The soaring levels of unemployment in the country as well as the operational restrictions in the informal sector as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic has left a number of people without a source of income to sustain themselves as well as their families. This has seen an increase in the number of home burglaries…
Afritractors is Zimbabwe’s sole distributor for Farmtrac, one of the market leaders in the Tractor Segment in the world, based on the previous renowned Ford Models DNA.It is Manufactured by Escorts Group, India’s third largest tractor manufacturer and the world’s top ten. The 20-113hp Farmtrac range has been on the Zimbabwean Market since 2018. …
WHEN typhoid struck the country in 2017, registering 11 deaths from 181 confirmed cases, Zimbabwean Elizabeth Gonese, pictured, was one of the health experts deployed by the United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to help contain the outbreak of the waterborne disease. Gonese is a public health specialist at CDC, where, among…
EDITOR — It is sad that most of us are unable to afford basic commodities like sugar, mealie-meal, meat, eggs, cooking oil to mention a few just because most of these are beyond the reach of many. It is disturbing to note that one needs to spend $1 000 on a maximum of three basic…
OPINION BLACK EDWARD IN order to solve our problems we have to first identify them, but we human beings have an inherent flaw of not being able to give ourselves an accurate self-evaluation more often than not, so who else is better placed to rightly pick out our shortcomings other than our critics? Simply put:…
IMPOSITION of the dusk to dawn curfew without righting all the other wrongs and shortcomings within our systems may not produce the desired results of containing the spiking coronavirus (Covid-19) local transmission as well as deaths. The government will only be fuelling suspicions that the restrictions are also targeted at scoring political goals like dealing…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday announced a raft of measures to contain and mitigate the spread of the deadly coronavirus (Covid-19) after a sharp increase in infections in the country. Among the tough measures, Mnangagwa introduced a 6pm to 6am curfew starting Wednesday, a move opposition political parties, civil society and human rights groups…
STAFF WRITER THE Transforming Zimbabwe’s Dairy Value Chain for the Future (TranZDVC) project, which aims to address the root causes of under-performance in Zimbabwe’s dairy value chain, has noted that feed constitutes up to 70 percent of total costs in the country’s dairy value chain. TranZDVC, which conducted a nationwide analysis on the contribution of…
Austin Karonga MORE prominent former footballers have thrown their weight behind Alois Bunjira in his bid to land the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) top post when elections come around in 2022. Although the polls are still some two years away, Bunjira has already made his intentions clear and will challenge the under fire incumbent Zifa…
Vasco Chaya PROFESSIONAL masters of ceremonies (MCs) and club DJs have been hit hard by the coronavirus (Covid-19) lockdown as the showbiz and entertainment sectors have been closed since March. Government banned all gatherings in line with the Covid-19 regulations which promote social distancing, wearing of masks and frequent washing of hands, among others. Club…
