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Econet to bid for Ethiopian telecoms license
Econet Global Ltd., owned by Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa, is keen to acquire a telecommunications license in Ethiopian, which is opening up the industry to foreign investment for the first ...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 21:57hrs | 985 | by Bloomberg
Youth are sleeping on duty
It is the right moment for the youth in Zimbabwe to realise that gone are the days when government would proffer a lot of opportunities in a silver plate. Our brothers who had an opportunity to ...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 06:17hrs | 77 | by Matora Hupile
Zimbabweans ready for Kasukuwere to lead them
Inflation in Zimbabwe has gone past the 500% mark, while salaries remain stagnant. A number of households are currently living below the poverty datum line and the future seems bleak for the 90% of th...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 12:14hrs | 8604 | by Ntokozo Msipha
Mnangagwa's govt taken to task over health workers capacitation
GOVERNMENT has been urged to devise a sustainable plan that ensures health workers have adequate tools of the trade to avoid recurrent strikes by doctors and nurses.In a statement, Community W...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:29hrs | 248 | by Staff reporter
Naming, shaming not Zanu-PF policy, says Chinamasa
Naming and shaming successful business people perceived to be corrupt breeds fertile ground for extortionists, Zanu-PF acting secretary for administration Patrick Chinamasa has said.Chinamasa said...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 11:20hrs | 2376 | by Staff reporter
Lets unite to fight Coronavirus outbreak - Masiyiwa
Econet Founder and Group Chairman Strive Masiyiwa has urged businesses to join hands with Government to fight the Coronavirus outbreak. Writing on his Facebook blog, Masiyiwa called on people ...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 14:11hrs | 691 | by Staff Reporter
Guard kills ex-Strive Masiyiwa lawyer's 144 cattle
BANKER and lawyer Tawanda Nyambirai has reportedly lost a head of 144 cattle worth $1,3 million after his farm guard fed them on stockfeed laced with a toxic herbicide.The suspect, Paradzai Ka...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 19:12hrs | 4461 | by Staff reporter
Where is our promised listening President?
When President Emmerson Mnangagwa returned from his brief exile in South Africa in 2017, he famously declared that the "voice of the people is the voice of God", promising a new era of responsive gove...Published: 30 Jan 2020 at 08:56hrs | 284 | by Nqaba Matshaz
Govt plugs Zinara revenue leakages
GOVERNMENT has managed to plug revenue leakages at the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (ZINARA) and is confident the parastatal now has the capacity to raise $3 billion annually. In an i...Published: 28 Jan 2020 at 12:31hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors fellowship oversubscribed
The Higher Life Foundation fellowship for doctors, which was re-opened last week, is reportedly oversubscribed, with more than 900 doctors having applied barely a day after the fellowship was announce...Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 19:25hrs | 613 | by Staff reporter
1 866 doctors sign up for sponsorship package
ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX doctors have signed up or applied for Higherlife Foundation fellowships after 1 504 extra doctors submitted acceptance forms ahead of yesterday's deadline....Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 06:42hrs | 880 | by Staff reporter
Junior doctors announce end to strike
Striking junior doctors will end a four-month strike after accepting an offer from a telecoms billionaire to pay them a monthly allowance of about $300 for six months, their union said on Thursday....Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:10hrs | 1079 | by Staff reporter
Zinara in staff clear out
A substantive chief executive officer for the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) will start work on April 1 as the face of a new executive that took over from the previous scandal-plagued ...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:09hrs | 145 | by Staff reporter
Youth are sleeping on duty
It is the right moment for the youth in Zimbabwe to realise that gone are the days when government would proffer a lot of opportunities in a silver plate. Our brothers who had an opportunity to ...Published: 25 Jan 2020 at 19:29hrs | 626 | by Matora Hupile
Mzembi to break Zimbabwe political stalemate?
