Zimbabwe’s new digital tax to hit Bolt, inDrive, Starlink
Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube’s 2026 budget introduces a Digital Services Withholding Tax on offshore platforms, affecting e-hailing apps, streaming services and satellite internet providers.
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South Sudan cracks down on telecom giants
The country's telecommunications sector is developing, despite years of paralysis caused by a civil war, but service costs are becoming an issue.
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