Africa worries over international trade wars
The spectre of trade wars has Africa worried and the continent is now coming up with ways to fast-track its agreements in an effort to protect itself. In a statement,… Read more »
Category Archives: Africa
No big shock for Zim in AfCFTA
THE African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) will give countries like Zimbabwe a wider market to export goods, an expert has said, discounting concerns the economy would be overrun by… Read more »
SA team’s absence deals ZITF blow
THE South African government’s Department of Trade and Industry (dti) is not exhibiting at this year’s edition of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF), a major blow for the trade… Read more »
Ramaphosa in drive to woo investors
President Cyril Ramaphosa will approach the task of rebuilding South Africa’s image as an attractive investment destination “with a private-sector lens”, he said in an interview with the Financial Times… Read more »
Experts caution Zim on AfCFTA
Government needs to first look at ways of strengthening its attractiveness in terms of trade and investment before ratifying the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), trade experts have said…. Read more »
Govt to engage Sadc on import management programme
Government says it is engaging the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) for its support on Harare’s imports management programme. Under the import management programme, Government came up with a number… Read more »
Why Africa’s free-trade area offers so much promise
African leaders recently signed a framework establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), the largest free-trade agreement since the creation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The free-trade area… Read more »
Zim in $44,4m trade surplus with SA
ZIMBABWE recorded a $44,4 million trade surplus against its major trading partner, South Africa, after exporting goods worth $216,9 million to the neighbouring country in the month of February 2018,… Read more »
Investment, economic development lessons from Rwanda
Rwanda is a small and landlocked country in East Africa. The country has a total area of 26 338km2 (half the size of Midlands in Zimbabwe). It borders the natural… Read more »
‘Zim should copy Rwanda on reforms’
GOVERNMENT should draw key lessons from Rwanda a country ranked number two after Mauritius in the ease of doing business in Africa, businesses have said. Zimbabwe is ranked 159 among… Read more »