The Zimbabwean economy has over the years been largely dominated by the government as the law maker, the regulator, business owner (competitor/supplier), consumer, financier and tax collector at the same time. The evolution from a […]
The flamboyant Victorian British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, once noted that; “There can be economy, only where there is efficiency”. By Prof Mthuli Ncube Zimbabwe’s economy has been full of inefficiencies for far too long. […]
Return of the IMF? – The most crucial potential bailout lender for Zimbabwe is still the much-feared IMF, to which Robert Mugabe’s regime (questionably) repaid all arrears in late 2016. A series of self-delegitimizing 21st-century leaders have helped […]
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Maybe the scarf was just a scarf after all. Soon after ousting Robert Mugabe from power, Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe’s president, started wearing a colorful scarf wherever he went, on cold and hot days […]
Washington, DC — Zimbabwe, a land of unparalleled beauty and infinite potential, is again under democratic and economic siege. Armed men are removing residents from their homes. Unknown assailants have burnt the headquarters of the leading […]
The year 2019 can be described, with good reason, as the Year of Africa in Russian foreign policy. The first full-scale Russia-Africa Summit has been planned for the summer. It will be accompanied by a […]
Economic analysts now sound like stuck records advising the powers-that-be to slash government expenditure, trim government employees, adopt a firm currency, dismember the tentacles of corruption, sell off unviable state-owned enterprises (SOEs), create an enabling […]
Mutumwa Mawere, an ex-business magnate, has a rosy educational story with stints in Zimbabwe, Swaziland, the UK and the U.S. (George Washington University) where he obtained a Master of Science (Management) and an MBA (Finance […]
The economy was rattled particularly after the highly contested elections of July 30 2018, which saw domestic debt soaring to $9,6 billion by August 2018, with more than half the amount contracted between 2017 and […]
By his 40th birthday, he’d outwitted the dictator Robert Mugabe. By 50, he was a multimillionaire mogul. Now, Strive Masiyiwa — telecom entrepreneur, philanthropist and proud Pentecostal — is among a cadre of African moguls […]
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