adminCouncil urges nation to adopt cremation
Mary Kashumba Herald Reporter
THE Harare City Council is appealing to residents to adopt cremation as the city is running out of burial space. In an interview
NRZ yet to acquire locomotives
Wenceslaus Murape Senior Reporter
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe is failing to raise US$26 million for it to take delivery of 14 locomotives from a Chinese firm
SMM lawyers threaten ZMDC
Herald Reporter
LAWYERS representing former Shabani-Mashava Mine shareholder, Mr Mutumwa Mawere, want the Zimbabwe Mining
Workers cry foul over bonuses
Wenceslaus Murape Labour Reporter
Some workers from the private sector will not get annual bonuses as several companies cite viability problems. A survey
Chinhoyi divided over US$2,9m tender
Chinhoyi Bureau
CHINHOYI councillors are divided over companies recommended by a consultant to be granted tenders to repair the town’s
Mai Madangure to be buried today
Tendai Mugabe Senior Reporter
THE body of Zimbabwe Democratic Party leader Ms Isabel Shanangurai Madangure who died in South Africa last week arrived
Zimbabwe-Iran tractor assembly plant preps at advanced stage
Obert Chifamba Agriculture Reporter
PREPARATIONS for the set up of the Zimbabwe-Iran tractor-assembly
Indigenisation not meant to destroy firms: Kasukuwere
Herald Reporter
GOVERNMENT’S indigenisation and empowerment drive is not meant to destroy firms and the economy,
Copac throws out MDC-T gay rights bid
Lloyd Gumbo Herald Reporter
COPAC has thrown out MDC-T’s bid to smuggle homosexuality into the new constitution under the guise of protecting minority rights.
Sources who attended a Select Committee meeting last week accused MDC-T’s Copac co-chairperson Mr Douglas Mwonzora and spokesperson Ms Jessie Majome of seeking to have gay rights included under the guise of minority rights.
The sources said there was heated debate over the issue.
“When they raised the issue, we asked them to define who should be covered by minority rights and they started mumbling and they said the Ndebeles and the Venda,” said a source.
“We then told them that these were people whose interests
Plans afoot to have all marriages registered
Peter Matambanadzo Senior Reporter
GOVERNMENT is looking into the marriage law to find a way of registering all marriages, including all customary marriages, to ensure surviving spouses and children have equal inheritance rights.
Over the past few decades, many customary marriages have not been registered, with couples preferring to have a second ceremony under the Marriages Act later, but registration under that Act prevents registration of any subsequent customary marriage; the Government wants to see how women and children can be protected and the injustices often associated with multiple marriages eliminated.