Teachers against schools opening

Cynthia Chitombi The Amalgamated Rural Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe is against government’s proposed opening of schools announcing that it would seek an interdict blocking the...

NMB loan book immune from Covid-19; plans to target economic growth...

Tapiwanashe Mangwiro HARARE – NMB Zimbabwe says that its loan book does not have significant exposure to business sectors that are most affected by the...

Raymond Njanike dies

Maxwell Chingaira EmpowerBank board chairman and former Interfin Bank executive Raymond Njanike has died. He was 52. The banker died on Wednesday after a battle with pancreatic...

The centenary of the arrival of Harare’s first flight

Jonathan Waters Tomorrow, June 11, marks the centenary of the arrival of the first aircraft in Harare carrying two passengers from Kadoma, and it...

Money and Economy in Zimbabwean History: A Concise Currency Timeline

The end of Chartered Rule, entrenchment of white self-government and African economic disempowerment: Currencies, and the consolidation of Racialised Economic Spaces, 1920-1930 Tinashe Nyamunda In the...

Slowdown in economic activity during C-19 lockdown sees Zim narrow its...

HARARE – A slowdown in economic activity in April due to the coronavirus-induced national lockdown, saw the country’s trade deficit narrow by a significant...

Zimbabwe maize yields at 0.57t/ha in 2019/20, faces cereal deficit of...

HARARE - The country's maize production is estimated to have risen 17% in the 2019/20 season, but the biggest concern remains the poor yields,...

Banks to finance productive sector Covid-19 support

Farai Mabeza Productive sector support under the $18.02 billion COVID-19 Economic Recovery and Stimulus Package will be financed by banks through normal banking channels and...

Nampak pessimistic as Covid-19 pushes economic reform into the background

Farai Mabeza Paper packaging firm, Nampak Zimbabwe, sees no improvement in the country’s economic environment for the remainder of 2020 citing the COVID-19 outbreak and...

African equity capital markets activity see downward turn in 2019: PwC

HARARE – African Equity Capital Markets (ECM) saw the lowest proceeds recorded in ten years in 2019 as activity and volumes declined sharply from...