Applying Buffett’s investing advice

When Warren Buffett speaks, investors tend to listen.

Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway buys undervalued companies to hold for the long term, and between 1965 and 2016, the company returned an annualised 20,8 percent to its investors, in contrast with the S&P’s 9,7 percent return.

Testing for Covid-19, the procedure

Robin Muchetu, Senior Reporter THE Covid-19 scourge has hit the globe like a gangrene. Its effects are seismic in all spheres of human endeavour, be they political, economical and social…

EPL confident of June re-start

London. — The Premier League is “as confident as we can be” about England’s top-flight soccer league restarting in June, its chief executive Richard Masters has been quoted as saying.

Celebrating Africa Day

Africa is a great place to live. There is no place like it. It is not a single country but a continent full of dynamism, colour, diversity and wealth. Africa has plenty for its people and a lot to offer the world.

As we celebrate Africa’s heritage, we have the responsibility to confront its challenges and ills. Africa has a great legacy but a shackled and abused past.

Time to reflect on common challenges in Africa: SB Moyo

Harare Bureau AFRICA is reclaiming its sovereign right to deal with challenges facing the continent — through solving conflicts, rallying member states to lobby for the removal of sanctions and…

Covid-19 positive pregnant woman to deliver at GPH

Munyaradzi Musiiwa, Midlands Correspondent A pregnant woman who is among Zimbabwean returnees quarantined in Midlands and has tested positive to coronavirus (Covid-19) is set to deliver at Gweru Provincial Hospital…

Sports sponsorship tumbles 37pc

Global sports sponsorship rights fees will fall from US$46,1 billion in 2019 to US$28,9 billion (37 percent year-on-year decrease) in 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to projections by Two Circles, a global sports marketing agency.

Exchange rate haunts tobacco farmers

Farmers have called on Government to urgently address the issue of currency instability as tobacco growers’ earnings are being eroded by inflation.

An action-packed isolation moment

I was about to leave after a three-day bingeing spree at my nephew’s house in Budiriro when his neighbour alerted us to the presence of “visitors” at the gate.

On investigating, we saw a young lass sitting between two elderly women, with an old, dirty and torn bag within range.

Sneaking through lockdown backdoor

US-based poet, publisher and playwright Thomas Stearns Eliot once said “All our knowledge brings us near to our ignorance, all our ignorance brings us nearer to death, but nearness to death, no nearer to God.”

This seems to be true in light of the goings-on in various communities around the country.

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