Business endorses green economy roadmap
Business Writer Zimbabwe’s business community has endorsed the green economy roadmap aimed at investing more money in renewable energy systems as other power sources suffer significantly from the devastating effects…
About Nampak
NAMPAK is Africa’s leading diversified packaging manufacturer, it was created by the merging of the related packaging entities MegaPak, Hunyani, and CarnaudMetalbox (CMB) in 2014 with the new entity taking…
‘Climate change eating away Africa’s economic progress’
NAIROBI, Kenya. — Climate change is “relentlessly eating away” at Africa’s economic progress and it’s time to have a global conversation about a carbon tax on polluters, Kenya’s president declared…
Mthuli’s 2023 budget balloons five-fold
Business Writer Zimbabwe will spend five times more than what it previously budgeted for this year, according to figures in the 2024 Budget Strategy paper published recently with analysts attributing…
Beitbridge goes from worst to best border post in Africa
The Beitbridge border between South Africa and Zimbabwe was not so long ago reviled as a place of suffering, with queues of truckers and travellers stretching for kilometres on either…
Rags not riches: Ghana drowns in Western castoffs
Last year’s must-have dress, yesterday’s flares and countless other Western castoffs are strangling the Global South, prompting calls for fast fashion to pay the price for rampant overproduction. Every week,…
CBZ, FMHL deal to create much-needed critical mass
Nelson Gahadza CBZ Holdings shareholding in First Mutual Holdings (FMHL) is now at 36 percent and the company believes the acquisition thrust is to merge the two operations to achieve…
Heat pushing humans to the limit
Elderly people dying of dehydration, children born underweight, hundreds beset by heatstroke. That’s part of the toll documented in “The Human Limit,” an ambitious new series from The Washington Post.…
‘The bigger the banks, the better the economy’
Economy Uncensored with Tapiwanashe Mangwiro CBZ Bank, the biggest bank in the country, is growing bigger as it grows in underwriting capacity and our hope is that so does the…
‘Natural resources endowed, but poor’
Enacy Mapakame Despite being resource rich, the region, Zimbabwe included, is at the receiving end of global capital with an unsustainable debt overhang weighing on economic development. But, to break…



