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- February 14, 2020
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Federer, Nadal raise over US$3m in Africa match
Every time Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal play is a special occasion. But the Match in Africa 6, held on Friday in South Africa’s Cape Town Stadium to benefit children’s education in Africa, was particularly special.
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- February 14, 2020
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Econet launches YoPlay Hunt game
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe on Wednesday launched YoPlay Hunt — an Augmented Reality (AR) technology-based mobile game that it says is set to revolutionise the way customers interface with brands.
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- February 14, 2020
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‘Golf may help older adults live longer’
President Trump has spent more than 260 days at one of his golf clubs during his first three years in office as of February 2, according to CNN’s tally. Now…
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- February 14, 2020
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State enterprises need urgent reforms
In Zimbabwe whenever you mention the word parastatal, it is quite rare to find it used with any positive words like profitable, innovative, growing, life changing or largest contributor to Government revenue. In fact the word is most associated with loss making, burden, scandal, corporate governance failure, leakages, fiscus draining and “strategic”. Parastatals are also known as State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) and in Zimbabwe according to a Government department that manages them there are about 107 such enterprises in Zimbabwe.
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- February 14, 2020
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$30 hotel fee makes guest angry . . .
At what point do the laws of supply and demand become simply insulting? And when do they make sense?
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- February 14, 2020
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Compelling wildlife vision @ Save Valley
Against the backdrop of a continuum of constantly shifting ecological systems — at least nine habitats are said to make up the Savé Valley Conservancy — our expedition of this compelling wildlife vision was only bound to be thrilling.
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- February 14, 2020
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Half of UK’s 10-year-olds own smartphones
Fifty percent of the UK’s 10-year-olds owned a smartphone in 2019, according to a report by media regulator Ofcom.
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- February 14, 2020
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‘Development banks worsen poor countries’
World Bank President David Malpass on Monday chided other development banks for lending too quickly to heavily indebted countries, saying some were helping worsen already-challenging debt situations.
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- February 14, 2020
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Who wins if Zim joins EITI?
Recent news, which the Government has not refused, suggested that Zimbabwe is not keen on joining the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI). By joining EITI, the mining sector – the main engine for economic growth, would have been opened for citizens to question Government and industry on how past and current mining deals are best tailored to contribute Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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- February 14, 2020
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Draft policy framework for SMEs now in place
The Financial Securities Exchange Limited (Finsec), says there is significant progress made towards operationalising its Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) Portal for Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) with a draft framework now in place.