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The much talked about Chisumbanje vegetable garden – WATCH

A move by Zimbabwe’s Central Bank to raise its benchmark to 60 percent from 40 percent could have some unintended consequences on production sectors. That’s according to some market analysts. Last week the apex bank raised rates in an attempt to curb speculative borrowing that had fuelled a decline in the value of the Zimbabwean Dollar.

Successful Bindura businessman Lucky Kapiya (Tunje) gives his inspirational story to Sly Media TV. He says he flunked his ‘O’ levels and got married using borrowed clothes and explains how he turned things around.

How a Zimbabwean couple left the UK to build a successful business in Zimbabwe

President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the country’s battered economy is on the mend despite setbacks suffered due to the COVID-19 lockdowns which have affected the global economy.

Many millionaires live in the Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the world’s poorest countries. This film depicts some of those who have made fortunes amid the chaos, including musicians, mining bosses, entrepreneurs and preachers.

Buyers and sellers gather on the trading floor in Zimbabwe’s capital to bid on bales of dried tobacco leaves as the marketing season kicks off. According to the industry regulator, the country is on track to produce 200,000 tonnes of tobacco this year, up from 184,000 in 2020.

The daughter of Angola’s longtime former president accumulated riches through embezzlement and money laundering, an Angolan court claims. To recover what was looted, the government froze her assets. Then Portuguese authorities followed suit.

Eight years ago, Forbes declared Isabel dos Santos the richest woman in Africa, worth an estimated $3.5 billion. The daughter of Angola’s longtime former president grew immensely wealthy in a textbook case of how to loot a country.

Ginimbi’s business manager Shaleen Nullens speaks on the late socialite’s businesses in Botswana, South Africa and what will happen to them following his tragic death on Sunday.

Former white farmers that were forcibly removed twenty years ago during Robert Mugabe’s chaotic land reform are returning to the land as tenants of black farm owners.