Investment Report 2026: Why Zim Must Fix Governance, Not Geology
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesBy Newton M. Mambande INTRODUCTION: INVESTMENT IN AN AGE OF POLYCRISIS HARARE – THE United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s World Investment Report 2026 arrives at a moment when the…
Ground Truth: Why GIS must become the engine of Zim’s mining cadastre
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesBy Gerald Mvumi HARARE – Zimbabwe’s decision to modernise its Mining Cadastre Management Information System is one of the most important reforms in the country’s mining sector. While improving…
Zim’s Health Reform Bill: A Prescription for Unfunded Mandates, Not Universal Care
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesBy Newton M. Mambande HARARE – PARLIAMENT is currently debating the Health Reform Act, a Bill marketed as the vehicle to achieve “universal health coverage for all” by 2030.…
6 Years After OMIR Suspension, Old Mutual’s VFEX Move Rewrites Zim’s Capital Market Rules
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesBy Newton M. Mambande INTRODUCTION: CAPITAL FLIGHT OR CAPITAL REALIGNMENT? HARARE – IN September 2025, Old Mutual Zimbabwe Limited announced the lifting of its self-imposed suspension from the Zimbabwe…
Beyond the Numbers: What ZIMRA’s Revenue Surge Says About Zim’s Economy
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesBy Newton M. Mambande 1. Executive Summary: The H1 Numbers HARARE – BETWEEN 1 January and 30 June 2026, the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) collected ZWG18.42 billion in gross…
How ZiG Depreciation Reshaped Zim’s Inflation Landscape
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesBy Newton M. Mambande Executive Summary in Numbers Between 1 May and 30 June 2026, Zimbabwe’s dual-currency system produced a statistically clear divergence. ZiG Inflation: Month-on-month ZiG consumer inflation…
The US$100k Chasm: ZSE Aims to Bridge It
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesBy Tinotenda Bhunu HARARE – ZIMBABWE does not suffer from a shortage of entrepreneurs. If entrepreneurship alone were enough to create prosperity, Zimbabwe would be one of Africa’s wealthiest…
From Consumers to Creators: Why Zim and SADC Must Seize AI and Blockchain Sovereignty Today
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesBy Tanaka Chiwenga The Moment Is Now and the Start Is Everything HARARE – THERE is a quiet revolution happening in the world of technology. One that will define…
Father Zimbabwe: Joshua Nkomo’s Legacy of Peace, Law and Economic Progress
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesBy Newton M. Mambande 1. Introduction: Reading Nkomo Through a Political Economy Lens HARARE – POLITICAL economy asks two questions about any leader: How did they organise the production,…
Liquid’s Copilot Specialisation — What It Means for Zimbabwe Enterprise AI
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesBy Jabulani Simplisio Chibaya HARARE – IN A market where artificial intelligence has spent the better part of two years oscillating between boardroom buzzword and genuine business tool, Liquid…