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Masiyiwa's comments offer hope on end to the Pandemic
African Union Special Envoy in the fight against COVID-19, pan-African businessman Strive Masiyiwa, has said an end to the deadly pandemic could be in sight as new treatments emerge that offer hope fo...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 19:03hrs | 1163 | by Agencies
Zimbabwe and its billionaires from the underworld
WHILE other nations are exploring such faraway places as the asteroid Bennu, Zimbabweans are exploring dark underworld caves for serpents and tokoloshes. These creatures later kill their host,...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 07:39hrs | 4588 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: 'I brought internet to Zimbabwe' Mutsvangwa says
Former Presidential Advisor Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa says he is the first person to introduce internet in Zimbabwe. In a video that has gone viral on the internet, Mutsvangwa says he ...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 13:36hrs | 5216 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZimThrive donates to Parirenyatwa hospital to help fight Covid-19 in Zimbabwe
ZimThrive, in collaboration with Covid-19 Zimbabwe, has donated $5900 USD to Parirenyatwa hospital to support the welfare of frontline health workers.The rise in cases in Zimbabwe has led to a...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 07:21hrs | 315 | by ZimThrive
Mnangagwa fingers Ecocash as behind spiralling prices of basic commodities
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has said the steep price hike for basic commodities experienced in the country in recent months was the creation of mobile money giant, Ecocash.Addressing the Zanu...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:08hrs | 968 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa invited to speak at New Economy global Forum
HARARE - Zimbabwe-born billionaire Strive Masiyiwa is set to participate in the Bloomberg New Economy Forum slated for November 16-19 this year. The Econet Group founder and executive chairman...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:32hrs | 2560 | by Agencies
Strive Masiyiwa acquires Standard Bank's data centre
ZIMBABWE telecoms businessman Strive Masiyiwa has completed a transaction which will see one of his companies owning Standard Bank's Johannesburg data centre.Data centres are locations in whic...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:36hrs | 9774 | by Staff reporter
General Constantino Chiwenga getting it right
Zimbabwe has been described by some as a nation in crisis. The United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe is concerned about the direction in which Zimbabwe is headed. In the midst of the drama, mudsl...Published: 24 Aug 2020 at 18:15hrs | 22147 | by John Mbizvo
'I'm a Zim doctor, the COVID-19 crisis is worse than you imagine'
YOU may have heard about the seven babies stillborn at Harare Hospital in one day at the end of July. From the maternity register that night, you can see that the infants were on average a healthy wei...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 07:42hrs | 1284 | by African Arguments
Cassava Fintech and Liquid Telecom launch Sasai Wi-Fi Finder
Cassava Fintech International (CFI) and the Liquid Telecom Group (LTG) have announced the launch of Sasai Wi-Fi Finder, a potential game-changer in driving digital and financial inclusion in Africa. T...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 13:54hrs | 2059 | by Agencies
Masiyiwa calls for local community leadership in stemming the spread of COVID-19
African Union (AU) Special Envoy for COVID-19 and businessman Strive Masiyiwa has called on community leaders - including chiefs, religious leaders, councillors and members of Parliament - to lead in ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 16:23hrs | 710 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean state capture
In my weekly political review show on the Gambakwe media platform two Sunday ago, we discussed about the planned demonstration on the 31st of July 2020. During the interview I invok...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 22:59hrs | 4279 | by Terence. T. Simbi
Masiyiwa struggles to sell stake in Liquid
THE coronavirus pandemic is hampering efforts by Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa to sell a stake in Africa's largest fibre company.Masiyiwa is seeking buyers for 20% to 34% of Liquid Te...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:39hrs | 618 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to sell NetOne to MTN?
