My recent visit to Zimbabwe

 The journey was well planned and it took us less than 10 hours to reach our destination from Pretoria South Africa to Mvuma central Zimbabwe.  A lot of construction is happening on the roads. Harare to Masvingo Highway is complete and the remaining part which was left between Beitbridge and Masvingo is being completed.  Surely by December it should be done. Though there is a lot of money being miss used, there are elements of success. Harare to Beitbridge road was a death trap, the road had so many potholes, had no shoulder no fencing to protect  animals from entering the road and some parts even worn out that left it narrow in a way that two trucks cannot pass without one having to go out of the road.  Those improvements form part of the new Government's transformation policy. There is job creation and slowly improving the standards which has been declining for more that 20 to 30 years. Surely Rome was not built over night. At the border you can see significan...

SA’s new data policy could harm investment and breach patent laws, say experts

 

Tech experts have warned that clauses in the government’s recently released draft policy on the use and storage of data could threaten investment in the sector and breach intellectual property rights.

The draft national policy on data and cloud, released by the department of communication, says the digital economy is integral to the development of the country and aims to guide the government policy on “data acquisition, ownership, storage, use and analytics” and improve the digital capacities of government. ..

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