Roystone V

Afrophile | Thinking about infrastructure, energy, capital & natural resource development in frontier economies

[Roystone V @Roystonehpw]

Aw we Somandla inkinga zami zifuna imali eningi. 🕯️🕯️🤍

[Bloomberg @business]

Ventures Platform, backed by the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corp., raised $84 million to expand its financing for startups across the continent https://t.co/aopJJkbDJf

[Roystone V @Roystonehpw]

More….

[The Herald Zimbabwe @HeraldZimbabwe]

#BREAKING: RIDA boss remanded in custody on culpable homicide charges over Kariba ferry disaster
https://t.co/yFrV0A4jAD

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

China advises its citizens to leave Taiwan ally Eswatini over 'security risks' https://t.co/QXKDdIhJMg

[Bloomberg @business]

South Africa’s rand strengthens to a six-month high against the dollar and bonds rally after an auction of government debt attracted the strongest demand in almost three months https://t.co/K9SDX6lJSg

[Bloomberg @business]

Humanitarian worker deaths in South Sudan this year have surpassed the total for all of 2025, according to the European Union https://t.co/oL7A64vrYm

[Bloomberg @business]

Citigroup sees Zimbabwe breaking with the past as a poster-child of triple-digit inflation and fiscal indiscipline, flagging an economic turnaround is underway https://t.co/gG4r6dB61o

[Roystone V @Roystonehpw]

@CrimeWatchZW What an ally and a neighbor 🙂👍🏾

[Roystone V @Roystonehpw]

@OMtyambizi @miss_mica_elle

[Bloomberg @business]

Tanzanian Vice President Emmanuel Nchimbi has resigned, the local Citizen newspaper said, amid reports that’s he’s fallen out with President Samia Suluhu Hassan https://t.co/GVQVhWuwXg

[Bloomberg @business]

Johannesburg is stuck in a 'debt doom loop' with fewer customers paying their bills, a research group said https://t.co/3pXe1t0tcz

[Bloomberg @business]

Tsingshan Holding Group is considering as much as tripling output at a Zimbabwe steel plant it started in 2024 https://t.co/mKFFkNJ7vu

[Roystone V @Roystonehpw]

To those wondering why Zim current GDP growth trajectory is not translating to improved livelihoods. Here you go👇🏿

[World Bank Africa @WorldBankAfrica]

Africa's economy is growing. So why isn't poverty falling? The current growth model isn't enough.

A new @WorldBankGroup + @AFD_France blog lays out 5 insights to change that — starting with the 25 MILLION jobs Africa needs every year through 2050: https://t.co/EKQSsyrlrU

[World Bank Africa @WorldBankAfrica]

Africa's economy is growing. So why isn't poverty falling? The current growth model isn't enough.

A new @WorldBankGroup + @AFD_France blog lays out 5 insights to change that — starting with the 25 MILLION jobs Africa needs every year through 2050: https://t.co/EKQSsyrlrU

[Bloomberg @business]

“We are only starting to understand and realize how much tropical peatland there actually is in Africa” https://t.co/2OQxSYssTv

[Roystone V @Roystonehpw]

@FrigidArmadillo @FrigidArmadillo , where can we find the extended version of “Goodbye My Friend” that you played in Lagos Group Therapy?

[Roystone V @Roystonehpw]

@FrigidArmadillo 11/10…

[Roystone V @Roystonehpw]

@business Whats your take @baba_nyenyedzi ?

[Bloomberg @business]

Billionaire Ray Dalio said investors should reduce their bond holdings and put as much as 15% of their money in gold to hedge against the risk of a US debt crisis that he warns could be just three years away. https://t.co/BMPDnCqFZk

[Tinashe @baba_nyenyedzi]

When IMTT was introduced, its contribution to total tax collections rose as high as 11.4%. Today, it is as low as 5%. Is there still any merit in retaining this tax head when one considers how it encourages informality in financial services? Without IMTT, we could see greater formalisation and much wider use of the financial system. And achieve more tax revenue..

[Roystone V @Roystonehpw]

@RoryDuncan1966 I still reminisce about my dad telling me stories of David Whitehead in Kadoma, Zimbabwe. Truly a tragic story.