HARARE, July 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Impala Platinum Holdings Zimbabwe unit Zimplats plans to build two solar power plants with generation capacity of 185 megawatts to power its operations, the country&#8217;s energy regulator said on Monday.



The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority said Zimplats, the biggest platinum group metals producer in Zimbabwe applied to build a 105 MW plant at Ngezi, southwest of Harare, where it has mines and two concentrators, and 85 MW at nearby Selous where there is a smelter and concentrator.



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Zimplats, which also jointly owns smaller platinum miner Mimosa Mining Company with Sibanye Stillwater, imports its power from Mozambique&#8217;s Hydro Cahora Bassa.



Zimbabwe has experienced acute power cuts in the past, the latest in 2019 that lasted up to 18 hours a day, which affected the mining sector, the country&#8217;s biggest earner of foreign currency.



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On Monday, the country was producing 1,227 MW, below its peak demand of 1,400 MW.



The government expects 100MW of electricity to come from new renewable energy projects by the end of this year and other mining companies are also planning to produce power from solar energy. 



(Reporting by MacDonald Dzirutwe; editing by Barbara Lewis)

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HARARE, July 20 (Reuters) &#8211; Zimbabwe&#8217;s government on Tuesday ordered that all its workers should receive a COVID-19 vaccine and only 10% of civil servants report for duty, with the rest working from home in a bid to curb the spread of the pandemic.



The head of the public commission, Jonathan Wutawunashe, said in a circular to government departments that all civil servants &#8211; about 250,000 &#8211; were considered frontline workers who should get COVID-19 shots.



More than 1.1 million people have received a first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Zimbabwe has recorded 85,732 infections, a quarter of them since end of June and 2,697 deaths to date.



&#8220;All heads of ministries are directed to ensure that all civil servants under their jurisdiction should be vaccinated,&#8221; Wutawunashe said.



After initial hesitancy, more Zimbabweans are getting vaccinated against COVID-19, with the government promising to import more vaccines from China.



Wutawunashe said only health workers and those providing critical government services would be allowed access to their offices while Zimbabwe was under a lockdown that includes a dawn-to-dusk curfew, shorter working hours and a ban on inter-city travel. 



(Reporting by MacDonald Dzirutwe; Editing by Alex Richardson)

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MBABANE, July 16 (Reuters) &#8211; Eswatini police fired teargas and water cannon at anti-monarchy protesters on Friday, the head of a teachers&#8217; union said, while videos on social media showed demonstrators running away as shots rang out in the background.



Campaigners organised the latest round of demonstrations after government forces quashed days of violent protests at the end of June against King Mswati III, Africa&#8217;s last absolute monarch.



The king denies critics&#8217; accusations of autocratic rule and of using public money in an impoverished country to fund a lavish lifestyle spread across several palaces housing him and his 15 wives.



&#8220;Police have dispersed us &#8230; at the moment they are driving us out of the town&#8217;s outskirts,&#8221; Swaziland National Association of Teachers (SNAT) Secretary General Sikelela Dlamini said from Manzini, Eswatini&#8217;s second-largest city.



He said they had fired tear gas and used water cannon on the protesters, and that shops and offices were closed.



A video posted to Facebook by the Swaziland Democratic Front, a pro-democracy coalition including political parties, churches and unions, showed protesters singing and dancing in the street before fleeing as shots rang out behind them.



It was not clear who was firing or what they were shooting at.



Government forces fired gunshots and teargas to disperse the previous round of protests, when some demonstrations calling for reforms to Eswatini&#8217;s absolute monarchy descended into rioting and looting. On July 1, the army was called in.



King Mswati called an open public meeting known as a Sibaya, usually only held once a year, for Friday, and pro-democracy campaigners called demonstrations to coincide with it.



Mswati is expected to use the Sibaya to make his first public comments on the recent violence, and the meeting may provide a gauge of his popularity after the crackdown.



Unverified pictures on social media showed buses that were supposed to be ferrying citizens to the Sibaya standing empty. An online livestream of the meeting, which was due to start at 10 a.m. (0800 GMT), was pushed back.



State radio was still running normal programming, but said people were arriving at the Sibaya.



