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Last week on Wednesday, the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority gave Econet Wireless an award for customs and excise compliance at a Taxpayer Appreciation Day marking the agency’s 25th anniversary. The ceremony is not the interesting part. The interesting part is what it reveals about the relationship between one company and the state. In the fiscal year ended February 2024, Econet paid ZWL3.8 trillion to the government …
Zimbabwe has a problem with informal work. It also has a problem with pretending that its policies are solutions. This year, the government adopted the National Informal Economy Formalisation Strategy. The strategy recognizes what successive governments have often preferred to ignore: Informal work is not a temporary nuisance or an obstacle to urban order. It is a central part of Zimbabwe’s economy. The strategy calls …
The soil has not yet forgiven the heat of 2024. In the dry lands of Buhera and the low-slung valleys of Matabeleland, the earth remembers how the maize stalks curled and browned before the cobs could form. It remembers the dust storms that stripped the topsoil away, and the cattle that dropped dead beside empty boreholes. That disaster was supposed to be the exception. Now …
Last week on Wednesday, the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority gave Econet Wireless an award for customs and excise compliance at a Taxpayer Appreciation Day marking the agency’s 25th anniversary. The ceremony is not the interesting part. The interesting part is what it reveals about the relationship between one company and the state. In the fiscal year ended February 2024, Econet paid ZWL3.8 trillion to the government …
Zimbabwe has a problem with informal work. It also has a problem with pretending that its policies are solutions. This year, the government adopted the National Informal Economy Formalisation Strategy. The strategy recognizes what successive governments have often preferred to ignore: Informal work is not a temporary nuisance or an obstacle to urban order. It is a central part of Zimbabwe’s economy. The strategy calls …
The soil has not yet forgiven the heat of 2024. In the dry lands of Buhera and the low-slung valleys of Matabeleland, the earth remembers how the maize stalks curled and browned before the cobs could form. It remembers the dust storms that stripped the topsoil away, and the cattle that dropped dead beside empty boreholes. That disaster was supposed to be the exception. Now …
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