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By Augustine Moyo and Darlington Musarurwa
IN what could prove to be a very costly boob, the Minister of Energy and Power Development, Mr Elton Mangoma, has suspended Rural Electrification Agency chairman Mr Jericho Gotora and sent, on forced leave, the chief executive officer, Mr Vurayayi Guvakuva, over US$650 000 issued in loans by management in 2009.
Telecel in tender scandal
By Augustine Moyo
TELECEL Zimbabwe has come under the spotlight for allegedly trying to legitimise a flawed tender process which it flighted in the Press last week after revelations that the country’s second largest mobile operator by subscribers has awarded tenders for its rollout programme to South African companies.
Gvt urged to review duty on agro inputs
Government should remove duty on all agricultural inputs and raw materials for agrofirms to charge reasonable prices, an official said last week Thursday.
Milk production on the increase
Milk production has increased steadily over the past two years with farmers saying adequate power supply will sustain growth.
Farmers urged to pay up
Sunday Mail Reporters
ZESA HOLDINGS has urged tobacco farmers to pay up 50 percent of their electricity bills to ensure adequate power supplies for tobacco curing which has started in some parts of the country.
‘GPA mixes like oil and water’
By Professor Jonathan Moyo, MP
The growing realisation that Zimbabwe should hold a harmonised general election some time this year has opened a can of dirty worms with the usual detractors in the diplomatic community and their band of puppets and associated electoral cowards throwing up all sorts of self-serving oppositions to what in point of fact has become an inevitable election, given that the so-called inclusive Government, whose envisioned GPA tenure expires next month, has become fatally dysfunctional.
No need to strike, civil servants told
Sunday Mail Reporter
CIVIL servants should not go on strike to press for increased salaries as discussions on their remuneration are still under way, a senior Apex Council member has said.
Zim’s wildlife players siphon millions
By Tafadzwa Chiremba
MAJOR players in Zimbabwe’s wildlife industry, with a million hectares of conservancy estates distributed among only a handful of them, are reportedly prejudicing the country out of millions of United States dollars by under-declaring their hunting proceeds while siphoning huge sums into off-shore accounts.
Coltart in bid to change history
Sunday Mail Reporter
FRESH allegations implicating Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart in a plot to smuggle Western ideology into the country have emerged amid revelations that he has dumped key secondary textbooks for publications that contain dodgy political undertones.
Prof Ncube, Henrietta Rushwaya an item?
By Itai Mazire
FORMER Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) chief executive Henrietta Rushwaya is said to have run a US$9 000 travel bill on trips with newly elected MDC party president Professor Welshman Ncube during last year’s Fifa World Cup soccer tournament in South Africa.