Safaricom launched a voice biometrics system dubbed jitambulishe in December last year with the aim of reducing fraud an...
May 16, 2018
Private investment firm TPG has paid $47.5million (R581.5m) to acquire an unspecified stake in Kenyan digital payments f...
South Africa’s jobless rate stayed near a 15-year high in the first quarter as optimism following the ascent to powe...
May 15, 2018
State oil firm NNPC has awarded 50 companies with contracts to buy Nigerian crude and more than half of them are local f...
South Africa aims to finalise a third version of a hotly contested mining charter in June, mines minister Gwede Mantashe...
South Africa's unemployment rate was unchanged at 26.7 percent of the labour force in the first quarter of 2018 compared...
THE Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) has reported a 2,88% increase in the cost of living to $591,58 last month from Ma...
PROTON Bakers says it has recorded 400 percent growth in sales in Bulawayo alone where it has created 153 jobs...
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) says it surpassed its gross revenue target for April 2018 by 9,81 percent to reac...
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has extended its export incentive to cotton farmers who are set to receive an additio...
Zimbabwe's central bank has stopped local banks from trading or processing payments linked to cryptocurrencies like bitc...
The growth of bitcoin and other digital currencies is working against the need for the creation of a market-based curren...
Netflix and other so-called “over-the-top” (OTT) Internet streaming services will fundamentally disrupt the pay-televisi...
According to the World Bank’s recent Migration and Development Brief, remittance to low and middle-income countries boun...
May 14, 2018
Kenya and Nigeria have taken first place as the leading agri-tech markets on the continent while Ghana has come third ac...
The Kenya Bankers Association (KBA) has made public its third report on the effect of the interest capping law which pro...
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Monday that Chinese firm Sinosteel Corporation had agreed to invest $1 b...
Caledonia Mining produced 12 924 oz of gold in the first quarter of this year, marginally higher than that produced in t...
The platinum market will move further into oversupply this year, as production from South Africa remains flat and demand...
The 12-month average inflation in Mozambique fell to 9.41 percent in April, according to data from the Mozambican Nation...
The Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) has reached an exchange rate of 26.7724 today, continuing a period of relative calm that began in early June 2025. This stability in both the official and parallel markets is
Kavango Resources plc, a London-listed mineral exploration company, is entering the final stages of its planned secondary listing on the Victoria Falls Stock Exchange (VFEX), with official trading sch
The demand for gold grew significantly in the second quarter, reaching a record value of $132 billion, a 45% increase from the previous year according to the World Gold Council. The total amount of g
Largest seed company,Seed Co Limited has recorded a 59% drop in sales volumes for the first quarter ended 30 June 2025, according to the company’s latest trading update. The drop was driven by the ab
Zimbabwe’s banking sector has demonstrated notable strength in the first half of 2025, as highlighted by Finance, Economic Development, and Investment Promotion Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, in th
People’s Own Savings Bank (POSB), Zimbabwe’s state-owned financial institution, has ventured into real estate as part of a hedging strategy against the country’s volatile economy, according to its lat
The 2025 Mid-Term Budget and Economic Review, themed "Building Resilience for Sustained Economic Transformation," sets the stage for Zimbabwe’s fiscal and economic trajectory in the second half of the
President Donald Trump’s new tariff regime kicks off today, on the first of August 2025, with Zimbabwe facing a 15% ad valorem tariff on its exports to the United States, moderated from an initial pro
