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- businessweekly
- March 27, 2020
- 73 views
Gold market faces unprecedented turmoil
From South Africa’s ultra-deep mine shafts to vaults underneath London, from metals traders in New York skyscrapers to main-street sellers of coins: the global gold market is being tested like never before.
- businessweekly
- March 27, 2020
- 106 views
Mining industry about to come to a standstill
South Africa’s iconic mines, from the ever-deepening gold shafts on which the economy was founded to massive iron ore pits and rich platinum seams, are about to go silent.
- businessweekly
- March 27, 2020
- 74 views
Covid-19 affects tourism industry
The coronavirus epidemic is putting up to 50 million jobs in the global travel and tourism sector at risk, with travel likely to slump by a quarter this year, Asia being the most affected continent, the World Travel and Tourism Council has said.
- businessweekly
- March 27, 2020
- 120 views
Nike-Adidas-Puma Olympics battle will have to wait
Billions of people around the world watched Usain Bolt sprint to victory in the Olympic 100 meter final in Brazil on August 14, 2016. Bolt, wearing the iconic Puma-made Jamaican running gear, outpaced Nike-wearing American sprinter Justin Gatlin on his way to athletic immortality.
- businessweekly
- March 27, 2020
- 65 views
SA lockdown: Tourist attractions, hotels close
All national parks, casinos, theme parks and other major tourist attractions will close, as part of the national lockdown announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa to curtail the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.
- businessweekly
- March 27, 2020
- 75 views
Fresh produce in Europe scarce as Covid-19 strikes
Fresh fruit and vegetables will become increasingly scarce in Europe, suppliers warn, as the coronavirus pandemic hampers the global movement of produce and of the people needed to gather crops.
- businessweekly
- March 27, 2020
- 90 views
Zimbabwe needs production to prop up currency
Zimbabwe’s re-introduction of the Zimbabwe dollar was premised on, among other things, some progress that had been recorded in dealing with the fiscal and current account deficits.
- businessweekly
- March 27, 2020
- 215 views
Stock Market Weekly Review
The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) recorded marginal gains last week as four of the benchmarks closed in the positive.
- businessweekly
- March 27, 2020
- 114 views
Breaking the vicious cycle
I spent the juvenile part of my life during the end of colonial Rhodesia. As black people, we were used to a tough life then. But ironically, we were lucky to observe how a government could successfully deal with adversity.
- businessweekly
- March 27, 2020
- 61 views
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