Community Tips

"Some Internet service experiences: 1. ⁠If your in an area that has capacity Starlink Residential lite at $30 a month is the best value for money. 2. ⁠The second best being Econet Smart 4 U bundle when it's there and that's assuming you got the $15 offer and not hte $45 offer. 3. ⁠Telone Fibre, $40 for unlimited fibre is not bad. Not everypart of Zimbabwe has this yet, so fingers crossed that more areas get the Telone Fibre and that Telone improves on speed after they finish getting more people set up. 4. ⁠Zol is great but it's for the mbinga crew."

"The London embassy Zim passport application department opens at 9AM. 9AM to 11AM seems to be the peek period, so if you want to save yourself some time, go there around 11. There are 4 queues you will have to join: 1. ⁠A queue to get affidavit forms. These are the forms you fill to nominate the person who will submit the application on your behalf in Zim. This is also the queue you join if you need your documents notarised/certified by the embassy or you need an other service from the embassy. 2. ⁠A queue to pay for the forms. The fee is £65 for a passport form. They have a chip and pin only card machine so you must bring an actual physical card. You can't use contactless payments. They also seem to have a preference for cash 3. ⁠A queue for fingerprints and getting your height measured. 4. ⁠A queue to have your forms verified and stamped. The embassy employees run a photo side hustle with a photo booth on a neighbouring street. So if you come with the best passport photos in the world, they will tell you that they aren't good enough. They then direct you to their photo booth for "professional" photos. Be prepared for this! "