We’re almost there good people, John Panonetsa Mangudya’s tenure as governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is almost up. Mangudya is set to leave his post at the end […]
There is a larger conversation to be had about whether or not Zimbabwe should officially redollarise. That is, to exclusively use the USD, or to at least scrap the Zimdollar […]
The biggest issue I have with all the economic theories, principles and rules I know is that they start with the qualifier, “All things being equal.” All things are never […]
Update: The previous title of this article was “Dr Mangudya ranked worst Reserve Bank Governor” this was incorrect. The Reserve Bank Governor got a C-“ Global Finance has been publishing […]
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya has said that remittances grew exponentially after COVID-19. It was largely expected that remittances would crash due to job-losses and the Coronavirus-induced […]
It’s been a scandalous month for the Reserve Bank and mobile money service providers with EcoCash at the centre of the Central Bank’s dart board. Background… The economy has been […]
The Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe recently appeared before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Budget and Finance. He used very interesting colourful words in his submissions. Guerrilla War […]
So the story of the week has been the directive issued by the Financial Intelligence Unit of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe to EcoCash instructing them to freeze the accounts […]
The RBZ Governor, Dr John Mangudya is said to have confirmed that notes backing Zimbabwe’s new currency will go into circulation in a fortnight earlier today. The new currency will […]
The introduction of the RTGS Dollar by the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe introduced far reaching ambiguity locally and internationally. One of the casualty of this is Econet […]
Even though the difference between the black market rate and the official rate continue to run away ahead of official rates, Dr Mangudya foresees the two rates to converge in […]
John Mangudya’s tenure as RBZ will not be coming to an end as most wanted. Instead, the RBZ announced that he will be getting a new 5-year term in office. […]
Today ZOL had the most interesting announcement of a price increase ever. Their announcement started thus: Dear valued ZOL customer Zol is excited to announce the increase of data to […]
The Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is currently giving oral evidence before the parliamentary committee on Budget, Finance and Economic Development. The committee is chaired by former minister […]
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The RBZ Governor John Mangudya remains defiant not to resign despite the seeming failure of the bond notes (and bond coins). The currency had lost more than 50% of its value […]
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What a confusing statement. The governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, John Mangudya said this: People should not get confused. In the bank, the RTGS balances have the same […]
The Reserve Bank Governor, John Mangudya has just admitted that he prejudiced exporters by taking their money at an unfavorable rate regardless of the inflation rising at least 3 times […]
So we published some text of the monetary policy statement but it wasn’t in full and the PDF we got was also not in full. There seems to be a […]
The much awaited monetary policy statement presentation has come and gone in a few minutes. The document was not available for download on time so we transcribed some of the […]
During the Monetary Policy Statement delivered earlier on today, RBZ Governor gave banks an ultimate to ensure that they bolster their security in order to fight against the ever-growing Cybercrime […]
As we have mentioned in an early article, the government has finally abandoned the 1:1 ship. Bond notes, coins, Ecocash, Telecash and bank balances are now known as RTGS dollars. […]
It’s been widely reported that Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube and Mangudya the Governor of the Reserve Bank are not seeing eye to eye. Apparently, this standoff is the reason why […]
Here is the monetary policy statement delivered by the RBZ Governor today. You may also be interested to buy the Techzim report on the state of the payments ecosystem in Zimbabwe. […]
Below are three interviews by Bloomberg. One of them worries me greatly. You can draw your own conclusions: President Mnangagwa Mthuli Ncube John Mangudya Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's governor sees […]
Dr John Mangudya always has a way of making me write articles even when I have planned not to. Yesterday he again declared that there is no cash crisis in […]
This past weekend was an action packed one and it all started on WhatsApp, no wonder the Chinese government is restricting the app. So some guy or girl drafts up […]