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The 11th Meeting of the China-Africa Think Tanks Forum was held last week in Beijing and Jinhua, East China’s Zhejiang Province, with more than 200 officials, scholars and other attendants…
Agricultural loans to put farmers on sound financial footing
Edgar Vhera Special Writer EXPERTS from various farmers’ organisations have commended the Government’s timely move to avail crop and livestock financing to farmers ahead of the 2022/23 cropping season. The…
Chelsea in bid to hijack Mukiele transfer
Chelsea are reportedly trying to hijack Nordi Mukiele’s move to Paris Saint-Germain — and are willing to offer RB Leipzig Timo Werner as part of the deal. The Blues have…
Atletico fans against CR7 signing
LONDON. — It’s safe to say Atletico Madrid fans don’t want Cristiano Ronaldo to join the Spanish La Liga football club this summer. His connections to bitter rivals Real Madrid…
Favoured emerging-market trade loses luster on recession fears
Investors are rethinking what was the go-to trade in emerging markets at the start of the year: betting on rising short-term rates as rampant inflation forced central banks into action.…
‘Rising soya bean imports derailing import substitution momentum’
Edgar Vhera and Sharon Shayanewako THE growing import bill for soya bean products, which hit a whopping US$279 million in 2021 alone is scuttling the country’s import substitution drive amid…
Traders manipulated gold price openly
At Bear Stearns, before the bank was acquired by JPMorgan Chase & Co in 2008, manipulating the gold futures market with bogus spoof orders was “common practice,” especially for its…
Platform One ropes in Zim singer
It was in 1992 at Pimville Square in Soweto when then teenagers Nani Tengo, Sonto Dladla and Neli Gwala, dressed in their Zulu maiden garb, danced while some passers-by looked…
Two bogus land officers in court
Prosper Dembedza Herald Correspondent Two suspected fraudsters have appeared in court on allegations of defrauding desperate home seekers of US$4 200 after misrepresenting to them that they had been tasked…
Two Zimbabweans arrested over illegal mining activities in Mpumalanga
Thupeyo Muleya, Beitbridge Bureau South Africa’s elite police unit, the Hawks have arrested two Zimbabweans, a Mozambican, and three local men who are believed to be part of an illegal…