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...
Zimbabwe's gold sector has triumphantly capped off 2025 by nearing its ambitious production and export targets, solidifying its status as a cornerstone of the nation's economy amid soaring global pric
Tanganda Tea Company, the leading diversified tea enterprise listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, has introduced the possibility of a shift in control after securing full underwriting for its US$8 m
Zimbabwe recorded its highest goods trade surplus of USD 240.2 million in December 2025, a 163.8% increase from November, driven primarily by a 9.1% rise in exports to USD 1.142 billion and a 5.6% dec
Invictus Energy has formally terminated negotiations with Qatar-backed Al Mansour Holdings, ending a high-profile financing and equity deal that was expected to underpin Zimbabwe’s most ambitious gas
A more sustainable approach would rebalance incentives rather than concentrating extraction on the easiest-to-tax players. That could include a more uniform royalty architecture with modest differenti
Zimbabwe’s gold-backed currency (ZiG) recorded a year-on-year inflation rate of 4.1% in January 2026, down sharply from 15.0% in December 2025, marking the country’s first sustained single-digit infla
The global semiconductor landscape is grappling with an unprecedented memory chip shortage, fueled by the explosive growth of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. As data centres devour an in
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) has moved to confront a long-ignored reality in Zimbabwe’s energy sector by announcing plans to audit household-level power generation, particularly roo
