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- SundayMail
- April 26, 2020
- 49 views
Greedy teachers tempting Covid-19 fate
Many learners are being put in harm’s way as some serving and retired teachers are secretly conducting private lessons during the lockdown period, raising the likelihood that they could be increasingly exposed to the deadly coronavirus, The Sunday Mail Society can reveal. Under the current regulations, public gatherings are prohibited, except for funerals, where attendance is limited to 50.
- SundayMail
- April 26, 2020
- 124 views
June exams pushed back
The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) has provisionally pushed back this year’s June examinations by a month.
The decision was reached by senior Zimsec officials last week at a meeting to consider the impact of the current coronavirus lockdown on the exams.
- SundayMail
- April 26, 2020
- 63 views
Free PPEs rolled out
Major shops — operating under essential service providers — and members of the public, are set to receive free health sundries for protection against coronavirus.
- SundayMail
- April 26, 2020
- 156 views
Day in the life of a vegetable farmer
IN the 20 years that Tawanda Mujongondi has delivered fresh vegetables from Murehwa to Harare, he has never seen a disruption such as one caused by the coronavirus.
He has seen droughts, plant diseases and runaway inflation, but never has Mbare Musika, the thriving and popular vegetable market, closed its gates to farmers and consumers.
- SundayMail
- April 26, 2020
- 67 views
Don’t Africans get tired of being poor?
And so it begins — Africa’s gladiator fight with the most virulent of viruses to affect mankind in recent memory.
And for the umpteenth time we are being reminded that this would be another David and Goliath affair, but this time with a different outcome to the biblical tale.
Chronicle Editor
- SundayNews
- April 26, 2020
- 48 views
The reluctant Good Samaritan …Pastor who rescued deportees speaks
Bruce Ndlovu, Sunday Life Reporter “GO into the world, heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons, clean the lepers. Freely I have given, freely go and give,” says…
- SundayNews
- April 26, 2020
- 39 views
Bosso splash $380k on grounds
Ricky Zililo, Senior Sports Reporter HIGHLANDERS have paid the full amount for restoration of its clubhouse training grounds, splashing $380 000 into the project that has been stalled by the…
- SundayNews
- April 26, 2020
- 50 views
Over 130 000 SMEs apply for Covid-19 cushioning
Dumisani Nsingo, Senior Business Reporter MORE than 130 000 Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and players in the informal sector have applied to benefit from Government’s funding facility aimed at…
- SundayMail
- April 26, 2020
- 81 views
Bumper harvests expected for traditional grains, cotton
Zimbabwe expects a bumper harvest of traditional grain and cotton following concerted efforts by Government to promote drought-resistant crops to insulate farmers against the growing threat of climate change.
- SundayMail
- April 26, 2020
- 94 views
Demolitions: A bitter but necessary pill
Last week’s destruction of illegal vending structures by councils has elicited mixed reactions but stakeholders are generally agreed it was necessary to fight the highly contagious novel coronavirus.