adminCouncils warned on rates
GOVERNMENT has warned local authorities against charging rates and levies from budgets still to be approved by the parent ministries and to put technologies that ensure correct billing for residents.
Civil servants go on strike Monday
Herald Reporter
CIVIL servants have resolved to go on strike with effect from next Monday after the Government failed to increase their salaries further, insisting it is broke.
Madzibaba Nzira out of jail on medical grounds
By Peter Matambanadzo and Daniel Nemukuyu
PROMINENT spiritual healer and Johanne Masowe WeChishanu faction leader, Madzibaba Godfrey Nzira, who has been serving a 20- year jail term for rape, was on Wednesday released from Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison on medical grounds.
IVORY COAST STAND-OFF: Ouattara appears increasingly weakened
ABIDJAN -Mediation and military threats have failed to persuade Laurent Gbagbo to drop his claim to the Ivory Coast presidency because he is playing for time, at the risk of a major confrontation, observers say.
China warns US on Taiwan, Tibet
WASHINGTON- Chinese President Hu Jintao, unbowed by pressure on a state visit, warned the United States on Thursday not to press on Taiwan and Tibet as he insisted that the rising Asian power sought cooperation.
13 MDC members want congress nullified
Court Reporter
THIRTEEN MDC members have filed an application at the High Court seeking a declaratory order nullifying the party’s recent third national congress where a new leadership led by Professor Welshman Ncube was elected.
Venezuela has world’s largest oil reserves!
CARACAS – Venezuela says it has dethroned fellow OPEC member Saudi Arabia to become the nation with the largest proven crude oil reserves in the world, at nearly 300 billion barrels.
17 Harare City workers arrested for slashing residents’ maize
Crime Reporter
POLICE have arrested 17 Harare City Council workers on allegations of slashing maize belonging to Kuwadzana residents.
Tom Saintfiet’s shocking murder claims!
By Augustine Hwata
BELGIAN coach Tom Saintfiet has made sensational claims that there was a shadowy plot, by some unknown forces, to have him murdered if he had returned to Zimbabwe to pursue his mission to beco-me the Warriors’ coach.
Kariba floodgates open Saturday
Herald Reporter
Kariba Dam floodgates will be opened on Saturday afternoon to eject excess water from the dam and accommodate the large volume of flows that are building in the upper part of the Zambezi catchment area.