Mastercard to open Zimbabwe office, targets booming informal market and region
Mastercard is to open an office in Zimbabwe as it looks to tap in to the country’s growing digital payments business, the company has said.
Mastercard President and CEO, Ajay...
Tenders, nepotism and lies – Joram Gumbo’s ethical numbness
AS Zanu-PF’s long-serving chief whip, Joram Gumbo came across as a tidy, backroom operator, quietly but efficiently pulling the strings for his party in Parliament. But his scrapbook in...
Afreximbank: The bank that keeps on giving
Over a decade in which no lender would touch the country with a long barge-pole, there's one bank that has become a lender of last resort to Zimbabwe.
The African...
‘Mnangagwa is a loyal client’: If you need to dodge an assassin, this 32-year...
It’s a balmy November night in Harare’s leafy Gunhill neighbourhood when Ameerh Naran’s mobile phone rings.
The caller is the son of Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe’s then-vice president. He wants Naran...
Bored and idle, ZANU-PF chefs a threat to ED’s economic agenda
As prices rise and the foreign currency black market becomes volatile, ZANU-PF will find it harder to resist the urge to repeat its old errors.
And, in the centre of...
Accept 2% tax as ‘short-term shock therapy’, CZI urges
THE Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI), the country’s main business representative body, has come out in support of government’s 2% tax on electronic payments after initially opposing the unpopular...
