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- December 19, 2018
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Medium-scale farms are on the rise in Africa. Why this is good news
Thomas Jayne & Milu Muyanga Driven by population growth and growing land scarcity, most African farm households are witnessing the gradual sub-division of their land. Over time farms are getting…
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- December 19, 2018
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Oil prices claw back some ground, but oversupply worries drag
BEIJING/SINGAPORE – Oil prices clawed back some ground on Wednesday as global equity markets showed signs of stabilizing, but crude was still under pressure from worries about oversupply and a…
- businessweekly
- December 19, 2018
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Rand rises as dollar slides ahead of Fed meeting
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s rand traded firm early Wednesday, as expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve will signal a slower place of monetary tightening later in the day kept the…
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- December 19, 2018
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Zimnat adds vehicle insurance firm to portfolio
BH24 Reporter HARARE – Zimnat on Monday launched a vehicle insurance company called GeneInsure.
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- December 19, 2018
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$13m for ZIMRA automation
Kudakwashe Mhundwa HARARE – The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is in 2019, expected to invest $13 million towards automation and modernization of operations with the aim of reducing revenue leakages,…
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- December 18, 2018
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Majority of Zim firms to pay bonuses: IPC
BH24 Reporter HARARE – Sixty-six percent (66 percent) of firms in the country will pay bonuses in 2018, which is an increase from 50 percent who paid bonuses last year,…
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- December 18, 2018
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Trump’s Africa strategy should have cast China as a regional partner, not a global adversary
John J Stremlau US President Donald Trump has finally approved a “New Africa Strategy”. His national security adviser, John Bolton, described the contents on 13 December at the conservative Heritage…
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- December 18, 2018
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Dollar on edge before Fed meet, all eyes on policy outlook
SINGAPORE – The dollar was fragile in Asian trade on Tuesday as markets speculated growth worries will prompt the Federal Reserve to signal a pause to its monetary tightening cycle…
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- December 18, 2018
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Rand stronger as dollar slides ahead of Fed
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s rand traded slightly stronger early Tuesday, helped by a fragile dollar as markets counted down to a crucial U.S. Federal Reserve meeting amid speculation it will…
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- December 18, 2018
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Retirement of youth officers commences
HARARE – The Government said on Sunday it has commenced the retrenchment of nearly 3 400 youth officers who will be trained with other life skills to prepare them for…