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Zimbabwe police hunt 20,000 motorists for traffic light violations
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has launched a full-scale crackdown on traffic law violators, targeting at least 20,000 motorists in Harare and Bulawayo for failing to obey traffic light signals. T...Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 17:34hrs | 523 | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza eyes growth with town expansion project
Chitungwiza is gearing up for a major transformation aimed at shedding its longstanding image as merely a dormitory town for Harare and emerging as a self-sustaining, resilient urban centre by the yea...Published: 26 May 2025 at 08:34hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter
Zimra targets US$7.155 billion in 2025 revenue collection drive
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) has set an ambitious target to collect US$7.155 billion in tax revenue for 2025, reflecting a 17 percent increase from the 2024 target.ZIMRA, the governm...Published: 03 Apr 2025 at 08:05hrs | 84 | by Staff reported
NetOne is now a danger to life and security!
I am one of those who have been faithful subscribers to Zimbabwe's second largest mobile network operator (MNO) NetOne.Over the years, I have become endeared to the state-owned entity, in spit...Published: 02 Jan 2024 at 17:54hrs | 17 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa blames Zimbabwe councils for cholera outbreaks
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has indirectly attributed the sporadic cholera outbreaks in Zimbabwe to opposition-run urban councils. He claimed that the towns and cities in Zimbabwe have deteriorated d...Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 06:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Row over Zesa US$3.9m tender
A TECHNOLOGY company has dragged the Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz) to court, compelling the regulator to investigate a US$3.9 million contract issued by the Zimbabwe Electricity ...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
EcoCash banks on disruptive innovations
EcoCash Holdings has said it will continue to disrupt and challenge the status quo in the digital services space by leveraging data analytics and artificial intelligence.Group chief executive ...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 06:06hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Rogue lawyers connive with bogus estate agents
SOME rogue lawyers in Bulawayo are reportedly conniving with bogus estate agents to defraud homeseekers as demand for housing surges.Police in Bulawayo recorded 32 fraud cases involving the sa...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
EcoCash records modest growth in first quarter
ECOCASH Holdings Zimbabwe Limited recorded modest growth in the first quarter to May 31, 2022 supported mainly by the fintech business which remains the group's highest revenue contributor.In ...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Potraz happy with tariff hikes
THE Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has given telecommunications network service operators the nod to increase tariffs in keeping with the rising costs to ensur...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
NetOne apologises for network disruptions
NetOne subscribers say they continue to face network challenges following the recent system upgrade. The company has since apologised for the challenges. In a statement today, NetOne s...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Steward Bank confident it has turned the corner
Steward Bank, which is considered a pioneer of mobile banking on the local market, has already begun the second phase of its system upgrade that is largely expected to consolidate its success in minim...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Steward Bank retrenches workers
Steward Bank, Zimbabwe's largest bank by customer base, says it is reviewing its structures and operations to adapt to technological changes in a move that will see the institution rationalise its sta...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:25hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe criminals go hi-tech
ZIMBABWEAN criminals are not being left behind by technology. They are using technology to enhance their trade, just like everybody else.Technology is a useful tool as it can bend to the whims...Published: 29 Jan 2022 at 14:37hrs | 21 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Steward Bank profit up 263% to $252 million HY
STEWARD Bank Zimbabwe has shrugged the disruptive impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and inflationary pressures to report impressive half-year financial results to+ August 31, 2021.The bank, a su...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 05:55hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
EcoCash shrugs headwinds
EcoCash Holdings Zimbabwe Limited, formerly Cassava Smartech Zimbabwe Limited, reported solid operating results for the year ended February 28, 2021, despite strong economic headwinds.EcoCash ...Published: 20 Oct 2021 at 07:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
EcoCash shrugs headwinds to posts solid results
EcoCash Holdings Zimbabwe Limited, formerly Cassava Smartech Zimbabwe Limited, reported solid operating results for the year ended February 28, 2021, despite strong economic headwinds in the country d...Published: 19 Oct 2021 at 06:31hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Cassava rebrands to EcoCash Holdings
Cassava Smartech Zimbabwe Limited is set to rebrand to EcoCash Holdings Limited in a move aimed at aligning the business with its main operating subsidiary EcoCash Private Limited. In a circul...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 07:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Errant cross border transporters fined US$200,000
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has intensified the crackdown on errant cross border transporters who are smuggling goods from neighbouring countries, mostly South Africa during the Covid-19 in...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 09:06hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Steward Bank in major banking system upgrade
Steward Bank, the largest bank by customer base, is this weekend undertaking its biggest system upgrade since its acquisition from TN Bank in 2013. The Cassava Smartech-owned bank is upgrading...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 18:46hrs | 4 | by Agencies
Bold revamp doubles EcoCash capacity
AN extensive revamp of the EcoCash platform that sent markets into complete turmoil in November last year doubled the mobile money transfer operation's capacity to 450 transactions per second, accordi...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is an iPhone 12 a Worthwhile Investment?
