About Deep Dive Data

Zimbabwe produces more data than most people realise. Government budgets, regulatory filings, insurance disclosures, app store privacy policies, census records, bank statements — the raw material for accountability is there. What's mostly missing is the work of turning it into something legible.

Deep Dive Data is an independent data analysis and publishing platform based in Harare. We find datasets that matter to ordinary Zimbabweans, build the analysis, and publish it in a form that's clear, interactive, and free to access.

Our work spans financial accountability, digital rights, public finance, and civic data. We've mapped what Zimbabwean banking apps collect about their users and who they share it with. We've tracked five years of insurance lapse data to show how a product can be profitable precisely because it fails. We've built tools that let people see where their council tax goes, what their PAYE contribution funds, and what a new transaction fee costs at scale across an entire user base. We've also just published things people find useful — a vehicle registration checker, an internet package cost comparison, a budget planner built around what $130 actually buys in Zimbabwe right now.

The common thread is data that has a public interest dimension — and a belief that interactive, well-designed analysis reaches people that a static report never would.

Why this exists

Zimbabwe has active capital markets, a rapidly growing digital economy, and institutions that publish more than they're given credit for. What's underbuilt is the independent layer that reads those publications, asks hard questions of the numbers, and puts the answers somewhere the public can find them. Deep Dive Data is an attempt to be part of that layer.

Who we are

Deep Dive Data is built and published by Belenga Dev, an independent technology company founded in 2018, with a background spanning open data infrastructure, digital rights, and capital markets across southern Africa.