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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: 5 hrs ago | 9299 | 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: 6 hrs ago | 1765 | 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: 6 hrs ago | 143 | 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: 7 hrs ago | 74 | 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: 7 hrs ago | 631 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's impressive cabinet line-up under a severe parliamentary vaccuum
For the first time in history, the new president has made constructive use of the specially elected parliamentarians window.From this window the president has addressed key discrepancies to br...Published: 24 hrs ago | 1679 | by Reginald Thabani Gola.
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: 19 Sep 2018 at 13:03hrs | 1029 | 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 | 4094 | by Elijah Chihota
Zimbabwe needs its billionaires back
Outspoken Norton legislator Temba Mliswa has called for the return of Zimbabwean billionaires to come back home and revive the economy ."Zim needs its billionaires like @Strive Masiyiwa back i...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 10:22hrs | 7314 | by Simbarashe Sithole
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 | 1064 | 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
Chamisa is a very bad and poor chip off the Tsvangirai block
Mario Vargas Llosa, the world-famed Peruvian writer, penned a small, but sweet collection of incisive essays titled "A Writer's Reality." My favourite from that collection is "Novels Disguised". Its a...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:13hrs | 2861 | by Igomombe
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 | 5608 | by newsZWire
MDC Alliance councillor forged nomination papers
A newly elected MDC Alliance councillor in Marondera Central was this week fined for forging Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) nomination papers in June.According to NewZImbabwe.com, the war...Published: 11 Aug 2018 at 14:55hrs | 3176 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance takes over Marondera council
THE opposition MDC Alliance has grabbed 11 of the 12 council seats at Marondera Municipality, with the party's Mashonaland East provincial leadership describing the landslide victory as a seal of appr...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 07:39hrs | 501 | by Staff reporter
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
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
Zinara makes bizarre appointment
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) has bizarrely appointed its company secretary Mathlene Mujokoro as acting chief executive officer following the suspension of Nancy Masiyiwa....Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 10:48hrs | 2745 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe faces huge critical skills shortage'
ZIMBABWE is faced with a huge shortage of critical skills with the highest skills deficit recorded in the Medical and Health Sciences as well Applied and Natural Sciences, the National Skills Audit re...Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 07:50hrs | 596 | by Staff reporter
Zinara fires CEO over corruption
ROAD administrator, Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) wielded the axe on chief executive officer Nancy Masiyiwa-Chamisa on Thursday as the corruption scandal rocking the parastatal reach...Published: 23 Jun 2018 at 06:40hrs | 1328 | by Staff Reporter
Zinara in bid to conceal graft
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) board has lifted the suspension order imposed on four senior managers who were sent home last year on alleged misconduct charges, arguing "the cases...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 14:49hrs | 950 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwas honoured by British PM Theresa May
Econet Wireless founder, Strive Masiyiwa and his wife Tsitsi, were yesterday honoured by British Prime Minister Theresa May for their outstanding philanthropist work which has seen the couple providin...Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 07:48hrs | 1577 | by Staff reporter
DStv should stop abusing its customers, or get out of Zimbabwe!
Digital television satellite service provider, DStv - which is operated by MultiChoice Zimbabwe - has had a pride of place in Zimbabweans' homes for a long time, and had always been regarded as an alt...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 08:23hrs | 4298 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Big winners at the eighth UK Zim Achievers Awards in London
The Zimbabwe Achievers Awards raised the bar last night, putting on a spectacular event for the eighth edition at the Grange City Hotel in London.Running under the theme Plough Back, the award...Published: 15 May 2018 at 07:50hrs | 1225 | by Tidi Kwidini
Strive Masiyiwa reflects on traumatic Zimbabwe moment
ZIMBABWE'S night is over, and we must work together now to bring in the dawn. We must work hard to turn away from (and learn from) the pages of our pained past. This includes talking about it, because...Published: 06 May 2018 at 15:43hrs | 2535 | by Strive Masiyiwa
Mnangagwa's govt reaches out to Strive Masiyiwa
THE times they are a changing. The Zimbabwe government has finally reached out to its richest and most generous citizen, Strive Masiyiwa, who lives in London, in exile, and is named as a billionaire b...Published: 03 May 2018 at 13:59hrs | 3027 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa hails Zimbabwe coup leader
Econet founder Mr Strive Masiyiwa has hailed Vice President Constantino Chiwenga for visiting the company's stand at the just-ended Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF), saying for the first time ...Published: 02 May 2018 at 06:49hrs | 438 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa hails Chiwenga
Econet founder Mr Strive Masiyiwa has hailed Vice President Constantino Chiwenga for visiting the company's stand at the just-ended Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF), saying for the first time ...Published: 01 May 2018 at 09:43hrs | 8469 | by Staff Reporter
Masiyiwa to Keynote at Zim Achievers UK in May
African philanthropist and social entrepreneur, Tsitsi Masiyiwa has been announced as this year's keynote speaker at the UK edition of the Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA), taking place in May....Published: 30 Apr 2018 at 06:19hrs | 1158 | by Tidi Kwidini
Grace Mugabe linked to $5m bribe request
