We have to ramp up after lockdown

The coronavirus (Covid-19) has changed the world as we used to know it.

Global supply chains have been severely disrupted, while nationhood, which we were increasingly taking for granted in a world that had evolved into a global village, has been put under the strictest of scrutiny and test.

Honesty is the hallmark of leadership

ON March 21, just before schools closed, First Choice Private School and First Choice College (Highfield) prefects held a lead­ership workshop with renowned leaders.

Farmers smart from subdued demand

Despite the reopening of fresh produce markets countrywide last week to ensure uninterrupted supply for households that are presently in lockdown, horticultural producers have, however, continued to sing the blues owing to subdued demand.

Lockdown: President calls for discipline

PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has implored Zimbabweans to exercise discipline during the 21-day lockdown that starts tomorrow, saying staying indoors is the panacea to combat the deadly coronavirus pandemic.

This comes as the Covid-19 Inter-Ministerial Taskforce which met in Harare yesterday to deliberate on strategies to fight the spread of coronavirus further explained measures that would be taken in enforcing the three-week lockdown.

Mining firms feel the pinch of coronavirus

Mining companies expect to take a US$400 million hit from April to June this year owing to the current Covid-19-induced lockdown in international markets, and are now lobbying Government to scrap income taxes and cut duty on critical raw materials, among other relief measures.

United we can fight coronavirus in Zim

The Ministry of Health and Child Care on Friday announced that the National Microbiology Reference Laboratory had successfully tested 188 people since the outbreak of the disease in the country and had confirmed seven cases.

Of life in the COVID-19 era

A little over a week ago England wicketkeeper Jos Butler nearly broke the internet when a video of the 29-year-old and wife Louise doing pilates, surfaced.

The Englishman was in full Test gear — fitted with the whites, pads, helmet, gloves and bat — as he helped his wife conduct her pilates lesson.

When democrats discover despotism as a cure

MOST often, in times of crisis, it seems no one remembers to secure the asylum, from which looneys — fools, nutters, ignoramuses and the downright stupid — always escape.

THE DIE IS CAST!

These are extraordinary times!

Tomorrow, Zimbabwe joins more than 70 million fellow Africans that are hunkered down in Rwanda and South Africa in an unprecedented move to try and combat the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19).

Old Mutual in Govt’s cross-hairs. . . ZSE giant faces money laundering charges

THE Securities and Exchange Commission of Zimbabwe (SECZ) has launched an investigation into suspected illicit activities surrounding trading in fungible stocks linked to three listed companies — Old Mutual, PPC Limited and Seed Co International.

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