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7 days ago | April 12, 2024

Reserve Bank needs to be very open

The killing off of the old Zimbabwe dollar and the introduction of the ZiG a week ago by new Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe ...

2 weeks ago | April 5, 2024

Drought required close co-operation

Last Word The very severe drought that hit Zimbabwe in 2024, basically middle or end of the rainy season, after some ...

3 weeks ago | March 29, 2024

Innovation needed to cope with drought

Zimbabwe has suffered one of its worst droughts on record in the present summer season, with all three drought-related ...

4 weeks ago | March 22, 2024

Businesses need to mount those solar panels

A lot of things go right for business in Zimbabwe and some things are not so great, but the really big major problem ...

1 month ago | March 15, 2024

Is Batoka good value in climate change?

The very low rations of water for power generation at Lake Kariba now in force, just an average of 214 megawatts for ...

1 month ago | March 8, 2024

Natural gas the major gain from the drilling

The firming up of the gas and oil condensate discoveries in the Muzarabani area by Geo Associates, with some very good ...

2 months ago | March 1, 2024

Monetary policy needs to be announced

When will the monetary policy statement for the start of the new year actually come out? This is of major concern to a ...

2 months ago | February 23, 2024

Possibility opens for IMF programme

Zimbabwe came out with a reasonable grade from the latest Article IV Mission by the International Monetary Fund earlier ...

2 months ago | February 16, 2024

Creative property investment needed

Last Word People with money should be investing rather than just keeping cash stacked up in a bank, or even with a lot ...

2 months ago | February 9, 2024

Land royalties would add revenue

Fairly obviously the measures taken in the middle of last year to stabilise the Zimbabwe dollar, or at least make its ...

3 months ago | February 2, 2024

Sea change needed in industrial growth

Zimbabwe has been affected by the modest fall in mineral prices around the world with export earnings in the last few ...

3 months ago | January 26, 2024

Local currency ‘hot potato’ pressure

Last Word The commercial banks, through their setting of the exchange rates by adjusting their ask and bid rates, are in ...

3 months ago | January 19, 2024

Do we still need the currency auctions?

Debate is now increasing on whether the auction system for selling part of the Government’s share of the 30 percent of ...

3 months ago | January 12, 2024

CZI won through with sound arguments

The modifications of the taxation system being used to empanel industrialists and wholesalers as the major enforcers of ...

3 months ago | January 5, 2024

Wholesalers, industry to enforce tax rules

Tucked into a few paragraphs in the national budget speech for this year were a pair of proposals to use manufacturers ...

4 months ago | December 21, 2023

Tax all to widen base and ensure fairness

The national budget for next year went through the House of Assembly last week, and while Minister of Finance, Economic ...

4 months ago | December 15, 2023

Power development must be faster

The latest review of the Zimbabwean economy by the World Bank produced the good news that it is growing year-in and ...

4 months ago | December 8, 2023

Business must adapt to live with Budget

The business world is not going to stand up and cheer the proposals in the 2024 National Budget presented by Minister of ...

5 months ago | December 1, 2023

Tax dodges in cash economy unfair

A major element of disquiet among economists is just how big the informal sector is in Zimbabwe, and in particular the ...

5 months ago | November 24, 2023

Need to provide loan finance for smallholders

With a little over 3 million farmers now registered for Pfumvudza/Intwasa and almost 11,5 million plots holed out with ...