adminFour accused of stealing radioactive material
WINDHOEK. – Namibian authorities have arrested four people they suspect of stealing drums of radioactive material from a mine
official shot dead in Nigeria
KANO. – Gunmen have stormed the home of a local government chairman in Nigeria’s northeast and shot him dead, a state
Banks happy with changes to 99-year farm leases
Lloyd Gumbo Herald Reporter
BANKS have agreed in principle to accept the improved 99-year-leases as collateral when farmers apply for loans.
This comes at a time when Finance Minister Tendai Biti has said Government does not have capacity to fund agricultural activities.
Banks have been refusing to accept the 99-year leases as collateral, saying the land was not transferable in the event that farmers defaulted on loan repayments.
In a letter written to the then Acting Secretary for Lands and Rural Resettlement, Mr Marius Dzinoreva last year, immediate-past president of the Bankers Association of Zimbabwe Dr John Mangudya said bankers were pleased with the redrafted agricultural land settlement lease.
Beitbridge in massive road rehabilitation
Beitbridge Bureau
Beitbridge Town Council has embarked on a massive roads network rehabilitation project in the border town. The project, which
Bindura businessman donates 20 bicycles
Herald Reporter
GOVERNMENT and the corporate world should award hardworking policemen and women as they are the cornerstone of peace
Salary blues for maids
Daniel Nemukuyu Herald Reporter
GOVERNMENT’S failure to stipulate dome-stic workers’ minimum wages since the introduction of multiple currencies in 2009 has left them vulnerable to exploitation by some employers, labour experts have said.
Some employers are paying their workers unreasonable wages as little as US$20 per month.
Most domestic workers earn between US$35 and US$60 per month.
According to labour regulations, the Ministry of Labour is expected to gazette the minimum wage for domestic workers yearly.
Almost every household has a domestic worker be it in the low, medium and high-density suburbs.
Zimplats confident of breaking indigenisation impasse
Golden Sibanda Business Reporter
IMPALA Platinum has expressed confidence that it will attain an “adequate and appropriate” level of indigenous
50 feared dead in Uganda landslides
KAMPALA. – Twenty-two bodies have been exhumed and over 30 people are still missing after heavy rain caused a series of
‘Chibage’ takes over?
Richmore Tera recently in Chinhoyi
MEMORIES of the late musician Cephas Mashakada who passed away on Tuesday last week were revived on stage when his
Realising man’s innate connection to nature
I seek to put the green concept to task, with a view to question whether our business sector has correctly conceptualised what