BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe gold makes currency history

Welcome Mavingire, managing consultant at INTELLEGO Investment Consultants, has hailed the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) currency's recent stability as the longest sustained period for a domestic currency in...

By Staff reporter | Published: 14 July 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe currency reserves backing ZiG climb to record

Gold and foreign-currency reserves backing Zimbabwe's bullion-linked monetary unit rose to a record in June, the central bank said.The reserves climbed to $731 million from $639 million in May and $27...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 July 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe's foreign currency reserves surge

Zimbabwe's foreign currency reserves have maintained strong momentum, with the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) reporting that, by the end of June 2025, the reserve holdings were more than three times h...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 July 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Chiyangwa locked up over cryptocurrency fraud

A Harare woman, Melissa Messe Samantha Chiyangwa, appeared in court this week charged with swindling a prominent eye specialist of nearly US$600,000 in a complex cryptocurrency scam spanning over two...

By Staff reporter | Published: 27 June 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe business leaders call for clear mono-currency strategy

Zimbabwe's business leaders have called on the government to adopt a clear, market-driven mono-currency transition strategy that will not destabilise businesses or derail investment projects. The app...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 June 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Dr Guramatunhu loses in cryptocurrency scam

Renowned ophthalmologist Dr Solomon Guramatunhu has reportedly lost more than US$583,000 in a cryptocurrency scam allegedly orchestrated by a business associate and her husband, a Harare court heard y...

By Staff reporter | Published: 25 June 2025

TELECOMS & TECHNOLOGY

Zimbabwe's mobile network operators hit by currency woes

Zimbabwe's mobile network operators (MNOs) are reeling from a sharp decline in profitability, with spiralling costs and exchange rate volatility emerging as key culprits, according to a new industry r...

By Staff reporter | Published: 22 June 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

'Zimbabwe gold-backed currency stable' but ...

Zimbabwe's gold-backed currency now has more than 100% reserve cover and is stable, according to the central bank, but doubts over its credibility remain, underscored by a persistent premium in the pa...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 June 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

ZiG ranked second worst performing currency

In a stark contrast of fortunes, Ghana's Cedi has emerged as the world's strongest-performing currency in 2025, gaining nearly 50% against the United States dollar, while Zimbabwe's Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

IMF wants Zimbabwe's gold-backed ZiG to become sole currency

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has expressed support for the full adoption of Zimbabwe's new currency, the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG), as the country pushes to secure a staff-monitored program (SMP) t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2025

POLITICS

Chamisa in cryptocurrency launch?

Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has confirmed that his X account was hacked after unusual posts promoting a digital currency called "God Is In It ($GIT)" appeared on his page.Early Tuesday morning, h...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 June 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

US dollar weakness fuels surge in currency volatility

The dollar's descent is elevating the price of hedging currency trades around the world, breaking up a long-standing market conviction that costs tend to come down when the greenback weakens.The corre...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 May 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe's ZiG currency risks extinction stoked by policy choices

Zimbabwe's ZiG is heading toward failure, not through rapid devaluation, but through growing irrelevance, according to Imara Asset Management, the country's oldest independent brokerage.Unlike past cu...

By Staff reporter | Published: 16 April 2025

ZIMBABWE

Zimbabwe shuts down main source of hard currency

Zimbabwe has suspended the transfer of local shares in dual-listed companies to foreign bourses, one of the main ways citizens and businesses have been able to obtain dollars as inflation wipes out th...

By Reuters | Published: 17 March 2020

BUSINESS NEWS

AMG boss proposes gold-backed Zimbabwe currency to RBZ

A leading South Africa precious metals dealer African Medallion Group (AMG) has proposed to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) the launch of a digital currency backed by physical gold, with an aim to ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 November 2019

INDUSTRIALS & ENERGY

Foreign currency shortages derail Paramount Garments

LEADING textile firm, Paramount Garments' exports have dropped by 14 percent while prospects of growing its Bulawayo clothing manufacturing unit, Archer Clothing Manufacturers are in limbo due to adve...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 October 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Mnangagwa goes after currency manipulators

Zimbabwe's currency has taken relentless buffeting from surreptitious activities of only a few cash barons who are carelessly manipulating exchange rates on the foreign currency market with impunity, ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 October 2019

FINANCIAL SERVICES

ABC feels heat of currency volatility

FINANCIAL Services giant ABC Holdings Limited has conceded that currency reforms are yet to yield results as the country continues to witness heavy devaluation of the local currency and hyperinflation...

By Staff reporter | Published: 01 October 2019

OPINION

Zimbabwe currency stability faces headwinds

The battle for new currency stability faces severe headwinds, and the signs are not good. It was always going to be an uphill task, even under the best of conditions to re-introduce a currency that wa...

By Joseph Mverecha | Published: 23 September 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Masiyiwa 'former' lawyer's multi-currency regime challenge ruled not urgent

High Court judge Justice Joseph Musakwa has ruled as not urgent an application by businessman and lawyer, Tawanda Nyambirai who was seeking an order to interdict Finance minister Mthuli Ncube and Rese...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 July 2019

INDUSTRIALS & ENERGY

Currency reforms expected to stabilise fuel sector

THE re-introduction of the Zimbabwean dollar is expected to bring stability to the fuel sector as Government tightens fiscal and monetary policies to ease pressure on foreign currency demand, National...

By Staff reporter | Published: 09 July 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

'Multi-currency ban averted catastrophe'

ZIMBABWE'S shock move to abolish the multi-currency system last week helped the country avoid a potential "catastrophe", businessman Shingi Munyeza has said. The southern African country last week gaz...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2019

POLITICS

Khupe speaks on currency

Leader of the smaller MDC Thokozani Khupe has said the new monetary policy highlighted by the ending of a 10-year multi-currency system, does not demonstrate a long term plan with a defined path to so...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 July 2019

TRANSPORT & TOURISM

Fastjet's hope for profit pinned on Zimbabwe currency

Low-cost African airline Fastjet Plc expects to be profitable on an underlying basis in 2019, Chief Executive Officer Nico Bezuidenhout said on Thursday, a year after a cash crunch nearly drove the ca...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 July 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Mthuli Ncube's quotes on currency reforms . . .

"Replacing the multi-currency regime anchored in the United States dollar by the South African rand as the sole transaction currency would help reduce over-valuation and stimulate exports and growth. ...

By Lisa Tazviinga | Published: 01 July 2019
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