The Second World War and its global monetary aftermath: The gradual shift from imperial – colonial links towards US-led liberalism, the 1940 - 1950
Tinashe Nyamunda
The Second World War was an important turning point in the shift of the international...
Staff Writer
Government is designing a new fuel pricing structure to prevent artificial shortages and is restructuring the oil industry to improve its operational efficiency, a Cabinet Minister has said.
The Minister of Energy and Power Development Fortune Chasi said he...
HARARE - Business tycoon and former rugby player John Bredenkamp has died.
He was 79.
Bredenkamp, born in 1940, passed away this morning after having undergone kidney surgery a few days ago.
He was born in Kimberly, South Africa and moved to...
Farai Mabeza
Government has announced a 50 percent salary review for all civil servants and an interim US$75 allowance to cushion its employees against the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic with economists saying authorities were moving towards re-dollarisation of...
Shamiso Ngwena & Cynthia Chitombi
Zimbabwean farmers, struggling with traditional crops such as maize, have shifted focus to the sesame plant targeting at least 100 000 tonnes of the crop during the 2020/2021 agricultural season.
Agricultural production in Zimbabwe has been...
Farai Mabeza
Tobacco deliveries are slower than expected because farmers are not happy with the fixed exchange rate of 1:25 under which they are required to surrender 50 percent of their foreign currency earnings, it has emerged.
Tobacco Industry and Marketing...
The imperial makings of a local/national currency in colonial Zimbabwe: Money as a product of imperial and colonial politics and law; 1930-1940
Tinashe Nyamunda
The Brookings Institute’s Economics Professor Steve Hanke has argued that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has...
HARARE –Annual inflation rose in May, albeit at a much slower pace due to due to reduced economic activity and aggregate demand during the coronavirus-induced lockdown. According to Zimstat, annual inflation for May rose by 19.98 percentage points to...
HARARE (FinX) – President Mnangagwa has further relaxed the coronavirus-induced national lockdown as he sought to re-activate what he termed ‘freedoms promised’ at the outset of the ‘new dispensation.’
In an address, which contained reminders of perhaps the difficult task,...
Joseph Mverecha
Introduction
Our times are uniquely difficult and have been for a while, with limited respite. The economy is dollarizing rapidly while the local currency is careering listlessly towards the edge of the universe – as happened in 2008. Ahead...
