30.11.2021 8:59

Zimbabwe turns telcos into tax collectors

Quartz Africa
The new levy on imported handsets will take a novel form. Instead of the tax being collected by state revenue authorities on imported electronic gadgets, the...
Read more...
28.1.2021 7:43

These African countries are among the world’s worst hit by climate change

Mozambique has emerged as the most vulnerable to climate change in Africa...
22.7.2020 6:54

Zimbabwe raids EcoCash for mobile money users, arrests journalist

"Full subscriber details of each user means they have your name, cellphone number, address and all...
19.4.2020 14:25

Forty years ago, Bob Marley paid his own way to play Zimbabwe’s iconic independence concert

Immediately after the official flag-raising the first official words of the new nation of Zimbabwe were...
2.4.2020 12:02

Zimbabwe’s universities are manufacturing masks, gloves and hand sanitizers to beat coronavirus

Zimbabwe is looking within to beat Covid-19...
17.1.2020 11:12

A currency swap deal with China could backfire on Zimbabwe’s hope to build forex reserves

Zimbabwe joins South Africa, Nigeria and Ghana which also have currency swap arrangements with China....
15.11.2019 5:53

A day-long mobile money shutdown will test the effectiveness of Zimbabwe’s new bank notes

Zimbabwe is desperately trying to stem inflation but also has a mobile money shutdown problem...
1.11.2019 6:03

How to understand why Zimbabwe is bringing back the Zim dollar and the limits of mobile money

"If we don’t address fundamentals especially around the cost of production then the new currency might...
10.10.2019 10:50

Zimbabwe is clamping down on social media use with a cyber crime bill set to become law

Zimbabwe has inched closer to clamping down on citizens’ use of social media platforms and will...
1.10.2019 7:56

Zimbabwe’s central bank has shut down the use of mobile money for cash transactions

The disabling of cash-in and cash-out options on the mobile money menus of the Zimbabwean operators...
9.9.2019 8:32

The Zimbabwean writer who was Robert Mugabe’s nemesis

In 1978 Robert Mugabe was heckled by writer and iconoclast Dambudzo Marechera when he came to...
22.7.2019 7:05

A power outage and mobile money blackout expose the vulnerability of Zimbabwe’s economy

A power cut, a digital blackout and a drying lake join the currency crisis add to...
10.5.2019 16:58

A sharp jump in mobile internet prices shows the true value of Zimbabwe’s troubled currency

While Zimbabwe’s central bank is trying to make the case for a respectable value for its three-month...
23.4.2019 8:48

Zimbabwe’s plan to compensate white farmers is facing a backlash from party loyalists and the farmers

Zimbabwe’s latest plan to compensate white commercial farmers who lost land during the fast track Land...

Popular:

Sport

Cricket:
ICC ‘incredibly disappointed’ to cancel women’s WC qualifiers in Zimbabwe amid Omicron variant concerns

Featured:
Barbarians match called off 90 minutes before kick-off due to Covid cases

Cricket:
2021 Women’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier: ZIMBABWE WIN BY 1 WICKET against USA

Cricket:
Women World Cup Qualifier: Pakistan beat Thailand by 52 runs in Zimbabwe