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ZiG ranked second worst performing currency
In a stark contrast of fortunes, Ghana's Cedi has emerged as the world's strongest-performing currency in 2025, gaining nearly 50% against the United States dollar, while Zimbabwe's Zimbabwe Gol...Published: 11 Jun 2025 at 11:26hrs | 1055 | by Staff reporyter
Zimbabwe land reform scam - 13 years after the genocide in Matebeleland and Midlands
This article intends to capture the poignant moment when Zanu began its unpunished abuse of public office soon after Zimbabwe's independence.All along Zanu felt a false sense of achievement in...Published: 14 May 2025 at 21:00hrs | 355 | by Moses Mzila Nkalange (Ndlovu)
Zimbabwe ranks 3rd African country highest diesel prices
Unlike last month, when diesel prices in Africa were reported to have been fluctuating, diesel prices in the continent for the current month seems stable.While this may appear as a positive, i...Published: 21 Mar 2025 at 09:19hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe among Africa's fastest-growing economies in 2025
Zimbabwe is expected to be one of Africa's fastest-growing economies this year, with the African Development Bank (AfDB) forecasting a 5.3 percent growth rate.This strong projection is slightl...Published: 26 Feb 2025 at 07:42hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa among Top 10 richest black people in the world
Systemic injustice, colonial exploitation, and economic marginalization have plagued Africa and the Black population for centuries. This narrative is challenged by the emergence of black billionaires,...Published: 14 Oct 2024 at 08:18hrs | 896 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's ANC has not learnt from history
In 2018, ANC chose Cyril Ramaphosa as President because they believed that white capital liked him and thus he would attract western investment into the country. However, things did not quite go accor...Published: 14 Jun 2024 at 13:23hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
Secrecy surrounding resource-backed loans in Zimbabwe
IntroductionTO realize the aspirations of Vision 2030, Zimbabwe needs to invest US$2 billion in infrastructure development in five consecutive years to close the infrastructure asset gap, a hu...Published: 07 Dec 2023 at 05:29hrs | 27 | by Mbongeni Nhliziyo
Triplicate: Private letter to Brother Brian Kagoro
PEACE and love be in your house. At the start of my journey to Masailand, Kenya, I thought I was going to be cut off from the world. The answer is yes and no. I am working with my longtime friend, Bis...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 17:33hrs | 17 | by Kenneth Mafuka
Strive Masiyiwa's wife appointed END Fund chair
Renowned humanitarian Tsitsi Masiyiwa has been appointed board chairperson of the END Fund, a collaborative philanthropic fund dedicated to ending neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).Masiyiwa, ...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 06:52hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Russia's railway giant keen to expand footprint to Zimbabwe
TRANSMASHHOLDING, Russia's leading manufacturer of railway rolling stock and fifth biggest rail company in the world, is looking to expand its footprint in African countries including Zimbabwe in a wi...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 06:27hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says global capital safe in Zimbabwe
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday invited investors from the United States and the rest of the world to partner with the Government in unlocking vast investment opportunities across economic value chains,...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 06:59hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean appointed managing director at Uganda's DFCU Bank
Development Finance Company of Uganda Bank Limited (DFCU) Bank has appointed Mr Charles M Mudiwa, a Zimbabwean national, as the new managing director, almost three months after Mr Mathias Katamba resi...Published: 09 Apr 2023 at 08:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
White skin, black masks!
