Re-energising Africa’s power sector key to growth

Lusaka – Africa’s energy statistics make for worrisome reading: the continent has installed capacity to generate around 170GW of electricity, but requires output of about 250GW between now and 2030. ...Read More

Mosi Oa Tunya thunders onto smoking market

Harare - A Zimbabwean entrepreneur in Africa's top tobacco producer has launched the first local brand of hand-rolled cigars, defying coronavirus and economic odds to light up manufacturing. ...Read More

‘Stop incurring needless debt’

Windhoek – “Any port in a storm,” is a credo sailors live by. And it appears to be one that governments in Southern Africa are starting to adopt as economies are buffeted by falling commodity prices, depressed productivity and job losses partly tied to the global COVID-19 pandemic. ...Read More

Africa’s biggest project takes shape … under the cloud of terrorism in SADC

Dozens of soldiers clutching AK-47s and grenade launchers watch over roaring bulldozers on the white sand beach that meets a tropical turquoise sea. ...Read More

The case for stimulus packages

One does not need to be an economist to appreciate the difficulties brought by COVID-19 to national and household economies. ...Read More