a recent research by the south african competition commission sacc has revealed that major banks in southern africa are milking off customers through unjustifiable chunks of high charges. an african business article about the same research further reports that these banks use complex fee structures to abuse their market power. the inquiry has also found out that there is a distinct lack of competi...
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last september the government of zimbabwe announced that it would fix the rate of its currency at z30000 1 us. this worked about as well as you think it would and the peg was officially abandoned in may. presently a us dollar buys about a billion zimbabwean dollars. or in other words you have something like this the mugabe regime said opposition leader morgan tsvangirai is trying to make t...
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source africasia original article a britishborn south african columnist david bullard thinks africa should be grateful for colonialism. but his black editor is fed up with his bile and has fired him creating another race controversy in south africa reports pusch commey from johannesburg. david bullard a popular columnist of the south african weekly newspaper sunday times has once again stoked the ...
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the tense situation in zimbabwe is leading to the detainment and arrest of foreign journalists. barry bearak of the new york times was arrested yesterday along with an unnamed british reporter. according to police spokesman wayne bvudzijena i can confirm that we have arrested two reporters at york lodge for practicing without accreditat ion. he res what happened a witness described an intimi...
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shanbeha esfand 11 1386a oeuoeu 11 oeoeuuoe 1386 un security council to consider sanctions theau.n. security council would probably vote onamondaya3 marchato impose a third round of sanctions on iran over its nuclear program which tehran said would be an illegal gesture to be ignored afp france 29 february the security council put the finishing touches friday to a draft resolution imposing a third...
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