Zimbabwe’s platinum industry is entering a market where the next demand cycle may increasingly come from advanced industrial applications rather than its traditional automotive base, as artificial int

Zimbabwe has raised producer and planning prices for the 2026/27 agricultural season, lifting maize and traditional grains to US$432 per tonne, soya beans to US$660.95, sunflower to US$826.19 and whea

Tharisa Plc has raised approximately US$294 million through a five-year senior secured bond that will be used mainly to complete construction of the Karo Platinum Project in Zimbabwe, giving the miner

Zimbabwe’s competition watchdog, the Competition and Tariff Commission, has conditionally cleared Mega Market Private Limited’s proposed acquisition of 100% of Lobels Holdings, imposing behavioural re

South Africa imported about 1.8 million tonnes of wheat between October 2025 and early September 2026, led by Poland, as domestic production remained below the requirements of millers and food manufac

TN CyberTech Bank is using technology to attack one of Zimbabwe’s persistent banking problems, the economics of serving customers who need small amounts of credit but are too expensive to reach throug

Zimbabwe’s human-capital problem is increasingly becoming an allocation problem, as the  country has a relatively educated workforce, yet the formal private sector remains too small to absorb the peop

Zimbabwe’s private-sector credit stock is equivalent to only 6.5% of GDP, according to the World Bank’s Zimbabwe Country Growth and Jobs Report, compared with approximately 22% in Côte d’Ivoire, 32%

* Foreign reserves reached US$1.7 billion by end-July, covering 1.7 months of imports. * First-half foreign-currency receipts increased 47.8% to US$10.72 billion. * Two months of cover remains below t

Zimbabwe intends to seek a sovereign credit rating as its re-engagement programme advances. * Public and publicly guaranteed debt stood at an estimated US$22.8 billion at the end of 2025. * A rating w

Zimbabwe’s higher-value service industries lost momentum in the second quarter of 2026, with financial and insurance activities contracting 3.6% quarter-on-quarter and professional, scientific and tec

South Africa recorded a US$2.1 billion agricultural trade surplus in the second quarter of 2026 as exports rose 10% from a year earlier to US$4.1 billion, supported by larger harvests, higher export

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced visa restrictions for foreign nationals involved in South African laws or policies that Washington says enable uncompensated land seizures, race-based d

Zimbabwe’s tourism expansion is opening a prospective new financing frontier for the capital market, with the Securities and Exchange Commission of Zimbabwe advancing structures that could package sta

TSL Limited’s first trading update after moving to the Victoria Falls Stock Exchange shows group earnings holding through the nine months to 31 July 2026, even as a policy-sensitive part of its logist

Revitus Property Opportunities REIT has reported US$5.28 million profit for the six months to June 2026, compared with US$187,297 in the same period last year. The headline increase is substantial, ye

Zimbabwe’s emerging gas industry has entered a more consequential phase with Invictus Energy preparing to drill the Musuma-1 exploration well in November 2026, after awarding the well-services contrac

he Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority raised the maximum diesel price to US$2.08 per litre from US$1.95, effective 17 September, placing the regulated fuel price back above the US$2 mark reached dur

Dangote Petroleum Refinery plans to pursue a secondary listing in New York after doubling its Nigerian refining capacity to 1.4 million barrels a day, extending a capital-raising programme that has al

The property portfolio reached US$150.0 million at June 2026, equivalent to about 49% of the group’s US$306.0 million asset base. Property values increased from US$139.7 million at December, supported