Our political dynamics require a game changer to break the perennial stalemate between the two main protagonists of our failed politics, Zanu PF and MDC A . At the core of this gridlock is the vanity ...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 12:19hrs | 5241 | by Tawanda Ruzanhi
Elitist Ignorant ZANU PF, Justice not a Jurist, Mayor not appointed, Aloof to Hunger Pains
The chance that an experienced lawyer would ever make such an ignorant callus statement as is alleged to have been made by Wadyajena, is very small. If the alleged statement on Twitter on the 25...Published: 04 Jan 2020 at 16:46hrs | 1644 | by Thabo Makuyana
Liquid deploys FREE WiFi at all Zim universities
Liquid Zimbabwe has installed FREE WiFi Internet access at all the nation's 48 universities.This was revealed by the Econet founder and group chairman Strive Masiyiwa, writing on his popular F...Published: 15 Dec 2019 at 14:04hrs | 3654 | by Agencies
Higherlife Foundation launches 'Support Our Hospitals' campaign
Higherlife Foundation today launched the 'Support Our Hospitals' campaign aimed at capacitating doctors working in public hospitals by mobilizing funding and material support to ensure public medical ...Published: 11 Dec 2019 at 16:23hrs | 1903 | by Agencies
Doctors to get ZWL$10 000 salary
Doctors are likely to have a happy Christmas after Strive Masiyiwa's Higher Life Foundation revealed that they are planning to pay the ZWL$10 000 in December. Speaking to the media recently HL...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 07:21hrs | 8586 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Huge windfall for doctors
THE Higher Life Foundation (HLF) has received more than 300 applications from doctors around the country in response to its recently announced Training Fellowship for junior and senior medical practit...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 07:11hrs | 1130 | by Staff reporter
Doctors sign up to Masiyiwa's offer
Higherlife Foundation (HLF) has received 365 applications from doctors around the country in response to its recently announced training fellowship for junior and senior doctors, as well as consultant...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 20:44hrs | 6272 | by Staff reporter
Did Masiyiwa drop a clanger on Zanu-PF?
OTHER than being known as a Christian and a successful telecommunication business person nationally and globally, Strive Masiyiwa continues to be an enigma of our generation. The government fought his...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:26hrs | 4293 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Zimbabwe doctors want more than just better salaries
NEWS that the country's doctors have spanned an offer by business tycoon, Strive Masiyiwa, is depressing as it is curious. In fact, the whole debacle speaks to the major problem facing this country: I...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:24hrs | 220 | by newsday editorial
Strive Masiyiwa working in cahoots with govt, says Doctors
STRIKING public hospital doctors have claimed that they spurned Strive Masiyiwa's Higher Life Foundation (HLF)'s salary offer after realising that the Econet Wireless founder was working in cahoots wi...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:23hrs | 1580 | by Staff reporter
'Strive Masiyiwa's offer to doctors not good enough'
Zimbabwean doctors have entered Day 92 of the industrial action after they snubbed the offer by Econet Wireless Boss Strive Masiyiwa. Announcing the development Former Secretary General of Zim...Published: 02 Dec 2019 at 11:58hrs | 2948 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mandaza improves Masiyiwa's pay offer to doctors - foolishness, will not end health crisis
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season ...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 21:38hrs | 13283 | by Nomusa Garikai
Doctors strike: 'It is time to show leadership, people are dying'
The government is still struggling to find a solution to one of the major health crises in Zimbabwe's history, three months after junior doctors went on strike demanding better pay.Sapes Trust...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:10hrs | 809 | by Staff reporter
Carnage in Zimbabwe hospitals continues
TOUTS are usually known for their confidence, foul language and naughtiness, but recently, they sobered up when one of their own died right on the streets with his hospital record card in hand, after ...Published: 30 Nov 2019 at 10:48hrs | 661 | by Staff reporter
What happens when the centre can no longer hold?
WHEN Somalia was a lawless gangland with no central government, many Africans often wondered how it must have felt to live in a failed state controlled by marauding warlords.How on earth did p...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:55hrs | 1724 | by Brezh Malaba
Masiyiwa, $100m saved 2k doctors but condemning vote rigging would save nation and posterity - THINK!
