Source: Harare leads formal jobs recovery – heraldTapiwanashe Mangwiro-Senior Business ReporterHarare continues to anchor Zimbabwe’s formal employment landscape, recording the strongest employment performance among the country’s provinces during the fourth quarter of 2025, according to the latest Employment Index released by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency. “Harare has always been the country’s largest formal employment centre because it hosts the bulk of high-value economic activity. This indicates that, while some regions experienced slower hiring, there has not been a widespread collapse in formal employment. “Continued infrastructure investment, industrialisation and support for value-addition projects can help spread formal employment more evenly across the country,” he said. The agency said the index continues to provide an important short-term measure of developments in Zimbabwe’s formal labour market.