Editorial Comment

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

Why are factory shells turning into churches?

By The Zimbabwe Independent Sep. 22, 2023

Act early on post poll market jitters

By The Zimbabwe Independent Sep. 15, 2023

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

Blood, FDI don’t mix, they are worlds apart

Politics plunges economy into damaging deficits

The data also exposes how deception has ruined this economy.

By The Zimbabwe Independent Aug. 11, 2023

Politics plunges economy into damaging deficits

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

Editorial Comment: No one cares if pensioners die

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

Tobacco’s cycle of slavery needs to stop

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

Ncube weaponising foreign trade to fight local firms

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

ZCDC mustn’t pamper elites with poor man’s birth right

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