People-to-People: The Soft Layer Holding Up the Hardware Story
Intellectual - Behavioural Intelligence · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The ports and railways get the cameras; the relationships keep them running. On 8 January 2026, China and the African Union launched the 2026 China-Africa Year of...
People-to-People: The Soft Layer Holding Up the Hardware Story
Intellectual - Behavioural Intelligence · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The ports and railways get the cameras; the relationships keep them running. On 8 January 2026, China and the African Union launched the 2026 China-Africa Year of...
Pipeline-Builders: China-Africa Youth Contests Bet on Founders, Not Factories
Profiles - Women in Business & Rising Stars · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 Most China-Africa cooperation is measured in tonnes and kilometres. A growing slice is measured in founders. According to China's foreign...
Joint Labs: The Quiet Infrastructure China Is Building Without Concrete
Intellectual - Foresight & Big Ideas · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The visible China-Africa story is poured in concrete: ports, rail, power. The more durable story may be the one you cannot photograph. According to China's...
Flora of Kenya: How an Orchid Atlas Became a Knowledge-Economy Test
Intellectual - Foresight & Big Ideas · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 It is easy to read China-Kenya science cooperation as infrastructure by other means, and easy to be wrong. The headline output of mid-2025 is not a road or a port...
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
People-to-People: The Soft Layer Holding Up the Hardware Story
China and the AU launched a 2026 Year of People-to-People Exchanges in Addis Ababa. The summit was long on symbolism and short on the scholarship and training numbers that sustain it.
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.
Joint Labs: The Quiet Infrastructure China Is Building Without Concrete
Three new China-Africa joint laboratories in soil, crop pests and animal disease are infrastructure you cannot photograph – the kind that decides whether knowledge stays on the continent.
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
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...
Agricultural training: A yield story wearing a diplomatic suit
Farming - Agritech & Innovation · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 China-Africa agricultural training is usually filed under diplomacy. The farmer who attends a course files it under something more concrete: whether the maize stands...
Demonstration centres: Where China’s agronomy meets Africa’s yield gap
Farming - Food Systems & Sustainability · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 A demonstration centre is built to show what is possible. A smallholder field is where what is possible has to survive drought, credit gaps and a market price....
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.
Chinese zones: A modest base for Africa’s export story
Chinese industrial zones are cast as engines of Africa’s export ambitions, but the recorded jobs and investment are modest, and the zones matter more as a template than a triumph.
Industrial parks: Value-chain infrastructure, or just serviced land
Industrial parks are sold as value-chain infrastructure, but a fenced plot with power and a road is only real estate until firms cluster and a supply chain forms inside it.
The Value-Add Republic: Kufunga Magazine | Vol 06 Issue 01 | June 2026
Our June 2026 issue is out. How Zimbabwe is rewriting the oldest rule of its economy - from a country that sells the rock to one that keeps the value - and what that turn asks of everyone doing business here. Zimbabwe is testing a sentence most resource economies only...
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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.
Press Centres and Production Links: China’s Quieter Media Play in Africa
The visible China-Africa media story is towers and dishes. The quieter one is people and programming – journalist exchanges, training cohorts and co-production deals that shape how stories get told.