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Itai Gift's avatar

Thanks Tinashe great read it is, will formulate a view after the commercial break, that is, upon dissecting the second instalment. Great beeakdown you make on these issues.

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Taka's avatar

Econet's operating environment is challenging:

1. Potraz (huge license fees, levies, price controls, dictations e.g infrastructure sharing....

2. Macro-economics: currency fluctuations (high swinging), policy pronouncements (1:1) leading to huge losses for local businesses

3. Political/legal environment:

Then there're strategic blunders like the attempted move into TV and entertainment aka Kwese. I don't think the investment ever returned a dime!

Not sure also how other spin-offs like Maisha, insurance et al are contributing to the overall health of the company

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Tinashe Mukogo's avatar

Those are very valid points.

Actually had forgotten the Kwese investment. I think that was out of Econet Wireless Global?

However either way it's probably a bit of right pocket left pocket.

So it would have likely had some impact.

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Jose's avatar

Here is the thing T. I love your work. I'm just finding it now when I was trying to research on Mega and I was taken to your letters. I'm in love. However I believe using S&P, moodys and other credit rating agencies on African companies might not be reflective of these companies wholly. I believe to a large extent these credit rating agencies fail to not oy understand the African Market but even to be I dependent and not subject to a lot of biases when ranking African or other southern hemisphere companies... Other than that. Thank you. I will be reading a lot of your work. This you are assured.

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Stanford George Chitindingu's avatar

Very informative looking forward to the next article

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