Digital transactions take over Zimbabwe COVID-19 fight
Steward Bank from WELLINGTON TONI in Harare, Zimbabwe HARARE – SOME banks and a mobile network operator have shut their branches as digital transactions take centre stage in the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Zimbabwe. The move, which discourages the use of cash transactions, also complements an ongoing 21-day lockdown enforced More...
Huawei global revenues up in ‘extraordinary’ 2019
Huawei braves the storm as Europe, Middle East and Africa remains the Chinese technology giant’s biggest market outside of Beijing. by SAVIOUS KWINIKA JOHANNESBURG – HUAWEI has reported a 19,1 percent More...
5G earmarked to fight coronavirus pandemic
5G in Africa by SAVIOUS KWINIKA JOHANNESBURG – A LEADING global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices believes the fifth generation of wireless communications More...
Botswana bourse alters operations against COVID-19
Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) from ODIRILE TOTENG in Gaborone, Botswana GABORONE – THE Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) announced that 60 percent of its staff will be working from home to minimise the risk of More...
Locals cover gap left by global travelers to Zambezi
Victoria Falls, Zambezi river from THOKOZILE DUBE in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe VICTORIA FALLS – DOMESTIC tourists increasingly attracted to the majestic Zambezi River after rising water levels are making More...
Africa’s logistics issues hamper COVID-19 aid
Coronavirus medical supplies from Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation that landed in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. from ADANE BIKILA in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ADDIS ABABA – AFRICA has received More...
MTN waives mobile money fees after Rwanda outbreak
MTN Mobile Money App from PHYLLIS BIRORI in Kigali, Rwanda KIGALI – MTN Rwanda has waived the costs of Mobile Money (MoMo) transactions to allow customers to use cashless modes of payment as part of measures More...
SA finds Middle East a prosperous market for mutton
Vusi Rozani, Eastern Cape Veterinarian (Left), and Nomakhosazana Meth, the provincial MEC of Rural Development and Agrarian Reform, at the Mawashi feedlot ahead of the export of sheep to the Middle East from DION More...
Botswana augments plan to be regional energy powerhouse
Kalahari Energy Botswana (KEB) from ODIRILE TOTENG in Gaborone, Botswana GABORONE – A FEASIBILITY study of a power plant that will generate up to 100 megawatts of electricity from indigenous coal bed methane More...
COVID-19 spoils record year for SADC citrus sector
Citrus industry by MTHULISI SIBANDA JOHANNESBURG – THE emergence of Europe as the epicentre of the raging coronavirus (COVID-19) has put a dent in a record year for the citrus industry in Southern Africa. The More...