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- SundayMail
- April 5, 2020
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Rethinking paltry pension payouts
WITH the coronavirus (Covid-19) causing significant economic and social disruptions across the globe, its impact is likely to be keenly felt by the most vulnerable members of society.
The pandemic has caused immeasurable damage and engendered heightened uncertainty.
- SundayMail
- April 5, 2020
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‘Our job is a calling’
FIELD commanders are as strong as their weakest troops. When news of the first case of coronavirus was reported in Zimbabwe, some panicked workers hastily applied for the maximum possible number of leave days they could get. Others literally withdrew or threatened to withdraw their services. It was quite understandable considering the wreckage and bloodbath the the virus has left in its wake.
- SundayMail
- April 5, 2020
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‘Supreme Court ruling a victory for democracy’
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court upheld a previous High Court judgment that declared Mr Nelson Chamisa an illegitimate leader of the MDC. The court ruled that Dr Thokozani Khupe was the legitimate acting president of the party when Chamisa wrestled his way to power a few hours after the death of founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, on February 14, 2018. It is now unclear how things will pan out for the opposition political party. The Sunday Mail’s Gender and Community Editor FATIMA BULLA spoke to Dr Khupe about this and more.
- SundayMail
- April 5, 2020
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From the crew ‘behind the scenes’
Frontline healthcare workers can, will and may never be thanked enough for their direct and risky confrontation with the coronavirus pandemic.
But a simple round of applause at this moment will suffice.
- SundayMail
- April 5, 2020
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Fadzai Jaure’s 9-hour anguish
HOSPITALISED Dynamos skipper, Partson Jaure, is recovering remarkably after undergoing a head operation last Sunday and there is heightened optimism within his family, the defender’s wife, Fadzai, has revealed. The 29-year-old Warriors centre-back suffered serious head injuries in a car accident on March 22.
- SundayMail
- April 5, 2020
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BOSSO’S 450K COVID-19 HOLE
ORDINARILY the 2020 domestic Premiership football season would have been entering its third week, and today some of its stars would have been away with the Warriors in Yaounde, Cameroon, on what also could have been the opening day of the African Nations Championship (CHAN) tournament.
- SundayMail
- April 5, 2020
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Blaqs’ lights, camera, no action affair
MULTI-AWARD-WINNING music video producer, Vusa “Blaqs” Hlatshwayo (pictured here), is clearly an undecided man.
In the last four years, he has threatened to quit producing music videos not once or twice, but countless times.
- SundayMail
- April 5, 2020
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‘The war was real’
NATIONAL hero, Simon Mazorodze, is known to many people as one of the contributors towards Zimbabwe’s independence.
As Zimbabwe marks its important 40th year of freedom, sadly dampened by the coronavirus pandemic that has brought misery, agony and pain of losing thousands of people, I feel honoured to share, with readers, the life I lived with Cde Mazorodze.
- SundayMail
- April 5, 2020
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Survival of the fittest
“DO not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.”
This biblical verse, drawn from Luke 12:22-23, is somewhat not soothing the scores of street children and the homeless who were driven underground by the 21-day lockdown.
- SundayMail
- April 5, 2020
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‘How sellout Nyathi assembled comrades for slaughter’
OUR reporter Norman Muchemwa (NM) continues to chronicle the political life of Cde Christopher Mawomberere (CM). This week the former freedom fighter gives a personal account of the Nyadzonia Camp attack, which he says was executed by one of their own, Morrison Nyathi.