Strong investor interest in IDCZ subsidiaries

Kudzanai Sharara There is a very strong interest from both local and foreign investors interested in acquiring Industrial Development Corporation of Zimbabwe Limited-owned companies that were put up for sale…

Five reasons business owners need to know about fintech

Paul Bates Technology has radically revolutionised the way companies are conducting their business. Financial technology (often referred to as fintech) is one such technology that has fundamentally changed how organizations,…

Review of small business policies in party manifestos

Kudzai M. Mubaiwa In a little over ten weeks, Zimbabwe will hold general elections and citizens will select the presidents, members of parliament and councillors they want. There are various views…

Plans to re-open Empress Mine afoot

Business Writer Zimbabwe Nickel Exploration Co is planning to invest about $340 million towards re-opening Empress Mine in central Zimbabwe and building a processing plant, sources have disclosed. Previously owned…

Taura: Zim’s own calling App

Enacy Mapakame The cost of telecommunications in Zimbabwe is still high relative to regional peers, but local budding enterprise, Ecotracker Africa, has moved in with a $1 million investment that…

Runners gear up for Zim’s biggest marathon

Chipo Sabeta Amateur and professional runners from across the world are gearing up for another gruelling race in this year’s edition of the Econet Victoria Falls Marathon, set for July…

Blockchain opens up Kenya’s $20bn informal economy

Janeffer Wacheke’s fresh-vegetable stall in Nairobi uses technology that’s helping crack a problem Kenyan banks have so far failed to solve — measuring the creditworthiness of traders in the country’s…

Basel III: Why Zim should comply

Tawanda Musarurwa With the deadline for the implementation of Basel III set for March 31, 2019, Zimbabwe’s financial services sector appears to be far from it. The Basel Standards were…

African cocoa giants come together on sales strategy

Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, which together supply about 60 percent of the world’s cocoa, will start co-ordinating their sales of the beans as part of efforts to exert more influence…

A pyrrhic victory for trade hawks

The recently announced trade “truce” with China didn’t last long: Unless negotiators led by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross reach a breakthrough in talks scheduled for this weekend, tariffs on Chinese…

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