GSMA’s Agentic AI Roadmap Could Help African Telcos Trade Pipes for Trust
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesWhy this paper matters now? By Jabulani Chibaya HARARE – FOR a hundred years, telcos sold access. Voice, then SMS, then data. The network was the product, and the…
Fraud in 2030 Starts Now: What the Econet WhatsApp Business Hijackings Reveal in the Age of AI vs AI
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesBased on a presentation at the Mornipac Summer Cyber and AI Summit (theme: AI vs AI), October 2026. Companion to the Fraud in 2030 briefing report and deck. By…
Auditors raise going concern doubt over RioZim
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesBy ETimes HARARE – AUDITORS have warned that RioZim’s ability to keep operating depends on securing new funding, after the mining group’s liabilities outstripped its assets by ZWG1.56 billion…
Bard Santner appoints local, regional and international experts on bank board
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesBy Staff Writer HARARE – AFTER its launch last week amid a blaze of publicity, Bard Santner Microfinance Bank, which has ambitions of becoming the first diaspora-focused financial institution…
ISO/IEC 27090: The AI Security Standard Every Business Leader Needs
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesWhy this standard matters now Jabulani Chibaya HARARE – ISO/IEC 27090 gives businesses a common language for protecting AI systems from attack. Published in October 2026, the standard runs…
Zero Reported AI Failures Should Worry Your Board
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesBy Jabulani Simplisio Chibaya HARARE – MOST boards read that as good news. No incidents. No complaints. No headlines. A new global study says that reading is a mistake.…
Zim readies US$250 mln against El Nino
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesBy ETimes HARARE – ZIMBABWE will have about US$250 million in reserve by January 1 to fund its response to the El Nino weather phenomenon, on top of money…
Bard Santner Secures a Deposit-Taking Microfinance Banking Licence
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesBy Staff Writer HARARE – BARD Santner Inc, a Harare-based financial services group, has secured a deposit-taking microfinance bank licence as it moves to establish a diaspora banking and…
Zimbabwe milk output up 7% in nine months
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesBy ETimes HARARE – ZIMBABWE’S milk production rose about 7% to 94.98 million litres in the first nine months of 2026, from 88.9 million litres in the same period…
The Control That Runs at 2am: Zimbabwe’s ITGC Gap
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesBy Jabulani Simplisio Chibaya The control that runs at 2am HARARE – A FRAUD model on a mobile money switch is retrained overnight, pushed through an emergency pipeline, and…