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RBZ Sets Two-Month Import Cover Target as Zimbabwe Builds Reserve Buffer

* Foreign reserves reached US$1.7 billion by end-July, covering 1.7 months of imports. * First-half foreign-currency receipts increased 47.8% to US$10.72 billion. * Two months of cover remains below t

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Zimbabwe
O’mari’s 2.2 Million Customers Are Becoming Old Mutual Zimbabwe’s Distribution Network

Old Mutual Zimbabwe’s O’mari has surpassed 2.2 million customers, with transaction volumes rising 139% and revenue increasing 80% year on year in the first half of 2026, giving the fintech considerabl

 Sep 08, 2026
Zimbabwe
Old Mutual Tests Zimbabwe’s Return to Group Earnings After Seven-Year Ring-Fence

Old Mutual has begun assessing whether improving cash generation and currency conditions in Zimbabwe are sufficient to eventually return the local business to its Group earnings perimeter, seven years

 Sep 08, 2026
Zimbabwe
Stanbic’s UnionPay Bet Lands as Zimbabwe Squeezes Bank Charges

Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe's integration of UnionPay e-commerce acceptance unlocks a vital new stream of international merchant transactions. As regulatory pressures in Zimbabwe drive down routine domestic

 Aug 20, 2026
World
Kenya Licensing Controls Cut Hippo Sugar Exports 59%, Raises Dependence on Zimbabwe Market

Hippo Valley Estates, Zimbabwe’s biggest sugar producer and exporter has registered a  59% fall in sugar exports in first quarter sugar, providing the first major test of how Zimbabwe’s sugar industry

 Aug 17, 2026
Companies
Vodacom Bets on Growth as Lower Dividends Signal a New Phase for African Telecoms

* Vodacom raised medium term growth targets after consolidating Safaricom into the group. * A lower dividend payout signals greater confidence in long term investment returns. * African telecom valu

 Jul 27, 2026
Zimbabwe
Mid Term Budget Faces Eight Tests That Will Define Zimbabwe’s Second Half

This Mid Term Budget should therefore be interpreted through eight practical tests. Can reserve money growth coexist with low inflation over the medium term. Is dedollarisation becoming commercially d

 Jul 27, 2026
Tigere Premium Raises the Accretion Bar Unit growth now tests whether income keeps pace

That gap traces to two specific acquisition financed unit placements, not to Tigere’s scrip dividend programme, which only reached unitholders as a notice due for publication in the week of July 20, 2

Jul 21, 2026
Tigere Is Turning Liquidity Into Capital as Zimbabwe’s Investable Universe Contracts

The fund’s unitholder base expanded 21.8% year to date to 1,177 investors, strengthening free float and supporting sustained secondary market liquidity. Growing liquidity is becoming a strategic fundi

Jul 19, 2026
The O-Mari Effect: Mobile Money War Goes Physical, NetOne Remains Idle

Zimbabwe's mobile money sector has entered a new phase, one in which the platform that wins will not be the one with the biggest digital wallet but the one that can put physical cash in a customer's h

Jul 02, 2026
Seed Co Limited Stops Bankrolling a State That Pays Late

Collection of the $57.1 million book governs everything from here. Three outcomes are open to the company, and each is already visible in its conduct. The first is to force the government onto cash an

Jun 30, 2026

ZSE Partners with TN Asset Management to Build Pipeline for ZEEX SME Exchange: Can It Deliver Listing-Ready SMEs?

The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with TN Asset Management to jointly identify, develop, and co-finance high-growth startups and SMEs with the potential to list on t

Jun 30, 2026

Unifreight Pivots to Logistics Integration as Growth Phase Matures

Unifreight used its 2025 annual general meeting to reposition the group from a freight carrier into a multi-service logistics platform, announcing a strategy that adds express courier, customs clearan

Jun 23, 2026

ZEEX’s First Partner: Evaluating INVESCI’s Real Market Impact Before the First Listing

The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange Limited has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with INVESCI Asset Management, establishing a strategic institutional partnership to advance the growth and development of

Jun 12, 2026

ZSE Relaxes Entry Barriers, But Fundamental Challenges Remain

The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange has relaxed listing requirements effective 1 June 2026 and valid for a window of 36 months, slashing the minimum market capitalisation requirement for listing from USD 10 m

Jun 09, 2026

Zimbabwe Gets Its First Dedicated SME Exchange: ZEEX Opens New Capital Route for SMEs

Securities and Exchange Commission of Zimbabwe has approved the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange to operationalise its Small and Medium Enterprises exchange under the brand name Zimbabwe Entrepreneurship Excha

Jun 08, 2026

ZSE Loses One of Its Remaining Pure Property Counters With 100% Shareholder Approval

First Mutual Properties Limited, one of the only purely property-focused listed entity on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, has voted itself off the exchange. At an Extraordinary General Meeting held on T

Jun 04, 2026

Xarani and the Platform Bet: What FBC Holdings Is Building, and Whether It Can Work

The platform bet is intellectually coherent, the Finserve trajectory demonstrates the commercial destination at maturity, and the internal group synergies with MicroPlan, OutRisk and FBC Bank are real

May 06, 2026

Rail, Refinery and Realignment: Zambia and Zimbabwe Redraw Southern Africa's Trade Map

Zimbabwe and Zambia have signed a US$2.18 billion Memorandum of Understanding for a new 311-kilometre railway linking Kafue in Zambia to Lion's Den in Zimbabwe, while Zambia's energy ministry confirme

Apr 14, 2026