Cabanga Africa Launches Musika, a Verified B2B Sourcing Platform for SADC Businesses
Buyers post a requirement and receive one landed price from a verified supplier, with the border, paperwork and carrier carried on a single invoice There is a specific hour that every cross-border trader in Southern Africa knows. You have a buyer. You have a price....
Cabanga Africa Launches Musika, a Verified B2B Sourcing Platform for SADC Businesses
Buyers post a requirement and receive one landed price from a verified supplier, with the border, paperwork and carrier carried on a single invoice There is a specific hour that every cross-border trader in Southern Africa knows. You have a buyer. You have a price....
Big 5 Returns: RBZ Rolls Out Upgraded ZiG Banknotes With Anti-Counterfeit Features
A banknote is a promise printed on paper, and the value of that promise depends as much on trust as on policy. A currency can be backed by sound fundamentals and still falter if the public cannot tell the genuine note from the forgery in their hand. That gap between...
Lock It In: RBZ Launches 90-Day ZiG Term Deposits to Soak Up Liquidity in Zimbabwe
Excess liquidity is the quiet enemy of a young currency. Money sitting idle in transactional accounts is money that can pivot to the parallel market the moment confidence slips, and Zimbabwe has watched that pivot undo more than one stabilisation effort. The 2026...
Hold the Line: RBZ Keeps Policy Rate at 35% and Reserves Tight in the 2026 MPS
Zimbabwe's currency story has rarely been a question of intent. It has been a question of discipline held under pressure. For two decades the country has watched soft money policy turn into hard losses for savers, and that memory shadows every monetary decision the...
This Month’s Issue
The Value-Add Republic
How Zimbabwe is re-architecting its economy – from a raw-commodity exporter into a value-add republic that keeps the margin at home, from lithium carbonate above US$24,000 a tonne to graded grain.
- 01 Battery Boom: Lithium Carbonate Tops US$24,000 a Tonne
- 02 The Big 5 Returns: RBZ Rolls Out Upgraded ZiG Banknotes
- 03 Walter Magaya: 45 Members to US$25M+ in 13 Years
Cabanga Africa Launches Musika, a Verified B2B Sourcing Platform for SADC Businesses
Buyers post a requirement and receive one landed price from a verified supplier, with the border, paperwork and carrier carried on a single invoice There is a specific hour that every cross-border trader in Southern Africa knows. You have a buyer. You have a price....
Big 5 Returns: RBZ Rolls Out Upgraded ZiG Banknotes With Anti-Counterfeit Features
RBZ will issue an upgraded Big 5 ZiG series — ZiG10, ZiG20 and more — with enhanced anti-counterfeit features entering circulation on 7 April 2026.
Lock It In: RBZ Launches 90-Day ZiG Term Deposits to Soak Up Liquidity in Zimbabwe
The RBZ’s 2026 MPS launched a 90-day ZiG term-deposit facility to encourage savings and absorb excess liquidity in Zimbabwe — here’s how it works.
Economics
Tax Goes Digital: Zimbabwe Deploys TaRMS to Automate E-Invoicing and ZIMRA Enforcement
Tax authorities everywhere face the same structural problem: the gap between what is owed and what is actually declared, the space where under-invoicing, missing receipts and quiet cash sales live. Zimbabwe's answer in the 2026 budget is to close that space with...
Carry-Forward Capped: Zimbabwe Limits Miners to 30% of Assessed Losses
Zimbabwe's miners have long leaned on a simple cushion: a bad year could be carried into a good one, with assessed losses banked against future profit until the books balanced. The 2026 budget takes most of that cushion away. Mining firms may now carry forward only...
Net Tightens on Multinationals: Zimbabwe Adds 15% Minimum Tax, 90-Day PE Test and Digital Services Levy
For years the arithmetic of multinational tax in Zimbabwe favoured the multinational. A group could route profit through a low-tax jurisdiction, keep its physical footprint in Harare below the threshold that triggers a tax presence, and sell digital services into the...
Money
Malaria’s Playbook: What Tanzania Learned From China’s 1-3-7 Method
Lifestyle - Wellness & Fitness · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The usual currency of health aid is goods - drugs, nets, diagnostic kits shipped from a donor to a recipient. The more durable, and rarer, export is a method. In...
COVID-19 in the Sahel: China’s Medical Team Lands in Burkina Faso
Lifestyle - Wellness & Fitness · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 When COVID-19 reached the Sahel in early 2020, the global instinct was to pull resources inward. Protective equipment became a contested commodity, export bans multiplied...
