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Covid-19 will not retard the positive economic growth trajectory Zimbabwe has achieved so far and the momentum is set to be maintained into 2022

Zimbabwe needs to make more of the medicines and other medical consumables its people use and local pharmaceutical companies

Govt admits policy failures BY MOSES MATENGA GOVERNMENT has conceded that it was found wanting in the implementation of previous economic blueprints and now pins its hopes on its ambitious National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1) to cure the current economic ills. The NDS1 is the second blueprint launched by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration, following in the footsteps of the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP), which was launched in 2018 to run for two years but fell flat. Zimbabwe has in the last three decades launched several economic recovery plans which missed their ta...

Economic decline and social malaise The Zimbabwe Constitution guarantees social protection, but provision and accessibility are hampered by fiscal limitations Small scale farmers at Monzou village after their crops were destroyed in an eviction attempt by former first lady Grace Mugabe to annex their land PHOTO Graeme Williams In contemporary African countries social protection is broadly perceived as central and indispensable to human development. Persistent and chronic forms of poverty that often find expression in people’s failure to access life’s basic necessities, such as nutrition, ...

By James Muonwa INFORMATION minister, Monica Mutsvangwa says President Emmerson Mnangagwa deserved to be reelected the country’s leader in the 2023 for what she said was the incumbent’s wise leadership in taming what could have been a worse off Covid-19 impact. She said the local death toll due to the global pandemic could have been much higher on the backdrop of lack of adequate health infrastructure and skills to manage the disaster. Mutsvangwa was addressing Zanu PF officials during the Mashonaland West provincial coordinating committee (PCC) meeting held on Saturday. “We have to con...