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- businessweekly
- April 26, 2019
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COMMENT: Manipulators risk early local currency
The pressure to accelerate the introduction of a full-fledged Zimbabwean currency must be growing thanks to those business people who, through fear at best and greed at worst, are doing their level best to derail the economic reform programme.
- businessweekly
- April 26, 2019
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IPEC reads riot act to insurers
Players in the insurance industry that fail or delay paying out claims of admitted liabilities under any policies risk having their operating licences cancelled as stipulated at law, according to the Insurance and Pensions Commission (IPEC) acting commissioner Mr Blessmore Kazengura.
- businessweekly
- April 26, 2019
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Tapping into digital tech platforms. . . to boost farming productivity in Africa
Africa is a bit of an anomaly as far as agriculture is concerned. On the one hand, it has 65 percent of the world’s available uncultivated arable land, and it has the potential to feed the world. However, a country such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which has the potential to feed Africa’s 1,2 billion people, struggles to feed its own population of about 70 million.
- businessweekly
- April 26, 2019
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DHL brings online stores to African consumers
Dhl Express has announced the launch of its new mobile and desktop app aimed at improving the online shopping experience for Africa-based consumers.
- businessweekly
- April 26, 2019
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Bracing for ICC Women’s World Cup qualifier
All eyes will be on Zimbabwe women’s cricket team, who are seeking their first ever major tournament qualification when they host the 2019 International Cricket Council (ICC) Women’s Cricket Twenty-20 Qualifier Africa tournament slated for May 5 -13, 2019.
- businessweekly
- April 26, 2019
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Kenyan Kiprop given four-year doping ban
Former Olympic 1 500m champion Asbel Kiprop has received a four-year ban for doping.
- businessweekly
- April 26, 2019
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Currency issues delay Zim Open golf tourney
Lack of clarity over official foreign currency exchange rate policy prior to the introduction of a formal inter-bank market in February was the main cause for the delayed staging of the Zimbabwe Open Golf Tournament, the chairman of the Zimbabwe Open Committee Livingstone Gwata has said.
- businessweekly
- April 24, 2019
- 58 views
Trump declares economic war on Cuba
The Trump administration has declared the most severe new sanctions against Cuba since President John F. Kennedy imposed an economic embargo banning all trade with the communist island in 1962.
- businessweekly
- April 24, 2019
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Britain starts search for next Bank of England governor
LONDON – Britain’s finance minister Philip Hammond began the search for a new governor of the Bank of England on Wednesday, seeking someone to help steer the world’s fifth-biggest economy, and its global financial center, through the upheaval of Brexit.
- businessweekly
- April 24, 2019
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Rand falls as U.S. data bolsters dollar
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s rand slipped to a three-week low in early trade on Wednesday as robust U.S. economic data supported the dollar.