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Zimbabwe Retail Investment Rises Despite Informal Market Pressure

SPAR is also adding capacity through a different ownership structure. A new SPAR supermarket opened in Mazowe in March with 970 square metres of grocery retail space and another 130 square metres allo

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Installed, Silent, Waiting: Zimbabwe’s Hospital Renovation Gap

She has been waiting for three months. Not in the queue that forms outside Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals before sunrise, though she knows that queue. Not in the administrative corridor where referr

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Gold Market Deepens to US$373bn Daily Liquidity: Harare Flirts with Another Record Year

Gold's position inside investment portfolios is increasingly difficult to reconcile with the way commodity indices still treat it. 20 years of returns, US$373 billion in daily liquidity and a dispropo

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Zimbabwe
Weekly Currency Update:ZiG Holds the Line as Foreign Currency Inflows Carry the Load

The RBZ mid-rate closed the review period at ZiG26.5673/USD on 14 August 2026, appreciating marginally from ZiG26.59/USD on 13 August and by approximately 0.20% from ZiG26.62/USD a week earlier. Again

 Aug 15, 2026
Zimbabwe
VFEX Rewrites Market Capitalisation Rules for Cross-Listed Companies

The Victoria Falls Stock Exchange (VFEX) has changed how it measures the market capitalisation of cross-listed companies, adopting the global equity value of an issuer from 13 August 2026 by multiplyi

 Aug 14, 2026
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Zimbabwe’s Gold Output Tracks 300kg Short of 50-Tonne Target

Zimbabwe's gold producers have delivered 26.05 tonnes to Fidelity Gold Refinery between January and July 2026, the strongest first seven months on record and already 52.1% of the country's 50 tonne an

 Aug 14, 2026
Zimbabwe
Jobs That Were Never Taken: Over 178k Migrants Leave South Africa, Unemployment Hits 4-Year High

South Africa's unemployment rate has risen to 33.6% in the second quarter of 2026, a four year high, after more than 178,000 African migrants reportedly left or were deported during an immigration cra

 Aug 13, 2026
Old Mutual VFEX debut settles within 1% of JSE parity after open price discovery

The scale of the JSE market remains an important reference for assessing depth. Old Mutual traded 19.9 million shares worth about R251.8 million on the JSE on Wednesday. The VFEX line is starting with

Aug 13, 2026
First Chemical Breaks Into Zimbabwe's Export Line

Zimbabwe has exported US$50 million of lithium sulphate in June 2026, lifting first half exports to about US$62.7 million after the first US$12.6 million shipment appeared in April. This export was ef

Aug 13, 2026
Implats Profit Recovery Puts Zimplats Back in Focus

Impala Platinum Holdings, one of the world’s largest PGM producers and the parent company of Zimplats has moved from barely profitable to one of the strongest earnings recoveries in the global PGM sec

Aug 12, 2026
Zimbabwe's Bumper Harvest Begins Reshaping the External Sector

Zimbabwe's maize import bill fell by US$90 million, or 32.9%, during the first half of 2026 as the country's largest harvest in years began replacing imported grain with domestic production. Maize imp

Aug 07, 2026

Zimbabwe's Manufacturing Industry Enters New Investment Cycle

Zimbabwe has imported US$69.8 million worth of non-domestic heating and cooling equipment in June 2026, up from US$954,201 a year earlier, making it the country’s second-largest individual import prod

Aug 07, 2026

Vendor Licences Become Tax Gateways Under New Treasury Proposal

Finance Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube has proposed linking the renewal of local authority vendor licences to compliance with Zimbabwe Revenue Authority presumptive tax requirements, using council re

Aug 06, 2026

ZIDA's Investment Approvals Hit US$1.59 Billion With Mining and Manufacturing at 79.6%

Zimbabwe Investment Development Agency approved 86 mining licences worth US$768.5 million in the second quarter of 2026, an average approved ticket of US$8.9 million and the largest sectoral allocatio

Aug 06, 2026

Gold Exports Reach Historic High: Biggest Monthly Windfall in History Tests Sustainability of the Boom

Zimbabwe has exported US$583.4 million of semi manufactured gold in June 2026, the highest monthly value recorded in Zimbabwe’s trade history, latest data from Zimstat shows. The figure exceeded the p

Aug 06, 2026

Zimbabwe Approves US$7 Billion in PPP Projects, But Less Than Half Reach Construction

Zimbabwe has approved 30 Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects with a projected investment value of US$7 billion since 2018, though fewer than half have progressed into construction or operation,

Aug 05, 2026

Zimbabwe Posts Strongest Export Month on Record: Export Concentration Reaches 87%

Zimbabwe has recorded its highest monthly export value on record at least six years in June 2026, with merchandise exports rising 63.1% from May to US$1.442 billion. Imports increased 11.5% to a reco

Aug 05, 2026

Zimbabwe Quietly Rewrites Its Growth Model: Why Treasury Is Designing The Economy For Resilience Instead Of Recovery

Zimbabwe's Mid Term Budget Review and the 2027 Budget Strategy Paper reveal a policy shift that is larger than the headline numbers on growth, inflation or revenue. Together they show Government movin

Aug 03, 2026

Zimbabwe’s Debt Strategy Enters Its Double Arrears Test

Zimbabwe’s debt resolution programme has reached the point where its credibility will be judged by two payments moving in opposite directions across the same public balance sheet. Treasury needs about

Aug 03, 2026