No postponement to Afrobasket tourney

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Hosts for this year Afrobasket and All Africa Games basketball qualifiers, Zimbabwe, insist there will not be any postponement as preparations are well on course.

The seven-day qualifiers were postponed to this month last December and then moved again to next month with fears that it could clash with another FIBA engagement.

The initial date was November 20 last year, but it clashed with the Africa Club Championships in Mozambique and had to be moved to January 17 before the new dates February 21 to 28.

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Time to end informal sector fronting

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