CBZ Holdings, Zimbabwe's biggest bank, is taking a 17.5% stake in Dokuma, the software firm awarded the tender to digitise records at the Deeds Office.
The transaction is among acquisitions submitted to the Competition...
Econet says its decision to bring its fintech businesses back under its wing is already paying off, with the country’s biggest tech company reporting strong growth across its key divisions for the year to February.
Mukuru has launched a mobile wallet in Zimbabwe to compete with more established fintech providers such as market leader EcoCash and InnBucks.
The company made its name in international transfers and will now enter...
By Tonderai Maruke
It already dominates property in Zimbabwe, but now Old Mutual is moving to occupy a different kind of real estate - in the digital space.
Old Mutual, the...
Strive Masiyiwa, who runs firms including Africa’s largest fiber-optic cable network, plans to raise as much as US$500 million to expand his digital infrastructure and services businesses.
The tycoon’s Cassava Technologies will tap investors...
Econet Wireless, Zimbabwe’s biggest tech company, recorded strong growth in data volumes and voice usage last year, but the company’s latest numbers show how much the economy’s currency crisis is holding back growth and service.
Econet Wireless, the country’s biggest telecoms company, has launched Zimbabwe’s first 5G network and plans to roll out 22 fifth-generation base stations by mid-year.
The network, installed by Ericsson, will boost Econet’s capacity to...
Google has appointed Zimbabwean-American James Manyika, the head of McKinsey Global Institute, to be the company's first Senior VP of Technology and Society.
The position will report to Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai and...
By Adriaan Kruger
Mukuru started 17 years ago as a solution to a problem two Zimbabwean immigrants faced in London.
Born out of necessity, Mukuru has grown from a remittances...
By Gugu Lourie
Like many people affected by Eskom’s load-shedding, I found myself thinking about technology and how authentic leadership can accelerate development and fight poverty in Africa and the rest of the world.
