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Zvedu Zvazoita Varimi! Yithi Laba Sesifikile Balimi! The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is conducting an outreach at the Tobacco Auction Floors as part of the BiG5ZiG Awareness Drive with a focus on currency education. RBZ personnel are available to interact with farmers at Premier Auction Floor, Ethical Auction Floor, and Tobacco Sales Floor. Homelink services are also available for convenient cash withdrawals. #Yakanaka, Yakasimba, Inotenga #Inhle, Iqinile, Iyathenga

The Reserve Bank continues to provide the public with regular updates on monetary and financial conditions to enhance transparency. Take a look at the 2026 Q1 Quarterly Snapshot providing update on monetary and financial developments and the performance of the ZiG as at 31 March 2026. Read the full snapshot here: rbz.co.zw/documents/publ…

@ReserveBankZIM Yakanaka-Yakasimba-Inotenga..

The upgraded ZiG notes are now available at banks and ATMs nationwide!

Your Money, Your Future: RBZ Takes ZiG Education Directly to the People In markets, bus ranks, growth points and rural service centres across Zimbabwe, a new conversation about money is unfolding. The @ReserveBankZIM has moved beyond formal announcements and taken its message straight to communities, launching a nationwide outreach campaign to help citizens understand the upgraded “BiG 5” #ZiG banknotes. Rather than expecting people to decode technical financial statements, RBZ teams are meeting Zimbabweans where economic life actually happens — in market stalls, small shops, commuter ranks and trading centres. The aim is clear: ensure that every citizen understands the upgraded currency and uses it with confidence. At its core, the campaign recognises a simple truth about money: a currency becomes strong not only through policy, but through the confidence of the people who use it every day. Taking the Currency Conversation to the Ground Across districts, RBZ officials are holding face-to-face engagement sessions with traders, transport operators, business owners and community members. The approach is practical and interactive rather than technical. People are shown the upgraded banknotes, guided through their security features and encouraged to handle them while learning how to quickly identify genuine notes. For many participants, it is the first opportunity to see and examine the upgraded notes up close. Questions are answered openly, concerns are addressed, and misinformation is corrected in real time. This direct engagement is designed to eliminate confusion and ensure that citizens feel comfortable with the currency circulating in their hands. Empowering the Real Engine of the Economy The outreach programme places particular emphasis on Zimbabwe’s informal sector — the vendors, small traders and transport operators who power daily economic activity. These are the people who handle cash transactions constantly, often in fast-moving environments where speed and trust are essential. Ensuring that they understand the upgraded ZiG notes is therefore central to maintaining smooth commerce. RBZ teams are showing traders how to verify security features quickly, helping them avoid counterfeit risks while continuing to serve customers efficiently. By equipping the informal sector with knowledge, the central bank is strengthening the everyday circulation of the currency where it matters most. Reaching Every District Unlike many financial awareness campaigns that remain concentrated in major cities, the RBZ initiative is deliberately spreading across districts nationwide. Teams are travelling to rural communities and smaller towns to ensure that no area is left behind in understanding the ZiG currency. For farmers selling produce at local markets, shop owners in growth points, and commuters paying daily transport fares, the outreach ensures that the upgraded notes are not something distant or unfamiliar, but a practical tool they understand and trust. Confidence: The Backbone of a Currency Under the leadership of RBZ Governor John Mushayavanhu, the Zimbabwe Gold currency represents a key step in strengthening monetary stability and restoring confidence in the country’s financial system. But policy alone cannot build trust. Confidence grows when people understand the currency they hold in their hands. The BiG 5 awareness campaign is therefore built around education and transparency. By explaining the features of the notes and engaging directly with citizens, the RBZ is helping protect the currency against misinformation and counterfeiting. In doing so, the bank is reinforcing the foundation upon which any successful monetary system rests: public trust. A National Effort to Strengthen the Currency The Reserve Bank has confirmed that these community engagements will continue across the country in the coming weeks, ensuring that as many Zimbabweans as possible are reached. Citizens are encouraged to attend the sessions, ask questions and familiarise themselves with the upgraded notes. Ultimately, the campaign reflects a broader national effort to build a stable, trusted and secure financial environment — one where every Zimbabwean understands the value and security of the currency they use each day. Because when people trust their money, they trust the future it helps to build.

@begottensun Insighful, however is it not time to change business models, to migrate employees to partners who will have some sense of belonging hence keen to protect your interests for a while. I see a need to evolve the reward systems as you evolve the business and scale.

