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ICT Minister Tatenda Mavetera calls the wave of WhatsApp Business takeovers unprecedented and says POTRAZ, the police and Meta are investigating, including the role of SMS aggregators, while Econet has twice told customers to lock down their accounts.
Competitive gaming in Zimbabwe now has a recognised national association, a football federation sending teams to FIFA's esports competitions and a yearly convention with cash prizes, but the biggest payout on record is US$500 and data costs still decide who gets to play.
Ocular AI, co-founded by Zimbabwe's Louis Murerwa and Zambia's Michael Moyo, has raised $2 million to build the data and tests that tell AI labs whether their voice models actually work, the kind of checking no African institution yet does for the continent.
Africin, a Zimbabwean-built app for African film, has five local titles, offline downloads and live premieres, and has moved from pay-per-movie to monthly plans from US$2.99 within weeks of its public push.
James Manyika oversees Google's research labs and co-chaired the UN's advisory body on AI, and the first thing he ever published was a paper on neural networks written as an undergraduate at the University of Zimbabwe in 1992.
Econet's chief executive says AI tools found large numbers of customers with faulty SIM cards or handsets set to the wrong network speed, and with 3G on its way out, here is what the company is claiming, what it hasn't shown, and the two-minute check you can do yourself.
National champion Andrew Chikwaka leads a three-man Zimbabwe team into the fifth Volta a Angola, a ten-stage race from 9 to 18 October with about 180 riders and some of the hardest climbs in southern Africa.
"Lagos Life" is a free, Sims-style browser game set in a virtual Lagos that launched on 1 October and says it passed a million players within four days, paying its way with in-game billboards rented to real businesses.
Reserve Bank governor John Mushayavanhu says talks to build a real-time payments system on India's UPI technology could wrap up by 31 October, so here is what that would mean for EcoCash, ZIPIT and the fees you pay, going by what happened in Namibia.
Forecasters say this El Niño could be among the strongest on record, but strength is not the same as damage. Here is who is most exposed in Zimbabwe, why the old 'ten year cycle' idea does not hold, and what has changed since the 2024 drought.
In one weekend Tamy Moyo went from the Jacaranda Music Festival bill in Harare to sharing a stage with Jason Derulo in Lusaka, and the releases keep coming behind her.
A violent hailstorm hit Masvingo on Monday evening, leaving about 60 households without proper roofs and families sheltering in community halls, and raising hard questions about warnings and disaster preparedness ahead of the rainy season.
World Space Week runs until 10 October, and the man who has coordinated it here since 2014 is one of the engineers behind ZimSat-1, a 10cm satellite built by Zimbabwean students in Japan and released from the International Space Station in 2022.
A 28-year-old technician at a Siberian anti-plague institute has died of what Russian health officials call pneumonia of unknown cause, with about 200 people monitored. Here are the confirmed facts, what is still rumour, and how common lab accidents are worldwide.
Winky D's new album "TÊTE-À-TÊTE (HELLO AFRICA)" speaks to the whole continent, but outside Zimbabwe his touring map still runs through Birmingham, where A Night With Winky D returns to The New Bingley Hall on 19 December 2026.
Rich countries are ageing fast and Africa is supplying most of the world's new workers, yet UK health and care visa applications are down 95 percent from their peak, settlement rules are under review and Zimbabwe sits on both sides of that equation.
Africa exports most of the crude it pumps and imports the petrol and diesel it runs on. A year of Middle East shocks, Dangote's export push and a proposed pipeline to Bulawayo show what refining at home could, and couldn't, do for fuel prices in places like Zimbabwe.
Four years into Ibrahim Traoré's rule, Burkina Faso has a new gold refinery and a smaller deficit, but more than two million people are displaced and political parties are banned. Here is what's working, what's still being built and what's falling apart.
William Ramsay, the Berlin saxophonist behind the curriculum taught at Music Crossroads Academy Zimbabwe, is in Harare for a 10-day programme training the academy's teachers and administrators in Moodle, notation software, ensemble work and teaching methods.
Harare chef and restaurateur Zandi Mubi-Chitima cooked at two official events at FAO headquarters in Rome, putting traditional Zimbabwean food in front of the world's top forestry forum.
Jah Prayzah and 3G The Band have withdrawn from tonight's opening of the Jacaranda Music Festival, two days after the death of Wicknell Chivayo, with Takura and The Legends added to the Friday bill.
Bulawayo-born author Sue Nyathi self-published The Polygamist after publishers turned it down, sat through two failed screen deals, and then watched a South African producer take it to Netflix, where it became one of the platform's biggest African hits.