National Police Commissioner William Dlamini told the state broadcaster that the police would use maximum force against demonstrators if needed. 



(Reporting by Lunga Masuku; Writing by Emma Rumney; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

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MBABANE, June 29 (Reuters) &#8211; Demonstrators in the small southern African kingdom of eSwatini demanded reforms to its system of absolute monarchy on Tuesday, and security forces tried to repel them with gunfire and tear gas.



&#8220;I can hear gunshots and smell teargas. I do not know how I will get home, there is nothing in the bus rank, there is a strong presence of riot police and the army,&#8221; Vusi Madalane, a shop assistant in the capital Mbabane, said by telephone.



Acting Prime Minister Themba Masuku denied some media reports that King Mswati III had fled the violence to neighbouring South Africa.



Anger against Mswati has been building for years, and protests occasionally turn violent, with police using tear gas, stun grenades and water cannons to disperse stone-throwing protesters.



Security forces set up road blocks to prevent access by some vehicles to the capital, Mbabane, on Tuesday. Some banks said they had shut until the unrest &#8212; which started on the weekend and turned violent overnight &#8212; subsides.



Government spokesperson Sabelo Dlamini said schools and bus stations had been ordered closed. Reuters saw school children hurrying home on the outskirts of the capital.



Campaigners say the king has consistently evaded calls for meaningful reforms that would nudge eSwatini, which changed its name from Swaziland in 2018, in the direction of democracy. They also accuse him of using public coffers as a piggy bank, funding a lavish lifestyle off the backs of his 1.5 million subjects, most of them subsistence farmers.



&#8220;His Majesty King Mswati III is in the country and continues to lead in working with government to advance the Kingdom&#8217;s goals,&#8221; the statement from Masuku said. &#8220;We appeal for calm, restraint and peace from all emaSwati (eSwatini citizens).&#8221;



The 53-year-old king denies being an autocrat, and is impenitent about the lifestyle enjoyed by him and his fifteen wives, who between them occupy several state-funded palaces.



A spate of crackdowns, such as the arrest of opposition leaders and activists in 2019, has done little to discourage anti-monarchy sentiment in the former British protectorate. 



(Reporting by Lunga Masuku Writing by Tim Cocks Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky and Peter Graff)

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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to put pressure on&nbsp;Small, Medium, and Micro-Enterprises&nbsp;in South Africa, six in ten business owners say they are proactively planning for and anticipating growth in the next year. This is according to the Mastercard SME Index, which surveyed 300 SMMEs in South Africa between April and mid-May this year.



While the majority (84%) of South African SMMEs say that the pandemic has negatively impacted their revenue, 79% are projecting that their earnings will either hold steady or grow in the next year.



SMMEs in South Africa identified &#8220;upskilling staff for the future&#8221; (58%) as the top area that offers the highest growth potential for their businesses, closely followed by &#8220;better data, analytics and insights&#8221; (57%). ‘Digitising business operations, sales and admin’ (53%) came in as the third driver, followed by ‘the acceptance of digital payments across multiple channels’ (48%). 



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This omnichannel approach is an important consideration for all businesses as last month’s&nbsp;<a href="https://newsroom.mastercard.com/mea/press-releases/mastercard-new-payments-index-south-africas-consumer-appetite-for-digital-payments-takes-off/#:~:text=The%20Mastercard%20New%20Payments%20Index%20shows%2095%25%20of%20South%20African,code%20in%20the%20next%20year." target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">New Payment Index</a>&nbsp;found that&nbsp;95% of&nbsp;South African&nbsp;consumers will consider using at least one emerging&nbsp;payment&nbsp;method in the next year, varying from contactless, QR codes, biometrics or <a href="https://www.cnbcafrica.com/category/crypto/">cryptocurrency</a>.&nbsp;In an increasingly connected world, the ability to ‘do business and transact internationally’ (48%) rounded out the top five drivers.



When asked about what keeps them up at night, 39% of SMMEs in South Africa mentioned being ‘able to maintain and grow their business’, while 29% are worried about staying in business or going bankrupt. Looking ahead at the next year, three-quarters (76%) identified the rising cost of doing business, 63% cited red tape and regulations, and 51% mentioned getting access to capital as their biggest business concerns.



