adminStorm brews over Copac drafters capability
Lloyd Gumbo Herald Reporter
A STORM is brewing in Copac over the constitution making process amid reports that Zanu-PF has lost confidence in the
16 Zim women jailed in Asia
Peter Matambanadzo Senior Reporter
SIXTEEN Zimbabwean women are stuck in Asian jails – 14 convicted of drug smuggling and two others awaiting the conclusion of their trial facing the death penalty if convicted.
Foreign Affairs Deputy Director legal and consular Mr Chris Mavodza warned people against the temptation to be used as mules by international smuggling syndicates.
Zimbabweans are tempted to be drug mules because of lucrative payments.
Mr Mavodza said in most some Asian countries, drug trafficking carries a mandatory death sentence or life imprisonment and there is little that any government in the world can do for its citizens who are convicted in that region.
The warning comes barely a week after China executed a South African woman, Janice Linden, for drug smuggling after rejecting appeals by the South African government to spare her life.
Linden was convicted in 2009 of attempting to smuggle 3kg of crystal methamphetamine in luggage through an airport in the
Fresh police, council blitz on kombis
Municipal Reporter
HARARE City Council and the police will on Wednesday launch a massive clean-up operation targeting kombis and illegal vendors in the Central Business District.
Previous joint operations were not sustained.
Unregistered and unroadworthy kombis will be taken off the road while all commuter omnibuses using undesignated drop-off and pick-up points will be impounded.
Residents have complained over congestion on the city’s streets, attributed to errant kombi crews. City spokesman Mr Leslie Gwindi told the Press last Friday that the operation starts on Wednesday.
Harare district police spokesman Inspector James Sabau, national traffic spokesman Inspector Tigere Chigome and a member of the Zimbabwe Traffic Safety Board attended the Press briefing.
Mr Gwindi said the blitz will be carried out with the assistance of
Women, too, play a big part Honourable Minister
ZWRCN Women Empowerment
The presentation of the 2012 Budget by Finance Minister Tendai Biti was punctuated with laughter and interjections from
2011 National Budget capital expenditure underutilised
Tawanda Musarurwa Business Reporter
OVER half of the capital expenditure allotted in last year’s National Budget is yet to be utilised. Figures from the 2012
Radar Holdings revises turnover figures
Business Reporter
ZIMBABWE Stock Exchange-listed firm Radar Holdings Limited has adjusted its full-year turnover forecast by 18,9 percent from
Safari operators urged to make use of amended law on tourism capital goods
Legislation to reinstate rebate on capital goods for the tourism sector and suspension of duty on motor vehicles used by safari
Unesco donates to Harare Polytechnic
Tawanda Musarurwa Business Reporter
HARARE Polytechnic’s Division of Mass Communication has received information communication technology equipment
ACR to start gold project next year
Tawanda Musarurwa Business Reporter
AFRICAN Consolidated Resources expects to start phase one production at its Pickstone gold project in Zimbabwe mid-next
CZI demands action on relief funds
Golden Sibanda Senior Business Reporter
THE Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries has drawn comprehensive proposals on the criteria for selecting beneficiaries