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Zimbabwe
Sugar Tax Cut, Over 2 Million Unaccounted For: Will Fast Food Tax Suffer Same Fate?
Reduction of Sugar Tax: Has cut the sugar tax from 0.001% to 0.0005% per gram Revenue Allocation Concerns: Despite generating significant revenue from the sugar tax, no cancer treatment equipment has
Dec 02, 2024
Opinion
No Papers, No Care? Reimagining Healthcare Access for Zimbabweans in South Africa
In the bustling streets of Johannesburg's Hillbrow district, 28-year-old Tendai, a Zimbabwean migrant, found herself turned away from a public clinic despite being pregnant and in need of urgent care.
Oct 20, 2025
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Cuts Health Sector Fees, but Workforce and Infrastructure Gaps Remain Unanswered
The Cabinet has approved a health sector regulatory reform package spanning ten categories of fees and licences, announced by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube on 12 May 2026. The measures include the abo
May 13, 2026
Zimbabwe
Government Moves to Reshape Water Delivery as Reform Targets Quality, Accountability
Cabinet has approved two separate pieces of water sector legislation at its seventeenth meeting, the principles of the Water Act Amendment Bill and the Zimbabwe National Water Authority Amendment Bill
Jun 04, 2026
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's National One Health Strategic Plan: Addresses Health Threats Most Likely to Define the Country's Next Decade
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed Zimbabwe’s economy into a 6.2% contraction in 2020, expanded the number of citizens in extreme poverty by 1.3 million, pushing the national extreme poverty rate to 49%, wh
Jul 20, 2026
Top Stories
Building Hotels Without Building Hotels: How RTG Is Turning Existing Assets Into Its Next Growth Engine
Hospitality companies have traditionally expanded through a simple formula, acquire another property, build another hotel or borrow against the balance sheet to create additional room inventory. Howev
51 minutes agoZimbabwe 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
3 hours agoSeed Co’s Smallest Quarter Delivers Growth, Revenue Per Tonne Falls Ahead of Its Biggest Seasonal Test
Seed Co Limited, Zimbabwe’s biggest seed house has grown the first quarter revenue by 19% to US$6.9 million and volume 22% to 4,145 metric tonnes, against US$5.8 million and 3,393 metric tonnes a year
8 hours ago