Private sector partnerships (84%), international government or business collaborations (56%) and government-led initiatives (44%) were identified as having the biggest potential to positively impact SMMEs and the wider South African market.

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<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="820" height="547" src="https://cms.cnbcafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/E2PZD37FGZLULMLT7EAEI2EHSI-820x547.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-406967" srcset="https://cms.cnbcafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/E2PZD37FGZLULMLT7EAEI2EHSI-820x547.jpg 820w, https://cms.cnbcafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/E2PZD37FGZLULMLT7EAEI2EHSI-300x200.jpg 300w, https://cms.cnbcafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/E2PZD37FGZLULMLT7EAEI2EHSI-120x80.jpg 120w, https://cms.cnbcafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/E2PZD37FGZLULMLT7EAEI2EHSI-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cms.cnbcafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/E2PZD37FGZLULMLT7EAEI2EHSI.jpg 960w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px" /><figcaption>A 1,098 carat diamond, discovered in Botswana and believed to be the third largest gem-quality stone ever to be mined, is seen in this undated handout picture received June 16, 2021. Debswana Diamond Company/Handout via REUTERS.</figcaption></figure>



GABORONE, June 16 (Reuters) &#8211; A 1,098 carat diamond believed to be the third largest gem-quality stone ever to be mined, has been discovered in Botswana, according to a joint venture between Anglo American&#8217;s De Beers and the government.



The stone was presented to President Mokgweetsi Masisi on Wednesday by Debswana Diamond Company&#8217;s acting managing director Lynette Armstrong. It is the third largest in the world, behind the 3,106 carat Cullinan stone recovered in South Africa in 1905 and the 1,109 carat Lesedi La Rona unearthed by Lucara Diamonds in Botswana in 2015.



&#8220;This is the largest diamond to be recovered by Debswana in its history of over 50 years in operation,&#8221; Armstrong said.



&#8220;From our preliminary analysis it could be the world&#8217;s third largest gem quality stone. We are yet to make a decision on whether to sell it through the De Beers channel or through the state owned Okavango Diamond Company,&#8221; Armstrong said.



Minerals minister Lefoko Moagi said the discovery of the yet-to-be named stone, which measures 73mm long, 52mm wide and 27mm thick, could not have come at a better time after the COVID-19 pandemic hit diamond sales in 2020.



The government receives as much as 80% of the income from Debswana&#8217;s sales through dividends, royalties and taxes.



Production at Debswana fell 29% in 2020 to 16.6 million carats while sales fell 30% to $2.1 billion as the pandemic impacted both production and demand.



In 2021, Debswana plans to increase output by as much as 38% to pre-pandemic levels of 23 million carats as the global diamond market recovers with the easing of travel restrictions and reopening of jewelers. 



(Reporting by Brian Benza; Editing by Elaine Hardcastle)

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GABORONE, June 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Botswana&#8217;s Public Officers Pension Fund (BPOF), with 83 billion pula ($7.85 billion) in assets under management, has appointed South African advisory firm NMG Benefits to administrate the fund.



Effective June 2, NMG Botswana, a joint venture between BPOF (51%) and NMG South Africa (49%), will collect contributions, manage payrolls and maintain records for the 156,000-member fund, it said late on Wednesday.



The outsourcing of the fund’s administration is to comply with a 2017 decision by Botswana&#8217;s regulators that all pension funds be managed by an independent administrator unconnected with the fund itself.



The BPOF, one of Africa&#8217;s largest pension funds and the dominant investor in the diamond producer&#8217;s economy with stakes in energy, mining and retail, has been anxious to fall in line with financial regulations and streamline its administration after ending an outsourcing deal with Alexander Forbes in 2015.



Botswana&#8217;s financial industry has been growing in recent years to become a key driver of growth in the services sector, but the industry is still dominated by South African firms.



($1 = 10.5708 pulas) 



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HARARE, June 2 (Reuters) &#8211; Prices of goods in Zimbabwe are spiralling again, threatening to halt a decline in consumer inflation, after authorities last week forced businesses to stop quoting prices in U.S. dollars in a bid to encourage more use of the faltering local currency.



Despite the re-introduction of the Zimbabwe dollar in 2019, most businesses have been charging in U.S. dollars, with customers having an option to pay using local money at rates higher than the official exchange rate.



