Zim needs $34bn for infrastructure upgrade

Martin Kadzere Zimbabwe will need as much as US$43 billion in the next decade to revamp infrastructure to achieve sustainable levels of economic growth, according to the African Development Bank.…

Telecoms sector, let’s pay attention

Taking Stock Kudzanai Sharara The latest telecoms sector statistics, released by the Postal & Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz), for the first quarter to April 2019, should make worrying…

‘Banks should improve financial services quality’

Pride Mahlangu Banks should improve the quality of financial services they offer if they are to increase client confidence and encourage depositors to have faith on them, financial analysts have…

Did you know? ZB Financial Holdings: The journey thus far

Fradreck Gorwe Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed diversified financial services concern, ZB Financial Holdings Limited (ZBFH), has actual roots dating back to 1888 when the Dutch Bank for South Africa, was founded…

Is there such a thing as resource curse?

Clifford Shambare This is Part One of “Is there  such a thing as resource curse?” Africa is often said to suffer from a resource curse. How valid is such thinking?…

Germany in climate change commitment

Germany, one of the world’s biggest consumers of coal, will shut down all 84 of its coal-fired power plants over the next 19 years to meet its international commitments in…

Mining captains to meet in Bulawayo

Business Writer Mining captains are expected to meet in Bulawayo next week to deliberate on wide ranging matters including how the industry can leverage on economic transformation to achieve the…

SA platinum giants to hammer out wage deal

When the world’s biggest platinum miners sit down to hammer out a wage deal this week, they’ll hold two potentially winning cards in reserve: the cash and metal stockpiles to…

Exchange rates not set on feelings

One of the weirder predictions floating around Zimbabwe at the moment is the statement that the Zimbabwe dollar has to sink to a 1-1 exchange rate with the South African…

69pc of Nigerians living below poverty line

A new report launched by Oxfam has revealed that 69 percent of Nigerians are living below the poverty line, thus negatively impacting on the nation’s economic growth. The Interim Country…

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