registered with the Agricultural M...Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 07:45hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe did not actively push for his family's primitive accumulation of wealth'
THE late president Robert Mugabe stopped his son-in-law Simba Chikore and daughter Bona from joining the scramble to take over the country's third-largest mobile network operator, Telecel Zimbabwe....Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's new TV station knocked off air by technical fault
One of the newly-launched TV stations - Ke Yona TV - has been knocked off air by a fault.The Bulawayo-based station launched its full programming on February 1 on channel 398 on the Azam TV pl...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 20:51hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
They want Chibaya in jail says Mahere
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere reckons the State is itching to lock up party organising secretary Amos Chibaya following his Saturday arrest alongside 25 ot...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 14:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
New water treatment plant for Bulawayo to draw supplies from Lake Gwayi-Shangani
GOVERNMENT is inviting tenders for the construction of a new water treatment plant in Bulawayo's Cowdray Park suburb which is one of the key components of the Matabeleland Zambezi Water Project meant ...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani 245km pipeline project paces up
GOVERNMENT has opened a tender process for the construction of a new water treatment plant in Bulawayo's Cowdray Park suburb as it intensifies efforts to address the city's water supply shortages thro...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Baobab tree faces extinction?
THE Baobab tree faces extinction in a few years as elephants are eating its bark a lot at Manapools National Park in mid-Zambezi region, the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZIMPARKS)...Published: 10 Nov 2022 at 04:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe 'does not want bully partners'
Zimbabwe does not want development partners that impose their ideas, but those that complement its efforts in uplifting the livelihoods of people, Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Develo...Published: 29 Sep 2022 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pfumvudza inputs ready
Inputs for smallholder farmers under the Presidential Climate-Proofed Agriculture Programme or Pfumvudza/Intwasa have started being dispatched to Grain Marketing Board (GMB) depots countrywide, with f...Published: 21 Aug 2022 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
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