BUSINESS briefly came to a standstill in some parts of Harare's central business district yesterday, as anti riot police fired water cannons to disperse demonstrators protesting against the planned introduction of bond notes in October. Although government has said the bond notes will be used as an incentive to promote exports, there is growing public fear that they are a backdoor strategy to bring back the Zimbabwe dollar, abandoned in 2009 after a hyperinflationary crisis that led to market-wide commodity shortages. ......
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