Investing in Africa

The happenings on the economic front in Zimbabwe are reminiscent of horror movie scenes. Every other policy or public official announceme...

The establishment of an SME Stock Exchange has been a subject of debate for a very long time. The policy makers, as usual, have paid litt...

Harare Shamva road is largely a quiet road when compared to other busy inter-town highway. Those that drive down the road will, with no d...

Zimbabwe’s big corporates have hit hard times. Profits are hard to come by, a clear sign that the high gearing levels will persist much l...

The extractive industry has become very emotive the world over. It has becomes  so to the extent that even the first world economies such...

The Zimbabwe stock exchange has had a very bad patch lately, very bad indeed. Since the beginning of March, the industrial index has retre...

The recently gazetted mining regulations under statutory instrument 11 of 2012 have instigated constipation. And many miners, mostly the sma...

Since August of 2011 when the Zisco-Essar deal was announced in the various media, there have been many conflicting media reports regarding ...

The year 2011 has been a year of big deals. One of the biggest deals, the Essar deal, remains in controversy to this date. Having gotten 54%...

The year is coming to a close and most things are indeed counting down to 31 December, from financial year ends to calendars and so on. But ...

Wisdom has it that losses lie where they fall. But for banks in particular, losses can fall anywhere in the economy but still end up lyi...

Every June, for those with a huge passion for wildlife, is a beautiful time to watch the world’s biggest wildlife migration in Serengeti, Ta...