A man saves for fifteen years to buy a stand in Budiriro. He pays the cooperative. He gets an offer letter with stamps and signatures that look official. He builds slowly; foundation first, then walls, then a...
By Sam Matsekete
Across Southern Africa, the demand for energy finance is no longer a forward-looking concern. It is immediate, structural and accelerating. Industrial expansion, mining growth, urbanisation and energy security imperatives are...
Common Law with Mike Murenzvi
“Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” ~ Jesus Christ
The contentious Clause 11 of the...
By Michael Gwarisa
On Tuesday, the Senate is set to debate amendments to the Medical Services Amendment Bill, a move aimed at aligning the principal Act with Section 76 of Zimbabwe’s Constitution, which guarantees access to emergency...
By Danai Sipho Mugano
In 2019, Emmerson Mnangagwa scrapped fuel subsidies and jetted off to Asia and Russia, confident that he had done the “right thing.” The people, he believed, would understand the economics...
By Kevin Msipha, CZI Value Chains and Sectors Coordinator
A famous philosophical fragment by the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus, “no man ever steps into the same river twice, for it is not the same...
Zimbabwe is going through a rare phase of relative economic 'calm'. Growth feels steady, inflation has slightly cooled, and the exchange rate is holding, for now. But risks from unpaid debts and a 2030 currency deadline raise...
By Tatenda Mashanda
Let me confess. I never set out to write about Frederick Shava. In fact, I doubted there was anything worth saying. But that doubt is precisely the problem. Silence about him...
In 1976, Bob Marley released the song War as part of his album Rastaman Vibration. The lyrics were taken from a 1963 speech to the United Nations by Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.
This...
The history of parastatals or state-owned enterprises in Africa from the colonial and Apartheid eras to present day, is littered with contradictions. This is so because of the schizophrenic attitude that governments, private capital and citizens have...
