Lack of trust and confidence in banks is one of the reasons the public are not banking their money, a factor partly to blame for the prevailing cash shortages, Finance and Economic Planning Minister Patrick Chinamasa has said.
Government has been battling cash shortages since 2016, which have persisted despite growing use of plastic money, with confidence issues part of the major reasons people are not keen to bank, but stash cash at home.
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