ZB Custodial Services has opened a new way for Zimbabweans into Aliko Dangote's refinery IPO, closing on 9 October alongside FINSEC, after Bard Santner's US$20,000 route shut on 2 October. Here is what each offers and what the posters leave out.
Wicknell Chivayo died in a helicopter crash on 30 September 2026, so we add up the cars and cash he handed to Zimbabwean musicians, comedians and footballers, and ask what that money changed.
Zimbabwe laughed at Mukadota and Gringo on ZTV long before anyone called it stand-up. Then the stages went quiet, until Book Café open mics, Carl Joshua Ncube's trailblazing and a wave of new names, women among them, rebuilt the industry one sold-out room at a time.
ICT Minister Tatenda Mavetera says SpaceX has agreed to build a Starlink ground station in Zimbabwe in early 2027, so here is what it would change for lag, for prices, and for online shopping and music, going by what happened in Kenya and Nigeria.
Elliot walked through Reality Shift at Westgate with a guide, from the Ames room to the Swirl Chamber, and came out an hour and a half later calling it worth your $15.
Nutty O's second album went to number one at home and sold out in Wolverhampton within days, with Nigerian and Jamaican features picked to open doors abroad.
The Meteorological Services Department expects scattered rain, thunderstorms, lightning and strong winds across Zimbabwe until Thursday, and farmers are being told to capture the water, protect crops and livestock, and hold off on planting.
Ten months after Aliko Dangote signed a US$1 billion deal in Harare, what has actually moved, what the sceptics say, and how Zimbabweans can buy into his refinery IPO before it closes.
Tocky Vibes dropped four albums at once this month, Tomonyongo, Bestie, Changamire and Nyabhagu, with 30 tracks each, a year after a launch that almost nobody attended.
Nyasha Gwanzura's career-best 4 for 33 bowled West Indies out for 139 in Harare, and Zimbabwe chased it down with 55 balls to spare for a first ever ODI win over the Caribbean side and their first points of the ICC Women's Championship.
Trailing 2-0 at half-time, Zimbabwe scored three goals in the last 18 minutes to beat Sierra Leone 3-2 in their AFCON 2027 qualifying opener, handing Ramon Catala a winning debut before tonight's homecoming against DR Congo.
A rebuilt Cheetahs side under first-time head coach Fortunate Chipendu won all five games in Kampala, beating hosts Uganda 26-19 in the final with a try on the hooter to claim the Africa Men's Sevens title and a place on World Rugby's SVNS 3 circuit.
A signed copy of Mudiwa Hood's comeback album Dhara Re Madhara reportedly went for US$90,000 at its launch, thirty times what his 2015 album fetched.
Meta Connect 2026 brought VR glasses, camera-free Ray-Bans and a big push for its Muse AI agent, but for readers in Southern Africa, the hardware is arriving well ahead of the AI that headlined the show.
Submissions for the 25th National Arts Merit Awards are open until 30 November 2026, with the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe urging creatives to enter their work rather than rely on being spotted.
Johannesburg-based DJ Dr Feel is gathering Nitefreak, Dr Chaii, DJ Stavo and more than a dozen others on Inner Visions, an Afro House compilation due in November.
Nollywood produces around 2,500 films a year and built a global streaming presence from nothing. Zimbabwe's own film industry only got its first formal strategy in November 2024.
A six-month-old gallery in the Domboshava hills staged a national exhibition and competition called Tsika Dzedu, and selected works are on show until 3 October.
Salladhor Saan, the pirate lord who backed Stannis Baratheon, was played by an actor who did his entire schooling in Harare before building a career on London's biggest stages.
From getting booed at Book Café to a Golden Buzzer on America's Got Talent and a courtroom win over Lebo M, the Chimanimani comic has had a year like no other, and his next stops are Canada, Oklahoma and the New York Comedy Festival.
The Mutabaruka Award-winning poet has announced A Dollar, a seven-track album due on 28 October and his first recorded project in English.
Comic Con Africa opens its sixth edition in Johannesburg today, with Christopher Judge, the Rick and Morty voice cast and a strong local creator lineup, but last year's mixed reviews mean the organisers still have something to prove.
Years before she became Okoye in Black Panther, Danai Gurira wrote a play that became the first production on Broadway with an entirely Black, entirely female cast and creative team.
Masvingo rapper Doldo built a new four-track EP partly as an invitation to visit his city, just as Masvingo hosted the country's biggest tourism expo.