The latest in Apple's long line of mobile phones, the iPhone 12 is yet another standout device among an already impressive and flooded market. As with any shiny new piece of tech, we're often asked wh...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 13:32hrs | 41 | by Staff RWriter
Councillors block road project
BEITBRIDGE councillors have resisted the development of a road they say had "jumped the queue", because it does not serve residents.The road links the Shule Shule Shopping Centre, goes past a ...Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government gets serious on road system upgrade
The new dispensation has recorded a success story in the dualisation of the Bulawayo-Mutare highway as well as the rehabilitation of many other roads which were littered with potholes at national leve...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 16:07hrs | | 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 | 20 | by Tawanda Karombo / qz.com
Zimra system upgrade to be completed in June
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has acquired three top of the range servers in a bid to complete Automated System for Customs Data (Asycuda) systems upgrade by June this year to improve on effi...Published: 29 Apr 2018 at 09:09hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimra surpasses target by 8%
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has recorded $1.1 billion first quarter 2018 gross revenue collections, above target by 8 percent and higher than $862 million recorded in the same period last y...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt gets serious on road system upgrade
Government will carry out feasibility studies for three major national highways as part of preparations for its infrastructure development planning.The roads set for construction and whose fea...Published: 01 Feb 2018 at 05:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
NetOne pledges lower charges
NetOne has pledged to offer cheaper mobile money transfers as competition in the sector grows.Speaking at the launch of the NetOne mobile money service, OneMoney in Harare last week, the mobil...Published: 29 Oct 2017 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZimSwitch allays ZIPIT fears
INTERBANK transaction processor, ZimSwitch, has allayed fears the Zimswitch Instant Payment Interchange Technology (ZIPIT) had been suspended or scrapped after the application went offline for the bet...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 23:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ezytrack upgrades to full mobile device accessibility
Ezytrack, one of the country's leading vehicle tracking and fleet management companies, has upgraded its software to hypertext markup language 5 (HTML5), making it possible for its clients to use a sm...Published: 13 Jan 2016 at 13:49hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Harare water delivery system upgrade begins
The China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC), which was contracted to upgrade Harare's water delivery system, says the project begins this week with engineers working out a detailed implementati...Published: 15 Sep 2013 at 14:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Econet blames system upgrade
Econet Wireless has said that the challenges being faced by its subscribers is down to problems caused by an upgrade in the system.Tweeting a bit and a half ago, it said:#Econet wish...Published: 30 Jul 2013 at 13:32hrs | 1 | by Three Men On a Boat
Zimra announces system upgrade at all station including Beitbridge
Zimra announces there will be a system upgrade of ASYCUDA World at all Zimra stations including Beitbridge Border Post, from 5pm Saturday October 22 to 8am Monday October 24. The upgrade affe...Published: 20 Oct 2011 at 05:39hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Apple Inc CEO unveils iCloud
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Monday appeared at a software developers' conference in San Francisco to introduce a new operating system called Lion and a wireless service called iCloud, but ...Published: 06 Jun 2011 at 21:25hrs | 1 | by Jefferson Graham
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