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What Africa should do to avoid dependency syndrome

The dilemma of the prevailing African development narrative has been the imprudence of trying to replicate discordant utopia of industrialized…

A global supply chain in crisis

There are an estimated 170 million shipping containers across the globe transporting 90% of the world’s goods. Quarantines, lockdowns, labour…

Lessons from Zimbabwe’s tobacco farmers for the COP26 climate change talks

Zimbabwe is ranked in the top 20 countries in the world most affected by extreme weather between 2000 and 2019.…

Zimbabwe’s Mnangagwa piles on public debt in second-term bid

Zimbabwe mortgaged its natural resources such as mineral rights to the lenders in exchange for fresh debts. For a time,…

Time to bring young people into farming

Agricultural production is critical for the survival of any economy and the world at large, and the importance of ensuring…

In sub-Saharan Africa, we need to look harder for TB

Before COVID-19 came along, tuberculosis (TB) was a primary focus of health authorities in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2019, approximately 1.4 million…

Even in the Covid-19 era, opportunities abound in South Africa’s construction sector

Construction is a proven resilient industry and this is made clear in the various opportunities that are possible to help…

Charting Africa’s digital future

The outbreak of Covid-19 has underscored the necessity for nations to rethink existing economic models and laid bare the weaknesses…

Why Zimbabwe’s economic growth projection is false

Ncube deliberately did not include the number of jobs bled through the Covid-19 national lockdown over the past 15 months.

Kenya is moving aggressively to tax digital business. What next?

Digital enterprises can avoid taxes when their activities earn income from multiple countries and when no one state can claim…