Bob Marley chartered his own plane, waived his fee, and flew 21 tonnes of equipment into a newborn Zimbabwe to play its independence celebrations in April 1980.
Six stone sculptors are showing eagles, owls, hornbills and rollers at Kori Studio in Bulawayo until 25 September, months after the last Great Zimbabwe bird returned home.
A Harare band built on mbira and electric guitars ended up opening for Madonna at Wembley Stadium in 1987, one of the biggest crossover moments Zimbabwean music has ever had.
Before the Songlines awards and the 40-country tours, Mokoomba was six childhood friends from Chinotimba township learning instruments together after school.
Domestic visits to Great Zimbabwe jumped 26 percent last year, but most Zimbabweans still haven't seen the stone city that gave the country its name. Here's what's there and how to get to it.
Daniel Lasker started making films because there was no industry to join, won festival awards for a Ndebele language sci-fi short, and now plays a Baroque Works agent in one of Netflix's biggest live action series.
Shoko Festival returns from 24 to 26 September under the theme Unmuted, and its Mash Up Night is putting a full live band behind rappers who usually perform over backing tracks.
Harare's latest vending crackdown has already partially reversed itself, so here's what Kigali and Durban got right, why the same fight is playing out in New York and Barcelona, and what the mayor, the minister and the vendors' own union are actually saying about it.
From a farm-rebuild documentary series to Zimbabwe's answer to Tiny Desk, ten Zimbabwean YouTube channels that are building something real instead of chasing viral moments.
A new pan-African programme is offering ten AI startups six weeks of support and up to $200,000 without taking a share of the company, and it arrives in a year when fewer founders on the continent are raising money than at any point since 2021.
Zimbabwe's first superhero team comic, created by Harare artist Tino Makoni, has finally moved off convention-table sales onto a major digital platform alongside Marvel and DC.
Achugogo: Tale of the Spring Chaser just won Annecy's inaugural TCCF Prize, produced in part by Tendayi Nyeke, a Zimbabwean-born alum of Triggerfish Animation Studios.
Kenyan comedian Crazy Kennar built a following on relatable, satirical takes on African governance, and it recently earned him a face to face selfie with Rwandan President Paul Kagame.
A final-year MSU Computer Science student has been denied bail over an alleged US$1.1 million cyberheist at CABS, built on access he says never should have outlived his internship.
Reality Shift invited us to Westgate to try Zimbabwe's first illusion experience: 14 exhibits, including an upside-down room and a mirror maze, for $15 a person, open 9am-7pm daily.
OKAF 2026 brought a bigger Japan Culture Corner, an Embassy-funded manga mentorship booth, and a real Zimbabwean artist's shot at publication in Japan.
Milkshake singer Kelis ranks Zimbabwe among her top African countries for Victoria Falls, years after her very first trip to the continent, at 17, started there too.
Harare studio Lightbulbs & Lazers Animation's new drama series Body Count tackles masculinity, faith and stigma with a visual polish that shows how far the medium has grown in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe opens 2027 AFCON qualifying against Sierra Leone this month, drawn in Group E alongside DR Congo, under new coach Ramon Catala.
Fraser Flight grew up on a Zimbabwean tobacco farm hundreds of miles from the sea. In 2027, he's aiming to become the first Zimbabwean, and the first person from any landlocked African country, to sail solo, unassisted and non-stop around the world.
Rockstar's 26-minute GTA 6 gameplay reveal broke viewing records, then split reaction into believers, critics, a cautious middle, and a defensive fanbase.
Afro-fusion musician Dereck Mpofu presented WHO's 2026 Hepatitis and STI campaign song to Director-General Tedros in Geneva, his latest health-advocacy work.
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is its most capable model yet, and the first to cross a critical cybersecurity threshold. Here's why that matters either way.
Zimbabwean mbira artist Mary Anibal will perform at ACCES 2026 in Johannesburg this October, her first time playing South Africa with a full band.
Air Zimbabwe launched Harare-Masvingo and Victoria Falls-Masvingo routes this week, giving Zimbabwe's oldest city air access it hasn't had in years.
Elsa Majimbo went from lockdown comedy videos to Valentino campaigns, a Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 nod, and is now pivoting toward filmmaking in Hollywood.
Starlink went live in Uganda on 2 September at roughly double what Zimbabwean subscribers pay, reigniting the same affordability debate Zimbabwe had at launch.
The World Bank warned Zimbabwe's 2030 plan to make the ZiG its only currency could trigger capital flight if rushed. Here's what it means for you.
