From Informal to Formal: Gold-Mobilisation Workshops Lift Artisanal Deliveries in Zimbabwe
For years the paradox of Zimbabwe's gold sector has been visible in plain sight: artisanal and small-scale miners produce a large share of the country's bullion, yet much of that metal once leaked across borders into informal channels, depriving the fiscus of foreign...
Botswana to Open Moscow Embassy, Woos Russian Investors for Rare Earths
Small economies cannot afford a single buyer for what they sell or a single partner for the capital they need. The diamond slump has made that lesson concrete, and it explains a diplomatic move that would otherwise read as merely symbolic. On 4 January 2026, Foreign...
Afrophobia as a Growth Constraint, Not a Social Footnote
Growth models for South Africa carry the usual variables: investment, productivity, the terms of trade, the cost of capital, the electricity supply. Social cohesion is not among them. It is filed under politics, or sociology, or the softer pages of a country report....
Ten systems that turn a crew into a multi-site operator
The leap that undoes cleaning companies is not the first extra crew; it is the first extra site. One team in one building can be run by a supervisor who sees everything. Spread the same company across a dozen locations and every weakness is copied twelve times: a...
More cleaners is not the same as more company
The instinct, when a small cleaning company starts turning away work, is to hire more cleaners. It feels like growth, and for a week or two it looks like it. Then the complaints start, the supplies run short at the wrong site, and the founder discovers that a business...
From Informal to Formal: Gold-Mobilisation Workshops Lift Artisanal Deliveries in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s gold-mobilisation workshops teach artisanal miners to formalise and sell through Fidelity Gold Refinery, lifting official deliveries 10.5%.
The Bank Account That Cannot Protect Its Owner
Inclusion gave migrants bank accounts, not safety. In a displacement event the account locks the owner out. The emergency-access protocols banks should build.
Press Play: How MTN One TV Bets on Streaming Across Africa
MTN One TV launched on 8 June 2026 with streaming and Pay-TV across Africa, using mobile money and flexible payment to compete on access over catalogue.
Butchers Back FMD Ban but Warn Extended Suspension Threatens Survival
Kgalagadi butchers back FMD slaughter suspensions but warn that prolonged curbs could bankrupt them — the tension between disease control and livelihood
Cure Without Firewood: Zimbabwe Reviews Levies to Hit Sustainable Tobacco Curing by 2029
Zimbabwe is reviewing the afforestation levy and may suspend the CSR levy to 2029, freeing tobacco farmers to fund cleaner curing and end firewood use.
Zimbabwe Receives the Largest Share: What Happens if Senders Leave?
Zimbabwe is the biggest destination for remittances from South Africa. Departures hit Zimbabwe-facing payment firms with liquidity and demand shocks at once.
Super-App: How MTN and Ant International Are Building MoMo’s Next Layer
MTN Group Fintech and Ant International partnered on 9 June 2026 to build a MoMo super-app with mini-apps and fraud prevention, anchored on inclusion.
Biosecurity Lapses Trigger FMD Outbreak at AI Centre
Minister Dikoloti links an FMD outbreak at Ramatlabama AI Training Centre to human biosecurity lapses, forcing BMC abattoir closures — and testing EU beef
Quality Closes the Gap: State Moves to Steady Tobacco Prices as Better Leaf Enters Zimbabwe Floors
After low opening prices, Zimbabwe engaged industry and better-quality leaf narrowed auction-contract gaps, with output projected at 385-410m kg in 2026.
R19 Billion in Remittances Now Sits Inside a Political Risk Event
Anti-migrant departures turn about R19bn in South African remittance flows into a political risk event. How to forecast declines by corridor and segment.
Cabanga TV is live: watch how Chicken Inn conquered Zimbabwe and Africa
EcoCash, a millionaire cattle farmer, a tobacco farm that employs women and Zimbabwe's best travel company are among the stories now free to watch. HARARE, 17 October 2026 - Chicken Inn started in Zimbabwe and went on to feed customers across the continent. The story...
Market Movers: How MTN Reshuffled Its People Chief and Country CEOs
MTN named Mitwa Ng’ambi Chief People & Culture Officer and new CEOs for Côte d’Ivoire and Zambia from 2 June 2026 — a coordinated senior reshuffle.
Botswana to Open Moscow Embassy, Woos Russian Investors for Rare Earths
Botswana flags a Moscow embassy and invites Russian investment in rare earths and diamonds — a bid to widen partners and its resource base amid the diamond
Funds for Her Farm: Women’s Development Fund and Microfinance Bank Anchor Agri Push in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s Women’s Development Fund and Women’s Microfinance Bank are positioned to put working capital behind women’s push up the agriculture value chain.
Afrophobia as a Growth Constraint, Not a Social Footnote
Anti-migrant hostility is a growth constraint for South Africa, not a footnote — how closures, lost skills, security and diplomatic costs compound.
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