De-Dollarization Move

By Lovejoy Mutongwiza The incessant power cuts which have seen the country going for more than 18 hours per day without electricity are posing a huge threat to local industries and service providers with MultiChoice Zimbabwe reporting that the bulk of its customers are pulling out of its DSTV service. DSTV account holders who spoke to this publication say they will only start paying when the power situation has normalised as their monies will go down the drain.

By Shorai Murwira Harare Magistrate Nyasha Vitorini yesterday accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Special Prosecuting Unit for not taking corruption cases in the courts seriously. The Special Prosecuting Unit was put in place by President Mnangagwa to improve efficiency in the fight against all forms of graft and to strengthen the effectiveness of national mechanisms in the prevention of corruption.

Zimbabwe's mobile network connectivity was in a bad state over the last weekend, with callers and the transacting public reporting challenges in making calls and getting mobile money transactions to go through. The disruptive service unavailability comes at a time mobile money services are playing a key inclusive role of bridging the financial divide by providing services to those who have no access to formal banking systems.