Crypto market-making profit margins sink 30pc
Market making in digital tokens used to be a font of outsized profitability. The picture today is very different as costs jump and investors avoid a crypto sector scarred by…
EU offers to support Africa’s climate change fight
The European Union says it doesn’t want to be just a natural resource harvester in Africa, choosing, instead, to promise new assistance to help the continent transit to greener energy.…
SA’s energy bounce-back scheme ‘too little too late’
Touted as a much-needed solution for small businesses and households that have suffered through South Africa’s 15 years of erratic power supply woes, the government’s entry into the solar funding…
Afreximbank instalment to trigger rolling stock delivery: NRZ
Oliver Kazunga Senior Business Reporter THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) is awaiting the African Export and Import Bank (Afreximbank) to pay the first instalment to RITES Limited of India…
IPEC urges farmers to adopt index insurance
Malvern Nkomo Business Reporter THE Insurance and Pensions Commission (IpPEC has implored farmers to adopt index-based insurance to secure their crops and complement the risk cover provided by the government…
Africa has the power to decarbonise world
Kenya’s President William Ruto, speaking at the opening ceremony of the inaugural Africa Climate Summit, said Africa has the power to decarbonise the world and boost investment for the continent.…
Rural community taps into value addition
Mangaliso Lawrence Kabulika Mutasa Rural District Council (MRDC) community members have ventured into value addition and are producing chips from bananas. The initiative is targeted at increasing earnings from banana…
Farmers await grade-based price differential payments . . . as 2023 seed cotton intake clocks 90 million kg
Edgar Vhera Agriculture Specialist Writer THE curtain to the 2023 cotton marketing season came down end of August with farmers now awaiting differential grade payments of between US$0, 01 and…
CBZ targets merging operations with FMHL
Nelson Gahadza Senior Business Reporter CBZ Holdings says its strategic thrust is to move towards merging its operations with those of First Mutual Holdings Limited (FMHL) after the banking group…
‘Namibia’s hydrogen plans to boost GDP by third’
Namibia’s hydrogen industry has the potential to provide a substantial boost to the economy over the next seven years, its central bank governor said. “By 2030, it could contribute US$4,1…










