Stable and transparent policies are essential as investors seek stability. They need assurance that policies will not change unpredictably.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Jun. 28, 2024
The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition is right. Corruption has reached a crisis point and good people can no longer remain silent.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Jun. 21, 2024
The ZiG, was supposed to stabilise the economy as well as bring ease to the transacting public.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Jun. 14, 2024
Fiscal policies need to strike a delicate balance, according to the Association of Chinese New Energy Miners.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
May. 31, 2024
We understand the bank's decision to leave, but we expect a more considerate approach when it comes to the welfare of its employees.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
May. 24, 2024
This year, the country expects to produce 265 million kg of tobacco, from a record harvest of 296 million last year.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
May. 17, 2024
The situation will not get better because it seems the legislation applies selectively
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
May. 10, 2024
Veritas explained that to reach the necessary GNI numbers, major growth in the main economic sectors would have to take place — some having to double in size.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
May. 3, 2024
The visionary masterplan is a long-term plan that will develop the ZITF grounds by introducing modern world-class amenities to the City of Bulawayo.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Apr. 26, 2024
The reason we are talking about the truth today is that, in Zimbabwe, certain government officials and institutions have a history of lying to the public and seem to enjoy it.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Apr. 19, 2024
As Zimbabweans, we all want to have a functional currency, but in order for that to happen, the government needs to carefully consider its policy options.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Apr. 12, 2024
Mushayavanhu, a veteran banker with over 30 years’ experience, assumes governorship at a time the banking sector is facing a plethora of challenges, chief among them a confidence deficit.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Apr. 5, 2024
Listed businesses, such as Innscor Africa and National Foods Holdings claim that these changes have led to a great deal of uncertainty in the way taxes are handled throughout the economy.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Mar. 28, 2024
This week, platinum giant Zimplats initiated a voluntary layoff exercise for all employees to keep the company afloat in the low-price metal market.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Mar. 22, 2024
Studies show that Zimbabwe produces around 6% of the world's tobacco output. As of 2023, the value of tobacco products sold around the world amounted to US$850 billion.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Mar. 15, 2024
High spending authorities must begin serious cutbacks to a range of luxuries, including expensive globe-trotting adventures and spending on fast cars.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Mar. 8, 2024
Zimbabwe cannot tap into this and other similar funding windows because lenders know that repayments would be difficult to get.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Mar. 1, 2024
Basically, Milei argued that when a government gets in the way of an economy having a “market discovery”, its companies produce less.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Feb. 23, 2024
It has always been, but there has been no political will to address the concerns that it has raised.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Feb. 16, 2024
There seems to be a deterioration of this problem, while law enforcement agencies and the entire government bury their head in the sand as if nothing serious is taking place.
Editorial Comment
By Theindependent1
Feb. 9, 2024
This must be the last time such kindergarten blunders are made.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Jan. 12, 2024
Lithium royalties increased by more than 100%.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Jan. 5, 2024
But each time living standards have plummeted in the midst of overdrives of propaganda, officials have not been held to account.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Dec. 21, 2023
Unless serious work begins to address the power crisis, even ambitious targets set under Vision 2030 are in grave danger.
Editorial Comment
By Theindependent1
Dec. 15, 2023
On the other hand, he must seriously pursue ongoing debt restructuring efforts.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Dec. 8, 2023
The controversial tax has been widely condemned as an extra burden on industry, and citizens already struggling to make ends meet.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Dec. 1, 2023
We talk about this to highlight that, while the government is working on tapping into the informal sector, it needs to speed up whatever it is doing.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Nov. 24, 2023
By removing the Treasury’s control over the MIF and Zida, there are no longer several bodies that can analyse what happens with tax payers’ funds. Absolutely no one.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Nov. 17, 2023
Currently, a political party in Zimbabwe can undermine the will of the people by simply writing a letter to the Speaker of Parliament, thereby undoing the decision made by the people.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Nov. 10, 2023
In the case of IPPs, there has been a scale back in terms of implementing investment proposals.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Nov. 3, 2023
In her report, acting Auditor-General Rheah Kujinga noted that there were 51 entities that had not yet submitted financial statements for audit.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Oct. 27, 2023
NRZ has been mercilessly stripped off and left to collapse by the usual suspects — looting politicians in government and other strategic institutions.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Oct. 20, 2023
Mines are driving Zimbabwe’s economy, judging by the scale of investments flowing into chrome, gold and lithium fields alone.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Oct. 13, 2023
They are demanding swift changes to the way Mutapa Investment Fund (MIF) was established, especially with indications that public funds may be at the mercy of looters under its current state.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Oct. 6, 2023
Where logistics are poor, economic growth will be slow, and social services will be affected. Surely, this is not what Zimbabwe wants for now.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Sep. 29, 2023
For many years, industrialists have warned about the ramifications of high costs of doing business in Zimbabwe, for instance.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Sep. 22, 2023
After seeing the currency depreciating by over 500% in the first quarter alone, and how this wiped out incomes, Zimbabweans are ill equipped to handle another wave of turmoil.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Sep. 15, 2023
This is not a good sign. The reason for this rejection is simple.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Sep. 8, 2023
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.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Sep. 1, 2023
This was very clear during the Lima debt clearance plan in 2015, which flopped because Mugabe wanted things his way
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Aug. 25, 2023
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.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Aug. 18, 2023
The data also exposes how deception has ruined this economy.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Aug. 11, 2023
One British national and three Indians were arrested in the heavily fortified Chiadzwa diamond fields two weeks ago before being freed.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Aug. 4, 2023
Creating confusion in order to loot is a language that many bigwigs in President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government have perfectly mastered.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Jul. 28, 2023
This was an important insight — one that has been ignored by government, pension funds and insurers for many years.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Jul. 21, 2023
The three-year long Hwange expansion project became one of Mnangagwa’s biggest achievements since ascending to power in 2017.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Jul. 7, 2023
It only works for political gamesmanships, when politicians want to convince the majority that they are on top of the situation.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Jun. 30, 2023
Sales of 261 million kilogrammes as of last week means
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
Jun. 23, 2023
But signals sent to markets were negative due to lack of clarity.
Editorial Comment
By The Independent
Jun. 2, 2023
Zimbabwe’s economy surrendered 50% of its gross domestic product (GDP) within the first decade of the confrontations.
Editorial Comment
By The Zimbabwe Independent
May. 26, 2023