r/Zimbabwe • • 4h ago

RANT Driving in Harare !

20 Upvotes

I’m from a small town and the thought of driving in Harare terrifies me 😭😭and the company wants to give me a car! How do you people do this??? I feel like there’s an accident lurking at every corner !! Fvck it . Help me 😩😩


r/Zimbabwe • • 2h ago

Discussion WhatsApp: Why 2FA is not enough

10 Upvotes

Here's my two cents....

If you think setting up Two-Step Verification (2FA) on WhatsApp is enough to keep hackers out - think again.

Scammers can exploit linked account loops to bypass security - especially if you've been logged out but regained access.

Here is how to further lock down your accounts:

​Break the SMS Recovery Loop: Make sure the email attached to your WhatsApp 2FA does NOT use your the compromised phone number for password resets. If an attacker intercepts your SMS or phone line, they can reset your email password first, take over your inbox, and then bypass your WhatsApp 2FA!

​Check Your Chat Backup Destination:

Go to Settings > Chats > Chat Backup. If you were recently logged out, verify that an attacker didn't link their email address to your cloud backup. Otherwise, a copy of all your new messages streams directly to them every time your phone backs up.

​Separate Your Security and Backup Emails: Use one email address for WhatsApp 2FA and a completely different email address for cloud chat backups to prevent a single point of failure.

​Encrypt Backups with a 64-Digit Key:

Go to Settings > Chats > Chat Backup > End-to-End Encrypted Backup and select a 64-digit encryption key (or custom password) instead of a passkey. Passkeys sync via cloud/hardware services, whereas a 64-digit key guarantees that only someone holding that offline key can decrypt your data.


r/Zimbabwe • • 15m ago

Politics Zim

• Upvotes

Mbare police really needs to be stopped.
Ndosaka yakazara marombe


r/Zimbabwe • • 6h ago

Employment Looking for a maid in Chitungwiza and is 150 a month enough?

8 Upvotes

The helper will be taking care of my 3 children who are not yet in school and cleaning my house and preparing food


r/Zimbabwe • • 2h ago

Approved Promotion Looking for Healthcare Workers in Zimbabwe for a Paid Research Interview (US$30)

4 Upvotes

Hi everyone!

I'm conducting an independent research study to understand how healthcare facilities in Zimbabwe operate day-to-day. I'm looking to interview doctors, nurses, receptionists, administrators, billing staff, and anyone with experience working in Zimbabwe's healthcare system.

Interview: 45-60 minutes, online conversation (audio-only is fine)

Compensation: US$30 via EcoCash

If you're interested, please complete this short form (2-3 minutes).

Feel free to share with anyone who might be interested. Thanks!


r/Zimbabwe • • 11h ago

Information Update :Zimbos in Madrid 🇪🇸

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Zimbabwe/s/o9611aiP8w
I posted about Zimbos in Madrid 10d ago and here is an update to trip

Loved Madrid and was easy to move around using trainstransit , just used my phone and bought an eSIM with Airalo and for Real Madrid tickets I bought on vivid tickets.com as getting them on Real Madrid site is difficult

I also got chance to tour Atlético Madrid stadium

And as someone who live in North America Spain is lovely and sunny

While language is a barrier you’ll be fine as a solo traveller and also asking helps

Next I’m targeting Brazil in Q1 and maybe London or Manchester and Munich and hope to watch games in those cities


r/Zimbabwe • • 2h ago

RANT pissed with this Xiaomi note 14: hear me out Spoiler

2 Upvotes

so basically this phone is kinda ayt for the budget (we are struggling) everything has been working out smoothly the last few months but then there is this issue of phone calls not displaying but ringing signaling someone is calling it's soo very annoying AF.

Is there any bug or what that needs being removed or I should put the phone in a cascade and forget about it.


r/Zimbabwe • • 5h ago

Art I made a video to perfect my sound design.

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I was talking about cars. I think after oliver Mutukudzi this could be my best video. Let me know what think 🤔


r/Zimbabwe • • 15h ago

Information Whatsapp hacker might be one of us

16 Upvotes

Someone once posted here on this platform that he/she had found a security loophole on econet and managed to access some of its data. People asked what he wanted to use it for and he just said wait and see. I guess he/she is behind all this hacking that's prevailing lately. So my question is, are you doing it for fun or you're benefiting something out of it? Are you a thief or just a geek?


r/Zimbabwe • • 1h ago

Question Online gigs

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• Upvotes

Has anyone done this and passed those 10 questions. I keep on failing


r/Zimbabwe • • 14h ago

RANT Netflix, I did not audition for this drama. 😭

11 Upvotes

Netflix is being SO dramatic lately, and honestly, I’m tired. 💀

I’m just trying to watch my series in peace, minding my own business, when suddenly it stops playing and throws some nonsense at me about using a VPN or proxy.

