The first wave of lithium investment was about digging. The next will be decided by who can build plants, secure power and keep more of the value at home.
A plain-language guide to the priorities in the second National Development Strategy, and where business fits in.
Tenants want parking, reliable power and water. Suburban office parks are offering all three.
Horticulture, pulses and specialty crops are attracting investors who want processing and export margins, not just harvests.
The facility is designed to cut post-harvest losses and lets the company take on longer supply contracts.
Factories that cannot afford interruptions are signing long-term deals for rooftop solar and storage.
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Many of the country's most important private companies were built by one founder. What happens next will shape the private sector for decades.
Every hour a truck waits at a border adds to the price of Zimbabwean goods. Logistics parks are one answer.
The hotel group is adding small, solar-powered lodges while refurbishing its flagship.
Talent, patient capital and clearer rules top the list for the city's technology entrepreneurs.
The engineer joins from a regional utility as the solar developer expands into storage for mines.
The Nyanga Digital co-founder explains why his company started with bookkeeping, not loans.
Understand where each industry is going
Artisanal miners produce a large share of the country's gold. Bringing them into formal, safe and financed supply chains is a development story as much as a mining one.
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Gold, platinum group metals, lithium and chrome remain the backbone of export earnings. The story now is beneficiation: how much value stays in the country.
Milestones, strategy, investment and the people at the top
A lithium and tantalum producer moving from concentrate exports to local chemical processing.
A commercial bank rebuilding itself around mobile lending and agency banking for small businesses.
An integrated horticulture business linking smallholder growers to regional retail buyers.
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“The trader in the market has been running a profitable business for twenty years. We were the ones who could not see it.”
Chipo Mutasa, Group Chief Executive, Imba Capital Bank
The Group Chief Executive of Imba Capital Bank on mobile credit, partnering with startups, and what a bank owes the informal economy.
The executives, founders and community builders shaping what comes next
Group Chief Executive, Imba Capital Bank
Building a bank for the ten million Zimbabweans still outside formal finance.
Managing Director, Kopje Minerals
Taking a lithium miner from concentrate exports to local processing.
Co-founder & CEO, Nyanga Digital
A fintech founder betting that trust, not technology, is the real product.
Managing Director, Zambezi Crest Hospitality
Repositioning a hotel group around smaller, greener, higher-value stays.
Every story should lead somewhere: capital, careers, contracts
Kopje Minerals · Mashonaland East
Seeking strategic and financial partners for a local processing facility at feasibility stage.
Kopje Minerals Foundation · Mashonaland East
Drilling and installation of twenty solar-powered water points.
Sector briefing · National
Why storage could become a manufacturing opportunity alongside solar growth.
Policy, regulation and what they mean for business
A plain-language guide to the priorities in the second National Development Strategy, and where business fits in.
Regional and continental free trade agreements are only as useful as the paperwork, logistics and standards behind them.
Under the Cyber and Data Protection Act, organisations that process personal data have licensing and governance obligations. Here is what leaders need to know.
Philanthropy, CSR and community
Twelve companies pooled their CSR budgets to build classrooms in peri-urban schools. The model is attracting attention.
Property, motoring, travel and wellness
Secure, serviced and solar-powered, gated estates are redefining the premium home.
The creative industries as a national brand
Music, film, fashion and design are shaping how the world sees the country, and creating businesses along the way.
Streaming platforms and social media are giving local stories a route to viewers across Africa and the diaspora.
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