For as long as I can remember, Zimbabwe has always had a high unemployment rate. Just how high that rate is has always been a point of debate. On one […]
Whenever we have to talk about the pricing of essential and perceived essential services in Zimbabwe, the conversations get heated. This is simply because Zimbabweans are earning too little. Meaning […]
For many years, Potraz has been taking our tax money and saying that they are using it to improve internet access across Zimbabwe. This Universal Service Fund (USF) that they […]
Starlink has many Zimbabweans, myself included, all giddy. We feel like we have been getting terrible internet service for a few years. To make matters worse, we feel we are […]
Rarely do I ever get a chance to have 2 smartphones at the same time for review, and having both of them being smartphones of the same price and in […]
Do you feel like you’re getting terrible internet quality? Have you been gaslit to believe it’s you and your devices and that the rest of the nation is surfing the […]
We have seen what happens when there is a law that prohibits some product/behaviour that people really love and don’t believe is immoral. They will ignore the law and a […]
We have been talking about AI extensively lately, and it appears that we will be exploring the topic even more in the coming months. Strive Masiyiwa’s assertion that AI could […]
I have been integrating Bard, the generative AI from Google, into my daily life ever since its launch. Why did I choose Bard when ChatGPT is all the rage? Well, […]
I got a chance to travel to the United States thanks to the Foreign Press Centre to peep into the policies, ecosystems and other intangibles that have led to the […]
Well, some bit of good news on Starlink. According to Zimlive, former Minister of ICT said in a meeting on Monday this week that Zimbabwe has received Starlink’s license application […]
[Update: A well-placed source inside Econet says they have not noticed anything abnormal on their network. It’s service as normal] African governments have a reputation for shutting down the internet […]
We talked about Spotify’s new AI-powered DJ a few months ago when it was announced. The feature wasn’t available in Zimbabwe at the time but it’s here now and I […]
Earlier this year Google opened applications for this 2023’s Black Founders Cohort. We talked about it here. Google for Startups Black Founders Fund exists to help black founders get funding. […]
Starlink estimates that their service will officially be available in Zimbabwe in the 4th quarter of 2023 which is between October and December 2023. Unofficially though, the service is working […]
We saw it coming years before it was announced. Standard Chartered lost interest in the Zimbabwean market a long time ago and were, to be frank, just biding time, waiting […]
Apple held its annual developer conference, WWDC, yesterday and we got a few interesting announcements. The star of the show was the… Vision Pro headset This Honda Fit-priced headset is […]
We know there is a lot of excitement around Starlink. We already knew that Starlink had indicated that they would be coming to Zimbabwe this year, 2023. It’s already June […]
I have to confess, I am not a fan of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. It’s hard to be a fan as a Zimbabwean, I guess. […]