Back in 2021, we covered a startup on a mission to change the way we search for medicine. In Zim, it’s quite common for patients to go from pharmacy to pharmacy, prescription in hand, trying to find ...

Zimbabwe is getting a Starlink ground station. ICT Minister Tatenda Mavetera says SpaceX has concluded an agreement with one of the local Starlink dealers to set one up in the first quarter of 2027.

ZimLedger started with a simple problem, Menard Mutingwende wanted an easier way to analyse his EcoCash transactions. What began as a tool for turning EcoCash statements into useful data soon became ...

If you give most Zimbabweans a deck of cards, the game they will instantly think of is MaCards or Makasa. The fast paced game that most of us grew up playing at school with fellow students or at home ...

Econet has said it’s planning to switch off 3G network by end of next year. The company says it will then gradually phase out 2G as it shifts its focus to faster 4G and 5G services. Econet CEO, ...

This one was a bit of a surprise. We have been paying our provider $10 a year. It’s not that we didn’t know local domains could be cheaper. There are providers, offering them at half that. But $2 a ...

The EcoCash SuperApp has crossed the 500K+ download milestone on Google Play, with a 4.3 rating from roughly 2,700 reviewers. That is impressive early traction, especially for a new Zimbabwean app.

Over the past few weeks I’ve been digging into Zimbabwean startups. I came across all kinds of them, tackling problems across every field you can think of. What struck me was how little it seemed to ...

Most of you have noticed that the prices of smartphones and laptops have been going up. Especially the entry level ones. This is the case wherever you buy your devices from. As Techzim, we sell ...

Most of you probably know about Econet AI already. It’s a new Econet company that’s just focused on AI and the group is taking this effort pretty seriously. The company has it’s own CEO (Navdeep Kapur ...

Imagine never having to chase someone for getting work done again. You say what needs to happen once, the recipient gets messaged, followed up with, kept on track and you only hear about it again if ...

The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) announced that mandatory compliance inspections of data controllers will commence on 1 September 2026. The inspections will ...