BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe's tobacco farmers trapped in debt

Zimbabwe's tobacco industry has continued to record impressive export earnings, with revenues approaching US$1 billion in 2024. However, behind the success story, many smallholder farmers say they are...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 September 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe's debt plan faces test

Zimbabwe's arrears clearance and debt resolution plan will come under renewed scrutiny as Mauritanian banker Sidi Ould Tah assumes office today as the ninth president of the African Development Bank G...

By Staff reporter | Published: 01 September 2025

POLITICS

Mutezo's farm assets auctioned over $750,000 debt

Farming equipment and livestock belonging to former Water Resources minister Munacho Mutezo are set to be auctioned today in Odzi, Manicaland, as part of efforts to recover a US$750,000 debt owed to h...

By Staff reporter | Published: 16 August 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Government debt cripples Masvingo City

Masvingo City Council is facing mounting challenges in delivering basic services due to the government's failure to settle substantial debts owed to the local authority, with claims that various gove...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 August 2025

ECONOMC INDICATORS

Zimbabwe repays US$176 million in external debt

The Zimbabwean government has made notable progress in repaying its external debt, with a total of US$176.28 million paid during the first six months of 2025, according to data released by the Ministr...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 August 2025

ZIMBABWE

Zimbabwe's debt stock hits US$21.5 billion

Zimbabwe's total public debt has surged to US$21.5 billion as of March 2025, an increase of about US$1 billion from the same period last year. The growing debt burden continues to undermine the countr...

By Staff reporter | Published: 31 July 2025

AFRICA BUSINESS

South Africa's debt-to-GDP ratio worsens under Ramaphosa

South Africa's economy is under severe pressure, and economists are worried that the country's debt-to-GDP ratio is heading to crisis levels.South Africa's GDP has averaged about 1.1% growth over the ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 31 July 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Mutapa to clear Cottco debts

The Mutapa Investment Fund (MIF) has announced a bold recovery plan for troubled cotton firm Cottco Holdings, pledging to settle its outstanding legacy debts of approximately US$5 million within the ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 July 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe needs G20 help to exit debt trap

Zimbabwe's best chance of exiting a 25-year debt default is to engage the Group of 20 nations to help formulate a solution and stop trying to work its way out of the quagmire itself, World Bank Presi...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 July 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Meikles's debt to suppliers raises fresh concerns

Meikles Limited's trade payables more than doubled to ZiG925,78 million in its financial year ended February 28, 2025, sparking fears of deepening debt pressures within Zimbabwe's formal retail sector...

By Staff reporter | Published: 21 July 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe adopts multi-pronged strategy to manage debt

Zimbabwe is pursuing a multi-faceted approach to address its US$21 billion debt obligations, with the government considering leveraging the country's abundant natural resources as part of the solution...

By Staff reporter | Published: 14 July 2025

ECONOMC INDICATORS

Zimbabwe hopes to service external debt

Zimbabwe, locked out of international capital markets since defaulting in 1999, expects its stronger economy to help it pay back external creditors, without saying when this would begin.Finance Minist...

By Staff reporter | Published: 09 July 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe govt to settle parastatal debt

The Ministry of Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion says it is intensifying efforts to settle mounting debts owed to state-owned enterprises (SOEs), including telecoms giant TelOne ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 July 2025

MINING & RETAIL

OK Zimbabwe earmarks 50% of capital raise to clear debts

Retail giant OK Zimbabwe Limited has announced plans to allocate more than half of the proceeds from its planned US$30.5 million capital raise - through a rights issue and property disposals - toward ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 June 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe asks South Africa to back G-20 debt overhaul

Zimbabwe has asked South Africa to help garner support for its debt to be revamped under the Group of 20's Common Framework, a step that could restore its access to international capital markets for t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 June 2025

INDUSTRIALS & ENERGY

PPC Zimbabwe triples cash holdings, remains debt-free

PPC Zimbabwe has once again demonstrated its financial resilience and operational discipline, closing the financial year ending March 31, 2025, with a debt-free balance sheet and unrestricted cash hol...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2025

LANDS & AGRICULTURE

Seed firms crippled by Zimbabwe govt debt

Zimbabwe's seed industry is teetering on the edge of collapse as the government grapples with ballooning debt, having failed to pay seed suppliers nearly US$270 million over the past three farming sea...

By Staff reporter | Published: 22 May 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Mnangagwa's son grilled over US$200m seed debt

Finance and Investment Promotion Deputy Minister David Mnangagwa has come under fire in Parliament after it emerged that the Government owes Valley Seeds Private Limited nearly US$200 million for agri...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 May 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Gweru residents petition council over debt blitz

Gweru residents have petitioned the local authority to postpone a planned revenue collection blitz  -  which includes water disconnections and possible property attachments  -  fro...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 May 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe targets 2030 to clear US$21 billion debt

Zimbabwe has set an ambitious 2030 deadline to clear its ballooning US$21 billion public debt, in a bid to create the foundations for a stable mono-currency regime anchored by the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 May 2025

INDUSTRIALS & ENERGY

RioZim in firing line over US$5m power debt

Renco Mine, a subsidiary of Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed miner RioZim Limited, is facing a looming power disconnection due to an outstanding US$4.7 million debt owed to the Zimbabwe Electricity Tran...

By Staff reporter | Published: 09 May 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

AfDB says Zimbabwe seeks $2.6bn in bridge finance to overhaul debt

The African Development Bank said Zimbabwe has proposed seeking $2.6 billion in bridge finance to help it clear arrears owed to international financial institutions as it attempts to break a debt impa...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 April 2025

MINING & RETAIL

Zimbabwe firm seeks protection from asset seizure over US$93m debt

A state-owned Zimbabwean mining firm is trying to protect assets that risk being seized because the country failed to honour a US$93 million debt incurred when it lost an international arbitration cas...

By Staff reporter | Published: 14 April 2025

ZIMBABWE

Zimbabwe abandons debt relief initiative

The Zimbabwe government has abandoned its plan to access a debt relief facility under the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative, meant to resolve its unsustainable debt, Business Times repo...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 June 2022

TRANSPORT & TOURISM

Air Zimbabwe resumes S.Africa flight after settling debt

State-owned Air Zimbabwe's only serviceable plane was stopped from leaving Johannesburg last week after failing to pay for airport services.South Africa has reinstated permission for Zimbabwe's natio...

By AFP | Published: 29 October 2019
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