A cabinet minister asked Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote, for a $5-million bribe on behalf of the Mugabe family, sources told the Sunday Times this week.Robert Mugabe's nephew Patrick Zhuw...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 14:22hrs | 5625 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Chiefs shock FC Platinum
Bulawayo Chiefs 2 - 0 FC PlatinumPREMIER Soccer League debutants Bulawayo Chiefs pulled a shocker when they handed champions FC Platinum their first defeat of the season with two first half goals ...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 10:04hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa apologises to Zimbabweans for insensitive tweet
Tsitsi Masiyiwa, the wife of Zimbabwe's richest man, Strive Masiyiwa, who twitted insinuating that Zimbabweans are a lazy bunch of people has since swallowed her pride and apologised for her insensiti...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 14:27hrs | 10354 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans 'undress' Masiyiwa over tweet
Wife of Zimbabwean dollar-billionaire, Econet Wireless founder and Executive Chairman Dr Strive Masiyiwa, Tsitsi has come under attack on Twitter saying: "Wondering h...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 10:34hrs | 9644 | by Staff Reporter
Kwese TV takes over Mighty Warriors
IN a landmark development that shook domestic football yesterday, Kwese TV announced it has taken over the sponsorship of the Mighty Warriors' participation in the African Cup of Nations qualifiers in...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 06:57hrs | 1014 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa rose to MDC presidency on a tribal card
May I join in the debate around Joshua Nkomo, Khupe, Chamisa, Welshman, Mtambara etc etc. Apparently I happen to have worked under JN and with the rest in my political career. Without taking a neutral...Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 07:57hrs | 3445 | by Mzila Ndlovu
'We do not peddle fake news' - Media Centre
HARARE - MEDIA Centre has dismissed claims that it is a hub of fake news after negative comments erupted on social media that the organisation was lying about a press conference involving United Movem...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 14:57hrs | 674 | by Collins Chirinda
Media Centre demands official apology over Strive Masiyiwa party launch
MEDIA Centre has dismissed claims that it is a hub of fake news after negative comments erupted on social media that the organisation was lying about a press conference involving United Movement for D...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 14:45hrs | 2051 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa to contest for Zimbabwe Presidency 'fake news'
A fake e-mail is making rounds on social media, claiming that Econet Wireless founder and Executive Chairman, Dr Strive Masiyiwa has called for a Press Conference tomorrow. A media invitation ...Published: 05 Apr 2018 at 14:33hrs | 1956 | by Ndou Paul
Dear Mr Mugabe
I hope I find you well dear Former President of our Republic of Zimbabwe. I would like to make it glass clear dear Former President that you are misreading the moods of the people in Zimbabwe. I read ...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 20:56hrs | 5583 | by Nomazulu Thata
Strive Masiyiwa at Africa Business Summit in Kigali
Strive Masiyiwa at Africa Business Summit in Kigali with Africa Commission chair Moussa Faki Mahamat....Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 12:44hrs | 2898 | by Social media
The President is fire fighting a fire they started
If one starts a fire and it grows into a bonfire then it will not be easy to extinguish it. This best illustrates how the big wigs in Zimbabwe started corruption and a few people understood the meanin...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 07:17hrs | 774 | by Albewere Kadada
Econet to invest $250m in solar power systems
ECONET Wireless Zimbabwe says it has begun the process to invest over $250 million into a solar power systems project amid indications the corporate has placed orders for nearly 20MW.The inves...Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 05:41hrs | 438 | by Staff reporter
Zim can be a global manufacturing centre for Lithium batteries
Econet founder Strive Masiyiwa has said Zimbabwe has the potential to be a global manufacturing centre for the type of Lithium batteries."We are already using Lithium battery systems in DPA an...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 13:28hrs | 4221 | by Staffr eporter
Youth vote used to be insignificant in Zim polls
Today though, we know about 60 percent of those who registered to vote in this year's election largely fall under the youth category — never mind the constitutional definition of the term, 'youth' e...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 05:31hrs | 237 | by Sharon Hofisi
Zinara chef admits abusing funds
Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) executives yesterday admitted to receiving several allowances without paying tax, including others that were above authorised levels.The executi...Published: 28 Feb 2018 at 05:53hrs | 917 | by Staff reporter
Econet Media's Kwesé and iflix Deepen Partnership
JOHANNESBURG - iflix (www.iflix.com), the world's leading entertainment service for emerging markets, and Econet Media's pan-African media company, Kwesé (www.Kwese.com), are thrilled to announce an ...Published: 21 Feb 2018 at 10:17hrs | 1229 | by APO
Waiting for the spider, Is Strive Masiyiwa the next president of the republic?
PROPHET MAKANDIWA'S PROPHECY TO BE TESTED AS THE NATION GEARS UP FOR THE HARMONISED ELECTIONThe Newsday of July 12 (2016) published an article in which ...Published: 20 Feb 2018 at 17:36hrs | 6809 | by Knowledge Hakata
Zimbabwe is being betrayed by the MDC - The opposition must think outside the box
Morgan Richard Tsvangirai stands as a giant in Zimbabwe politics. More than any other, he has taken the fight up to ZANU PF for the last 18 years and he has paid dearly for his courageous stance. At a...Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 10:09hrs | 2707 | by Tapson Muchena
Strive Masiyiwa to return home?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is reported to have invited telecoms entrepreneur Strive Masiyiwa back home. Masiyiwa, the founder of Econet Wireless, has been in self-imposed exile for ...Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 06:29hrs | 8337 | by Staff reporter
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