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Zimbabwe

False promise

Zimbabwe’s EcoCash woes show dangers of early reliance on mobile money

Mobile money is not showing up at the crisis facing Zimbabwe. ...

counter point

Robert Mugabe: The greatest trick the devil ever played

The fallacy of the hero-turned-villain narrative of Robert Mugabe is the greatest trick this devil ever played. ...

regime change

Robert Mugabe: vain, insecure, cocooned

The death of Robert Mugabe in Singapore on the 6th of September, 2019, comes hardly two years since he was ousted in the 15 November 2017 coup, ... led by the very persons – namely, Emmerson Mnangagwa and Constantino Chiwenga – in whom Mugabe had restored both his confidence and security.

a luta continua

Mugabe’s legacy: an elite astray, but a consolidated country

Zimbabweans woke up to the news that their Liberation president, Robert Mugabe, had died in a Singapore hospital bed. ...

crisis deepens

Zimbabwe: time for second government of national unity?

Zimbabwe is going through its worst socio-economic and political crisis in two decades. ...

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coercion rules

In Zimbabwe, neither repression nor dialogue are working

Since the November 2017 coup that toppled Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe and the elections in 2018, the regime of President Emmerson Mnangagwa has ... forged two forms of rule. These have been based on coercion on the one hand, and on the other dialogue.

Telecoms for sale

Zimbabwe: TelOne and NetOne to be privatised by the end of the year

Launched in a wave of privatisations with the ambitious objective of reducing the country's budget deficit from 12% to 5% of GDP, the Zimbabwean ... government intends to privatise the country's two main telephone and internet operators TelOne and NetOne by the end of the year.

Digging Deep

Zimbabwe well-placed to benefit from China’s thirst for chromium

Beneath the surface of its latest economic crisis, Zimbabwe has been quietly positioning itself as a future major exporter of chromium to the ... insatiable Chinese market.

Clicks not bricks

Standard Bank expands digital banking abroad as domestic challengers mount

Standard Bank is strong enough to make a lot of small bets on digital banking in new markets. The challenge lies in how to deal with the threat ... of digital upstarts in its home market.

Rubber dollars bounce back

Zimbabwe’s latest financial fix won’t work without radical political reform

If the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe was a ship it would be the Titanic, sailing with the patronage of a well-heeled elite with privileged access ... to the life boats towards a deadly iceberg.

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