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- November 29, 2019
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Activists to the rescue . . . as over 70 elephants die
Activists have begun hauling bales of hay into Zimbabwe’s struggling national parks in response to a drought that has already seen dozens of elephants starve to death.
- businessweekly
- November 29, 2019
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Border Timbers sales volumes decline
Agriculture concern, Border Timbers, says power outages coupled with breakdown of machinery at its Charter Sawmill caused significant production and sales volumes decline for the quarter to September 30, 2019 compared to same period in the prior year.
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- November 29, 2019
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What is informing path to Vision 2030?
On March 8, 2019, South Africa’s Minister of Finance posted a comment on Twitter. The comment had a thesis-like title: “Of Economists, Graphs and Econometric Equations”. And then he wrote, “one of the hard lessons learnt over the many years in policy making is not to use data, graphs and econometric equations at policy meetings to argue economic policy positions. It can be nasty and unhelpful.” A heated debate ensued.
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- November 29, 2019
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Man City owner scores US$4,8bn price tag
LONDON. — Manchester City’s Abu Dhabi-controlled owner has agreed to sell a $500 million stake to US private equity firm Silver Lake, making it the world’s most valuable soccer group with a $4,8 billion price tag.
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- November 29, 2019
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Giant golf course for Kanyemba
In the extreme northeast, along the mighty Zambezi River, where Zimbabwe, Zambia and Mozambique meet, upstream of Lake Cabora Bassa, there is a small rest camp —Kanyemba — in Mbire District.
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- November 29, 2019
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‘Frozen 2’ delivers for those willing to chill out
To their credit, the filmmakers haven’t completely rested on their laurels, but for better and worse have bitten off a whole lot in terms of the story, which — set three years after the first movie — moves relationships forward while going back to address sins of the past.
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- November 29, 2019
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Taylor Swift beats Michael Jackson’s trophy record
Going into the American Music Awards, Taylor Swift became embroiled in a feud with her former record label over whether she had the right to play her old hits.
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- November 29, 2019
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$500m for rehab projects
Zesa Holdings is planning to raise $500 million through issuing a three-year bond to finance rehabilitation of its existing power plants, sources familiar with the plan said.
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- November 29, 2019
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Mobile access won’t fix digital divide
Mobile services have had an important and positive impact on developing countries where they are the main means of connecting to the internet. However, mobile services have capacity constraints. They use limited radio frequency spectrum, which means that mobile data typically has usage limits. They also have high prices per unit (per gigabyte), which results in lower use per connection.
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- November 29, 2019
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Separating winners from losers
The recipe for succeeding in any given field is hardly a mystery: Good ideas, hard work, discipline, imagination, perseverance and maybe a little luck. Oh, and let’s not forget failure, which Dashun Wang and his colleagues at North-western University call “the essential prerequisite for success” in a new paper that, among other things, is based on an analysis of 776 721 grant applications submitted to the National Institutes of Health from 1985 to 2015.