It’s official. Kwese is now in Zimbabwe. The wait is over. Econet Media, the company behind Kwese partnered with a company which already had a licence. That company is Dr Dish. The talks have been ongoing for a while according to the executive chairman of Dr Dish, Mr Nyasha Muzavazi.
Kwese and Dr Dish finalised the deal in October 2016. The deal is for Dr Dish, which was duly licenced by the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) back in 2012, to distribute content from Kwese. The licence that Dr Dish has is valid until September 2022 and we will see then if it will be renewed. By then Kwese could have their own licence or not, whatever the case we will have Kwese officially in Zimbabwe for at least 5 years.
Well, if the deal was struck in 2016 why are we only getting Kwese now? The rollout of Kwese in Africa was in stages and Zimbabwe’s turn had not yet come. Mr Muzavazi also says the companies were building the infrastructure and training the installation teams among other preparations. There also was the small issue of making sure licence fees were up to date. That was done this week and the companies are finally ready to launch.
BAZ was notified as soon as the deal was struck back in 2016. They were given full details of the channels that were going to be offered. If Mr Muzavazi is to be believed, the delay in launch was only due to aforementioned reasons and not because of frustrating delaying tactics by BAZ. You decide if you believe that.
Dr Dish have had other content distribution deals before. Remember My TV Africa? That content was distributed by Dr Dish until My TV Africa lost it’s content rights for the Zimbabwe territory. So this is not their first rodeo.
So there you have it. It is official now, no need for workarounds. Econet seems to have found a legal loophole and Kwese will be provided through a third party which I’m sure will become part of the Econet group at some point. Dr Dish made the announcement and so if you have any questions you should direct them there and we will reach out to them as well to give you full details of where you can buy the service. If you are interested in the service please fill in this form and we will try to help you jump the queue.
So we can say, welcome Kwese…
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Can’t wait to see what the team has in store for us .dstv watch out .GO KWESE
I have been waiting for another service provider, thanks for the coming of Kwese
How come we never got to see any job vacancies for Installation Engineers and Technicians, RF Engineers, Radio Planning Engineers etc? Does it mean the current complement of Engineers and Technicians at Econet has proven sufficient for the new project at hand???
The moment we have been waiting for
Whoever has the rights to English Football, not Spanish football, not Italian, Germany, World Cup, ZPSL, SA PSL, Nigerian PSL, NBA, NFL, MLB, Aussie Rules, IRB World Cup…
Let me repeat again, whoever has the right to English Premier League, rules the pay tv market in Africa. You could show all the latest tv series you want, all the movies you want but whoever has the right to EPL rules pay TV.
DO NOT EVER LIE TO YOURSELF OTHERWISE, THE REST ARE JUST NOVELTIES, FADS EVENS.
Does Kwese have the full EPL licence.
Does Kwese have the licence to screen ALL EPL games.
@Lennon good point, i olwez tell people that but they shoot me down saying im a hater..Multichoice paid more than $400mil for EPL rights, why wld u buy a new decoder n dish just to watch the same stuff thats on DSTV i.e tv series, movies, music channels without live soccer…till kwese gets those exclusive rights for soccer i will stick with my dstv
Because that will be the only appetizing option from Dstv payable by bond dollars? very soon…
I see Multichoice almost closing down
closing down why and how
1. They want forex and kwese will take anything (even goats kkk) with no funny stories or issues.
2. Multichoice has been milking people for too long. Zvakwana. Increasing prices every year willy nilly. They are too expensive for nothing.
Kwese might take anything, but doubtful HBO will take anything if Kwese wanted to buy their content, i.e. Game of Thrones.
In the long run, any service is gonna have to pay in foreign currency for that kind of content – sports, music no matter what.
Because that will be the only appetizing option from Dstv payable by bond dollars? very soon…
Welcome Kwese
Well done for kwese tv ,bn patiently waiting for ,give us the directions on how to use it
WELL DONE ECONET
Not so fast⚠
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The problem with us Africans is that we do not want to support our own. This guy has done something that most of us would never even dream of..why not give him the credit he deserves.. These guys have created smithing that is aiming not jus Zim base bt the world at large.. If we could accept things like Wiztech n all those small nyanas y not this one.
this is the time all zimbabweans have been waiting for we love you be here for ever