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Want to beat inflation? Sell something in the marketplace

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WhatsApp and other groups were meant to share information including Muchene (gossip). It has been upgraded into a marketplace.

The hard economic times, ripples from Covid-19 and recent policies that included new taxes made it an attractive market. It favours the sophisticated who want to keep a "name."

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