In Zimbabwe's ruling coalition, one operator has built a role most politicians run from — absorbing every attack meant for the President. Read through Selectorate Theory, it is the most rational job in the country.
In 2026, Africa sits at the center of global geo-economic competition not because the world suddenly discovered its virtues, but because it needs what the continent holds. Roughly 30 percent of the world’s critical mineral reserves — cobalt, lithium, copper, manganese, platinum group metals, and graphite — lie in African
By Powerlist Africa Editorial | May 2026 There is a particular cruelty in how institutional memory works inside African bureaucracies. The minister delivers the speech. The press takes the photograph. The historian writes the chapter. And the man who actually engineered the architecture — the one who spent seven years rewriting the
Zimbabwe has crossed a line it has been inching towards for a decade. Invictus Energy and Harare have sealed a Petroleum Production Sharing Agreement that turns Cabora Bassa from a frontier geology story into a financeable gas play, backed by Qatari capital
The African Continental Free Trade Area is no longer just a signature on paper. By mid-2026, 54 of 55 African Union member states have signed the agreement and roughly 48 have ratified it. The Guided Trade Initiative, launched as a pilot in 2022, has expanded from a handful of
The President of Zimbabwe set the destination — upper middle-income status by 2030, the World Bank GNI threshold of US$4,516 per capita. Cabinet wrote the policy. One operator is converting the speeches into water, housing, hospital beds and village shareholding. His name is Dr Paul Tungwarara.
NDS2 Is Now Live: Mnangagwa Turns Vision 2030 Into a Performance Contract With Every Zimbabwean
Zimbabwe has recorded a primary fiscal surplus. In a country that spent nearly a decade inside the second-worst hyperinflation in recorded monetary history, that sentence alone is worth stopping for.
Every African economy that has destroyed its currency did so the same way: printed first, explained later. Zimbabwe's new currency regime is attempting the opposite. This is the story of what changed, who forced it, and what it costs to hold the line.
What HH Has Actually Changed Before 2026
Zimbabwe targets US$9.4B revenue with a near‑balanced 2026 budget as Mthuli Ncube doubles down on discipline, stability and growth
George Guvamatanga has become one of the most consequential technocrats inside Zimbabwe’s economic machinery, helping drive Treasury discipline, fiscal restraint, and reform credibility.
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Why Non-Tax Collection Now Matters: Zimbabwe targets nearly US$10B in 2026 revenue and aims for non-tax income at 5–10%, anchored on automation and stronger SOE governance.
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Zimbabwe welcomed a new guardian of its public purse. Mrs. Vimbai Kadenge Chikwenhere — Big Four-trained, internationally seasoned, and unapologetically Zimbabwean — was unanimously approved by Parliament as the country's new Auditor-General. But Chikwenhere is no ordinary successor.
On a Friday afternoon in Sandton, a fund manager who covers frontier debt pulls up Zimbabwe on his screen for the first time in 3 years. Q1 revenues 24% above target. March inflation at 4.4%. The ZiG holding at roughly 26.7 to the dollar through quarter-end. He
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The country has its first female Chief Justice, the constitutional retirement clock ran exactly on time, and a clean Section 180(2) handover has given sovereign-rated investors a data point that costs the Treasury nothing. Justice Elizabeth Chiedza Gwaunza was sworn in as Zimbabwe's tenth Chief Justice
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The cable from Washington arrived at the Treasury building on Samora Machel Avenue at the start of the working day, and George Guvamatanga read it the way he reads most things — slowly, with the patience of a man who already knows what it says. IMF Management had approved Zimbabwe'
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On a Friday afternoon in Sandton, a fund manager who covers frontier debt pulls up Zimbabwe on his screen for the first time in 3 years. Q1 revenues 24% above target. March inflation at 4.4%. The ZiG holding at roughly 26.7 to the dollar through quarter-end. He
Why the Minister of Youth Turned Down Every British Investor Who Wanted to Hand Him Money at the Zimbabwe Achievers Awards
In a continent where finance ministers rotate faster than commodity cycles, Zimbabwe has quietly assembled one of Africa's most consequential fiscal tag-teams. Treasury Secretary George Guvamatanga and Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube are not running a charm offensive. They are running a compression engine — squeezing efficiencies, sealing leakages,
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Guvamatanga: Seasoned Bankers Delivering Over Performing Revenue and Record Growth Targets Wins Against Opposition Sabotage. Meanwhile Critics Offer Only Noise & No Plan
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A former Barclays chief turned Treasury power broker, George Guvamatanga has become one of the most consequential technocrats in Zimbabwe’s economic story, shaping debt, growth, and the state’s fiscal credibility.
South Africa’s Constitutional Court has done something Ramaphosa never priced in: it has forced his presidency back through the same constitutional door that carried him into power. He arrived as the rule‑of‑law reformer after Zuma; now the rule book is being used as an instrument to reopen
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Architect of Zimbabwe’s Financial Stabilization and Institutional Reform