The publication by Maverick Citizen of the Report on Cartel Power Dynamics in Zimbabwe has raised some important questions about the presence and impact of cartels in Zimbabwe in particular and Southern Africa in general.
The report finds that there...
Farai Mabeza
The 2022 population census is set to gobble US$85.5m, finance and economic development minister Mthuli Ncube has said.
Ncube told a resource mobilisation meeting for the 2022 Population and Housing Census that a multi donor fund for the exercise...
HARARE – Government has suspended mobile-based monetary transactions and trading on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange to enable it to investigate malpractices, criminality, and economic sabotage.
Information permanent secretary Nick Mangwana, in a statement said that the suspensions were part of...
HARARE - The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, through the Financial Intelligence Unit, has instructed banks to to limit internal transfers to two per day as part of ongoing measures to stop parallel market dealings.
In a directive to banks, the...
By Takudzwa Musakasa
The Confederation of Retailers in Zimbabwe {CRZ} has warned the continued arrest of retailers on charges of abusing the foreign exchange system could lead to product shortages on the market and create a black market for basic...
HARARE – Government will during the course of the year drip feed into the economy bigger denominations in order to enable ease of transactions.
Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube told Bloomberg on the sidelines of the World Economic...
Staff Writer
African countries continue to trade more with the outside world than among themselves, findings of an Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) assessment report on progress made on regional integration in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic have revealed.
The...
Farai Mabeza
HARARE - About 1.2 million people in Zimbabwe have given up on securing employment, the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) has said as it reported that the national unemployment rate stood at 16 percent.
According to Zimstat's just released...
Plans are underway to establish a regional Agricultural Commodity Exchange Centre as part of the implementation of the 2021-2031 strategy for the Alliance for Commodity Trade in East and Southern Africa (ACTESA).
The centre shall link small-scale farmers to national,...
Farai Mabeza
Zimbabwe’s debt crisis has contributed heavily to the collapse of the education system in Zimbabwe as it is squeezing out available public resources which could be benefiting the sector, a coalition of...