Two developments caught my attention this week. One is a Brenthurst Foundation scholarship invitation to young Africans intent on pursuing postgraduate studies.Brenthurst Foundation is owned a...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 18:08hrs | | by Jamwanda
Unlocking Africa's Future: How the Disruptive Protocols Emerging Today Can Benefit the Continent
We live in a world where technology is rapidly transforming the way we live, work, and play. From artificial intelligence to blockchain technology, the disruptive protocols emerging today have the pot...Published: 30 Dec 2022 at 07:45hrs | 1 | by Taedzwa Chikono
Zimbabwe now one of the fastest growing African economies
ANALYSING Zimbabwe's unconventional economy always proves somewhat cumbersome because it is a country bridled with policy inconsistency, unfavourable operating conditions buoyed by decades of unilater...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 19:32hrs | 1 | by Respect Gwenzi
Development does not mean being like Europe
One reader recently wrote asking whether what we are advocating for as development in Africa is a replica of the Western model of economic development. The reader argued that if that is what we envisa...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 04:58hrs | 4 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Zimbabwe misses out on G7 stimulus package
ZIMBABWE missed out on a G7-backed multi-billion-dollar stimulus package designed to help countries of the global South weather economic shocks caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.The reason for t...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition should stop nauseating obsession with foreign intervention
IF there is something stinking high and wide in Zimbabwe's opposition political landscape, it is its love for foreign intervention.In fact, there is a whorish competition in the opposition cir...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zacc probes 22 cases of unexplained wealth
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is investigating 22 cases of unexplained wealth involving externalisation of more than US$22 million. In a statement, ZACC said it was closely wo...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:30hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Harare ranks 4th expensive African city
HARARE has been ranked the fourth most expensive African city to live in out of 15 sampled cities, as authorities accuse businesses of conniving to push up the cost of living.This is according...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:09hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
20 member Zanu-PF delegation invades Tanzania
A 20 member Zanu-PF delegation left for the Mwalimu Nyerere Leadership School, Tanzania for a 12-day workshop aimed at sharing political and economic ideas, among other issues.The workshop was...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
How politics destroys home-grown solutions
FOLLOWING the success of politics in liberating African countries from colonial injustice, a mindset that has been planted in Africa is that politics has a monopoly on all solutions. Unfortunately, th...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:54hrs | | by Charles Dhewa
Zimbabwe roads deadliest in Africa, claims UN
FIVE people die every day on average because of road accidents in Zimbabwe, says a review on road safety in the country.But, the report says, this can be reversed.Launching the Road Sa...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
10 reasons to consider African trade and investment opportunities in 2022
1. Visible green shoots – rising commodity pricesThe pandemic closed borders and stopped trade, other than for essentials, across the continent and was the principal reason for a decline in ...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:19hrs | 15 | by Lerisha Naidu
Political elites' vacuous populism not serving Zimbabwean people's interest
IN a recent eloquent but rather dense article titled "Dynamics of the Zimbabwe crisis in the 21st century" adopted from a 2003 academic paper of a similar title, Professor Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni ma...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:45hrs | 13 | by Dr Mike Chipere
When will Africa wake up from economic slumber?
THE Chinese bamboo is an amazing tree. Its seed stays underground for five years without germinating, but when it does, it grows considerably big in one week.What is important is not how long ...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | | by Anon
Africa stuck in generational curse
WHOEVER bewitched African leaders probably perished at Nagasaki in 1945, many years before the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was founded in 1963. That person, alongside his tools of trade and hi...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 19:02hrs | 13 | by Sapien Sapien
Zimbabwean oil firm expands into Sadc
MATRIX Petroleum, a United Kingdom-based oil firm majority-controlled by Zimbabwean-born Malvin Chiwanga, has announced plans to enter the Namibian and South African markets.The firm has signi...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 10:45hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe won't get international Covid-19 rescue package
ZIMBABWE will not receive a dime from a multi-billion-dollar facility organised by international financial institutions which seeks to help countries of the global South in dealing with the socio-econ...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 15:03hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
RTG weathers COVID-19 storm
ZIMBABWE Stock Exchange (ZSE)-listed leisure chain, Rainbow Tourism Group (RTG) weathered the COVID 19-induced storm during the year ended December 31, 2020, posting an inflation-adjusted $352 million...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 09:18hrs | 4 | by Tired Citizen
'New COVID-19 variants a threat to poor African countries'
NEW COVID-19 variants likely to hit Africa might prove difficult to combat due to inadequate health budgets as countries on the continent are failing to recover fromthe economic effects of the pan...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:57hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Why Chinese model has not benefited Africa
Diverse views have been expressed about the Chinese socio-political and economic model.These range from the Chinese themselves, who, of course, uncritically praise their system as a faultless ...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:44hrs | 11 | by Arthur G O Mutambara
Central bank and monetary policy independence
The government of Zimbabwe recently dissolved the inaugural Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) that had been appointed in September 2019 and swiftly appointed a new team to fill up the void. The committe...Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 22:34hrs | 4 | by Victor Bhoroma
Mnangagwa places hope on AfCFTA, NDS1
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said the National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1), an economic blueprint that came into effect last month, will give fresh impetus to Zimbabwe's economic recovery ...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 05:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Afro-Sino economic relations in the 21st Century: Mixed Reactions and Misinterpretations
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National U...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 19:21hrs | 21 | by Livingstone Kazizi
'Mgodoyi' is Jonathan Moyo's predicate he used to express disgust!
