‘ZRP needs 35k masks per day’

MINISTER of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage, Kazembe Kazembe, has expressed concern over the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)’s vulnerability in their frontline duties against the novel coronavirus.

Zesa to get tough with defaulters

Zesa Holdings should use more aggressive strategies to recover an outstanding debt of more than $1 billion owed by consumers, Energy and Power Development Minister Fortune Chasi has said.

“We must clear our debt and I have asked Zesa to be a bit overzealous in terms of recovering the debt. Due to the ups and downs of the exchange rate as a result of our macroeconomic situation, it just makes it very difficult for them (Zesa) to be viable,” he said.

‘Covid-19 is for urbanites’

ROYDEN Farm is a sprawling rural settlement located about 37 kilometres west of Harare.

Sandwiched between Norton and Harare, the majority of the villagers eke out a living from subsistence farming.

From backroom bottle stores to home deliveries …How underground liquor sales thrive in lockdown

Bruce Ndlovu, Sunday Life Reporter While others are bemoaning the loss of business of life during quarantine, the woman who calls herself Mavis is beaming with happiness in Bulawayo. The…

China suffers historic economic slump

The coronavirus pushed China’s economy into its first contraction in decades in the first quarter, with the spread of the disease around the world now leaving the nation reliant on fragile domestic demand to spur a recovery.

Gross Domestic P0roduct shrank 6,8 percent from a year ago, the worst performance since at least 1992 when official releases of quarterly GDP started and missing the median forecast of a 6 percent drop.

Kaseke’s Covid-19 lockdown anguish

Mehluli Sibanda, Senior Sports Reporter IMAGINE being in lockdown due to the coronavirus far away in an Asian country while your family, that is wife and children are also under…

Zim’s film industry puzzle

THE evolution of the big and small screen in the last four decades is one confusing matrix.

Since Zimbabwe attained independence on April 18 1980, the motion picture industry has gone through a not-so-usual development model.

Get ready to work: President

Vusumuzi Dube, Senior Reporter ZIMBABWEANS should get ready to go back to work with increased discipline as the country readies to achieve speedy economic recovery in the next 10 years…

Govt increases grain producer price

Dumisani Nsingo, Senior Farming Reporter THE Government has reviewed upwards grains and soya bean producer prices for the 2020/21 marketing season in a bid to encourage farmers to deliver their…

COMMENT: Work by varsities in Covid-19 fight commendable

AS the country celebrates a milestone in achieving 40 years of independence, we note that local universities have stepped up their game and are contributing immensely to the country’s fight…

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