CABS Building Society has stopped disbursing loans under the $10 million Youth Development Fund, because most of the beneficiaries are not paying back.
The financial institution was distributing the funds on behalf of its foreign-owned parent company Old Mutual, which contributed the amount to comply with the Zim government's controversial indigenisation and empowerment laws.
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