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- SundayMail
- April 19, 2020
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‘ZRP needs 35k masks per day’
MINISTER of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage, Kazembe Kazembe, has expressed concern over the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)’s vulnerability in their frontline duties against the novel coronavirus.
- SundayMail
- April 19, 2020
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Zesa to get tough with defaulters
Zesa Holdings should use more aggressive strategies to recover an outstanding debt of more than $1 billion owed by consumers, Energy and Power Development Minister Fortune Chasi has said.
“We must clear our debt and I have asked Zesa to be a bit overzealous in terms of recovering the debt. Due to the ups and downs of the exchange rate as a result of our macroeconomic situation, it just makes it very difficult for them (Zesa) to be viable,” he said.
- SundayMail
- April 19, 2020
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‘Covid-19 is for urbanites’
ROYDEN Farm is a sprawling rural settlement located about 37 kilometres west of Harare.
Sandwiched between Norton and Harare, the majority of the villagers eke out a living from subsistence farming.
- SundayMail
- April 19, 2020
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China suffers historic economic slump
The coronavirus pushed China’s economy into its first contraction in decades in the first quarter, with the spread of the disease around the world now leaving the nation reliant on fragile domestic demand to spur a recovery.
Gross Domestic P0roduct shrank 6,8 percent from a year ago, the worst performance since at least 1992 when official releases of quarterly GDP started and missing the median forecast of a 6 percent drop.
- SundayMail
- April 19, 2020
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Zim’s film industry puzzle
THE evolution of the big and small screen in the last four decades is one confusing matrix.
Since Zimbabwe attained independence on April 18 1980, the motion picture industry has gone through a not-so-usual development model.
- SundayMail
- April 19, 2020
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‘I itched to fire my AK47’
We continue narrating the political life of Cde Christopher Mawomberere (CM). This week the former freedom fighter chronicles to our reporter Norman Muchemwa (NM) his experiences at the war front.
- SundayMail
- April 19, 2020
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VP Mohadi happy with Mat North preparedness
VP Mohadi is satisfied with the Covid-19 preparedness in Matabeleland North, although some few changes needed to be done.
- SundayMail
- April 19, 2020
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Regional markets provide soft landing for exporters
AS the coronavirus pandemic affects more people across the world, restricting movement of persons and cargo has been the most viable option for many countries.
However, these measures make it difficult for local exporters, particularly small businesses to continue supplying products and services outside the country.
- SundayMail
- April 19, 2020
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Govt ponders tobacco season
Stakeholders in the tobacco industry are exploring modalities on how the country’s most valuable cash crop can be sold in the wake of challenges posed by the growing threat of Covid-19.
The highly infectious disease, which was first detected in Wuhan, China, in December last year, has killed tens of thousands and infected over two million people around the world.
- SundayMail
- April 19, 2020
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Beware the perennial borrower . . .
THE challenging economic times we are living in are such that an ordinary person would have to borrow to pull through.
No matter how thin, fat, tall or short one is, borrowing is like a small cross each and everyone would have to carry for much of their life.