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1 year ago | January 27, 2023
Lithium, coal, iron can push US$12bn mining output
While there are many who see the target of US$12 billion mining output this year as on the ambitious side, being a 50 ...
1 year ago | January 20, 2023
Savings need innovation, customer needs
While every economist and quite a few others would like to see Zimbabwean develop a savings culture, all those bursts of ...
1 year ago | January 13, 2023
Finance, not prices, key to farmer viability
Farmers complain frequently about the cost of inputs, especially fertilisers, which to be fair are the largest single ...
1 year ago | January 6, 2023
Mining growth opens doors to many others
The most spectacular leap forward in any major economic sector over the last five years must be in mining, which tripled ...
1 year ago | December 30, 2022
Stability, power, peace: Business wishes
When businesses look into 2023 quite probably three things form the top tier of their agenda: A better power supply, ...
1 year ago | December 23, 2022
Ore export ban readies lithium for boom
The decision this week to ban export of lithium ores and inadequately processed lithium before the second formal mine ...
1 year ago | December 16, 2022
We need formal financing for farming
With good rains now falling, plus the commitment of Government to fund, or guarantee the funding, of inputs for a swathe ...
1 year ago | December 9, 2022
Major effort needed to build power capacity
The main talking point in business circles has now moved from foreign currency and inflation, both at least ameliorated ...
1 year ago | December 2, 2022
Don’t hold your breath for interest rate cut
There is a fair amount of musing in financial circles over when the bank policy rate, the standard minimum interest rate ...
1 year ago | November 25, 2022
Budget opens space for businesses
The 2023 National Budget yesterday has no giveaways for the business sectors, but its severe tightening of tax ...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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 ...
2 years 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 ...
2 years 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 ...
2 years 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 ...
2 years 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 ...
2 years 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 ...
2 years 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 ...
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