Tag: Covid-19
FMP occupancy rises to 89% to boost net property income in...
Tadiwa Musiyiwa
HARARE – Property firm, First Mutual Properties’ net property income grew by 62% driven by a 49% increase in revenue growth and...
NTS volumes rise 163% in Q-June
HARARE - National Tyre Services saw an across the board improvement in volumes in the first quarter to June 30, 2021 buoyed by an...
Female vendors suffer the brunt of COVID-19……as sector calls for speedy...
Margaret Chinowaita
WINNIE pushes second hand clothing at Jambanja Market in Chitungwiza, a dormitory town, 25km from Harare. She has to secure the bales from...
COVID-19 cases soar as Zimbabwean authorities battle complacency
Sydney Kawadza
The number of people arrested for violating COVID-19 regulations in Zimbabwe is galloping towards the one million mark with complacency taking root in...
Health expert raises alarm over declining COVID-19 recovery rate
Staff Writer
Calls for government to take drastic measures in combating the spread of coronavirus are growing louder as the national recovery rate continues to...
ED announces Level 4 national lockdown
Staff Writer
President Mnangagwa has announced a National Lockdown Level 4 which would see all business operating between 8am to 3pm for the next fortnight.
According...
COVID-19 decimates lives, livelihoods along Zimbabwe’s busiest highway
Sydney Kawadza and Nhau Mangirazi
For many years, Karoi, a small agricultural town, was just but a small business centre along the busy Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu Highway.
It...
Edgars unit sales down 23% in Q1 as Covid-19 lockdown weighs
HARARE – As largely expected, Edgars reported a subdued first quarter after performance was impacted on by the Covid-19 lockdown. Physical stores were closed...
Social safety nets, community spirit help South African mother through Covid-19...
Around 40 km outside Cape Town, Leebah Bessick wipes sweat from her forehead as she digs a pitchfork into the earth at a neighbourhood...
A COVID-19 Recovery Contribution
By Vitor Gaspar, Michael Keen, Alexander Klemm, and Paolo Mauro
The economic costs of the pandemic have fallen most heavily on those least able to...