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BY STEPHEN CHADENGA A GWERU-BASED company Mansach Gases yesterday donated food items and other goods to victims of flash floods at Mtapa and Shumba halls evacuation centres. Residents affected by the flash floods that hit the city in the past weeks were moved to various centres established in the Midlands capital after their houses were filled with water. Mansach Gases donated items such as sugar, cooking oil, mealie-meal, salt and kapenta among other items. The company’s managing director, Salimu Mbwana said it was important for the corporate world to assist people affected by the flash floods. “It is now more than two weeks since these families moved from their homes,” Mbwana said. “Some of us might have already forgotten about them but it’s critical that we become each other’s keepers especially in times of need.” He said the company was looking into ways to provide gas to the affected families. Gweru United Progressive Residents and Ratepayers Development Trust (GUPRRDT) sourced the donations on behalf of the victims. GUPRRDT housing portfolio committee member, Maisiri Zindoga appealed to other well-wishers to chip in to support the affected residents. Councillor for ward 6, Godfrey Giwa commended Mansach Gases for the donation saying it would help the distressed families. “This is a timeous donation which comes at a time victims of flash floods lost their property and food items in the past weeks,” he said. Incessant rains that pounded Gweru in recent weeks, coupled with poor drainage systems left many residents particularly in low-lying areas affected by flash floods.
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LONDON, CMC – Kieron Pollard’s contract with English county Northamptonshire has been cancelled by “mutual agreement”, amidst the ongoing uncertainty owing to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak.
Pollard, West Indies’ white-ball captain, is one of one two players to have their deals squashed, with Pakistan’s Faheem Ashraf also suffering a similar fate.
Club chief executive Ray Payne said he was hopeful Pollard and Ashraf could return at some point in the future.
“We don’t have any schedule yet for next season so those players don’t know where they’re going to be.
Pollard could also miss out on his campaign in the Indian Premier League which was due to start in March but has also been suspended because of COVID-19.
By The Associated Press undefined TORONTO - The Canada-U.S. border will remain closed to non-essential travel for at least another month. The statement Friday by Public Safety Minister Bill Blair came a day after Mexico announced a similar measure for its border with the United States. The land border restrictions aimed at controlling the coronavirus pandemic were first announced in March and have been renewed monthly. Many Canadians are concerned about a reopening. Canada has flattened the epidemic curve, reporting 9,000 deaths and 123,000 cases. The U.S. leads the world in confirmed deaths (167,00) and cases (5.2 million), according to […]
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — California became the first state to record 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases, reaching the milestone on Christmas Eve as close to the entire state was under…
US President-elect Joe Biden took the first steps on Sunday towards taking over the White House but Donald Trump showed no signs of being ready to admit defeat.
As congratulations poured in from world leaders and supporters nursed hangovers after a day of raucous celebrations, Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris launched a transition website, BuildBackBetter.com, and a Twitter account.
While Trump is refusing to concede Tuesday's election and most Republican lawmakers are adopting a studied silence, former President George W. Bush said the \"outcome is clear.\"
Bush, 74, the only living Republican ex-president, said he had called \"President-elect\" Biden and Harris to extend his \"warm congratulations.\"
While Trump has the right to request recounts and pursue legal challenges, Bush said \"the American people can have confidence that this election was fundamentally fair, its integrity will be upheld, and its outcome is clear.\"
\"Though we have political differences, I know Joe Biden to be a good man, who has won his opportunity to lead and unify our country,\" Bush said in a statement. \"We must come together for the sake of our families and neighbors, and for our nation and its future.\"
The transition website lists four priorities for an administration led by Barack Obama's former vice president: Covid-19, economic recovery, racial equity, and climate change.
\"The team being assembled will meet these challenges on Day One,\" it said in a reference to January 20, 2021, when Biden will be sworn in as the 46th President of the United States.
Biden, who turns 78 on November 20, is the oldest person ever elected to the White House. Harris, 56, the junior senator from California, is the first woman and first Black person to be elected vice president.
Biden planned to name a task force on Monday to tackle the coronavirus pandemic which has left more than 237,000 people dead in the United States and is surging across the country.
He has also announced plans to rejoin the Paris climate accord and will reportedly issue an executive order on his first day reversing Trump's travel ban on mostly Muslim countries.
Biden has vowed to name a cabinet that reflects the diversity of the country although he may have some trouble gaining Senate approval for more progressive appointees if Republicans retain control of the Senate -- an outcome that will depend on two runoff races in Georgia in January.
'Accept the inevitable'
Biden, after John F. Kennedy just the second Catholic to be elected US president, attended church Sunday morning in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, and visited the graves of his son, Beau Biden, who died of brain cancer in 2015, and his first wife and daughter, who died in a 1972 car accident.
Trump, 74, was playing golf on Sunday at his course near Washington, the same place where he was on Saturday when the US television networks delivered the news that Biden had secured enough Electoral College votes for victory.
\"Since when does the Lamestream Media call who our next president
Joe Biden told residents of Kenosha, Wisconsin, that recent turmoil following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, could help Americans confront centuries of systemic racism, drawing a sharp contrast with President Donald Trump amid a reckoning that has galvanized the nation. “We’re finally now getting to the point where we’re going to […]
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Schoolteacher Mamadou Junior Diakhaté is on a mission to rebuild a school in Senegal in time for students to pass their exams to enter high school.
The teacher nicknamed \"Junior\" used his social media accounts to crowdfund the rebuild and has raised about 3,000 euros.
The institution was shut due to the coronavirus pandemic in March and only pupils who were sitting the tests could partially return in June, coinciding with the heavy rain period.
