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
Masimba Holdings Limited, the Zimbabwean construction and engineering group operating across roads, mining, buildings, water, energy and other infrastructure projects, saw profit for the period declin
Oct 01, 2026
Glencore Plc, the Switzerland-based mining and commodity trading group listed in London and Johannesburg, will begin trading in Sydney on October 14, widening its investor base as it advances multibil
Caledonia Mining’s Blanket Mine now needs its strongest quarter of 2026 to recover from a deep-level mining bottleneck that cut access to higher-grade ore, reduced gold production and forced managemen
About three quarters of everyone admitted into Zimbabwe’s prisons during the second quarter of 2026 entered without a sentence, placing court processing, bail and remand management at the centre of th
he Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority has reduced diesel prices to US$2.04 per litre and petrol blend to US$2.05, effective October 8. The cuts provide limited savings for businesses and households,
Zimbabwe has separated the person selling the investment story from the person controlling the public purse, placing businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei in charge of Economic Development and Investment Pr
Fidelity Life Assurance’s core insurance operation moved into loss in the first half of 2026 as higher claims and a rising loss component pushed insurance service expenses above insurance revenue, lea
Lithium products overtook platinum group metals as Zimbabwe’s largest mineral export category excluding gold and silver, generating approximately US$2.16 billion in the nine months to September 2026.
Zimbabwe’s covered formal-sector employment contracted by 1.2% year on year in the first quarter of 2026 even as workers recorded a sharp recovery in earnings, exposing an economy that is rebuilding p