This week, Cabinet made the kind of announcement every Zimbabwean businessperson wants to hear — we plan to cut down on the many licences that make it hard to do business.
But, we are...
At the Chamber of Mines AGM last week, the main annual meeting of the mining industry, a man stood up to complain that some miners were disregarding the law, damaging the environment, and giving locals a raw...
By Ranga Mberi
Growing up, I was always fascinated by a church they only called “chechi yemadhirezi marefu”. The church of the long dresses!
I’d see them on their way to...
The scepticism was heavy in the room as Zimbabwe’s biggest business groups met last Thursday to discuss the new policy twist – a new currency, the ZiG.
The man they were waiting for, the...
Zimbabwe’s economy is in for one its toughest years in ages. You wouldn’t notice it, what with ribbons being cut on new 4X4s and authorities going about their business as usual.
If you...
As the Zimbabwe dollar tanked and inflation soared, government responded in the only way it knows how: wagging fingers and spinning dark conspiracies.
But, all along, the government knew the source of the inflation;...
On Tuesday, Kuvimba Mining House came out to declare: “We have nothing to do with Kuda Tagwirei.” Nobody is buying that, and Kuvimba and the government shouldn’t even be trying to sell us that line.
You can always trust ZANU PF to never waste a good chance to score an own goal. Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi is the latest to lob one into his own net.
First, a quick...
Just days into the COVID-19 lockdown, Samantha Murozoki discovered that a neighbour and her family were going hungry.
With markets shut down, they, like many others who live off trading, had no income to...
It shouldn’t have taken pressure from conservationists for the Zimbabwe government to ban mineral prospecting in the country’s largest game reserve. It should just be the law.
Last week, the Bhejane Trust, which works with Zimbabwe’s National Parks and Wildlife...