Kudzai Muwori, known as WOWRAE, has spent 16 years fusing Zimbabwean marimba with AfroHouse and AfroTech, from school hobby to festival stages.
Zimbabwe's Starlink base is closing in on fibre and nearly matches Nigeria's, an extraordinary curve for a country a fraction of its size. Here's why.
TikTok's US ban saga is over. Here's how the January 2025 shutdown played out, and how an Oracle-led ownership deal settled things for good.
A category-by-category review of Supercell's Clash Royale, the mobile game that had a huge 2025 comeback and passed $4.9 billion in lifetime player spending.
Facebook paused its under-13 'Instagram Kids' app in 2021 over backlash. It never came back, here's what Meta did instead, up to its $18bn 2026 settlement.
Resident Evil 4 VR hit its October 21, 2021 launch date on Quest 2 and went on to win Best VR/AR Game at The Game Awards. Here's where it stands now.
A practical guide to picking a VPN in 2026, what it actually protects you from, why it matters more in Zimbabwe than most places, and which ones to trust.
King Leopold II's private rule over the Congo Free State killed an estimated 10 million people between 1885 and 1908, a history still under-taught today.
Netflix confirmed free games back in 2021, here's what actually shipped, from 100+ mobile titles to its 2026 push into cloud gaming on TVs.
Mureza announced its first 100 Prim8 SUVs for Zimbabwe and South Africa in 2021, here's what actually happened to that promise in the years since.
The July 2021 South African unrest had an immediate trigger, Jacob Zuma's jailing, but its deeper roots were unemployment and inequality.
Waste-to-energy could be a real opportunity for Africa, but Harare's own Pomona dumpsite deal shows how badly it can go if it isn't handled transparently.
A rundown of the moments that shaped Zimbabwean hip hop in 2020, from the Gze/Noble Styles beef to Holy Ten's breakout and Cal_Vin's tragic death.
My first impressions from Microsoft's June 2021 Windows 11 reveal, plus how features like Android apps and gaming actually panned out years later.
Our first impressions of Android 12's Material You redesign and privacy tools from Google I/O 2021, plus how much of that vision actually stuck around.
How a 2001 broadcasting law requiring 75% local music gave rise to Urban Grooves, the Zimbabwean genre our own Elliot Twist covers in a Disrapt TV documentary.
Drone delivery has gone from novelty to real infrastructure, from Zipline's medical drones across Africa to Amazon Prime Air's US expansion.
From Studio 263 to voicing Yasuke in Assassin's Creed Shadows and starring in AMC's Mayfair Witches, the Hollywood rise of Zimbabwean actor Tongayi Chirisa.
A 2021 Starlink launch video revisited: how the constellation grew from 60 satellites to over 11,000, and 12 million users across 160+ countries.
3D printing has moved well past prototypes, it's now building rockets, entire housing communities, and early transplantable human tissue.
Introducing Boom Box, our music reaction series, launched with a look at Winky D's December 2020 Ragga Msambo trilogy and the Zim Dancehall King's reign.
Nubia, DC's first Black female superhero and Wonder Woman's twin, is now Queen of the Amazons in the comics, and might be headed to the DCU next.
Bulawayo-born actress Sibongile Mlambo has starred in Black Sails, Teen Wolf, Lost in Space, Siren, and now Starz's Power Book III: Raising Kanan.
Dividing the Element made history as the first metal record with Shona lyrics in 2018. Here's the Harare band's origin story and where they stand now.
Zimbabwe stood in for apartheid-era South Africa in the 80s and 90s. Here are the major international films shot in the country, and what they did, and did not do, for the local film industry.
Our review of Janelle Monáe's Dirty Computer, its emotion picture, and its Album of the Year Grammy nomination, plus what she's done since.
Chipo Chung, the Zimbabwean-raised actress behind Doctor Who's Chantho, is the daughter of former education minister Fay Chung. Her story, updated.
Our 2017 pick on 19-year-old Khalid's debut, American Teen, plus his 2025 album After the Sun Goes Down, his first since coming out publicly.
Our 2017 pick on Anderson .Paak's genre-blending soul and songwriting, plus what he's done since, from Silk Sonic's Grammy sweep to a 2025 NxWorries win.
Our 2017 review of Beyoncé's Lemonade on its first anniversary, nine years later, Rolling Stone named it the single greatest album of the 21st century.
Our 2017 pick on Junglepussy's wit and self-love message, updated with where she's ended up: a role in Paul Thomas Anderson's 2025 film, named after her.
