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Money transfer companies see rise in new customers

Having fled an economic implosion in his native Zimbabwe, Brighton Takawira was able to support his mother back home with modest earnings from a small perfume business he set up in South Africa.

Then Covid-19 struck. Borders closed. The buses he had used to send his cash stopped running.

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