The Insider is a political and business bulletin about Zimbabwe, edited by Charles Rukuni. Founded in 1990, it was a printed 12-page subscription only newsletter until 2003 when Zimbabwe's hyper-inflation made it impossible to continue printing.
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has announced that only US$15 million will be available for auction next week. The central bank says this is in line with the refinement of…
The world platinum industry expects a shortage of the metal this year – and that is good news for Zimbabwean producers, who are currently expanding operations. There will be a…
The Zimbabwe dollar today fell by $192.26 against the United States dollar to average $1 404.8039 but this is way below the black market rate where the dollar is freely…
The African Development Bank plans to help Zimbabwe raise US$3.5 billion needed to compensate white farmers evicted from their land more than two decades ago, a condition set by the…
Bikita Minerals says it is halting operations for a week to address “administrative concerns”, potentially delaying a US$200 million investment in new capacity at the country’s oldest lithium mine. Mine…
The government has scrapped import licences as well as duty and tax on 11 basic commodities but business is already concerned that the move will stall capacity utilisation which had…
Gold-backed digital tokens which were introduced this week as one of the measures to shore up the local currency mopped out $14 billion with United States dollar purchases amounting to…
Delta Beverages, one of Zimbabwe’s largest public corporations, says increased dollarisation may cripple economic growth this year. The country’s biggest brewer and bottler says its United States dollar sales reached…
Zimbabwe has lifted all restrictions on the importation of basic goods which means that import licences are no longer required to bring in basic goods into the country. The goods…
A petition from the Media Alliance of Zimbabwe requesting Parliament to summon the owner of a twitter account under the name Tinoedza Zvimwe over cyber bullying and threats against journalists…