adminOpening of tobacco sales floors put on hold
The 2020 tobacco marketing season which was scheduled to open yesterday has been postponed to allow stakeholders to devise mechanisms to sell the crop while ensuring minimum risks of spreading the Covid-19 pandemic.
Kenyan musician torches storm over Tuku song
Kenyan musician, Pastor Antony Musembi, has torched a storm after using elements of the late Dr Oliver Mtukudzi’s composition “Todii” for his Covid-19 awareness song without seeking permission from copyright holders of the track.
‘President vakagona’
VERUZHINJI vanoti kana dai zvazvo kugara pamba sezviri kudiwa kuti munhu wose aite muZimbabwe kwakaoma kune vamwe vanhu, hapana rimwe danho ringatorwa neHurumende kuitira kurwisa kutapurirana nekupararira kwechirwere chashungurudza pasi rose cheCovid-19.
Covid-19 curtails economic growth — ZNCC
The Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) projects economic growth to contract by 9 percent in 2020 as businesses across all sectors battle low production and revenue losses due to Covid-19-induced lockdowns.
EDITORIAL COMMENT : Align aircraft services to modern trends
The recent case in which Air Zimbabwe (Airzim) sent one of its aircraft to Ethiopia for maintenance suggests the need to align equipment acquisition with modernisation of infrastructure.
A rival called Ringo Starr, a brother named Punish, a promoter dubbed Captain Fiasco
LONDON. — Proud Kilimanjaro is the forgotten African heavyweight, as mighty as the mountain, who had his big opportunity against Lennox Lewis cancelled just moments before a punch was thrown.
65 returnees from UK demand hotel quarantine
Sixty-five Zimbabweans returning from the United Kingdom yesterday refused compulsory quarantine at Belvedere Technical Teacher’s College citing “poor conditions”, and preferred to be checked into a hotel instead but they were kept there overnight while there is possible transfer to the University of Zimbabwe today.
2 000 health posts taken up
Half of the 4 000 health posts unfrozen by Government have been filled and training of medical personnel in Covid-19 case management is ongoing at national, provincial and district levels, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister, Monica Mutsvangwa has said.
PSL clubs lose $30m on pre-season preps
WITH the grim reality of having another pre-season, the domestic Premiership clubs won’t be in a position to recoup over $30 million they used in their initial preparations.