Cassava promoting financial literacy among entrepreneurs, SMEs
Cassava Smartech Zimbabwe, through its Edutech units Akello Books and Akello Courses, is promoting financial inclusion by offering financial literacy courses to entrepreneurs and small to medium enterprises (SMEs). The…
NetOne taps into online digital entertainment
MOBILE telecommunications giant, NetOne, has unveiled plans to expand business by tapping into opportunities from online digital entertainment products. The State-owned entity says it is ready to launch a “host…
Zim startups! Applications for Google’s Africa Accelerator are now open
Applications for Google for Startups Accelerator Africa are now open. The program is a three-month online experience for Seed to Series A technology startups across Africa.“The accelerator is designed to…
BancABC raises City Hopper fee to 3%, but still cheaper than the alternatives
In another edition of things that slipped under the radar, BancABC increased the fee for its domestic remittance service City Hopper from 2% to 3%. As we learned during the…
Govt owes TelOne nearly ZWL$ 1 billion in unpaid bills
State-owned telecommunications company TelOne is reportedly owed nearly ZWL$ 1 billion by the Zimbabwean government and its parastatals. According to TelOne’s status update report to the Ministry for ICTs, the…
Catch-22: Skrill closes Zimbabwean accounts with money in them, no easy way to get money back
About a week ago, Financial services provider Skrill shut down Zimbabwean accounts on the platform after having given ample warning that they would. Unfortunately, Skrill didn’t close accounts on 20…
Cassava partners with Tony Blair Institute to help Africa open borders
In an effort to help Africa reopen borders in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cassava Fintech International has partnered up with the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI).…
How to protect yourself from Bitcoin scams
Recently I noticed an increase in the number of Bitcoin scammers that have been targeting me on Facebook and Instagram. A lot of my friends and colleagues have also reached…
ZIMSEC O Level results out, here’s how to get them online
Its results season, albeit a little later than we are used to because of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a tweet by ZBC, 2020 ZIMSEC O Level results are out.…
Govt looks to have solved one problem with the online passport application system
Back in December last year, Minister for Home Affairs Kazembe Kazembe announced that the ministry was working on an online passport application platform. At the time the system was still…