Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Why Every Additional Platinum Ounce Has Become More Valuable

Persistent market deficits, expanding AI demand and slow supply growth are raising the returns available from higher recoveries, mine extensions and new Zimbabwean production

Jul 30, 2026
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Risks Missing Platinum’s Most Profitable Cycle

Zimbabwe’s platinum industry has entered its strongest cash generation window in years while part of the capital required to sustain output, replace equipment and approve expansion remains locked in u

 Jul 30, 2026
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Same Price as Maize, Slower Demand: Why Market Realities Are Holding Back Zim’s Climate-Resilient Grain Ahead of Super El Niño

Sorghum deliveries have reached 31,951 tonnes between 1 April and 24 July 2026, up 15% on the 27,804 tonnes marketed a year earlier, on Agricultural Marketing Authority data. It is the slowest riser o

 Jul 29, 2026
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The Bean the Market Wants: Soyabean Deliveries Jump 58% as Dual Demand Outstrips Supply

Soyabean deliveries have reached 45,744 tonnes between 1 April and 24 July 2026, up 58% on the 28,924 tonnes marketed a year earlier, on Agricultural Marketing Authority’s latest figures. Soya is 89.8

 Jul 29, 2026
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The Eighth That Showed Up: Formal Maize Deliveries Double as State Buying Prices Outpace Open Market

Zimbabwe’s formal maize deliveries have reached 312,717 tonnes between 1 April and 24 July 2026, up 106% on the 152,047 tonnes marketed in the same window a year earlier, according to the latest Agric

 Jul 29, 2026
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Highest Price, Worst Result: Structural Gaps Undermine Zimbabwe’s Sunflower Strategy

Sunflower deliveries have fell 8% to 5,181 tonnes between 1 April and 24 July 2026, from 5,631 tonnes a year earlier, the only crop in the Agricultural Marketing Authority update to move backwards. T

 Jul 29, 2026
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From Fields to Mills: Can Zimbabwe Move Its 2.8 Million Tonne Maize Crop?

Zimbabwe has largely completed the difficult task of rebuilding grain production after last year’s El Niño drought. The country’s next challenge is transforming that recovery into a functioning comme

 Jul 28, 2026
Unbuilt Defenses: How a 'Super' El Niño Threatens Zimbabwe’s Reserve Buffers

The Centre for Climate System Research and International Research Institute for Climate and Society multi-model forecast issued in July 2026 has pointed Zimbabwe toward below-normal rainfall across th

Jul 27, 2026
ZiG, USD Inflation Converge: ZiG Drops Sharpest Fall of 2026, Validates RBZ’s Mid-Year Turning Point

imbabwe Gold’s (ZiG) annual inflation has fell to 3.2% in July 2026 from 4.7% in June, a drop of 1.5 percentage points that reverses three months of gradual increase and marks the sharpest single-mont

Jul 27, 2026
ZiG Demand by Decree: Treasury Widens Local Currency Taxes

Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion Minister , Professor Mthuli Ncube has told Treasury will widen the range of taxes payable only in Zimbabwe Gold, a measure due in the 2026 Mid-Te

Jul 27, 2026
Horse and Rider No More: President Pushes Zimbabwe Up the Mineral Value Chain

resident Emmerson Mnangagwa has told an industrialisation conference last week that Zimbabwe would rather leave its minerals in the ground than export them unprocessed, declaring the era of what he ca

Jul 27, 2026

Mid Term Budget Faces Eight Tests That Will Define Zimbabwe’s Second Half

This Mid Term Budget should therefore be interpreted through eight practical tests. Can reserve money growth coexist with low inflation over the medium term. Is dedollarisation becoming commercially d

Jul 27, 2026

Zimbabwe’s Steel Comeback :Turns Manhize Into a Regional Export Engine

Zimbabwe's steel sector generated USD 137 million in export proceeds in the first half of 2026, already surpassing the full-year 2025 total of USD 92.1 million in six months. In Q1 2026, steel exports

Jul 27, 2026

Zimbabwe Heads for Third Consecutive Wheat Record: ARDA Grows Nearly Half as National Plantings Hit 133k Hectares

Zimbabwe has planted 106% of its 125,000 hectare winter wheat target, up from 101% at the same point in 2025, taking the national area to roughly 132,500 hectares. The Agricultural and Rural Developme

Jul 23, 2026

GMB’s Unpaid Balance Rebuilds Ahead of Wheat Intake

The Grain Marketing Board's unpaid balance to farmers on 2025/2026 summer crop deliveries stood at ZiG 81.424 million and USD 7.419 million  by 20 July 2026, against payments already made of ZiG 135,1

Jul 23, 2026

From Household Security to Breadbasket:How Pfumvudza Can Unlock Zimbabwe’s Agricultural Scale

Zimbabwe's Pfumvudza/Intwasa programme has done what it was designed to do, delivering a bumper harvest, turning Zimbabwe’s 2024 cereal deficit story into a surplus one.  The 2025/26 summer season pro

Jul 22, 2026

Zimbabwe’s Lithium Rail Service Intensifies Regional Port Competition

The National Railways of Zimbabwe, Beitbridge Bulawayo Railway and logistics company Silvergill have transported the first 1,000 tonnes of lithium concentrate from Tsingshan Holding Group’s Gwanda Lit

Jul 22, 2026

Competition Watchdog Flags Exchange Deals as Dairibord Sale Looms

The Competition and Tariff Commission has warned investors, listed companies, stockbrokers and corporate advisers that acquisitions through the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange and Victoria Falls Stock Exchan

Jul 22, 2026

Zimbabwe 2026 Tobacco Marketing Season Nears Close With 400 Million Kilogram Target Unmet

The Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board will close Zimbabwe’s 2026 auction tobacco floors on Friday, 31 July, after cumulative national sales reached 354.10 million kilograms by selling day 95 on 20

Jul 22, 2026