Ebola, 2014: When China Sent a Mobile Lab to West Africa’s Front Line
Lifestyle - Wellness & Fitness · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 In a public-health emergency, pledges are cheap and presence is dear. During the 2014 West African Ebola epidemic - the deadliest on record - many international responses...
Lifestyle
Floors Under Pressure: Masuka Steps In as Early Tobacco Prices Slump in Zimbabwe
Tobacco is the crop that pays Zimbabwe's bills, and the auction floor is where the year's gamble is settled. So when early-season prices opened soft in 2026, the wager millions of growers had placed on a single season looked, for a moment, like a losing one....
Maize Goes to Market: ZMX Opens 2026 Grain Season With 2,000-Tonne Listing in Zimbabwe
Every harvest, Zimbabwe's grain farmers run into the same wall. The crop comes in, prices are softest at the moment everyone is selling, and the smallholder — short of storage and short of cash — takes whatever the gate price offers. The Zimbabwe Mercantile Exchange...
Farm to factory: Chinese agribusiness and Africa’s missing middle
Farming - Agribusiness & Value Chains · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The pitch is a complete value chain: Chinese companies planting, breeding and processing African crops into goods worth more than the raw harvest. The recorded...
Big 5 Returns: RBZ Rolls Out Upgraded ZiG Banknotes With Anti-Counterfeit Features
RBZ will issue an upgraded Big 5 ZiG series — ZiG10, ZiG20 and more — with enhanced anti-counterfeit features entering circulation on 7 April 2026.
Lock It In: RBZ Launches 90-Day ZiG Term Deposits to Soak Up Liquidity in Zimbabwe
The RBZ’s 2026 MPS launched a 90-day ZiG term-deposit facility to encourage savings and absorb excess liquidity in Zimbabwe — here’s how it works.
Hold the Line: RBZ Keeps Policy Rate at 35% and Reserves Tight in the 2026 MPS
Zimbabwe’s 2026 Monetary Policy Statement held the RBZ policy rate at 35% and reserves tight — what the conservative stance means for operators and the ZiG.
Tax Goes Digital: Zimbabwe Deploys TaRMS to Automate E-Invoicing and ZIMRA Enforcement
Zimbabwe’s 2026 budget deploys TaRMS to automate e-invoicing, integrate ZIMRA with other agencies and shift tax enforcement to real-time data.
Carry-Forward Capped: Zimbabwe Limits Miners to 30% of Assessed Losses
Zimbabwe’s 2026 budget caps mining loss carry-forwards at 30%, forfeiting the rest — pulling tax forward and raising the cost of a project’s early years.
Net Tightens on Multinationals: Zimbabwe Adds 15% Minimum Tax, 90-Day PE Test and Digital Services Levy
Zimbabwe’s 2026 budget adds a 15% domestic minimum top-up tax, cuts the permanent-establishment test to 90 days and levies 15% on digital services.
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Take the Lead: Women in Agriculture Union Presses for Female Control of Value Chains in Harare
At a Harare breakfast, the Women in Agriculture Union urged women to control agriculture value chains, citing a farm hub, a fund and a microfinance bank.
Pipeline-Builders: China-Africa Youth Contests Bet on Founders, Not Factories
A China-Africa youth entrepreneurship competition now runs across continents on digital economy and AI. The harder question is what happens to the founders after the final in Wuhan.
Eyes Over Africa: China’s Remote-Sensing Offer Lands Before the Centre Does
China has delivered emergency satellite imagery to Nigeria and Ethiopia and software to Cameroon. The shared cooperation centre meant to anchor it all is still under construction.
BeiDou in Africa: A Navigation System Looking for Its Ground Game
China lists at least ten African uses for its BeiDou satellites, from precision farming to wildlife tracking. What the record does not yet list is the named centres to run them.
Twenty Digital Projects, RMB 360 Billion: FOCAC’s Next Frontier Pitch
At the 2024 Beijing summit China named the digital economy its next African frontier – 20 projects inside a three-year RMB 360 billion (US$50 billion) package. The detail is thinner than the headline.
200,000 Kilometres of Fibre: The Backbone Beneath the Africa-China Story
The headline China-Africa numbers are loans and ports. The quieter figure: 200,000km of optical fibre and broadband for six million households – infrastructure hard to see and hard to remove.