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The issue of the high tax on electronic transactions just won’t die. Here is a statement from Mthuli Ncube, the Minister of Finance and Economic Development: PRESS STATEMENT BY THE […]
So I must start by stating two things. The first is the obvious fact that Mthuli Ncube is the man of the moment right now. We may not agree with […]
The new tax on electronic transactions that was announced by Minister of Finance, Mthuli Ncune has been the most topical thing this week. A few people have said the tax […]
So the big news yesterday was something we have always known but that Mangudya finally admitted: the USD is not equal to bond notes which are not equal to money […]
Below is statement by Zimbabwe’s Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Prof Mthuli Ncube: Introduction 1. The economy is showing signs of recovery albeit with a number of challenges and […]
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 […]
Many are calling him President Mnangagwa’s best appointment. That’s new the Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube, a technocrat as many of us are saying. He starts his reign as the Minister […]
By Prof Mthuli Ncube We published the following article 3 days ago on the 4th of September. Today Prof Mthuli Ncube has been announced as the new Minister of Finance and Economic […]
A scapegoat is a goat upon whose head the sins of the people are placed. The goat itself is sinless and yet it has to bear the sins of the […]
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 […]
Minister for Finance Mthuli Ncube has delivered the 2021 National Budget which will be running under the recently launch NDS1 recovery plan.
Acting President of Zimbabwe, Chiwenga, says the government is working on strengthening the country’s new currency. The ZiG, as it’s called, was introduced earlier this year and started life at […]
If you have not been paying attention, there is a battle in the mobile money space and business models are being tweaked to get ahead. InnBucks has fundamentally changed its […]
Earlier this month, we got a surprise announcement that Zimbabwe would be introducing a structured currency. We speculated on what that could be and were way off. The Minister of […]
Dr John Mushayavanhu (left), Image Credit FBC Holdings Do you remember how excited we were when we heard that Mthuli Ncube was going to be Minister of Finance? I mean, […]
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 […]
Utter the name ‘RBZ’ in front of most adult Zimbabweans and you’ll hear a ‘tsk tsk’ in return. For all the good that the Zimbabwean central bank has ever done, […]
There’s a System Tazvida song titled ‘Pandagona Wondipembedzawo’ which translates to ‘When I do good, praise me.’ It’s about a man pleading for the world to keep the same energy […]
Lastpass, one of the most popular password manager providers suffered a data breach that exposed data for their 33 million customers. A scary amount of data! To date, we have […]
I remember a friend telling me that their company always seemed to be in fire fighting mode. It appeared nothing was ever pre-planned and all the company did was react […]
When I first heard that the first step in problem solving is identifying the problem, I thought that was a bit condescending. Pre-teen me couldn’t understand how one could not […]
If you are living in Zimbabwe you don’t need telling that inflation is getting out of hand. It has been years since you purchased your groceries for the same price […]
The Minister of Finance, Mthuli Ncube announced the introduction of a new $100 banknote. The minister announced this through Statutory Instrument 68A of 2022. In early 2021 we got reports […]
Algorand powered local blockchain startup FlexID (FlexFinTx) has extended its Self Sovereign Identity platform to the healthcare industry in what the company says is a world-first real-world use case scenario […]
According to Disrupt Africa, the continent’s tech startup ecosystem has raised a combined US$1 billion (US$1,123,556,000) in the first two months of 2022. The report states that this is the […]