Acie Lumumba is a political analyst, strategist, and the co-founder of Powerlist.Africa. He covers African politics with a particular focus on how the continent is led. He is the creator and anchor of The Lumumba Files
In June 2020, Lazarus Chakwera inherited the easiest presidential landing in SADC. By 2025 he had handed Peter Mutharika a country with a worthless currency. The doctor is in the room. The Lombard Gang is still in the corridor.
Zimbabwe Treasury, Zimbabwe fiscal policy, George Guvamatanga, Mthuli Ncube, public debt management, African macroeconomics, fiscal discipline, Zimbabwe budget 2026, AfCFTA, SADC economies
Zimbabwe had every excuse to print, postpone and pretend. Instead, Treasury forced a fiscal reset: cut central bank dependence, rebuild tax discipline, treat budgets as hard contracts. This is the internal playbook.
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For the first time in this country's mining history, the chemical leaves the border in a different molecular form than it entered the truck.
4.1% inflation, $12 billion in forex, then World Bank 7.5–9.5% growth. One country finally escaping its own obituary. 9% Shows We’ve Been Measuring Zimbabwe Wrong
Zimbabwe Doesn't Have an Economy Problem. It Has a Measurement Problem.
And the technocrat beside him who made sure the ledgers matched the words.
The blueprint Zimbabwe just carried into Washington, and why Africa will rise or fall on whether we learn to hand each other the map.
On the eleventh of April, 2026, a man was fired. No press conference. No statement of thanks. One line in a government gazette: Fulton Mangwanya is no longer the Director-General of the Central Intelligence Organisation in Zimbabwe.
The default posture of an African finance ministry in 2026 is excuses. Cocoa prices fell. The rand shifted. The IMF renegotiated. The currency moved. Every quarter produces a new reason the targets will slip to Q3. The reasons are often real. The posture is the problem. Zimbabwe broke that posture
94 presidents extended their terms. 78% succeeded. Some built transformation. Some triggered coups. Zimbabwe is Number 39. Here is the data.
Africa, Power & Influence, Policy Intelligence, Business Leaders, Economics, Policymakers, Rankings, PowerList Africa
France says no US pressure. Ramaphosa's spokesperson says otherwise. Ghana wins historic UN slavery resolution. Zimbabwe confirms 15 citizens killed fighting for Russia. The continent's political chessboard is moving fast.
Africa, Power & Influence, Policy Intelligence, Business Leaders, Economics, Policymakers, Rankings, PowerList Africa
Three men. One fabricated association. A political science autopsy of how Zimbabwe misreads the relationship between party capital, private enterprise, and activist freelancing — and why it matters for 2030.