adminSDRs should support key productive sectors
Michael Tome Business reporter THE nearly US$1 billion equivalent of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) Zimbabwe received from the International Monetary Fund on Monday should be channelled towards productive sectors and stabilisation…
Education opens doors to rapid national economic development
Nyasha Kavhiza Correspondent The most important resource that any nation has is its human resource. It is the human resource that drives all other resources. This resource is much more important…
Farmers lobby Govt for livestock trading policy
Beitbridge Bureau LIVESTOCK farmers have implored the Government to draft a commercial ranching policy to ensure farmers get full value for their animals and are treated fairly on the…
Wuhan ‘lab leak theory’ more about politics than science
Mazvita Makuyana Correspondent Discussions that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus emerged from a laboratory have escalated over the past few weeks, coinciding with the annual World Health Assembly, at which the World Health…
COVID-19: Multinational study investigates 3 new treatments
The WHO has announced that its Solidarity clinical trial, which assesses potential treatments for COVID-19, is ready to resume. In the previous phase, scientists investigated four potential treatments but found…
Parly moves to bar child marriages
Farirai Machivenyika Senior Reporter Parliament was yesterday urged to expedite the passage of the Guardianship of Minors Amendment Bill that seeks among other issues, to bar parents from consenting to marriage…
Mozambique: Ex-leader’s son on trial
MAPUTO. – The son of Mozambique’s ex-president and 18 others have gone on trial over the US$2 billion“tuna bonds” affair. Ndambi Guebuza, son of former president Armando Guebuza, and the…
Global eradication of COVID-19 remains possible
Robby Berman As wealthier nations struggle to get more people to undergo vaccination, lower income nations struggle to acquire sufficient vaccine doses, and new SARS-CoV-2 variants emerge, a newly published…
Ervine to captain Chevrons
VETERAN Craig Ervine will captain Zimbabwe for the limited-overs series in Ireland and Scotland. While Sean Williams is the substantive Test skipper, Zimbabwe Cricket have been rotating the captaincy, in…
Shoprite’s share price tops 52-week high
The share price of Africa’s largest food retailer Shoprite topped a 52-week high on Monday, with the stock gaining almost 4,5percent on the back of a very strong trading update…