SA stocks nears six months low
JOHANNESBURG. — South African stocks slipped to a near six-month low on Wednesday after the US Treasury bond yield curve inverted for the first time since 2007, reflecting concerns over the outlook for the world’s biggest economy.
Mobile phones replace bank accounts in Africa
It doesn’t look like the hub of an online bank. But that’s what the yellow and blue metal kiosk becomes when Albert Agane locks himself behind the metal bars every day at 6am.
Stock Market Weekly Review
Bears continued to dominate on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) as the market’s heavyweights succumbed to losses.
Farmers who worry about phone batteries
Out of habit, Sara Plaza smiles when her photo is taken, but when she talks about what has happened to the land around her home, tears start to run down her face.
Zimbabwe readies for 5G networks
Zimbabwe is looking to identity and allocate additional spectrum for mobile services in order to avail spectrum for 5G networks.
Govt to act on liquidity crunch
The country is reeling under a massive liquidity crunch and Government is now looking at appropriate ways of re-injecting liquidity into the productive sector, according to Secretary for the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development George Guvamatanga.
History, grace and dancing words
Real things have been happening lately. Rude awakenings, like how the world is made of stories. Not atoms and molecules — stories. Sometimes these stories are the sunlight that lands on your face during warm winter days, they dance about the surfaces of the world in what becomes history, but with fluidity and grace. Sometimes they bite. Like fact.
Vela has a case to answer: NSSA
The National Social Security Authority (NSSA) should take legal action against former board chairman Robin Vela for his role in “pressuring” the authority to make costly irregular decisions to award multi-million dollar housing deals to contractors without following due process, according to forensic audit into NSSA’s operations.
Market scrambles for TBs
Zimbabwe’s first Treasury Bills (TBs) auction in 10 years, carried out last week, has served to highlight that there is a significant demand for the paper in the market.
Ferrochrome production up 14pc
High carbon ferrochrome production has jumped 14 percent up to about 172 000 tonnes in the first six months of the year compared to the same period last year as the chrome industry and its sub-sector adjust to Government’s drive to beneficiation.







