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5 months ago | November 17, 2023
New markets needed for farm surpluses
As Zimbabwe moves beyond self-sufficiency in almost every food crop, a new agricultural policy will be required aimed ...
6 months ago | November 3, 2023
Seven year deadline to fix local currency
The decision to extend the multi-currency regime, that is the use of foreign currencies and in particular the US dollar, ...
6 months ago | October 27, 2023
New opportunities as farmers produce
The food processing industry needs to make major changes in its products and markets so as to take into account what the ...
6 months ago | October 20, 2023
Zimbabwe needs to be workshop for Africa
Innovation in the industrial sector has become a bit of a catchphrase in some minds, but it is a crucial concept that ...
7 months ago | October 6, 2023
No guarantee that success is permanent
There is a lot of talk about what can be considered a public disagreement between the head of a major retailer and ...
7 months ago | September 29, 2023
Challenges on taxes need to be solved
One of the many challenges facing the new Government and, in particular, the Ministries responsible for Finance and for ...
7 months ago | September 22, 2023
Business needs to work with Government
The elections are over, the new Government and the new city and town councils are in place, and businesses and business ...
7 months ago | September 15, 2023
Agri-industry must move with the times
Businesses in the agri-foods sector should have noticed a pair of recent news reports that will have, or at least could ...
8 months ago | September 1, 2023
Businesses need to ride the results of policies
The election results are now out and everyone knows who has won in both the Presidency and Parliament, and so has a good ...
8 months ago | August 25, 2023
Business needs to lobby for policies
By today the general trend in the harmonised elections will start being apparent, but regardless of which way the vote ...
8 months ago | August 18, 2023
Businesses must take consumers seriously
With strong stability in exchange rates, perhaps too strong considering the general fall in the value of the rand since ...
9 months ago | August 4, 2023
Auction results show stability is now built-in
The feeling of stability of exchange rates was enhanced this week when the system easily retained its stability after ...
9 months ago | July 28, 2023
Currency thrust now must go to stability
The Zimbabwe dollar stabilised this week through two wholesale bankers’ auction at around the exchange rate of $4 ...
9 months ago | July 21, 2023
Care now needed when rates stabilise
There is general agreement that the main reason the price of a US dollar has been falling over the past four weeks is ...
9 months ago | July 14, 2023
Business must adjust to falling prices
The continued rapid rise in the value of the Zimbabwe dollar compared to the US dollar, but the resulting very slow ...
10 months ago | July 7, 2023
Bankers need to upgrade skills
Now that the banks have been thrust into the lead role in providing foreign currency for their business and other ...
10 months ago | June 30, 2023
Some bankers getting it wrong
The major pricking of the exchange rate bubble this week was largely driven by the banks which seem to have near bare ...
10 months ago | June 16, 2023
Hard haul ahead to clear debt
Zimbabwe’s debt burden is very large, a total of US$17,5 billion with US$14 billion owed to foreign creditors and US$3,5 ...
10 months ago | June 9, 2023
Running a gold currency up the flagpole
At the end of last week’s emergency meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank there was a throwaway ...
11 months ago | June 2, 2023
Long-term stability must be the goal
As Minister of Finance and Economic Development Mthuli Ncube noted this week, it is largely impossible to create a legal ...
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