If you catch a trusted employee stealing from you, remember it’s only the first time they have been caught. When you run a business in Zimbabwe, 10%-20% Kurimira Makudo. One of my mentors runs a huge fruit export and logistics brand in zim. They recently uncovered 60 tons a month disappearing to theft from staff. Theft in Zimbabwean companies goes entire systems and departments deep. From Guards, receiving, accounts , management and even cleaners. Often the entire system process is corruptible. Another friend who runs a supermarket discovered his staff stocking their own products in his store. Kutoisa Cooking Oil yavo whilst he has to pay the rentals and rates. Ivo pocketing their sales as stock take can’t catch them. At Fresh in a Box in 2021 during Covid we discovered a huge grift in our systems when suppliers of produce were some of our warehouse staff and partner drivers. They become gate keepers to our procurement, got farmers to sell to them , say $1 for 4 cabbages and they would sell back to us at $1 for 2. 🤡🤣 . It was a clever new accountant who realised that the invoices from about 10 suppliers had the same design Text logos and phone number. The depth of the theft was impossible to quantify. To them it was a victimless crime, “takango negotiator mdhara tikaisa zino”. That’s the problem with scale. Even the most robust systems will have Makudo look for creative ways to circumvent. Zero Trust policy. Micromanage every system. Constant audit. Become unpredictable. Be very very petty about systems. Incentivize whistle blowing. Kurimira Makudo is painful. And in Zimbabwe, corruption can have entire departments and key trusted personnel involved. Even your family members. And NO MATTER HOW MUCH OR FAIRLY YOU PAY. It’s the simple things owners overlook: Who creates the Facebook page, Instagram page? Who owns the domain for your site. Who keeps the cash? What’s your receiving process and who signs off procurement? Where are your receipts printed? Do you insist on 3 quotations. Do you insist on Compnay papers and tax clearance from new suppliers? Do employees conduct business using their personal lines or emails? Sweat the little things at all cost coz your “intern” leaving with the FB admin can cripple your established FB page. How many versions of some zim companies FB pages exists? lol. How may companies do you know with different emails to domains coz the “kid” they underpaid for the domain fucked off to Cape Town? If you’re a business owner who doesn’t know where your website is hosted or how your emails route, who registers your business WhatsApp number and owns it at Econet , or doesn’t know who started their FB page or the admins, or the OTP that u locks it, you are already dead. Who manages your Google analytics or Google Business Page listing ? Some kid from MSU who left 4 yrs ago?? Don’t do it. @thabanimnyama you started me on this. We should do a space. I need to write a book baba. 🔥🤣🤡

@MacBelts Spot on TJ…business opportunities abound out of Starlink.

@MacBelts UK and western markets have established traditional broadband ..so Africa and Global south are the biggest beneficiaries.

@MacBelts Wanhu wari mudenial wakati wandeyi. I have not encountered a disgruntled Starlink user, but the opposite is true.

@MacBelts Ku gheto wari kuisa ma community boreholes/Solar stations what stops them from pooling funds to share a USD50 per month to share 250mbps connection..

@MacBelts Businesses are going to run on Starlink, Zimbabwe’s limited network infrastructure is the gap that starlink will bridge. It’s like off-grid solution ( Solar/Borehole). It’s not a hype…

@MacBelts Kana DSTV dish rinobika, ukakaba unokaitiseyi.

@MacBelts Starlink certainly eating into the incumbent’s cake big time , no doubt, the typical consumer is the urban dweller, and it will extend to the previously unserviced. Whilst jobs will be lost at the incumbent, new opportunities will be created as has happened with any innovation.

@MacBelts This is certainly a Kodak Moment for incumbents. Banks faced it at the advent of Mobile Money, tried to ward it off to no avail, had to embrace and revise strategies. A wake up call for businesses and prepare for Technology led disruption in their space

@MacBelts But the same people happy with parting with USD300 for once off setup, and monthly USD50( or less) are already paying more from local service providers. The businesses are going to likely get more value for money from more and reliable. Barrier to entry for MSME will be lower.

@TrevorNcube Happy birthday sir!

I turn 62 today. Glory to God who has been so faithful to me even during the many times that l was not faithful to Him. I am absolutely grateful for the doors that God has opened for me and the many doors he closed. As l reflect on what He has done over the past 62 years l am excited about the next 38 years. He is not done with yet!

⁦@DandemutandeZW⁩ ⁦@Oracle⁩ Well done for bringing another Cloud Infrastructure option for Zimbabwe. All the best in this partnership..👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

@ZimswitchTech Well done for attaining 30 years of payments orchestration #by_FIs_for_FIs.

@FBCHoldings Congratulations Dr Israel..👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Congratulations to Dr Israel Murefu on becoming a registered legal practitioner in the High Court of Zimbabwe. Your dedication and hard work have paid off, marking a significant milestone in your career. Makorokoto, Amhlophe, Congratulations!

@nigelchanakira @Anfield Small team mentality begin to creep…shaping up nicely for Pep…🤓

@nigelchanakira GGWHU!!!!