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…
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…
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,…