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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...
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...
Chinese zones: A modest base for Africa’s export story
Economics - Trade & AfCFTA · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 Chinese-built industrial zones are often invoked as engines of Africa's export future. The recorded numbers ask for restraint. Their early scale was modest and their...
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.
Floors Under Pressure: Masuka Steps In as Early Tobacco Prices Slump in Zimbabwe
Minister Masuka tours tobacco auction floors as early 2026 prices slump. Levies under review, output eyes 500m kg by 2030. What growers face.
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.
Maize Goes to Market: ZMX Opens 2026 Grain Season With 2,000-Tonne Listing in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Mercantile Exchange opened its 2026 grain season with over 2,000 tonnes of maize, a warehouse-receipt system and 50kg deposits for smallholders.
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.
Flora of Kenya: How an Orchid Atlas Became a Knowledge-Economy Test
A volume cataloguing Kenya’s orchids, co-edited by Chinese and Kenyan scientists, is a real research output. Whether it builds Kenyan capacity or just Chinese citations is the deeper question.
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.
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.
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.
SBC House at Union Vale: A Broadcasting Grant That Took Six Years
A China-funded broadcasting headquarters for Seychelles broke ground in 2019 and handed over in 2025. The long road from grant to keys is the real infrastructure story.
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.
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