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Tendai Kuwanda
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Tendai Kuwanda is a senior correspondent at The Mutapa Times, covering Zimbabwean business, property markets and the diaspora economy.
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Harare
Tendai Kuwanda writes on Zimbabwean business and the diaspora economy for The Mutapa Times. His beat covers the country's listed companies, property markets, mining investment and the consumer brands that connect Zimbabweans at home with their diaspora.
Articles by Tendai Kuwanda
Meet Dr Rumbi
On the frontlines of healthcare, and the strategy table. A cool July afternoon at the Wellcome Collection with the Zimbabwean-British doctor and founder of the
July 31, 2026Zimbabwe Moves to Regulate Crypto: Mandatory Registration, $500 Fees and FIU Oversight
Crypto firms in Zimbabwe must now register each year with the
June 13, 2026Exclusive: Air Zimbabwe Rebuilds Its Booking Engine Before London, in Silence
Days before its London return, Air Zimbabwe has switched on a new
June 8, 2026Air Zimbabwe Returns to London: Inside the Deal That Reopens the Harare Route
On 1 July, an Airbus A330 lifts off from Harare for London under the
June 7, 2026The Best Places to Stay in Zimbabwe: A City-by-City Guide for 2026
From the spray of Victoria Falls to the granite of the Matobo Hills,
June 2, 2026Where to Stay in and Around Gweru: Midlands Hotels and Antelope Park, 2026
A short, honest guide to where to stay in and around Gweru, from the
June 2, 2026Where to Stay in and Around Masvingo: Great Zimbabwe and Lake Mutirikwi, 2026
A guide to where to stay in and around Masvingo, from the lodges
June 2, 2026Where to Stay in and Around Mutare: Hotels and Eastern Highlands Lodges, 2026
A guide to where to stay in Mutare and across Manicaland's Eastern
June 2, 2026Where to Stay in Victoria Falls: The Best Hotels and Lodges in 2026
A guide to where to stay in Victoria Falls, from the historic
June 2, 2026Where to Stay in Bulawayo: The Best Hotels and Guest Houses in 2026
A guide to where to stay in Bulawayo, from the grand old hotels of
June 2, 2026Where to Stay in Harare: The Best Hotels and Neighbourhoods in 2026
A neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood guide to where to stay in Harare,
June 2, 2026Pardon Mapondera: gone but not forgotten at Venice
The fifth and final piece in our series on Zimbabwe's pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale. Pardon Mapondera, the artist whose practice the room finally arrange
May 17, 2026Gideon Gomo: from stone to bronze, the ancestral algorithm at Venice
The fourth in a five-part series on Zimbabwe's pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale. Gideon Gomo's first sustained body of bronze work, paired with discarded ve
May 17, 2026Shumba Maasai in Venice
At the 61st Biennale, the Zimbabwean artist's day-long procession through the city's campi, performed under the borrowed authority of a Murehwa chief, restages
May 17, 2026Franklyn Dzingai: family albums and the neural commons at Venice
The third in a five-part series on Zimbabwe's pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale. Franklyn Dzingai's reductive cardboard prints, built from the family album,
May 17, 2026Felix Shumba: charcoal and the practice of disappearance at Venice
The second in a five-part series on Zimbabwe's pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale. Felix Shumba's six-metre charcoal wall and his Telephone Reader series anch
May 17, 2026Eva Raath: a slow archive of stitched memory at Venice
In the first of five long-form pieces on the Pavilion of Zimbabwe at
May 17, 2026Britain's slice of Zimbabwe's services market just jumped to 8.2%
The headline UK services trade with Zimbabwe softened year on year. The structural number underneath it tells the better story: Britain's share of all services
May 14, 2026Zimbabwe's growth is now hot enough to lift Britain's exporters: UK goods sales to Harare up 14.6%
The Zimbabwean economy is in its strongest stretch in years: 7.5% GDP growth in 2025, a projected 5% in 2026, and that growth is pulling demand for cars, commer
May 14, 2026Zimbabwean tobacco still does Britain's heavy lifting: £129m, and held firm
Of every £100 of goods Zimbabwe sells to Britain, £96 is tobacco or beverages. While the wider UK–Zimbabwe trade relationship softened in the year to December 2
May 14, 2026Henkel Ventures co-leads Ruka's $4.5m round
Ruka, the London-based textured-hair company founded by Zimbabwean entrepreneur Varaidzo Tendai Moyo and her co-founder Ugorji Agbai, has closed a $4.5m round c
May 14, 2026