\"This school must host students on September 14th for exams and look at the state of the classrooms. So we came to give a hand,\" said Diakhaté.
\"With the money we buy equipment, then we publish on social media the invoices, everything the money was use for. We show before and after photos and regular updates. So people trust us because they see that their donation is used for something and not used for other purposes .\"-
Thanks to his popular Twitter page, he has raised about 3,000 euros. But he says one headteacher accused him of playing politics.
But many other schools in the country are in the same state. He's received about 40 requests from schools in similar conditions.
Reuters - Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has called for a reduction in the number of clubs in the Premier League and English Football League to improve the quality of competition amid talk of a breakaway European Super League. The concept of a European Super League, as an alternative to European soccer governing body UEFA’s flagship Champions League, has been floated for years but speculation has increased in the past two years. The Times newspaper said it had seen a proposal for the Super League that outlined plans for a competition with 15 founding members and five other clubs qualifying annually. The plan envisages the 20 clubs being split into two groups of 10 and playing between 18 and 23 European matches a season. But Guardiola declined to be drawn into a discussion about it and said it was important to strengthen domestic leagues. “I have the feeling that we cannot lose what local leagues mean - what it means to play the FA Cup … what it means to play in the leagues,” Spaniard Guardiola said ahead of Saturday’s FA Cup clash with fourth-tier Cheltenham Town. “What we should do is make every league in Europe stronger than what it is, less teams, better championships, better League One, better League Two, better Premier League with less teams in every competition. Go to quality over quantity. “You have to make a super Premier League … for that you have to reduce teams. But we can’t kill lower divisions or the Premier League. “That’s something that is so important. It’s not about other benefits, it’s about how important sentimentally it is having your own league for every country.” Soccer’s global body FIFA said that players who feature in any breakaway European Super League would be banned from FIFA competitions, including the World Cup. - Reuters
For many people, 2020 has been the most difficult year in recent history. The coronavirus pandemic continues to rage on while taking away loved ones, disrupting daily life and causing…
One of the US government’s top health experts has pleaded with Americans to follow the official advice and wear face masks to help slow the spread of the coronavirus.
The U.S. government will test its coronavirus distribution networks while vaccines await emergency approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
There is a famous Zimbabwean proverb: “Muzivi wenzira yeparuvare ndiye mufambi wayo” (He who knows the way across a rocky surface is the one who regularly uses it. To all others there is no path there.) As Zimbabwe is facing a myriad of economic challenges, it is time she took more time to learn from the development paths of others and perhaps moreso that of her closest ally: China. This resonates with the idea behind Rostow’s growth model where developing nations need to follow the stages taken by those ahead in the development process. As Zimbabwe begins a new economic era with the availing of a new economic blueprint; the National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1); there is need to develop learning relationships and strengthen existing ones. Zimbabwe and China have enjoyed relations since pre-independence time when China assisted the former to gain independence from its coloniser. As the nation seeks to achieve significant economic gains to become a middle-income economy by 2030, Zimbabwe could maximise its relations with China as their newly availed economic development plans are in harmony. Zimbabwe has crafted the NDS1, a plan that runs from 2021-2025 and succeeds the Transitional Stabilisation Programme which ended last year. On the other hand, China has also released its 14th Economic Development Plan also set for 2021-2025. The Zimbabwean NDS1 seeks to make Zimbabwe “an upper middle income” economy by 2030 and to accelerate economic growth, improve the public sector and strategic infrastructure such as energy, ICT, transport and house delivery, among others. Other objectives under the new economic blueprint include maintaining fiscal balance at no more than 3% of gross domestic product (GDP), single-digit inflation, increase in international reserves to at least six months import cover from the current less than a month, as well as maintaining domestic and external debt at below 70% of GDP. The Chinese 14th Five Year Plan (2021-2025) on the other hand seeks to make China a “moderately developed economy by 2035” and to replace high-speed growth with high-quality growth, to build China into a technological powerhouse, re-balance the Chinese economy with supply-side structural reform, and to expand domestic demand, while continuing to support international export markets among other ambitious goals. Already one can begin to see how these two plans sync. It is apparent that both countries are focusing on growth economics, while balancing this with an emphasis on sustainability. However, Zimbabwe seems more ambitious in declaring an annual growth of over 5% through to 2025 while China only speaks of “high quality growth”. With China striving towards being “a global leader in innovation” it is apparent that there is an opportunity for Zimbabwe in terms of learning from China with regards to its ICT growth and abilities. Zimbabwe can harness the much-needed technological advancements through knowledge and skills transfer which can be made possible through people-people and cultural exchanges as well as allowing more C
By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday the league remains committed to finishing the regular season as scheduled. Goodell also said on a conference call that while the NFL is considering a bubble format for the playoffs, it wouldn't necessarily resemble what the NHL and NBA used in successfully in completing their seasons. 'It will take partnership and discipline to complete this season. I'm confident we'll be able to do it,' Goodell said, referring the NFL Players Association, the clubs and the players. Added Dawn Aponte, the league's chief football administrative officer: 'In terms […]
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PUMA announced that Young Simba's basketball kick's popular colorway is coming back for an encore. For the re-up, PUMA enlisted its newest signature athlete and possibly this year's NBA rookie of the year, Lamelo Ball, model the kicks.
Trump-loving Democrat Vernon Jones also did not wear a mask for the stunt.
American historian Timothy Snyder is the author of On Tyranny. The slim volume from February 2017 presaged what we could expect from the Trump administration as it became obvious almost immediately that the forthcoming four years would be...
