Zimbabwe's maize imports surged to a historic US$ 563 million in 2024, up from US$ 149.5 million in the previous year, marking a remarkable increase of over 200%. This places maize imports second only
Jan 29, 2025
he European Investment Bank (EIB Global), in partnership with Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe, has unveiled a €20 million ($21 million) credit facility aimed at bolstering Zimbabwean small and medium enterprise
Mar 05, 2025
Construction firm Masimba Holdings, listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE), has recorded a 43% decrease in revenue to $8.1 million for the first quarter ended March 31, 2025, from $14.3 million i
May 19, 2025
Masimba Holdings, a Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE)-listed company providing engineering and infrastructure solutions to the agricultural, commercial, housing, mining, public and water sectors, has reco
Sep 30, 2025
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
Oct 28, 2025
Masimba Holdings, the ZSE-listed civil engineering and contracting group entering its 75th year, posted revenue of ZWG1.6 billion for the year ended 31 December 2025, a clean 9.6% advance on the prior
Apr 13, 2026
Zimbabwe’s five-year economic expansion is entering a harder phase, with household and government consumption projected to contribute 4.4 percentage points of the country’s 5% economic growth in 2026
Sep 07, 2026
Zimbabwe’s human-capital problem is increasingly becoming an allocation problem, as the country has a relatively educated workforce, yet the formal private sector remains too small to absorb the peop
Sep 14, 2026
Zimbabwe’s private-sector credit stock is equivalent to only 6.5% of GDP, according to the World Bank’s Zimbabwe Country Growth and Jobs Report, compared with approximately 22% in Côte d’Ivoire, 32%
Zimbabwe’s higher-value service industries lost momentum in the second quarter of 2026, with financial and insurance activities contracting 3.6% quarter-on-quarter and professional, scientific and tec
Sep 16, 2026
Zimbabwe is preparing to import grain into the 2026/27 agricultural season after Government has projected national cereal production of 1.6 million tonnes against a potential deficit of between 266,88
Sep 17, 2026
Dangote Petroleum Refinery plans to pursue a secondary listing in New York after doubling its Nigerian refining capacity to 1.4 million barrels a day, extending a capital-raising programme that has al
First Mutual Holdings has recorded a 222% increase in first-half profit, which also conceals a weaker performance from its core insurance operation, with investment returns and property revaluations p
Meikles Limited is progressing the disposal of its 50% Victoria Falls Hotel operating interest, 28 years after acquiring the stake in 1998. The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed group holds interests in
Zimbabwe’s gold sector has moved into its strongest position yet to achieve the Government’s 50-tonne target for 2026 after Fidelity Gold Refinery received 5.11 tonnes in August, taking cumulative del
Mutapa Energy Resources is moving Sandawana towards large-scale lithium processing with a planned US$300 million concentrator and a separate US$400 million lithium sulphate project, giving Zimbabwe's
he Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority raised the maximum diesel price to US$2.08 per litre from US$1.95, effective 17 September, placing the regulated fuel price back above the US$2 mark reached dur
Zimbabwe's solar investment is moving beyond the question of how to keep the lights on, with farmers, manufacturers, miners and other businesses increasingly using private generation to protect produc
Zimbabwe is joining a six-country SADC initiative to explore pooled procurement of medicines and health commodities, opening a new route for the country to increase purchasing power and potentially de
