Category: Zimbabwe Business
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Fear of Failing Publicly 3: The Rise and Fall of OLOVA Music
This is part 3 in a series about my institutionalized fear of failing publicly. I am using the series to share the businesses and opportunities taken and dropped, failed and succeeded. I am sharing these because failure is not something we should be ashamed of even if society ridicules those who try and fail. You…
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Bravo Tours No longer the Bus of Choice
Then the breakdowns started happening. Every other Bravo trip now seems to have a break down. Sadly, being Zimbabwean I am almost compelled to forgive them for the break downs and say zvinowanikwa (these things happen), but that’s not true. When you are a luxury coach these things don’t happen. If I wanted a trip…
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How to Swipe into Ecocash from ANY Bank Account (Barclays |Standard Charted)
You’ll find your bank telling you that you’re on a waiting list for the link-to-Ecocash service, or that they lost your application or that Ecocash is delaying. Well, all that doesn’t matter anymore, you can now Swipe into your Ecocash account from any bank account. Barclays and Standard Bank, problem solved!
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How To Flourish In Bidding Wars Facebook Groups
The concept of Facebook bidding is growing because the groups are on Facebook. Zimbabweans will starve as long as they have facebook bundles. We know this because when a data price floor was introduced early this year Zimbos complained until data prices were restored. A week late tax was introduced on rice, meat and other…
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Kwese Returns – Again (We hope for Good)
Most people are tired of the back and forth and will be hoping for a swift and favourable ruling on this Kwese Matter. This is a perfect time to see if the DSTV lite has had an impact on the market or if people really don’t care and want Kwese now.
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Will Ecocash Ever work in Kombis?
The one thing that we will all probably get tired of hearing is that Ecocash came and changed things in Zimbabwe blah blah blah. It may have started out slow but after our cash crisis spiralled deeper and deeper into turmoil. I mean you can pay for basically everything now; groceries, rent, tuition fees and…
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Will Kwese Survive?
Just this past weekend we were celebrating the reactivation of Kwese after they won the High Court case against the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ). Bad news comes now when most of us have paid for our installations and are expecting the technites to come set us up for our first-month free subscription. It seems…
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The $8 Million Kaylite MisInvestment
I don’t challenge the fact that there was seemingly a gap in the market that needed to be filled and It was taken; but was it a smart decision? Having established the ban to be from a 2012 SI it means Kaylite has been illegal since then.
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4 Things You Are Doing Wrong On Ecocash
Zimbabwe in our uniqueness saw the rise of mobile money, something that hasn’t enjoyed much success in the rest of the world. Initially, Ecocash was just good for sending money to loved ones in the quickest and possibly most secure way. Now it has graduated to an easy way of paying bills, buying products locally…
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Why A Price Floor Almost Made Sense For Zimbabwe Telecoms
ECONET WAS ATTACKED FOR THE PRICE HIKE AND THEY WERE LABELLED CAPITALIST OPPORTUNISTS. AN UNPROFESSIONAL WAR OF WORDS BETWEEN THE REGULATOR AND ECONET ENSUED IN THE MEDIA. THAT SCUFFLE IS WHAT BROUGHT THE DETAILS TO LIGHT AND CLEARED THE AIR. I WANT US TO LOOK AT WHY THE DECISION TO HAVE A PRICE FLOOR ALMOST…