Sasai’s African & Talented promotion extended due to public demand
Back in September, Sasai launched an Africa wide talent show called “African & Talented“. It’s no secret that this contest was a promotional push to get more people on the…
Econet partners Google to roll out high-speed broadband technology
GOOGLE’S parent company, Alphabet, has partnered with the Econet Group to launch a new high-speed broadband technology, which uses laser beams instead of fibre optic cables. In a media update,…
Zelle Has Turned Dollar-Starved Venezuela Into a Cashless Test Lab
The money transfer app provides relief from runaway inflation and a worthless currency. When Federico Suárez made an overnight trip to Valencia last month to visit his boyfriend, the 24-year-old…
Econet posts ZW$1.35 billion loss for last financial year
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe’s financial results for the year ending February 2020 are out. The country’s largest mobile network operator (MNO) ended the 2010s on a financially challenging note. For the…
WhatsApp finally makes it easier for users to delete files taking up space
This week, WhatsApp is rolling out a new storage management solution that will be found inside the messaging app. For a while now WhatsApp has had a storage tab within…
OneMoney & Telecash would do well to learn from EcoCash Rewards
It’s been a little over a month since we crossed the threshold of interoperability. We can now send money from an EcoCash wallet directly to OneMoney, Telecash and bank accounts…
A list of Sasai features that were promised at launch but never came to be
On August 1 2019, Cassava Smartech drew the curtains on their newest shiny object – Sasai. They pitched a social payments app that would combine the best of messaging and…
Betting companies evade tax
Many betting shops in Harare are transacting in foreign currency, but issuing all receipts in Zimbabwe dollars, which is legally a tax fraud. Most of these betting shops have been…
Zesa hikes tariffs by 50 percent
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has increased tariffs by 50 percent for the second time in a month. ZETDC, a Zesa unit, increased tariffs last month and…
Econet reveals they used 3 million litres of fuel during the power crisis of 2019
2019 was a dark year for Zimbabwe and I mean that in the most literal sense. We had a power crises for over half the year and its impact on…