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<title>Consumer News Today: Zimbabwe Consumer News</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/zimbabwe/</link><description>Constantly updated news and information about consumer news.</description><item>
<title>Water Shortages a Health Time Bomb</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192486752</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 15:53 GMT</pubDate>
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...  pricey luxury good. This is the depressing reality of the acute water shortage in Zimbabwe. The local authorities and consumers are looking on helplessly as water bills by the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa)  ...
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<title>Urgent Reform Needed to Curb Price Distortions - Analysts</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192486740</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 15:53 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  ordeal represents the plight of millions of Zimbabweans facing the brunt of hyperinflation now estimated  ...  is now importing virtually all fast moving consumer goods to meet local demand against a  ...
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<title>Global Crisis Threatens Vital Remittances To Africa</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192451608</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 12:30 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
... In Zimbabwe&apos;s capital Harare, lines outside money transfer agencies  ...  not yet translated into cheaper prices for consumers. &quot;The last thing they want to see  ...
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<title>09:20pm West&apos;s sneeze is Africa&apos;s cold</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192437345</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 10:35 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  two jobs to make ends meet,&quot; said Zimbabwean Munashe Mujati, a student whose two brothers  ...  not yet translated into cheaper prices for consumers. &quot;The last thing they want to see  ...
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<title>ANALYSIS-Global crisis threatens vital remittances to Africa</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192435485</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 10:32 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  two jobs to make ends meet,&quot; said Zimbabwean Munashe Mujati, a student whose two brothers  ...  not yet translated into cheaper prices for consumers. &quot;The last thing they want to see  ...
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<title>Zimbabwe Mine Workers Dismissed After Strike Over Late Pay</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192368797</link>
<pubDate>9 Oct 2008 23:30 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
... Chronic and severe cash shortages in Zimbabwe have resulted in an industrial dispute at  ...  shortage of bank notes which has plagued consumers and businesses across the country for months,  ...
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<title>Zimbabwe: Zesa Battling to Restore Transformers</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192234442</link>
<pubDate>9 Oct 2008 16:59 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the parastatal&apos;s offices to avoid a situation where individual workers benefit corruptly from power consumers. ...
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<title>Sticker Shock In Zimbabwe As Officially Sanctioned Hard Currency Shops Open</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192206542</link>
<pubDate>9 Oct 2008 16:29 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
... Shops and fuel stations in Zimbabwe licensed to charge for goods in hard  ...  currency to restock. An official at the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe said business people in  ...
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<title>Licensed Zimbabwean Shops Start Selling in US Dollars</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192206541</link>
<pubDate>9 Oct 2008 16:29 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
... The Zimbabwean government has licensed some merchants to sell  ...  to address the chronic shortage of basic consumer items. Tendai Maphosa visited some of shops  ...
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<title>Iraq shines in financial gloom</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192157220</link>
<pubDate>9 Oct 2008 05:59 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  to guarantee bank deposits to tamp down consumer worries. &quot;This is a stampede,&apos; said Valerie  ...  in more than eight years. Banks in Zimbabwe ran out of cash after depositors tried  ...
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<title>&apos;Road Motor Services boosts NRZ operations&apos;</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192008523</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 03:56 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
... New Ziana. The National Railways of Zimbabwe said yesterday its subsidiary, Road Motor Services  ...  around the world as companies capitalise on consumer need for convenience. &quot;The linkage significantly cuts  ...
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<title>MISA Zimbabwe acknowledges proposed ICT bill</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191976910</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 00:34 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
... Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), Zimbabwe, has acknowledged initiatives made by Attorney General&apos;s  ...  and access to information as well as consumer protection. &quot;Providing a distinct legal mandate of  ...
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<title>How Iceland&apos;s meltdown affects you</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191933325</link>
<pubDate>7 Oct 2008 18:30 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  to 15.5% in an attempt to control consumer prices, while the krona has plunged over  ...  only by the disastrous demise of the Zimbabwean currency. One of the country&apos;s three banks,  ...
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<title>FirstAlert: 1-7:20 P.M. Investrend / Bestcalls</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191908991</link>
<pubDate>7 Oct 2008 16:39 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  and is rated just above those of Zimbabwe and Turkmenistan.&quot; Iceland is an extreme example  ...  (8:55 a.m.), FOMC Minutes released (2 p.m.), Consumer Credit for August (3 p.m.). The Investrend  ...
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<title>FirstAlerttm 10/7: All The King&apos;s Bears</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=191908990</link>
<pubDate>7 Oct 2008 16:39 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  and is rated just above those of Zimbabwe and Turkmenistan.&quot; Iceland is an extreme example  ...  (8:55 a.m.), FOMC Minutes released (2 p.m.), Consumer Credit for August (3 p.m.). The Investrend  ...
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