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4 months ago | November 18, 2022

Corruption being fought across the board

There was a time when everyone assumed that corruption was limited to the State sector and those running the private ...

5 months ago | November 11, 2022

We must keep merging currency pools

Banks are reporting increasing totals of foreign currency deposits, and this means that while Zimbabwe’s foreign ...

5 months ago | November 4, 2022

Use national statistics to grow business

It seems ever more essential that businesses, especially manufacturers and other suppliers, need to look carefully at ...

5 months ago | October 28, 2022

Tight liquidity likely to remain

Monthly inflation has returned to the lowish single digits last seen between September 2020 and July last year, with ...

5 months ago | October 21, 2022

All now in place to recreate industry

Zimbabwean industry appears to be split in several groups, some flourishing and some just hanging on with the ...

6 months ago | September 30, 2022

Converged rates add US dollars to businesses

As part of the official exchange rate system comes into alignment with the black-market rates, we will be seeing a lot ...

7 months ago | September 16, 2022

New issues will arise with rate convergence

This week has seen a number of advances as exchange rates in the black market and the legal markets continue to ...

7 months ago | September 9, 2022

CZI takes dramatic new course

The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries is moving into new territory by seeking capital financing for its members ...

7 months ago | September 2, 2022

Rate convergence now predicted

Now that the limits in the interbank market have been pushed up sharply again it appears that another new policy is to ...

7 months ago | August 26, 2022

Textile recovery needs coordination

Textiles seem like a n obvious choice in Zimbabwe’s industrialisation progress, with cotton production being pushed hard ...

8 months ago | August 19, 2022

Traditional grains need better marketing

The expanding agricultural programmes by the Government now need more response from industrialists and from consumers, ...

8 months ago | August 12, 2022

Measures stabilise black market

  It looks as though the interventions by the monetary authorities, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and its monetary ...

8 months ago | August 5, 2022

How Mosi-oa-Tunya hits black market

The issue of Zimbabwe’s own gold coins, the Mosi-oa-Tunya, was deemed successful with 1 500 sold in the first week and 2 ...

8 months ago | July 29, 2022

Fundamentals still sound so fix the details

The fundamentals of the Zimbabwean economy are still looking very good, Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli ...

8 months ago | July 22, 2022

Companies need to invest in power

Along with inflation and foreign currency, the biggest single problem facing most businesses is the load shedding and ...

9 months ago | July 15, 2022

Merging currency pools one step at a time

The black market in foreign currency. What causes it, what drives it and why does the exchange rate it generates keep ...

9 months ago | July 8, 2022

Follow tobacco model for horticulture

Horticulture used to be mainstay of Zimbabwe’s agricultural exports, allowing well-capitalised farmers, and they had to ...

9 months ago | July 1, 2022

Double Monday assault on black-market

Monday this week saw a determined co-ordinated effort by the Government and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe to puncture the ...

9 months ago | June 24, 2022

We need to plan for the tobacco crop carefully

The dramatic rise in the cost of farming inputs, partly the result of the global economy recovering from the downturn ...

10 months ago | June 17, 2022

How do we stop dogs chasing their tails?

Last Word When will it end? How will it end? The exchange rate continues to fall, although it is not in free fall after ...