It is one of Professor Moyo's terms to express anything disgusting him.Umgodoyi is an overly thin malnourished dog whose mouth unendingly oozies slummy saliva, a sign of obvious illness relate...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
SA leaders must come clean on xenophobia
IN the 1980s, a jingle played regularly on Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation's Radio 2, that went something like this: MuAfrica, kwayedza. Kwasara mbiri chete kuti ichibva yakwana. Kunoti Azania, neNa...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:04hrs | 4 | by Editorial - Newsday
Zimbabwe War vets warn neo-imperialists
War veterans are committed to defending the country's sovereignty against erstwhile forces working in cahoots with the opposition MDC-Alliance, an official has said. Speaking at a Press briefi...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Will Zimbabwe benefit from boris johnson's ascendents to power?
Boris Johnson, Britain's prime minister, is the quintessential nostalgic leader. Since the Brexit referendum, in order to make Britain's future outside the European Union appealing, he has playe...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 16:33hrs | 17 | by Masimba Mavaza
The new Zimdollar: What could go wrong?
ZIMBABWE last week made its interim currency, the RTGS dollar, the country's sole legal tender, drawing the curtains on a decade of United States dollar dominance. Harare was forced to abandon its own...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 08:43hrs | 1 | by Ed Stoddard
Mnangagwa backs free trade
President Mnangagwa says the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) – a trade pact that is envisaged to create a single market – is "a step forward" likely to promote inclusive growth a...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 07:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe FDI doubles to $745 million in 2018 ($349 million in 2017)
Zimbabwe's Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows more than doubled to $745 million in 2018 from $349 million in 2017, on the back of a small number of approved projects, latest report shows. FDI out...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 09:38hrs | 2 | by FinX
Africa in global cold war: A return to consciousness struggle
THE British daily, the Guardian recently published a story on how Russia has new plans to exert its influence across the African content. All in return for the usual imperial desires such as natural r...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 09:25hrs | 2 | by Takura Zhangazha
Plot to strip Mthuli Ncube of Professorship
Former MDC Youth leader Shephard Dube is leading a process to petition Oxford University to strip Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube of his Professorship.In an exclusive interview with this publica...Published: 31 May 2019 at 18:46hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Funding Africa's infrastructure gap
Key to enabling African economies to make the most of their opportunities is developing infrastructure in the region. Across the continent, new laws are being implemented and alternative sources of in...Published: 30 May 2019 at 19:52hrs | 2 | by Agencies
Seven things to consider when transacting in Africa
1. Accept the uncertainty and gather knowledgeInvestors in Africa must consider geo-political and economic uncertainty on the continent as well as a ple...Published: 21 May 2019 at 16:26hrs | 10 | by Morne van der Merwe, Managing Partner, and Wildu du Plessis, Head of Africa at global law firm Baker McKenzie in Johannesburg
Price hikes choke Zim growth prospects: World Bank
THE World Bank (WB) says the currently spiralling price increases in Zimbabwe will have a negative impact on the country's growth prospects.Earlier this year, the World Bank projected that Zim...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Way forward on Zimbabwe situation
Zimbabwe to go forward we need to adhere to our "Constitution". We need press freedom, freedom of speech, rule of law (all citizens to respect rule of law without political affiliation), transparency,...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 22:34hrs | 4 | by Enos Denhere
'Mnangagwa not making right trips for investment'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is not attracting requisite investment deals from his foreign trips, an international business expert has said.This comes after Mnangagwa recently led a delegation...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 11:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
The evil hand of civil society, MDC-Alliance
This week, Zimbabwe's opposition MDC-Alliance, civil society organisations and NGOs fronted a so-called shutdown that was underlined by anarchy, looting and lawlessness. The orgy of violence saw the d...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 00:03hrs | 3 | by Panganai Kahuni
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