Zim govt must not sleep on the wheel

Where logistics are poor, economic growth will be slow, and social services will be affected. Surely, this is not what Zimbabwe wants for now.
By The Zimbabwe Independent Sep. 29, 2023
Zim must address high sovereign risk
Zim must address high sovereign risk
This is not a good sign. The reason for this rejection is simple.
By The Zimbabwe Independent Sep. 8, 2023
Billions at stake
His predecessor had refined the art of threats and rolling out harsh laws and policies before he was toppled, which defined the final 17 years of his disastrous rule.
By The Zimbabwe Independent Sep. 1, 2023
Post-election crisis flashpoints
This was very clear during the Lima debt clearance plan in 2015, which flopped because Mugabe wanted things his way
By The Zimbabwe Independent Aug. 25, 2023
Blood, FDI don’t mix, they are worlds apart
The worry is, selfish politicians have repeated the same mistake over many years because their ambitions have nothing to do with building a vibrant Zimbabwean economy.
By The Zimbabwe Independent Aug. 18, 2023
Politics plunges economy into damaging deficits
The data also exposes how deception has ruined this economy.
By The Zimbabwe Independent Aug. 11, 2023
Smoke can’t just waft without fire
One British national and three Indians were arrested in the heavily fortified Chiadzwa diamond fields two weeks ago before being freed.
By The Zimbabwe Independent Aug. 4, 2023
A leadership unfit for command
Creating confusion in order to loot is a language that many bigwigs in President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government have perfectly mastered.
By The Zimbabwe Independent Jul. 28, 2023
Editorial Comment: No one cares if pensioners die
This was an important insight — one that has been ignored by government, pension funds and insurers for many years.
By The Zimbabwe Independent Jul. 21, 2023
Zim’s power situation still fragile
The three-year long Hwange expansion project became one of Mnangagwa’s biggest achievements since ascending to power in 2017.
By The Zimbabwe Independent Jul. 7, 2023
Collapsing Zimdollar exposes mediocrity
It only works for political gamesmanships, when politicians want to convince the majority that they are on top of the situation.
By The Zimbabwe Independent Jun. 30, 2023
Tobacco’s cycle of slavery needs to stop
Sales of 261 million kilogrammes as of last week means
By The Zimbabwe Independent Jun. 23, 2023
Policy clarity vital at this stage
But signals sent to markets were negative due to lack of clarity.
By The Independent Jun. 2, 2023
Mnangagwa must not deliver another Lima
Zimbabwe’s economy surrendered 50% of its gross domestic product (GDP) within the first decade of the confrontations.
By The Zimbabwe Independent May. 26, 2023
Ncube weaponising foreign trade to fight local firms
The unsustainability of this dependence syndrome has been exposed during South Africa’s move to drive back economic refugees.
By The Zimbabwe Independent May. 20, 2023
Zim sitting on a timebomb
The economic meltdown, which has escalated in the past five months, has eroded incomes at a scale last seen during the first phase of Zimbabwe’s crisis between 2007 and 2008.
By The Zimbabwe Independent May. 12, 2023
Massaged figures not making sense
The distortions have been compounded by the fact that generally, the Zimbabwean dollar is the country’s official medium of exchange.
By The Zimbabwe Independent Apr. 28, 2023
Don’t create looting, killing avenues
Strict measures in controlling how claims are parcelled out and how it is sold, and proceeds distributed, have become necessary.
By The Zimbabwe Independent Apr. 21, 2023
Act quickly before crisis deepens
In schools, deepening shortages of books and other learning materials have become endemic.
By The Zimbabwe Independent Apr. 14, 2023
Hefty taxes a heavy toll on business
Over US$42 billion had been wiped out through mismanagement a decade earlier, after inflation surged to a terrifying 500 billion percent in 2008
By The Zimbabwe Independent Mar. 31, 2023
ZCDC mustn’t pamper elites with poor man’s birth right
Villagers were killed, and all forms of rights abuses were reported.
By The Zimbabwe Independent Mar. 24, 2023
Don’t drag Zim into darkness
Any government can easily become part to IFFs if there is laxity in their regulation of financial systems. As acknowledged by State and global agencies, IFFs are already rampant in Zimbabwe.
By The Zimbabwe Independent Mar. 17, 2023
Soon, there will be nothing to steal
Rolling blackouts alone — the result of prolonged mismanagement and plunder — will cost the country US$4 billion this year.
By The Zimbabwe Independent Mar. 10, 2023
Let’s migrate from Zesa to solar, gas
The old equipment at Hwange thermal power station, most of it over 40 years old, is continually breaking down.
By The Zimbabwe Independent Mar. 3, 2023
Why agriculture strategy will flop
In the middle of all this, progressive civil servants like John Basera, Lands permanent secretary are working around the clock to rebuild a shattered sector
By The Zimbabwe Independent Feb. 24, 2023
Disappearing mortgages mirror economy-wide rot
Those who qualified for mortgages ended up on the losing end as banks became cautious. As IP notes, today, it is only the elite who can build or buy homes.
By The Zimbabwe Independent Feb. 17, 2023
Act quickly on IPPs’ concerns
The State has no funds to build power stations at the rate that this country requires.
By The Zimbabwe Independent Feb. 10, 2023
Inflation drop: Govt celebrating mediocrity
Yet government spin doctors have been in celebratory mode.
By The Zimbabwe Independent Feb. 3, 2023