Elephant poaching and illicit financial flows

Lincoln Towindo
According to the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks), 322 elephants were killed by poachers between 2016 and 2019, largely for their tusks.

GREATEST OF THEM ALL . . . Coventry is nation’s best athlete for four decades

WHEN historians sit down to answer the timeless question of who actually is Zimbabwe’s greatest sportsperson of all time — or GOAT as the expression goes — one of the names sure to dominate that conversation is that of the Minister of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation Kirsty Coventry.

PSL lauds stadia upgrades

THE Premier Soccer League (PSL) has welcomed with optimism the involvement of central and local government authorities in the refurbishment of the country’s stadia in the wake of a Confederation of African Football ban on the country’s major venues.

Govt decentralises Covid-19 testing … as Global Fund releases US$5 million

THE country’s 10 provinces will soon have Covid-19 testing, referral and isolation centres, as members of the Cabinet taskforce were yesterday deployed to various stations countrywide to assess progress on readiness to combat the novel coronavirus.

Employers urged to avoid job losses

COMPANIES must do everything possible to keep workers on their payroll as the country grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, which has forced businesses to either scale down or completely shut down operations to comply with the ongoing 21-day lockdown, Government and employers have said.

Time to tear down this wall of sanctions

Before the country’s latest battle against a new enemy — the coronavirus — it was already engaged in several other battles over the past two decades.

COVID-19 LOCKDOWN…No bailout for profiteers: Govt

GOVERNMENT will not consider applications for financial assistance from businesses that are wantonly increasing prices of commodities and those found guilty of breaching the coronavirus (Covid-19) lockdown guidelines, a Cabinet minister has revealed.

Glimmering silver lining in very dark clouds

Unbelievable!!!

Easter, or Holy Week, has never been anything remotely as sombre and sober as it has been for the past three days.

During this time of the year, which represents the sacrediest of days on the Christian calendar, churches and places of worship usually overflow with believers.

Covid-19 dampens Easter

THE current global lockdown coinciding with this Easter Holiday harks back to the time when Israelites, at the behest of Moses, hunkered down in Egypt to evade the angel of death, which claimed the lives of all firstborn sons in houses whose lintel had not been smeared with blood from a sacrificial lamb.

‘Govt to go all the way to protect frontline soldiers’

GOVERNMENT is committed to providing doctors and nurses with adequate personal protective equipment (PPEs) to ensure their safety as they attend to Covid-19 patients.

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