Despite an increase in maize price the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) continued with the distribution of subsidised maize meal. The Grain Marketing Board (GMB), increased maize price by 100 percent prompting GMAZ to suspend distribution of the commodity. However, after consultations the millers have
VAYA Express, through VAYA Express Medical Deliveries, is now offering free delivery of medical supplies to assist Zimbabweans in need of critical medicines and drugs during the restrictions imposed due the COVID -19 pandemic and beyond. VAYA Express Medical Deliveries is collaborating with Maisha Health fund
The Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd) has implored the Government to revise the social safety net and improve public awareness on the Covid-19 pandemic. In a statement following the extension of the Covid-19 lockdown by a further two weeks the debt management organisation called
Benjamin Kirby, University of Leeds; Josiah Taru, Great Zimbabwe University, and Tinashe Chimbidzikai, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity Since the emergence of COVID-19, a number of media commentators and academics have reflected on the “spiritualisation” of the pandemic among responses
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has extended the national lockdown by a further 14 days. In his address today, Mnangagwa said the lockdown will now be on stage two allowing the formal sector to resume operations from 8am to 3pm while wearing of masks when going outside becomes
Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (VISET) join hands with workers across the world and indeed their representative unions in commemorating Workers Day. This year’s celebrations will be held under the theme, “Stop The COVID-19 Pandemic - Scale Up Social Protection & Dialogue, Save
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) posted a 10.42 percent gain in revenue targets for first quarter to 31 March 2020 thanks to an intensive revenue recovery exercise, 263Chat Business can reveal. Zimbabwe losses nearly USD 1 billion on average annually in potential tax through weak tax
The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) market capitalisation registered major gains in the past two weeks of the second phase of lockdown adding ZWL 3 billion to reach ZWL 63.388 billion as of the week ending April 30, 263Chat Business reports. Over a fortnight ago, in the
In more developed countries whose economies are better off than most in sub-Saharan Africa, a strong safety net of social programmes, unemployment insurance and direct payments will make all the difference in the depth of the current COVID-19 induced downturn, and will speed up economic
Legal experts have described the dismissal of Frank Buyanga’s High Court application as unfortunate. The businessman had made an urgent High Court application against an earlier ruling that compelled him to return their son Alexander Sadiqi to the mother. Experts who spoke to this publication on condition
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