On Monday, President Emmerson Mnangagwa joined other regional leaders at the official opening of the new US$260 million Kazungula Bridge on the Botswana-Zambia border. Apart from the presidents of Botswana and Zambia, the event is also being...
What are the recent financial reports by companies in the consumer business are telling us about the state of people’s pockets? Under pressure, but surprisingly resilient. The past year saw inflation rise above 800%,...
It is the classic age-old battle of local communities versus a large agribusiness. A thousand families in Chilonga, one of the country's poorest areas, are about to lose their ancestral land to a project that officials say...
So ends 2020, a year we all wish could be deleted from the calendar. For Zimbabwe, there was so much to process this year; from all the currency rule changes, the politics, and the...
In a year in which hyperinflation raged, incomes were eroded, and the political crisis showed no sign of easing, it was hard to find anything resembling good news on the economy to sift from the bad.
But there were, beneath...
A High Court consent ruling directing the Ministry of Finance to publish details of foreign loans is an important step towards transparency, but may not go far enough if it does not pierce the veil covering a huge central...
The National Development Strategy (NDS1), launched by the Zimbabwe government on Monday, is the latest in a long line of five-year economic plans.
NDS1 replaces the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP), launched in 2018 to run for two years.
You already know...
Zimbabwe has signed an agreement with white former farmers for US$3.5 billion in compensation for improvements on farms taken over for resettlement under the land reform exercise.
But, why are farmers being compensated? What are they being compensated for exactly?...
US dollar allowances and allowing retailers to trade in forex show a government shifting into reverse gear, possibly ditching two years’ worth of policy steps to end dollarisation.
The damage ahead is inevitable. It could all have been avoided, had...
An entry on the website of one of John Bredenkamp’s companies tells us all we need to know about the controversial businessman: “In Africa, it is essential to work with change, not against it”.
Bredenkamp, who has died at 79,...
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