Unlocking Smallholder Agriculture – A Case For Broader Agri-Financing
By Yona Banda According to the 2019 Zimbabwe Poverty Report, an estimated 49% of the country’s population earned its livelihood from farming activities. That farming-reliant population represented 69% of the…
Analysis: REITs the future of Zimbabwe’s vision 2030
By Stephen .T .Chifamba Infrastructure Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), which have been rolled out in Zimbabwe for more than one year through the latest law amendment, have been receiving…
RBZ pays US$170k towards Bridgefort Capital legacy debt
By ETimes Bridgefort Capital, a Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) listed firm, has said the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) paid part of its legacy debt in Q3 to September 2022. The…
Equities opens the week with $54.78bn loss
By ETimes The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange opened the week in the red as a liquidity crunch amid the projected economic uncertainty continued to weigh on investors’ sentiment. The ZSE All-Share…
ANALYSIS| Localized Production, Rising Volumes Drive Afdis to ZWL$585mn H1 Profit
By Yona Banda Financial Performance Highlights Listed spirits manufacturer African Distillers (Afdis) Limited saw its inflation adjusted half-year profits rise by 234% to ZWL$584.5 million. The group’s gross profit climbed…
Can Agriculture Insurance Improve Food Security – And Why Does It Matters?
By Newton Mambande With almost 70 percent of Zimbabwe’s population living in rural areas, most of them heavily depend on agriculture. Agriculture is their main source of income and the driver…
Successful Women in Finance round table attracts top female execs
Top female executives strongly deliberated on efforts to increase women and women-led businesses and start-ups’ access to finance at the successful Women’s Network and Women in Leadership Roundtable held on…
Losses cap tough trading week on ZSE
By ETimes The stock market has now fallen for seven straight days as investors dump equities despite a spate of impressive earnings and dividend announcements from listed companies. As measured…
Milk output up 16% in first 10 months
By ETimes Zimbabwe’s raw milk production in the first 10 months to October increased 16% to 74.99 million liters from 64.80 million liters recorded in the same period last year,…
FCB expects downside risk on credit performance amid tight monetary regime
By ETimes First Capital Bank Zimbabwe says the liquidity crisis and high interest rates may pose a risk to credit performance. In September 2022, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe decided to…