Revenue inflows into Chegutu Municipality coffers have drastically fallen, with council receiving a fifth of what it normally collects in a month. This is one of the negative effects of the Covid 19 lockdown, which has seen people being restricted to their homes as part of security measures to contain the spread of
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By Lloyd Mwale One of Kadoma's finest educationists, Dr Nyika Alfred Gundu has been laid to rest Kadoma Cemetery in Kadoma, he was 73. Dr Gundu died on Monday, at a local hospital and was duly declared a provincial hero after a sterling career in education, where he rose from being a
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By Dr Raymond Chamba Nothing riles me more like the endless maneuvers and political point scoring around the pandemic of COVID-19. The health professionals are quick to blame the fiscus for under-resourcing them, the opposition parties turning to misgovernance as root cause, the security sector turning on civilians for indiscipline, the
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AT LEAST 10 police officers have been arrested for allegedly prospecting for gold without a licence at David Whitehead Textiles effluent ponds in contravention of the Mines and Minerals Act. David Whitehead Textiles effluent ponds were invaded by illegal gold panners during a gold rush late last year, during which a
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PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday hinted strongly that he would extend the lockdown beyond this Sunday to contain the spread of the new coronavirus saying his priority was to save lives. Zimbabwe has been in lockdown since March 30, with the present restrictions due to end on Sunday, but Mnangagwa intimated
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – South Africa’s rand climbed to a two-week best on Wednesday as investors found more reasons to buy risk assets with a number of major economies readying to reopen their economies and hopes of a coronavirus treatment resurfacing. At 1530 GMT the rand was 2.08 percent firmer at
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PRETORIA, South Africa – Names will always be like that. Like handles with which we can hold personalities, heroes and villains alike, and understand the tragedies and comedies of their lives. Ruzambu, the thin reed, was the sickly boy that Maidei gave birth to under the Msasa tree in Chikomba. He
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Zimbabwean police have enlisted the services of the international police organisation (Interpol) seeking the arrest and extradition of Johannesburg-based property magnate, Frank Buyanga. The African Medallion Group millionaire, 40, is accused of abducting his five-year-old son, but the businessman accuses President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his family of employing the police and
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The current bank exchange rates for the ZWL$ today are as follows: USD = ZWL$25.0000ZWL$ = RAND0.7254 Data according to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Black Market Rates: USD = ZWL$$50.50 zimratesUSD = BOND$36.80 zimrates – Marketwatch
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Farmers started selling their tobacco crop on Wednesday after the coronavirus outbreak delayed the opening of auctions, which provide vital foreign currency inflows, by more than a month. Tobacco is the second biggest earner of foreign exchange after gold, and last year generated US$747 million in exports mainly to China and
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