Strive Masiyiwa's Econet lifts Zimbabwe's dollar bourse past 132-year-old rival

Billionaires Africa | 16.04.2026 20:59
Strive Masiyiwa, the Zimbabwean billionaire founder of Econet Wireless, has engineered a generational shift in his home country's capital markets, with the upstart US dollar-denominated Victoria Falls Stock Exchange overtaking the 132-year-old Zimbabwe Stock Exchange by market value after the $1 billion listing of his infrastructure vehicle Econet InfraCo.