adminGovernment shelves Chitsa clan relocation
Masvingo Bureau
GOVERNMENT has abandoned plans to relocate nearly 1 000 families of the Chitsa clan who have been illegally staying in
ZNFPC offers free contraceptives
Herald Reporter
ZIMBABWE National Family Planning Council (ZNFPC) has set integration Programme whereby people would access family
Govt demands senior councils’ salary details
Herald Reporters
GOVERNMENT has ordered local authorities to immediately provide details on salaries and allowances being given to
Stray lions cause havoc in Beitbridge
Beitbridge Bureau
VILLAGERS in Tshikwalakwala and surrounding areas in Beitbridge East continue to endure the pain of losing their livestock to
No to illegal land deals with white farmers, President
Takunda Maodza Herald Reporter
GOVERNMENT will investigate reports that some land reform beneficiaries are leasing farms to displaced white former commercial farmers,
MDC-T top brass mocks Tsvangirai
Herald Reporter
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is a weak political operator who “does what the last person tells him to do,” and lacks strategic direction for MDC-T, his party’s senior officials; treasurer-general Roy Bennett and secretary-general Tendai Biti have said.
Bennett said Mr Tsvangirai remembers the advice of the last person he would have spoken to while Biti, who blasted his boss for ‘‘for lacking a strategic plan for the MDC in Government” in a cable dated June 30 2009, attributed Mr Tsvangirai’s rare moments of lucidity to prior preparation by party officials, him included.
The MDC-T leader is also given to taking advice from informal advisors, usually foreign, while ignoring the counsel of elected
20 underage girls forced into marriage
Peter Matambanadzo Investigative Reporter
AT least 20 girls, aged between 10 and 15 years, have reportedly been forced into marriages by their parents owing to poverty at Somerby settlement near Snake Park in Harare.
The parents have put in place measures to keep the matter under wraps.
Under the Marriages Act (Chapter 5:11), a man may marry at the minimum age of 18 while a woman can enter marriage at the minimum age of 16.
Some girls at the settlement, also known as Rekayi Tangwena Branch, have since given birth leading to them dropping out of school.
Mr Albert Madzongo, head of the settlement, said although early marriages were disturbing, they were common in the
Biti eyes MDC-T leadership, Wikileaks reveals
Herald Reporter
THE US says MDC-T secretary-general Tendai
VP Nkomo laughs off rumours of his death
Bulawayo Bureau
VICE-PRESIDENT John Landa Nkomo
Warriors eclipse Lone Star
Augustine Hwata Sports Reporter
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