**1. Introduction**

COVID-19 pandemic had shaken the world in unprecedented way and most traditional model across industries has been seismically challenged. Demarcated by technological infrastructure, economic performance, soft skills development, and agile leadership in responding to these changes was obviously different, with the rest of national governments declaring global disaster, rendering the world standstill. The world pondered what have hit it, strived to build resilient solution to protect business and life of its society. Education was dramatically affected; face to face learning was rendered impossible. Establishing e-learning platforms was not an easy switch because of financial constraints, hardware and software infrastructure and capabilities of users (both students and lecturers). This book chapter seeks to investigate the challenges that institute of higher learning responded to these challenges in

South Africa and Zimbabwe respectively. The study took desktop research from the publication ranging from year 2020 to October 2022.
