AGP Executive Report
Last update: 5 hours agoCricket (Zimbabwe): South Africa beat Zimbabwe by 48 runs to win the Namibia-hosted T20I tri-series, with Jordan Hermann top-scoring on 53 and Brad Evans firing a late unbeaten 56* for Zimbabwe. Women’s Cricket (Zimbabwe): Zimbabwe Cricket appointed Mark Coles as substantive head coach of the women’s team ahead of a five-match T20I series against South Africa starting Friday in Bulawayo, with a full support staff named. Sports (Regional): Australia retained out-of-form Marnus Labuschagne in its Test squad for the South Africa tour, adding Cooper Connolly and including Matthew Kuhnemann. Business/Tourism (Zimbabwe): UAE billionaire Mohamed Alabbar’s Emaar Properties is set to send an executive delegation to Zimbabwe to inspect sites for a “massive” luxury hospitality investment. Economy (Zimbabwe): The World Bank warns Zimbabwe’s plan to phase out the US dollar could be “premature de-dollarisation,” risking capital flight if ZiG confidence isn’t firmly established. Tech/Crime (Harare): A Midlands State University student accused of hacking CABS and siphoning over US$1.1m was denied bail and remanded. AI (Zimbabwe): Econet AI plans a Ndebele-speaking customer-support chatbot later this month, building on its Shona chatbot. Health/Society: A court ordered a pastor to pay US$11,000 after rejecting his duress claim in a debt dispute.
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