Telecommunications mogul and Econet Wireless founder, Strive Masiyiwa has announced that he is leaving the Mark Zuckerberg owned social application, Facebook, by end of February. Masiyiwa broke the news in a recent Facebook post where he was advising followers on the importance of reading. “As we’re on
Zimbabwe business mogul and philanthropist Strike Masiyiwa has been appointed to the content streaming giant Netflix Inc board of directors as the company looks for new markets on the African continent. In a statement Wednesday, Netflix chairman and co-Chief Executive Officer Reed Hastings announced Masiyiwa's appointment
The COVID-19 pandemic is presenting innovating business opportunities for Africa around testing and contact tracing, Econet founder and executive chairman Strive Masiyiwa has revealed. By Dyson Murwira Masiyiwa said this in a Zoom call with Sarah Manyika of Museum for African Diaspora. “There are extraordinary amounts of innovation
Zimbabwean business mogul, Strive Masiyiwa has been appointed African Union (AU) Special envoy in the global mobilization of medical test kits and personal protective equipment (PPE) for African countries during the Covid-19 pandemic. Most African countries are facing serious shortages of essential medical and protective equipment
Econet has launched a ground-breaking, rural electrification programme worth millions of dollars under the name Ugesi Energy, that is set to help transform rural enterprises and create employment. Ugesi is the second Econet energy business following the successful launch two years ago of Distributed Power Africa
Steward Bank’s rural entrepreneurs initiative has been given a five-year grant of $100 million from the family foundation of Econet founder Strive Masiyiwa. The money is intended to scale up an existing programme that has been going on for the last three years and has already
Econet has chosen the City of Bulawayo as the centre of its renewable energy business in Zimbabwe. Econet Energy CEO, Mr Norman Moyo said at the direction of the group Chairman, Mr Strive Masiyiwa, the company is setting up Bulawayo to try and stimulate employment opportunities
Liquid Telecom has reached an agreement with a United Kingdom development finance institution, CDC Group Plc to invest $180 million in the company. This investment will enable Liquid Telecom to expand its high-speed broadband connectivity to some of the most under-served communities across the African continent,
This follows the completion of ‘Cape to Cairo’ link Landmark partnership agreement with Telecom Egypt herald’s significant investment in data centre infrastructure across Egypt and the African continent Sharm El-Sheikh,
Renowned constitutional lawyer and University of Zimbabwe lecturer Fadzayi Mahere came out guns blazing over the call of sanctions removal by Econet Wireless Zimbabwe founder Strive Masiyiwa charging that the government must honour a cocktail of its responsibilities including human rights before calling
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