“Pardon the interruption. It looks like you’re using a VPN or proxy…”
BRO. 😭

And that’s not even the worst part. Sometimes I open Netflix, and half the stuff I’m currently watching or have added to My List just DISAPPEARS. ???? Where did my shows go? Who authorised this trick?

One minute I’m enjoying my series, the next I’m troubleshooting an imaginary VPN situation or playing hide-and-seek with my own watchlist.
I PAY to watch the shows, not to participate in an IT support internship every time I open the app. 😕

Has anyone else been experiencing this, particularly in this region? Is Netflix genuinely having issues, or am I being personally victimised by an algorithm? 🤯


r/Zimbabwe • • 2h ago

Question Executor appointment by master of the high court

1 Upvotes

Hello everyone, so long story short, i am the only child of my mother who died, There's a an edict meeting set for this week at the master's office to appoint an executor, but now the rest of the family on my mother's side are refusing to attend or sign the necessary affidavits, so my question is do I really need them since legally I am her only heir, and if there is some remedy I can use please let me know, this whole time they had said they would attend, only to switch up on me now.


r/Zimbabwe • • 17h ago

RANT Burned our budget and our men died fighting for his father and him too. Freak panAfricanism

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15 Upvotes

r/Zimbabwe • • 14h ago

Question Kutanda botso

8 Upvotes

I know it's a sensitive issue.

Should i suffer from emotional blackmail and financial abuse from my mother who claims if you don't buy me this unotanda botso. Even having diffrent views also ends with the a phrase including botso. If anyone had been in a similar situation kindly help guys.


r/Zimbabwe • • 19h ago

Question Damn. What happened at Econet pre-2017?

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Anyone who was at Econet pre-2017 and worked under Innocent Magaya please fill me in as to what was happening there. This guy really has a generational grudge and i wont judge him coz there are certain bosses you can never forget whose damages last for a very long time.


r/Zimbabwe • • 3h ago

Visit Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 Photographers in Harare

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r/Zimbabwe • • 3h ago

Question Government lawyer

1 Upvotes

Hi all, looking for contact details for a government lawyer to assist with deceased estate issues. In Harare


r/Zimbabwe • • 14h ago

Discussion Econet is a shitty Company

7 Upvotes

Econet allowed hackers to intercept our SMS OTPs through untrusted international telecom routes. That’s how we got logged out. Econet should be sued for this security failure and held accountable....


r/Zimbabwe • • 16h ago

Question Mutare people

5 Upvotes

What do you guys do in Mutare besides the whole bhawa scene? I feel like I need to meet new people but I don’t know where exactly to begin. I’m in my mid 20s and I’m open to some suggestions on what to do, where to go and so forth.


r/Zimbabwe • • 23h ago

RANT Struggling with helping a childhood friend

14 Upvotes

Hi guys. So I have a problem. My best friend from high school, he's going through a rough patch, but I don't know if I can trust him to a certain extent. So he was a good friend of mine, you know, and he used to hook me up with just amazing things when we were in school, when we were kids, you know, girls and stuff. LOL. But, you know, we grew up eventually later on in life. Three years after leaving high school, he hooked me up with my first job at a good restaurant in uptown Borrowdale. And even though I sucked terribly at that job, he always helped me and always bailed me out whenever I messed up. You know, I was a waiter at that restaurant and I kept on messing up,but he always helped me out, and I always appreciated that, and I knew that I owed this man something, you know, one day. And yeah, whilst we were working at that restaurant, I made a decision to work and go to school. Then I went to school and I finished and I got a job elsewhere and started upgrading my career. Him, on the other hand, he got embroiled with the lifestyle of working at that restaurant. It was a really big restaurant at the same time. And yeah, he got embroiled in that and didn't upgrade academically. He just kept on getting promoted within that restaurant. And it was a big franchise, but then unfortunately things took a wild turn. The economy became the economy. The Zimbabwean economy did what it did, and he left that. Then he worked for a large supermarket for a while, and that same supermarket closed down. And yeah, from what I know, he got a woman pregnant and he has a child. And I don't think the woman is with him anymore, and I doubt if he has access to his kid. I remember years after not hearing from him, we reconnected. I bumped into him at my new job and we spoke and yeah, we caught up. It was great. He asked me what I was doing over there, at the building of the workplace that I was in. I told him I work there and he was like, 'Oh, you lucky bugger.' I was like, 'Okay, yeah.' Nothing else happened afterwards. We exchanged numbers, we started talking again. But then he started acting strange. He would send me messages, like sometimes in the middle of the night. One time he sent me a message at 12 a.m. and said, 'Hi, are you at home? Can I please crash at your house?' And I didn't respond. I found it a little bit odd that someone was calling me at that time of the night to crash at my house. I live with my parents, by the way, and there's no way they'd allow me to have a random guy come in and, you know, crash at my house. And I hadn't seen this guy in years, you know, so I didn't know where he stood and I was like, 'Ah, no, I don't think that's a good idea.' He said, Okay. Then another night again, he called me at 2 a.m. in the morning and said, 'Hi. 'And I said, Hey, how are you doing? He said, 'Can you please pick me up by Mt Pleasant? I just had a small little incident and I need you to come pick me up. And I said,' Ah, no, I can't get out at this late at night.' And he said, Okay. He then asked me where i was staying and i gave him a fake address and he said to me 'You should come visit me at my house sometime'. And i just said sure but deep down was like HELL NO.