After losing their pensions and savings during a decade of hyperinflation to 2009, Zimbabweans prefer using the greenback to their own currency.



The government issued regulations on Friday making it mandatory to quote prices in the local currency, with payment in dollars offered as an option using the official rate.



This has seen prices of goods from groceries to building materials go up, and more so in U.S. dollars, all of which risks pushing up inflation, which slowed to 162% in May from a decade high of 838% last July.



For goods that cost 10,000 Zimbabwe dollars last week, a customer could pay $83.33 because shops used a weaker exchange rate of 120 per dollar. This week, a customer needed $111.90 for the same goods using the official exchange rate.



The government said companies were buying dollars at the official foreign currency auction but pricing their goods using black market rates.



But the auction has not been able to meet demand, forcing businesses to source all or a portion of their forex on the black market. The Zimbabwe dollar trades at 84 to the greenback compared with between 120 and 135 on the black market.



Harare resident Justin Parehwa, who is building a house, said he had been quoted $3,350 for roofing material last week but when he returned to pay on Monday the price had gone up to $3,975.



&#8220;I do not have that extra money. This has ruined my plans,&#8221; he said.



The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries called for the immediate suspension of the regulations, which include jail terms and fines for businesses that refuse to comply.



&#8220;The immediate impact of applying the (regulations) would be that U.S. dollar prices will be hiked…. This means an immediate spike in U.S.D inflation, a component of our blended inflation rate,&#8221; the group said in a statement. 



(Reporting by MacDonald Dzirutwe; Editing by Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo and Hugh Lawson)

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WINDHOEK, May 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Germany has agreed to fund projects in Namibia worth more than a billion euros over 30 years to atone for its role in genocide and property seizures in its-then colony more than a century ago, a Namibian government spokesman said on Thursday.



Thousands of Herero and Nama people were killed by German colonial forces between 1904 and 1908, after the tribes rebelled against German rule in the colony, then named German South West Africa. Survivors were driven into the desert, where many ended up in concentration camps to be used as slave labour and many died from cold, malnutrition and exhaustion.



Namibian presidential spokesperson Alfredo Hengari said a joint declaration outlining the agreement was made by special envoys of both countries on May 15, at the end of a ninth round of negotiations over the issue.



In a brief text response to Reuters, Hengari said an official apology from Germany was expected, adding that &#8220;implementation modalities can only commence after the President has spoken to affected communities&#8221;.



Herero paramount chief Vekuii Rukoro told Reuters the reported agreement was a &#8220;sellout&#8221;.



The German foreign ministry did not immediately respond to requests for comment.



Asked on Wednesday if a deal was close, a German foreign ministry spokesman said the minister had updated the cabinet earlier in the day on the status of the negotiations and that Germany was keeping to a confidentiality agreement with Namibia.



An estimated 65,000 of the 80,000 Herero living in German South West Africa, and 10,000 of an estimated 20,000 Namas, are said to have died during the period.



Namibian media reported earlier on Thursday that Germany had agreed to fund 1.1 billion euros of infrastructure, healthcare and training programmes that would directly benefit the affected communities.



Rukoro, who unsuccessfully sued Germany for compensation in the United States, said the reported settlement was not enough for the two communities, which had suffered &#8220;irreversible harm&#8221; at the hands of German colonial forces.



&#8220;We have a problem with that kind of an agreement, which we feel constitutes a complete sellout on the part of the Namibian government,&#8221; Rukoro told Reuters.



Germany ruled Namibia from 1884 until it lost the colony during World War One. In 1920 the territory was placed under South African administration, until 1990 when it gained independence.



The German government has previously acknowledged &#8220;moral responsibility&#8221; for the killings, which a minister has described as genocide, but Berlin has avoided an official apology to ward off compensation claims.



In 2015, it began formal negotiations with Namibia over the issue and in 2018 it returned skulls and other remains of massacred tribespeople that were used in the colonial-era experiments to assert claims of European racial superiority. 



(Reporting by Nyasha Nyaungwa; additional reporting by Paul Carrel in Berlin; editing by Mfuneko Toyana, Philippa Fletcher and Catherine Evans)

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