Remembering Mugabe: Land, Indigenisation, Education and the Economy 1980–2017
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesA Seven-Year Reflection with Case Studies By Newton M. Mambande HARARE – ON 6 September 2019, Robert Gabriel Mugabe died in Singapore. On 6 September 2025, we mark seven…
The Probationary Note: Zimbabwe Earns a Break, Now Must Prove It Deserves It
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesBy Newton M. Mambande HARARE – THE World Bank’s decision to remove Zimbabwe from its list of fragile and conflict-affected states is more than a statistical update. It is…
RBZ’s Lending Reset: From Consumption to Real Production
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesBy Newton M Mambande HARARE – THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s directive urging commercial banks to cut down on lending has triggered unease across the business community. In Harare,…
Zimbabwe’s Bond Market: Why Long Money Still Keeps Its Distance
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesGovernment, municipal, corporate and mezzanine debt — yield curve, sovereign risk, currency policy, regional comparisons, and the path back to long money By Jabulani Simplisio Chibaya HARARE – A…
ANALYSIS| Zimbabwe’s Greatest Export Is the People It Cannot Keep
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesA critique of the diaspora narrative and its implications for national development By Tonderai Godknows Mapfumo Introduction: Two Waves, One Nation HARARE – ZIMBABWE’S migration history over the past…
Economic Liberation Deserves a Place Alongside Political Freedom at Heroes’ Acre
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesBy Newton M. Mambande HARARE – EVERY 11th of August, we gather at the National Heroes Acre in Harare. The guns fire. The bugles sound. We lay wreaths for…
Thirst for Growth: Can Delta’s US$210m Bet Reshape Zim’s Industrial Future?
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesBy Newton M. Mambande HARARE – THERE is a moment in every industrial cycle when a company stops reacting to the market and starts racing ahead of it. For Delta…
BRICS Bank or Minerals?
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesZimbabwe’s Sovereignty Crossroads Demands Choice. By Newton Mambande Introduction: The new alignment question HARARE – AS Zimbabwe contemplates deeper alignment with the New Development Bank (NDB), commonly referred to…
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…
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…