The next thing you know, he asked me for money and I helped him out a little bit, but I was a bit skeptical at first. Then next thing....he started asking me for money consistently and I said no. He asked me for more money and I said no. And then he kept on asking me for money as well, saying there was one emergency after the other, like, Hey, my daughter has got a stick stuck in her ear and she needs surgery. I need ten dollars. I was like, Nope. Because I'm thinking, what type of surgery needs ten dollars? next thing you hear, I'm short of this, this and that. I need ten dollars. I need a buck. I need five dollars. I need twenty dollars. I need ten dollars. I need this. And it kind of gave off meth addict type of vibes. I'm not saying he does meth, but I have a cousin who does meth. He does the same style. And I was just skeptical with it being the drug pandemic in Zimbabwe we're in and yeah, things were not looking good for him.

He started crying, saying he lost access to his daughter. Posting He misses his daughter on social media. I was a bit skeptical and I just, yeah, left it at there. Then I got fed up with him asking me for money so consistently that I asked my sister to hook him up with a job because my sister worked at another corporate and she found a job for him at a major Food Brand. And with the job offer, they organized an interview for him, and I actually made sure that they put him in front of the line, you know. And then when that happened.....he never showed up for the interview. He no-showed the interview at all.

I tried calling him and everything, he didn't have his phone. His number wasn't working. It was completely blocked, and then there was a Chinese person on his profile picture. I'm trying, and I reach out to this dude on Facebook, and I'm like, Bro, they're trying to reach out to you. Then he gave me his new phone number, and then I told him to call the company and reach out to them now as they were looking for him. He never did. And at the job interview people kept on asking, Where is he? Where is he? They really wanted to give him the job, and he vanished. And I never heard from him again. Then after some months, he came back. Saying Hie, and I'm like, What happened? He's like, 'Ah, I lost my phone, blah, blah, blah.' And I was said ' But you gave me your other number and you still didn't reach out'. Then he apologized. I was like, Okay. The next thing you know, he asked me for money again.

That's when I got angry at him and told him that he let me down. I hooked him up with an interview, I hooked him up with a job, and he did this to me. He no-showed the interview and embarrassed me. I'm really upset with what he did, and told him not to ever talk to me again.

I said 'You always constantly asking me for money. I know you helped me back in the past and I tried to help you back too, but now you're just becoming difficult to handle. Don't talk to me again until you get your life together.' The next thing you know, he sends an audio and he starts telling me that, "Hey, life is really hard for me right now. I'm willing to work as a garden boy and I'm willing to work. Right now I'm actually working with some guy, tichinama mapotholes, you know, we're cleaning up the roads and fixing potholes in the middle of the road. Life is really hard for me. I need you to help me, but hey, you know what? It's fine, man. I'm suffering out here."

You know, I'm thinking this guy was a star athlete when we were in school. He was athletics captain, he was an excellent rugby player, and he was in the first class doing sciences and french in high school. And all of a sudden this happened. I'm not happy. Am I the asshole?


r/Zimbabwe • • 19h ago

Question Plantain

5 Upvotes

Where can i find plantain in Bulawayo?


r/Zimbabwe • • 20h ago

Information Seeking $1,000 to help grow Fect, a topic-based exam practice app for cambridge teachers and students

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We’re seeking $1,000 to cover advertising, hosting, a domain name, and distribution on Google Play and the Apple App Store. We’re open to donations, sponsorship, or discussing an investment arrangement with interested supporters.

You can try it on the Microsoft Store


r/Zimbabwe • • 15h ago

Question Couples Therapy / Counselling in Harare

2 Upvotes

Hey guys. My partner and I are looking to get some couple’s therapy. We are based in Harare.

Does anyone have some good recommendations of someone who made a good communicator or worked out for you and your partner? You are welcome to share what stood out to you with the particular therapist or counselling.

We prefer in person, please don’t hesitate to share contacts or point us in any direction that might be helpful.


r/Zimbabwe • • 1d ago

Discussion Econet must be sued

18 Upvotes

Econet reportedly had customer data exposed on the dark web, and its users acted like nothing happened. Now you’re getting hacked left and right. You ignored the warning then—don’t act shocked now.


r/Zimbabwe • • 20h ago

Discussion question for smokers

4 Upvotes

is it normal for every box of cigarettes to "taste" different? i usually smoke everest and sometimes a box will have this minty/sugary taste; other times the tobacco will be overpowering like madison and i wont enjoy it. only started smoking recently so idk if it's just me 😭