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The tobacco industry shakes in Zimbabwe
By ZITAP staff writer This week, the Tobacco Marketing season opened. Usually, the opening day is characterised by high prices, fanfare and jubilation by the farmers. Merchants and traders also often display new technology to register and pay farmers within 30 minutes...
Zimbabwe reduces levies and taxes. Is it enough?
By ZITAP staff writer This week, Zimbabwe gazetted Statutory Instrument (SI) 41 of 2026 (Model Fees By-Laws, 2026), which takes immediate effect and outlines several revised fees across various urban and rural local...
Fuel prices increase due to mid-east crisis
By ZITAP staff writer The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) has issued an immediate notice stating that fuel has increased from an average $1.51/litre to $1.71. This 13.2% increase is a big shock to an economy that largely relies on fuel for its domestic,...
Where Is the Transparency and Accountability for Kuwadzana Residents?
By Jasper Mangwana Kuwadzana's Fountain Blue suburb is fighting a serious sewage emergency that has gone on for more than ten years, with residents wondering: where is the transparency and accountability for Kuwadzana residents? The village, which in 2016 had...
Zim’s Informal Sector — More Carrots than Sticks are Needed
by Jasper Mangwana The informal sector in Zimbabwe has become the economy's backbone, providing employment to millions and livelihoods where the formal sector has failed. The informal economy is a picture of resilience, innovation, and survival despite economic...
Mushika shika and the Urban Transport Crisis in Harare
By Tatenda Everjoy Bvumbe The continued presence of mushika shika in Harare highlights serious weaknesses in the city public transport system. Mushika shika refers to illegal and unregulated passenger transport vehicles that operate outside official routes ranks and...
Taxation in Zimbabwe’s 2026 Legislative Session: Challenges, Controversies and Economic Implications
By Tatenda Everjoy Bvumbe Harare January 2026 — As Zimbabwe embarks on a critical phase of fiscal restructuringunder the 2026 National Budget framework taxation has emerged as one of the mostconsequential and contested issues before Parliament and the nation. Debates...
Zimbabwe needs policy certainty to expand its economicacceleration
Zimbabwe is experiencing an economic bubble. The nationalsavings are rising as indicated by a one-and-half import cover. The localcurrency inflation rate has fallen to 4,1%. The consumption of diesel hasincreased to 1.2 billion litres per year from 700 million in...
Is Zimbabwe on course to an upper-middle-income society by 2030?
TECA, Zimbabwe’s leading liberal economic think-tank convened a successful Zimbabwe Economic Competitiveness Conference on November 12th. The key issue of focus was how to make Zimbabwe prosper into an upper-middle-income society. The government of Zimbabwe was...
Is Zimbabwe on course for an upper middle-income status?
There have been repeated policy pronouncements raising the bar for Zimbabwe’s economic target as getting into the upper middle income economic status. As they say in African folktale, its easier to speak than do, the policy question becomes- is Zimbabwe on course to...
What do Zimbabweans say about tax and public finance management?
Chapter 17 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe enshrines the parameters for Zimbabwe’s financial management. That means, setting the framework for revenue collection into the consolidated revenue fund, and, on the other hand, how such resources must be allocated. The key...
TECA to host an economic competitiveness conference in November
The Eastern Caucus (TECa) is organising an international economic competitiveness conference in November 2025. The conference is scheduled to be held in Harare, and will be graced by senior government officials. The private sector, academia, the media, economists, and...
RBZ must not force the ZiG on people
News that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) leaders say debate on the literal banning of the usage of the United States dollar as a currency of trade in Zimbabwe is worrying. We plead with the central bank to learn from history, including the reality that people and...
Zimbabwe is rising, but painfully slow
A recent study by the World Bank indicates that Zimbabwe is improving its cost of doing business but, unfortunately, the current pace and scale are not satisfactory. This article indicates the key areas that Zimbabwe needs to focus on, with bold scale and pace...
The Zimbabwe competitiveness conference takes shape
Zimbabwe is at a pivotal juncture in its national development journey. The expiry of the National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1) in December 2025 ushers in the formulation of its successor, the National Development Strategy 2 (NDS2), which will guide the nation from...