HARARE – The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) is expected to record negative growth due to depressed activity on the local bourse, market experts have warned. In an investor alert released this week, equities research company Lynton-Edwards Stockbrokers (Les) revised its initial ZSE growth projection from 10 percent to the negative figures. “Judging by the market’s…
HARARE – More delistings loom on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) this year on the back of slackening economic growth and depressed financial performance. This comes as a record 12 companies have departed from the local bourse over the past five years. Several listed entities are voluntarily leaving the ZSE, saying they are not realising…
HARARE – Telecel— Zimbabwe’s second largest wireless network operator — is optimistic about its mobile-based insurance service, Telecare. Obert Mandimika, Telecel’s communications director, said many Zimbabweans now understand such innovative insurance products and are willing to engage. “The service itself has been rigorously vetted by various regulatory bodies to guard against the very issues that…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s ease and cost of doing business is being weighed down by colonial laws inherited by the ruling government, the World Bank (WB) has said. “I share with you the colonial history of Zimbabwe, that you were a British colony,” WB’s country manager Camille Nuamah told participants at the Doing Business Reform strategy…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s manufacturing sector has deteriorated further, with capacity utilisation declining by 3,3 percentage points to 36,3 percent in the year to September 2014, a latest Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) report has revealed. Dephine Mazambani, a senior economist with CZI, said deindustrialisation has reached catastrophic levels, with dire consequences to the state of…
HARARE – The Deposit Protection Corporation (DPC) is seeking $52 million from financial institutions to boost its Fund — created to reimburse depositors when a bank collapses. The Fund currently has only $14 million, a far cry from the stipulated $76 million, equivalent to two percent of banks’ total deposits. “We are appealing to banks…
HARARE – Listed Meikles Limited (Meikles) is venturing into the hair and beauty industry, as the group broadens its revenue streams. Zimbabwe hosts a multi-million dollar hair and cosmetics industry, with locals spending $13 million on products, care and maintenance in the 18 months to July 2014, according to the country’s statistics agency. “We view…
HARARE – ABC Holdings (ABCH) says its Zimbabwean BancABC unit constituted 42 percent — BWP64 million or $6,9 million — of the banking group’s BWP152 million loan impairment charges in the half year to June 2014. The other 58 percent was shared almost equally among its BancABC subsidiaries in Botswana, Mozambique and Zambia. This comes…
LISTED Meikles Limited (Meikles) plans to inject $4 million into its retail division following repayment of its debt by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe recently. The group said the fresh capital injection will see its retail division — comprising Meikles Stores, Barbours and Meikles Mega Market — grow its market share and return to profitability…
HARARE – United Kingdom-based Green Rhino Energy (GRE) plans to construct a 150 megawatts (MW) solar plant in Zimbabwe. This comes as the southern African country is grappling with massive power shortages, generating approximately 1 100MW against national demand of at least 2 200MW. GRE, in partnership with a local company De Opper Trading, formed…