"ECONET Wireless founder Strive Masiyiwa and his wife, Tsitsi, through their Higher Life Foundation, have set up a $100 million fund which will see up to 2 000 junior and senior doctors employed by go...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:39hrs | 607 | by Nomusa Garikai
Strive Masiyiwa dangles $310 to doctors in bid to break 3-month strike
Telecoms tycoon Strive Masiyiwa will seek to break a three-month strike by Zimbabwean doctors by offering them an extra ZWL$5,000 (US$310) monthly, his foundation announced.The doctors will al...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 18:45hrs | 5337 | by Staff reporter
Zhuwao's open letter to South Africa leadership
I write to associate myself with Advocate Nelson Chamisa's tweet welcoming South Africa and SADC's mediation in Zimbabwe and his plea for a specific practical solution to set up a donor fund to addres...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 15:41hrs | 3988 | by Patrick Zhuwao
Zinara hunts for CEO, FD
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration (zinara) is hunting for a new chief executive after Engineer Nancy Masiyiwa-Chamisa was fired for alleged gross incompetence and abuse of office. In a...Published: 28 Oct 2019 at 06:35hrs | 811 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa on corruption
Zimbabwean businessman and Econet Wireless founder Mr Strive Masiyiwa has called for a genuine reform of policies and stronger accountability mechanisms if corruption has to be defeated in Africa....Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 08:08hrs | 5417 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa says, 'Corruption has no colour'
IF corruption is to be defeated, better legislation and stronger accountability mechanisms need to be put in place.This is the word from businessman and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa who gave...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 21:30hrs | 4210 | by Staff reporter
EcoCash threatens complete shutdown
ZIMBABWE Stock Exchange (ZSE)-listed Cassava Smartech Zimbabwe Limited, a subsidiary of Strive Masiyiwa's Econet Wireless, has threatened a complete shutdown of its EcoCash platform if the Reserve Ban...Published: 02 Oct 2019 at 07:41hrs | 2350 | by Staff reporter
Dear Strive Masiyiwa
I greet you cordially.I just want to let you know that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and President ED are moving fast to destroy your cash cow Ecocash. It has come to my attention that they banned ...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 22:10hrs | 3764 | by Don Chigumba
Strive Masiyiwa lashes RBZ
Ministers have recently issued threats against Econet's mobile money service, EcoCash, whose agents are accused of charging desperate Zimbabweans looking for cash a massive premium of up to 60 percent...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 16:56hrs | 9229 | by ZimLive
Masiyiwa-Chamisa fired
ZINARA has fired its suspended chief executive officer Engineer Nancy Masiyiwa-Chamisa and finance director Mr Simon Taranhike for gross incompetence and abuse of office, our Harare Bureau can reveal....Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 06:56hrs | 1440 | by Staff reporter
Of illegal sanctions and global politics
Sanctions generally entail restrictions on international trade and finance that one country imposes on another for political reasons.Economic sanctions include the withdrawal of customary trad...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 13:41hrs | 420 | by Peacemaker Zano
Strive Masiyiwa leaves AGRA in good stead
When the African Green Revolution Alliance (AGRA) was established several years ago, the aim was to provide a platform for global and African leaders to develop actionable plans that would move Africa...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 19:43hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's richest: How they made their money
WHILST there is no official list of Zimbabwe's richest men and women, such as the one compiled by the Times and Forbes Magazine, the country has its fair share of rich people, including some who are m...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 07:26hrs | 899 | by Staff reporter
Cassava announces free remittances to Zimbabwe via Sasai App
Cassava Fintech, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Econet Group, says with effect from September 1, 2019, Zimbabweans sending money from the Diaspora will pay only 2.5% in remittance fees, a drastic re...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 18:59hrs | 1402 | by Staff reporter
Econet closes shop in 13 countries
BILLIONAIRE and Zimbabwe's telecoms mogul, Strive Masiyiwa's Mauritius incorporated Econet Media Limited, has put up for sale its shares in the satellite broadcast business in 13 countries, mostly Afr...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:10hrs | 1648 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi's State Of the Nation Address
Good evening Mthwakazi Omuhle ondlela zimhlophe.I wish to have started by acknowledging the so called Zimbabwe's hereos and defense forces day, but I am too angry to go through such kind of fo...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 21:43hrs | 1577 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Masiyiwa-Chamisa refuses to go
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) is losing thousands of dollars every month as it continues to pay a full salary and associated benefits to suspended chief executive officer, Mrs Na...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 07:23hrs | 1618 | by Staff reporter
Econet fires warning shot
Econet Wireless has warned that they might be forced to switch off the network during electricity downtime if the situation persists. Econet was speaking after Saturday's blackout which was caused by ...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 13:38hrs | 14431 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Econet in major blackout
Econet users on Saturday complained about their failure to use the Econet services from Ecocash to Data services. Online magazine Techmag said the following service were confirmed not working...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 11:16hrs | 7035 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Former top govt official in US$5 million Zinara storm
FORMER deputy chief secretary to the president and cabinet Ray Ndhlukula is in the eye of a storm after it emerged this week that he unprocedurally ordered the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 08:56hrs | 2129 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa 'former' lawyer's multi-currency regime challenge ruled not urgent
High Court judge Justice Joseph Musakwa has ruled as not urgent an application by businessman and lawyer, Tawanda Nyambirai who was seeking an order to interdict Finance minister Mthuli Ncube and Rese...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:25hrs | 724 | by Staff reporter
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