Telco Broadband and Beyond

05/08/2026

Distance shouldn't mean missing a funeral back home. That's the problem set out to solve, and it's grown into something bigger: a plan to build the "Uber of streaming" across Africa.

Now they're opening it up. The Pixel Pilot Program is inviting 1,000 young people to become freelance camera operators and business owners in their own right.

Know a young person who'd want in? Send them here: https://pixelpilots.co.zw

29/07/2026

Meet Joseph Bunga

20 years building businesses in Zimbabwe, and a belief in backing young people that goes all the way back to his third year at Meikles.

His story is part of Heroes in the Spotlight, a new series following local MSE founders.

More coming soon...

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The Live Streaming Company, Area 46 Harare, Zimbabwe

02/07/2026

The biggest order of your life is also the easiest one to get wrong.

Twenty bundles. One client event. A two-day deadline.

And a supplier on WhatsApp telling you exactly what you want to hear.

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Hilda Moyo's main shipment is stuck at the border — held up over paperwork that was always going to catch up with her eventually. Three weeks of stock left on the wall, and now the biggest wholesale order she's ever been offered, due in two days.

A name gets passed to her: Wellington. Fast, available, untested. He says Friday morning. No problem.

The trouble is, Hilda doesn't actually know what she has. No live count. No system. Just a wall that looks thin and a client waiting on an answer.

Watch the full scene above. Then tell us what Hilda should do next.

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Fungai's order is the biggest opportunity Hilda has had. Wellington says he can deliver. What should Hilda do?

1 — Confirm the order and rely on Wellington.
2 — Tell Fungai the truth and offer a date she can keep.
3 — Do a proper stock count first.
4 — Call Chiedza and ask her to expedite the shipment.

Vote below. Your decision shapes what happens next.

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The Second Chair is a documentary series following Hilda Moyo as she builds her business in Avondale, Harare. Every episode ends with a decision. Every vote determines the direction of the story.

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29/06/2026

We advised her to hand over her books and accounting.

Focus on the salon.

Let Tendai (The Accountant). handle the rest.

And for a while it worked.

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Hilda handed Tendai everything.

The notebook. The EcoCash statements.

The transaction history on her phone.

He worked quietly for two hours.

When he was done, the first month existed on a screen in a way it never had in a notebook.

Every figure. Every payment. Every gap... filled.

For the first time since opening, she could see it.

All of it.

It looked like a real business.

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Then Sunday came.

Chiedza called at 8am.

The way she always does.

And asked one question.

Hilda set the phone on the counter, Phone on speaker mode...

and opened her laptop to message Tendai first.

The relief was real.

But the business's financial picture now lived in someone else's head.

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Hilda wanted independence.

What she built instead was a different kind of dependency.

Episode 3 drops on Wednesday.

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The Second Chair is a documentary series following Hilda Moyo as she builds her business in Avondale, Harare. Every episode ends with a decision. Every vote determines the direction of the story.

20/06/2026

A Revenue Authority email does not ask whether you are ready.
It arrives on a Monday morning.
Before the first client.
Before you have answered a single message.
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Hilda Moyo has been open for one month.
The second chair is finally occupied. A woman named Rumbi walked in three weeks ago with three clients already behind her and an arrangement that sounded reasonable in the moment. (We all assisted her with advice to write it down first if you recall.)

The product wall is moving.

The loyal clients from Greendale have found her.
From the outside, the business looks like it is working.
But on Sunday morning at 8am, Chiedza (Hilda's Aunt who is funding the salon project) called from Birmingham.

The way she does every Sunday.
And asked for the numbers.
The numbers were there.
Scattered across three weeks of notebook pages, mixed in with appointment reminders and a supplier's phone number.

"Hilda. Are you reading me a proper record or are you making this up as you go?"

The silence between Harare and Birmingham stretched for a long moment.
Then Monday arrived.
And so did the email
Zimbabwe Revenue Authority.
Fiscalisation notice.
Every transaction recorded. Every sale traceable.
A deadline that is not flexible.

Chiedza's WhatsApp message came three minutes after Hilda forwarded the email.
"You need an accountant. Today, not next week."
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His name is Tendai Chirwa.
Referred by a loyal client. Arrived the following afternoon — punctual, carrying a thin folder.
He did not ask about the ZIMRA letter first.
He asked about the business.
"You have a real business here," he said, after she finished explaining.
"You just don't have the systems to prove it yet."
It was the most useful thing anyone had said to her in a month.
Watch the full scene above.
Then tell us what Hilda should do next.
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Tendai says she needs proper accounting systems. Chiedza says spend as little as possible. What should Hilda do?
1 — Do the minimum. Fiscal device, keep the notebook, Tendai files quarterly.
2 — Hand it all over to Tendai. Focus on the salon.
3 — Set up a proper system connected to the fiscal device — and learn it herself.
4 — Call Chiedza first. She's funding this and the decision needs her sign-off.
Vote in the poll (Link in comments) Your decision shapes what happens next.
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The Second Chair is a documentary series following Hilda Moyo as she builds her business in Avondale, Harare. Every episode ends with a decision. Every vote determines the direction of the story.
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15/06/2026

Getting it in writing is not the same as being protected by what you wrote.

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Most of you watching Hilda’s story said the same thing.

When Rumbi walked in off the street with three clients and a proposal,
the answer was clear:
don’t shake on it.
Get it in writing first.

Hilda did exactly that.

She stopped Rumbi before she could unpack.
She asked for the arrangement to be written down —
the split, the dates, how they settle up.

Rumbi said of course. No problem. Very professional.

Then she took her time finding a pen.
She rephrased the split twice.
The client she arrived with was sitting waiting,
and the pressure of that filled the room.

By the time something was written down,
it was vague enough that Rumbi had her way regardless.

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The instinct was right.
The ex*****on happened under pressure.

10/06/2026

10/06/2026

The most dangerous business agreement is the one that feels too good to question.

No figure written down.
No start date confirmed.
No definition of what the split actually means.

Just a handshake, a busy chair,
and the quiet relief of a problem that appears to have solved itself.

Every small business owner knows this moment.
The opportunity arrives before the systems are ready.
The arrangement sounds reasonable.
And saying yes feels easier than asking the questions
that might make it complicated.

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Hilda Moyo opened her salon in Avondale three weeks ago.

She has loyal clients, a good location,
and a product display that looks exactly as she planned it.

But the second chair has been empty for twenty-one days.

Then a woman walks in... without knocking, without asking,
with three clients already behind her.

Her name is Rumbi.
She says it like that settles everything.

By the end of the afternoon they have an arrangement.

10/06/2026

Welcome to The Second Chair.

This is a documentary drama following Hilda Moyo
as she builds her hair business in Avondale, Harare.

Every episode ends with a decision.
Every poll shapes what happens next.

New episode every Wednesday.
The story begins on 10 June 2026

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