MDC Alliance Vice President Tendai Biti has claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and business tycoon Kuda Tagwirei are plotting to sell NetOne to MTN South Africa in a bid to frustrate Strive Mas...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 12:42hrs | 13225 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Econet experiences nationwide blackout
Customers of Econet Wireless were left stranded on Friday after the service provider experienced dificulties in conducting phone calls and sending SMS. The Telecoms company attributed the blac...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 14:57hrs | 5429 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mobile COVID-19 Test Laboratories arrive in Zimbabwe to alleviate border congestion
AU Special Envoy for COVID Strive Masiyiwa has announced the arrival of COVID-19 Test Laboratories in Zimbabwe.Masiyiwa wrote:A few weeks ago someone ...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 21:21hrs | 1148 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa picks fight with tycoon
Zimbabwe's president has picked a fight with the country's most successful businessman. The economy may be the loser.Under pressure from a plunging currency and 737% inflation, President Emmer...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:57hrs | 9293 | by Bloomberg
'Mutsvangwa plotting November 2017 style coup over Econet'
STRIVE Masiyiwa's Econet mobile network says its existence was under threat from former President Emmerson Mnangagwa's advisor Christopher Mutsvangwa.Mutsvangwa, according to court papers file...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:41hrs | 4241 | by newzimbabwe
Masiyiwa says Million people to get free Covid-19 drug
ECONET founder Strive Masiyiwa says an African Union (AU) initiative set up to mobilise resources to fight Covid-19 is facilitating the free distribution of a drug to treat the disease.Masiyiw...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:21hrs | 2181 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19: Africa Medical Supplies Platform experiences surge in use of by AU member states
- Supply chain platform secures lifesaving COVID-19 treatment for 1million Africans - Expands to include African hospitals and Caribbean Community cou...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 07:08hrs | 203 | by Agencies
Conventional economics do not often apply to the Zimbabwean economy
CONVENTIONAL economics do not often apply to the Zimbabwean economy. If we take as an example the period during the government of national unity (GNU) from 2009 to 2013, the hard currency revenues to ...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:49hrs | 1505 | by Eddie Cross
Masiyiwa steps up face masks campaign
BUSINESSMAN and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa has urged people to wear masks in the fight to combat the spread of the deadly coronavirus.This comes at a time the World Health Organisation (WH...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 20:31hrs | 3763 | by Staff reporter
Caribbean countries get access to Africa Medical Supplies Platform for procurement of COVID-19 supplies
Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have been given access to the Africa Medical Supplies Platform (AMSP), a procurement system for supplies and equipment in the fight against COVID-19....Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:25hrs | 118 | by Agencies
The three pendulums of Zimbabwean politics
The names Mugabe, Mujuru and Mnangagwa have hogged the headlines of Zimbabwean politics for over a century collectively. The three have nothing to show for the hectares of space that their names have ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 09:58hrs | 2802 | by Joseph 'Slovo' Mupokosera
Zimbabwe economy run by master criminals fleecing the poor
Ordinary Zimbabweans have suffered for years as a result of currency manipulation and corruption by the elites who have siphoned US dollars away into their overseas bank accounts. Now, a recent ruling...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:11hrs | 1529 | by Thandekile Moyo
HLF steps up Testing in Zimbabwe with free testing for the poor
Businessman and Africa Union Special Envoy Strive Masiyiwa has announced free COVID-19 testing in Zimbabwe, along with ramped up testing for the broader population at cost, through his Higherlife Foun...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 16:41hrs | 561 | by Agencies
Jubilation as Strive Masiyiwa's ventilators arrive in the country
The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) ventilator suites that were donated by businessman and Econet founder Strive Masiyiwa are now in the country ready to be deployed.Through his Higher Life Foundati...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 10:26hrs | 4478 | by Agencies
Cassava Fintech launches SASAI Health Status Report as it steps up fight against Coronavirus
Cassava Fintech International (CFI), a subsidiary of the Econet Group, has launched the SASAI Health Status Report (SHSR), a secure blockchain technology-supported solution expected to digitize the te...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 17:56hrs | 142 | by Agencies
Doctors joining nurses' strike
JUNIOR doctors have threatened to go on strike, joining the industrial action by nurses that started last week citing deteriorating working conditions, which will negatively affect the country's battl...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1068 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa organising funding for Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe will receive funding support to buy medical equipment to fight Covid-19 from Afreximbank as part of the African Union's initiative to help its members combat the pandemic, businessman Strive ...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:41hrs | 1477 | by Staff reporter
AU Special Envoy speaks on the importance of Testing
Why we need Testing, Tracing, and Isolation: The leader of a small country in the Caribbean with about 100,000 people, wanted to make sure that his coun...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 10:22hrs | 1289 | by Strive Masiyiwa
Strive Masiyiwa donates 1 000 ventilators
