Let’s protect our currency

ON Tuesday last week, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe released into circulation the new $10 notes as part of measures to ease cash shortages and curb the multi-tier pricing system.

Let’s clean our dirty stables!

AS human beings, we need to accept that there are often both comprehensible and incomprehensible life forces around us.

Where Bishop Lazi comes from, for example, you cannot venture deep into the forest to forage for provisions — fruits, animals, wood, etcetera — without respecting the natural forces that inherently lie therein.

100 escape from quarantine centres

NEARLY 100 returning residents have escaped from various quarantine centres where they were confined as part of mandatory measures to control the spread of Covid-19.

The law prescribes that all returning residents be subjected to screening and testing, including 21-day mandatory quarantine.

Khama clocks 10 years in Absa Premiership

AS if it was designed by the football gods, Khama Billiat made his debut in the South African Premiership just a day after celebrating his 20th birthday.

That was in August 2010, when South African football was abuzz, just a month after the country had become the first and only African nation to host the FIFA World Cup finals.

Merchants of chaos on the prowl

The sanity which prevailed in most central business districts (CBDs) countrywide during the initial 21-day national lockdown is fading.

Chaotic and unpleasant scenes are re-emerging as some people are now flagrantly disregarding health guidelines designed to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

‘Zim dollar under siege again’

The Zimbabwe dollar is once again reeling under unrelenting pressure from speculative activities by crafty individuals seeking personal gain, it has been learnt.

Govt doubles efforts for wheat self-sufficiency

ZIMBABWE plans to exponentially boost wheat production in the current planting season in order to eliminate imports of the cereal by promoting self-sufficiency.

Zec considers by-election options

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) is crafting an operational framework to pave way for the “safe resumption” of by-elections following an indefinite suspension of all electoral activities.

Restrictions on public gatherings and observance of social-distancing guidelines meant to prevent the spread of Covid-19 have made it impossible to conduct conventional elections.

VP Mohadi lauds bike project

VICE President Kembo Mohadi says the joint venture between the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) and local company Gelles Motor Cycles to assemble motorbikes will help both rehabilitate inmates and spur economic activity.

Tales of a Covid-19 ravaged Zim community in UK

“MANY loved ones will die!” screams a newspaper headline.

As Covid-19 spreads, another headline ramps up emotions: “Daughters lose dad and big sister to coronavirus within days of each other — now their mum’s in hospital.”

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