Safaricom launched a voice biometrics system dubbed jitambulishe in December last year with the aim of reducing fraud an...
May 16, 2018
Private investment firm TPG has paid $47.5million (R581.5m) to acquire an unspecified stake in Kenyan digital payments f...
South Africa’s jobless rate stayed near a 15-year high in the first quarter as optimism following the ascent to powe...
May 15, 2018
State oil firm NNPC has awarded 50 companies with contracts to buy Nigerian crude and more than half of them are local f...
South Africa aims to finalise a third version of a hotly contested mining charter in June, mines minister Gwede Mantashe...
South Africa's unemployment rate was unchanged at 26.7 percent of the labour force in the first quarter of 2018 compared...
THE Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) has reported a 2,88% increase in the cost of living to $591,58 last month from Ma...
PROTON Bakers says it has recorded 400 percent growth in sales in Bulawayo alone where it has created 153 jobs...
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) says it surpassed its gross revenue target for April 2018 by 9,81 percent to reac...
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has extended its export incentive to cotton farmers who are set to receive an additio...
Zimbabwe's central bank has stopped local banks from trading or processing payments linked to cryptocurrencies like bitc...
The growth of bitcoin and other digital currencies is working against the need for the creation of a market-based curren...
Netflix and other so-called “over-the-top” (OTT) Internet streaming services will fundamentally disrupt the pay-televisi...
According to the World Bank’s recent Migration and Development Brief, remittance to low and middle-income countries boun...
May 14, 2018
Kenya and Nigeria have taken first place as the leading agri-tech markets on the continent while Ghana has come third ac...
The Kenya Bankers Association (KBA) has made public its third report on the effect of the interest capping law which pro...
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Monday that Chinese firm Sinosteel Corporation had agreed to invest $1 b...
Caledonia Mining produced 12 924 oz of gold in the first quarter of this year, marginally higher than that produced in t...
The platinum market will move further into oversupply this year, as production from South Africa remains flat and demand...
The 12-month average inflation in Mozambique fell to 9.41 percent in April, according to data from the Mozambican Nation...
Zimbabwe’s trade balance slipped back into deficit in September 2025, recording a shortfall of US$30.8 million after a modest surplus of US$6.9 million in August, a 548.8% swing from black to red. T
Zimbabwe has started the export of silver for the first time in 2025, after only registering three episodes of such in 2024. The country’s first time to export silver was in February 2024 worth US$
Zimbabwe has recorded a 46% increase in irrigated land from 151,000 hectares in 2019 to 221,000 hectares in 2025 in a landmark stride toward climate resilience and national food security according to
On October 28, 2025, President Emmerson Mnangagwa delivered his State of the Nation Address (SONA) to a joint sitting of Parliament in Mt Hampden, Zimbabwe, projecting cautious optimism amid a complex
The Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) currency is exhibiting a modest resilience this week in the formal market, appreciating by 0.04% against the US dollar last week. This slight gain aligns with broader stabilisa
Gold’s 2025 journey has been a rollercoaster, soaring to unprecedented heights before a dramatic plunge that has left investors questioning its next move. As of October 28, 2025, spot gold prices edge
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) and the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) are working on modalities to allow private companies to sell and distribute e
he International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) latest economic projections for Zimbabwe, as outlined in its October 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa, paint an ostensibly bright picture fo