Strive Masiyiwa has announced the arrival of 45 full ICU ventilators in Zimbabwe which the businessman ordered a couple of months back. The billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist, who is ...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 14:51hrs | 175 | by Agencies
Masiyiwa donates 1 000 ventilators to Zimbabwe
BUSINESS tycoon Strive Masiyiwa yesterday announced the arrival of 45 full intensive care unit ventilators in Zimbabwe, for which he placed an order a couple of months back.The billionaire ent...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 14:09hrs | 1088 | by Staff reporter
Death has robbed us of our affable Raymond Njanike
INSPITE of the many bereavements I have had over the years, nothing prepares me for the loss of dear and close friends. Not even the fact that I do my fair share of laying to rest a number of those we...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 09:51hrs | 2196 | by Philip Mataranyika
Mnangagwa faces a people-powered change
Emmerson Mnangagwa told us the voice of the people is the voice of God. He didn't listen to either. Now he faces a people's power movement.This article was first published by ...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 22:50hrs | 11268 | by Siphosami Malunga
EcoCash unveils online self-service portal for agents, merchants and other channel partners
EcoCash has unveiled an online self-service portal which allows its agents, merchants, billers, bulk payers and payroll channel partners to submit their applications online without the need to physica...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 08:40hrs | 3704 | by Agencies
Starving Zimbabwean doctor begs for aid
A MEDICAL doctor employed by the Health and Child Care ministry at Beitbridge District Hospital has publicly declared her poverty and begged for help via Twitter.The NewsDay confirmed Sandra K...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 08:55hrs | 1134 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa champions AU COVID-19 fight
THE African Union (AU) has set in motion a bid to raise resources for the procurement of 15 million COVID-19 test kits per month for distribution to member States as the regional body up-scales testin...Published: 27 May 2020 at 07:45hrs | 305 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa pledges to coordinate Covid-19 supplies
TOP Zimbabwean businessman Dr Strive Masiyiwa has pledged to coordinate the procurement and distribution of Covid-19 supplies by the private sector to unblock the supply chain. Dr Masiyiwa, wh...Published: 27 May 2020 at 07:14hrs | 148 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Ecocash loses court case against RBZ
High Court of Zimbabwe has thrown out an application by EcoCash for the restoration of thousands of agent lines terminated by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe for suspected illegal forex trading. ...Published: 26 May 2020 at 13:56hrs | 9829 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabweans billionaire's company takes over SA data centre
AFRICA Data Centres, part of the Liquid Telecom Group, has completed the acquisition of a state-of-the-art Tier IV data centre in Johannesburg from Standard Bank, Africa's largest bank. The ac...Published: 22 May 2020 at 06:24hrs | 2834 | by Staff reporter
Econet reopens shops and service centres countrywide
Econet Wireless has begun reopening its shops following the lifting of some COVID-19 Coronavirus lockdown restrictions. But the company cautioned customers to be patient as it ramps up p...Published: 19 May 2020 at 19:25hrs | 1330 | by Agencies
Covid-19: Masiyiwa tips govts
BUSINESSMAN Strive Masiyiwa has urged Africans to adopt what he calls the "ITTIT" formula for fighting the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic as governments across the continent gradually ease national l...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:35hrs | 1576 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa urges collaboration among private sector, NGOs and faith-based organizations in combating COVID-19 in Africa
Businessman Strive Masiyiwa has urged Africans to adopt what he calls the 'ITTIT' formula to fighting the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus epidemic as governments across the continent gradually ease...Published: 16 May 2020 at 15:05hrs | 867 | by Agencies
WATCH: Zimbabwe top artists release Coronavirus song
Strive Masiyiwa's Cassava Fintech International (CFI) through the Sasai Team Talk has produced a prayer song for Zimbabwe titled The BlessingZW. The song saw top Zimbabwean musicians...Published: 12 May 2020 at 10:42hrs | 1800 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Advocate Thabani Mpofu is failing the MDC-Alliance dismally! I should be forgiven if I say he is an implant
You do not need to be a lawyer to recognize the chronic errors MDC-Alliance made after Richard Morgen Tsvangirai's death. It is equally surprising that a political party blessed with several lawyers, ...Published: 09 May 2020 at 20:26hrs | 8644 | by Nomazulu Thata
Ramaphosa appoints Strive Masiyiwa
AFRICAN Union chairman and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Zimbabwean billionaire Mr Strive Masiyiwa to coordinate a private sector-led continental effort to procure critical per...Published: 05 May 2020 at 07:39hrs | 9185 | by Staff reporter
The emperor parades naked
DIPLOMACY, some say, is the idea of telling someone to go to hell and they look forward to it. Zimbabwe has been used to the idea of being a country that is a pariah State and more specificall...Published: 02 May 2020 at 07:54hrs | 1016 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Masiyiwa ranked the most influential businessperson in the world
Telecoms tycoon Strive Masiyiwa has been ranked by CrowdTangle as the most influential businessperson on Facebook. The list includes Mark Zuckerberg who is number 2, Richard Branson who is num...Published: 29 Apr 2020 at 17:56hrs | 4075 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'I won't talk about sanctions' says Masiyiwa - why not, need no-hold-barred to get out of this mess
"While I don't want to get into the issues around how and why there are sanctions, everyone knows that I personally had to flee my country, Zimbabwe, because of persecution 20 years ago," said Strive ...Published: 28 Apr 2020 at 08:50hrs | 1696 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
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