Journalists listed as essential service providers
Patrick Chitumba, Midlands Bureau Chief GOVERNMENT has listed journalists among providers of essential services allowed to work during the lockdown to combat Covid-19. Journalists join health workers and security forces…
Mat South needs 800 more boreholes
Sukulwenkosi Dube-Matutu, Gwanda Correspondent MATABELELAND South province needs an additional 800 boreholes to be drilled at a cost of $5,4 million in order to ease water challenges as it fights…
Zim-Com SA mobilises help for compatriots
Thupeyo Muleya, Beitbridge Bureau THE Zimbabwe Community in South Africa (Zim-Com SA) has embarked on a programme to mobilise food and other resources for Zimbabweans affected by the lockdown in…
A pandemic-driven food crisis in Africa can be prevented
We have only just begun to see the far-ranging consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic around the world. Chief among those is the threat of a food crisis of unprecedented magnitude.…
Uefa look for light at end of tunnel in bid to resume European football season
As European countries take steps towards easing lockdown measures imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic, Uefa will meet with the continent’s football clubs and associations this week to try to…
Chinese billionaire makes third Covid-19 donation
Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Reporter CHINESE billionaire Mr Jack Ma’s foundation has made a third medical donation to Africa as it scales up the Covid-19 fight in the continent. The donation…
SA bids to end Lesotho crisis
MASERU — Lesotho’s government has agreed with South African mediators and political parties to implement a “dignified retirement” for prime minister Thomas Thabane, a joint statement said yesterday, signalling stepped…
We need life again: Germansned shops but Merkel worries
BERLIN/FRANKFURT — Germans returned to the shops yesterday, craving retail therapy after a month of lockdown, but Chancellor Angela Merkel urged them to remain disciplined to avoid a relapse in…
‘Lockdown extension welcome’…but business wants more sectors reopened
Industry and employers have welcomed the reopening of mining and manufacturing businesses during the Covid-19 lockdown, but want to see at least parts of more sectors allowed to operate under strict controls to keep the economy afloat and save jobs.
Man remanded in custody for circulating fake news
A Chitungwiza man who allegedly authored and circulated a fake statement bearing President Mnangagwa’s signature announcing the extension of the lockdown period was arrested on Saturday.











