Bank note crisis: will RBZ cash imports help?
CLAIM: The Sunday Mail this week reported that Zimbabwe’s bank note shortage would ease, following US$400 million cash imports by the central bank since the beginning of the year, as…
Month: May 2018
Does MDC Alliance’s $100 billion economy promise check out?
MDC Alliance principal and former Finance Minister, Tendai Biti, has repeatedly claimed that, if elected into government, the opposition coalition would propel Zimbabwe to a $100 billion economy in eight…
Billion-dollar question: Investor interest and actual FDI
CLAIM: President Emmerson Dambudzo (ED) Mnangagwa, who has positioned himself as a pro-business president since his November 2018 inauguration, has indicated that his ascension has coincided with an increase in…
The miracle healing advertising ban
The Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) has banned the advertising of “miracle” healing programmes on radio and television over “numerous complaints from the public”, and concern that broadcasters were prioritizing…
