To understand why smaller is beginning to outperform bigger, you first have to appreciate what big actually costs.
Opinion
By Valentine Muhamba Apr. 24, 2026
The routing via Dubai or Jeddah is not a quirk specific to Algeria. It is a description of how African air travel works. Only 19% of African city pairs are connected by a direct flight.
Opinion
By Valentine Muhamba Apr. 27, 2026
The market that a budget Air Zimbabwe would serve is real and growing. Zimbabwe received 1,613,901 international tourist arrivals in 2024, generating an estimated US$1.2 billion in tourism revenue.
Opinion
By Valentine Muhamba Apr. 27, 2026
That figure is not ambiguous. It is not a divided verdict. It is the judgment of the company's own shareholders, independently expressed, that the ZSE could no longer price their investment fairly.
Opinion
By Valentine Muhamba Apr. 28, 2026
To understand why the denominator in Zimbabwe's capacity utilisation fraction is so problematic, you have to understand the economy that created it.
Opinion
By Valentine Muhamba Apr. 28, 2026
British Airways’ three-weekly Heathrow-Harare service ended on October 28, 2007, with the airline citing spiralling costs and falling demand.
Opinion
By Valentine Muhamba May. 2, 2026
The more pressing question, the one any serious investor should be asking before signing a non-disclosure agreement and requesting access to the data room, is: what exactly is on offer?
Opinion
By Valentine Muhamba May. 2, 2026
ON April 26, 2026, state media reported that President Emmerson Mnangagwa had directed the government to begin removing all trade barriers with countries in the (Sadc).
Opinion
By Valentine Muhamba May. 8, 2026
SASAI is back. It is just not called Sasai anymore. EcoCash launched what it is calling Zimbabwe’s first all-in-one super app on April 23, and the feature list is genuinely ambitious: payment
Opinion
By Valentine Muhamba May. 8, 2026
SINCE Zimbabwe’s Insolvency Act came into force in 2018, only three registered corporate rescue practitioners have successfully concluded major industrial turnarounds.
Opinion
By Valentine Muhamba May. 15, 2026
A framework that counts Starlink’s consumption in one quarter, excludes it in the next, and never accounts for its provision produces a picture of the market that is structurally incomplete.
Fixed wireless access, as Potraz defines it, is primarily fixed LTE: home internet services delivered over cellular infrastructure, without a physical cable connecting the premises.
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) quarterly reports confirm the build happened.
Opinion
By Valentine Muhamba May. 22, 2026