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50 Bothwell P. Nyajeka In my last column, When the Board Can Say No to Shareholders, I argued that directors not only have the power to say no to shareholders, but that their fiduciary duties sometimes require it. Directors owe their duties to the company, and the law protects them when, acting properly and in good faith, they exercise independent judgment rather than simply implementing a shareholder’s wishes.

64 GODFREY NYONI EVERY website has a breaking point. Under normal conditions, a server handles incoming requests comfortably pages load quickly, transactions process smoothly, and users move through a platform without friction. Then something changes. A product goes viral on social media. A government announcement drives thousands of citizens to an online portal at the same moment. A popular promotion launches and traffic multiplies within minutes.

30 Roselyn Nothando Zinjiva THERE was a time when rice was reserved for celebration for many Zimbabwean families including my family back in the village in Honde Valley, Mutare in the 90s as it was the meal that appeared at Christmas, weddings and milestone family gatherings. Rice signalled abundance and festivity as everyday life revolved around Sadza.

49 Thought Leadership Alfred Musarurwa For years, agency banking has been one of Africa’s most powerful financial inclusion breakthroughs. By turning shops, kiosks, and community touchpoints into banking outposts, banks collapsed the distance between people and financial services—and brought millions into the formal economy. But that revolution is about to be overtaken by something bigger, faster, and far more disruptive. Welcome to the era of agentic banking. Agency banking gave banks reach.

65 Leonita Mhishi THERE is a particular kind of excitement that comes with buying a property in Zimbabwe today. It begins with a WhatsApp message, a photograph of a newly built house or stand, and the familiar promise: buy now, wait a little, sell later at a much higher price. For some investors, this has become a business model. For others, property is less glamorous. They buy a house, find a tenant, collect rent every month and wait.

61 HR Perspective with MEMORY NGUWI A PAY structure is, in essence, a pricing system for labour. It establishes the relative worth of every job inside the organisation and then tests that internal hierarchy against what the external market pays for comparable work. Fairness, retention and cost control all follow from those two decisions. Most boards do not see it that way.

52 Simbarashe Hamudi IN Value Added Tax administration, much attention is often given to credit notes because they reduce the value of a taxable supply. Yet the opposite document, the debit note, is just as important. A debit note is required where the VAT charged on an original tax invoice is less than the amount properly chargeable after the supply, price, or agreed consideration has been increased or corrected. In simple terms, a debit note is the VAT document that fixes an undercharge.

39 Blessing Nyahuma ON Sunday, the workers at the farm beckoned me to join them. We played drafts. Then Crazy Eights. Then they persuaded me to dance to contemporary music whose lyrics and movements I hardly understood. By every measure of productivity, we accomplished nothing. And I had a wonderful time. Later that evening, driving home, something unsettled me. Nothing that was going wrong at the farm had changed. The problems were still there. Our numbers were still not good.

CBZ Holdings (CBZ) total income increased by 0,4 percent to ZiG2,86 billion in the six months to June 30, 2026 compared to ZiG2,85 percent a year earlier supported by growth in non-funded income and the group’s diversification model. The group, which owns the country’s largest bank by assets and deposits, CBZ Bank, was largely supported…

THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has urged local banks to reduce lending rates in line with policy rate cuts, warning that expensive credit is pricing productive sectors out of formal financing. The central bank, in June this year cut its main bank policy rate from 35 percent to 30 percent in line with stability…