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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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Dumiso Dabengwa

The struggle for freedom cannot be outsourced

An homage to one of Zimbabwe's pre-eminent war heroes ...

currency cowboys

Zimbabwe’s ‘Zollar’ being manipulated by political elites

The failure of the government to manage the currency risks turning Zimbabwe's financial crisis into a political tinderbox. ...

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extreme weather

Cyclone Idai is still killing people as the world forgets

Whatever happened to Cyclone Idai? It crashed through Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi three weeks ago in what UN meteorologists classed as one ... of the worst disasters to hit the southern hemisphere.

state of the nation

Zimbabwe’s political and economic crises cost lives

Zimbabwe is often in the news for the wrong reasons. For a long time it was the autocratic leader Robert Mugabe who made sure of that. ...

The great cash chase

Paris takes lead in Zimbabwe funding crisis

In search of urgent funds for his crash reform programme, Zimbabwe’s finance minister, Mthuli Ncube, held closed-door talks with French treasury ... officials and a consortium of international banks in Paris on 8 March.

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