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Zimbabwe

Karo Platinum Crosses Critical Execution Milestone as Tharisa Deepens Zimbabwe Investment

Tharisa increased capital deployment into Karo during the quarter despite weaker platinum group metal prices, signalling confidence in the project’s long term economics.

Jul 15, 2026
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Zimbabwe's Internet Traffic Jumps 57% in Q1 2026

Zimbabwe’s digital economy is beginning to consume data much faster than it is adding internet users, forcing telecommunications operators, technology companies and policymakers to redirect investment

 Jul 15, 2026
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Diamond Policy Paralysis: A Warning Zimbabwe’s Diamond Policy Can No Longer Ignore

De Beers has cut its prices in July 2026, reflecting growing pressure as weak Chinese luxury demand, the rapid expansion of lab-grown diamonds, and increased rough supply from producers such as Angola

 Jul 15, 2026
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Quiet Revolution in Zimbabwe’s Hospitals: Will the Budget Follow the Bricks?

Zimbabwe's public hospital system has received more documented investment commitment between 2025 and mid-2026 than in any comparable period since independence, and the gap between what has been inves

 Jul 14, 2026
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Historic Zimbabwe Manufacturers Puts 4  Firms on Sale, Bids Due 14 July 2026

Phoenix Consolidated Industries a prominent, historically significant manufacturing and industrial group has placed four established Zimbabwean industrial businesses on the market, giving investors un

 Jul 13, 2026
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Old Mutual Migration Rewrites the VFEX Growth Story

The Victoria Falls Stock Exchange overtook the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange in total market capitalisation in April 2026, becoming the country's largest exchange by market value just five and a half years

 Jul 13, 2026
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Zimbabwe's Medical Services Amendment Act: A Noble Premise Built on a Dangerous Assumption

Zimbabwe has gazetted the Medical Services Amendment Act, 2026 on the 7th of July 2026, legally requiring private hospitals to admit and provide emergency treatment to patients with life-threatening c

 Jul 11, 2026
Gokwe Cotton City: Can Zimbabwe Build a Textile Economy from the Ground Up?

Zimbabwe marketed 5,079,907 kilograms of seed cotton by 18 June 2026. At the same point in 2025, the figure was 310,625 kilograms. That 1,536% difference in early-season marketing volumes is the singl

Jul 09, 2026
Higher Ethanol Blend, Higher Pump Price: How Fuel Prices Compare Globally After ZERA’s Fuel Cuts

Zimbabwe's Energy Regulatory Authority has reduced petroleum prices effective 8 July 2026, bringing diesel from USD 1.99 to USD 1.87 per litre, a reduction of USD 0.12 or 6%, and blend E20 from USD 1.

Jul 09, 2026
How Gastronomy Tourism Can Change Zimbabwe’s Tourism Calculus

Zimbabwe's tourism sector recorded international tourist arrivals of 384,515 in the first quarter of 2026, an 11% increase from 347,555 in the same period of 2025, with total tourism revenue rising 14

Jul 09, 2026
Higher Yields Drives Potato Output Past 100k Tonnes, Growth Outruns Policy Support

Zimbabwe's 2025/26 summer season has produced 100,055 tonnes of Irish potatoes from 3,450 hectares at an average yield of 29 tonnes per hectare, an improvement from the prior year's 26 tonnes per hect

Jul 08, 2026

14 Years Later: Air Zimbabwe Returns to London on a Leased Spanish A330

Air Zimbabwe will resume direct flights between Harare and London by the end of July 2026, ending a 15-year absence from one of the airline's most strategic international routes. This was confirmed a

Jul 08, 2026

The Right to Health Is Now a Cost-Recovery Test for Zimbabwe's Health Sector

•Emergency stabilisation now creates 48-hour receivables risk before payment certainty exists. •Government can now cap private hospital fees and permissible tariff increases. •Profit shifts to discipl

Jul 08, 2026

Zimbabwe's Gold Deliveries: June Sets the Tone for a Record Year

Zimbabwe's gold deliveries to Fidelity Gold Refinery reached 4.81 tonnes in June 2026, the highest single monthly figure recorded in 2026, the second highest historically just behind December 2025's 4

Jul 07, 2026

Zimbabwe’s Blueberry Trade with China Begins

Zimbabwe has completed its first commercial shipment of fresh blueberries to China, transforming a market access agreement signed in 2025 into actual trade and opening a premium export corridor into o

Jul 07, 2026

How Zimbabwe’s Food Security Push Is Rewriting the Fertiliser Equation

Zimbabwe imported USD 22.8 million of ammonium nitrate in May 2026 alone, a record single-month figure that exceeds the total spent on the same product across the entire six months of January to June

Jul 07, 2026

How Floating Kariba Solars Will Redraw Zimbabwe’s Energy System

Green Hybrid Power and the Intensive Energy Users Group are targeting financial close by October 2026 on a US$400 million floating solar project at Lake Kariba. Intensive Energy Users Group (IEUG) ch

Jul 07, 2026

Zimbabwe Sugar Sector Eyes Major Investment Despite Policy and Cost Pressures

Zimbabwe's sugar industry produced 443,501 tonnes in the financial year ended 31 March 2026, a 1% increase from the prior year, while total sales reached 471,837 tonnes, a 24% increase from 380,531 to

Jul 07, 2026

Maize Imports Fall to Lowest Level Since Genuine 2023 Low

Zimbabwe's monthly maize imports fell to USD 18.8 million in May 2026, the lowest reading since August 2025's post-harvest suppression low of USD 1.34 million, from a peak of USD 84.7 million in Decem

Jul 07, 2026