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Aptiva AI’s founder receives a prestigious 2025 LIST Award, marking a defining moment for African-first artificial intelligence. A Defining Moment for African AI When John Arufandika walked onto the stage at the 2025 LIST Awards in Harare to receive the Emerging...
The auction floor wakes early. In the cool light before buyers crowd the lines, graders nod through stacks of flue-cured leaf and a district councillor from the Zimbabwe Tobacco Association (ZTA) answers a grower’s question about this week’s prices. The scene could be...
When aspiring entrepreneurs think about starting or scaling a business in South Africa or the SADC region, many don’t realise that behind Evertol Associates stands a strategist whose influence has quietly steered R500 million+ (≈ $25 million USD) in ventures. That...
In an era when social media feels like the pavement beneath everyone’s feet, it’s easy to believe it won’t disappear under you. But time and again, businesses are learning the hard way: when platform rules shift, access to followers, content, and reach can vanish in...
At cabanga.africa/, we’ve always believed that every great cup of coffee - and every great business - starts with the right blend. For us, that blend has been media + agency: telling stories that matter while building digital engines that make small and medium...
Within weeks of his 23 July 2025 appointment, BCC governor André Wameso told commercial banks that a reserve penalty frozen at an old exchange rate would be repriced in three steps from 15 September.
Tshisekedi named adviser André Wameso governor of the Banque Centrale du Congo on 23 July 2025. The appointment carries no new law, yet it moves the rate, the auction and enforcement priorities.
Malangu Kabedi Mbuyi became the BCC’s first woman governor in 2021. By June 2025 her tight-money stance had pushed the real policy rate above 16 per cent and held the franc to a 0.05 per cent slide this year.
Malangu Kabedi Mbuyi kept the BCC policy rate at 25 per cent while inflation fell below 10 per cent and the franc held near CDF 2,850. May 2025 tested whether that discipline survives the Kivu conflict.