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- August 16, 2019
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Debt collection reduces ZBFH’s NPL ratio
Listed financial services group, ZB Financial Holdings has made a significant headway in reducing its non-performing loans (NPL) ratio to just 1,2 percent.
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- August 16, 2019
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Padenga diversifies into gold to reduce risk
Listed crocodile breeder, Padenga’s proposed diversification into alternative export oriented business will help the company reduce concentration risk.
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- August 16, 2019
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Food insecurity looms
Droughts or floods always have a devastating impact on agriculture. But the second-round effects on livelihoods are manageable in countries that are economically stable, depending of course on the magnitude of the impact.
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- August 16, 2019
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Weather holds cards for SA agric economy
It is almost certain that SA’s agricultural economy will contract in 2019, mainly as a result of the poor summer crop harvest coming after a drought.
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- August 16, 2019
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How agile, fragile is mining fiscal reform agenda?
Totemic. That is the word which perhaps sums up aptly the potential of Zimbabwe’s huge and diverse mineral wealth to propel the country’s socio-economic development agenda.
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- August 16, 2019
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Innovation and research needed
Zimbabwean industry is starting to become more innovative but generally has a long way to go before it approaches even the levels it reached before hyperinflation and dollarisation, let alone the sort of levels it should be operating at.
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- August 16, 2019
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US, China in ‘painful’ trade war
HP-laptop maker Inventec said it will shift production of notebooks for the US market out of China within months, adding to the tech industry’s exodus as the world’s two largest economies escalate their trade war.
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- August 16, 2019
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What next for Old Mutual, Moyo?
Old Mutual’s on and off again CEO Peter Moyo was reinstated a week and a half ago by the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg but he is yet to take up the reins again as he and the company’s legal team clash over what exactly the judgment means.
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- August 16, 2019
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Festival that ‘united African diaspora’
Last week saw 20 000 people of African descent gather on the beaches of Portimao, Portugal.
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- August 16, 2019
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Did you know? Powerspeed Electrical Limited history
Powerspeed Electrical Limited evolved with Mashonaland Holdings’ restructuring exercise. The latter, a Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE)-listed property investment and development concern, was a product of the 1966 merger between Mashonaland and Provincial Trust Company and Mashonaland Real Estate.