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KINSHASA – Congo’s President Joseph Kabila has won another term in office with 49 percent of the 18,14 million votes cast,
Jabulani Sibanda castigates double standards
Bulawayo Bureau
WAR veterans leader Cde Jabulani Sibanda has accused some members of Zanu-PF of dishonesty
Tobacco growers stranded at ZFC depot
Agriculture Reporter
HUNDREDS of tobacco growers have been stranded at the Zimbabwe Fertiliser Company’s
198 more farms for the landless
Takunda Maodza in BULAWAYO
ZANU-PF’S Department of Land Reform, Resettlement and Agriculture has recommended that the remaining 198 white-owned farms be gazetted for resettlement.
According to the Central Committee report presented by President Mugabe on Thursday to the party’s 12th Annual National People’s Conference here, there are 198 white-owned farms which the department wants gazetted.
Manicaland has the biggest number of farms yet to be gazetted (106), followed by Matabeleland South (59) and Matabeleland North (17).
Mashonaland East has eight white-owned commercial farms, Masvingo (three), Mashonaland West (one) while
I’m not coming there, PM tells chief
Lloyd Gumbo and Felex Share
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says he will not attend today’s hearing at Chief Negomo’s traditional court arguing that the chief does not have jurisdiction to convene a customary court.
His lawyers, Dube, Manikai and Hwacha Legal Practitioners, wrote to the chief yesterday informing him that PM Tsvangirai will not show up.
Chief Negomo, Mr Luscious Chitsinde, on Wednesday summoned PM Tsvangirai to appear before his court in Chiweshe today for paying lobola to the Karimatsenga family in the month of November, which is considered sacred.
“We write to advise you formally that the Right Honourable Morgan Tsvangirai will not present himself before your court,” the lawyers said.
“From a legal point R/t Honourable Tsvangirai will not appear before your court because the entire process is manifestly illegal and void ab initio (from the beginning).
Cancel EasiPark deal, say councillors
Michael Chideme Municipal Reporter
HARARE City Council has resolved to end its parking partnership with EasiHold of South Africa following numerous problems.
The decision to end the deal in which council and EasiHold operate as EasiPark, was reached at council’s business committee meeting on Thursday.
The recommendation now awaits a full council meeting endorsement, but councillors say this will be a mere formality when the issue is discussed next Thursday.
Councillors have been against the deal from the start and at one time took council officials to task over its implementation.
Councillors want the management of parking bays and parkades returned to council.
The decision by the business committee, chaired by Councillor Thomas Muzuva, follows months of intense bickering between council and EasiHold.
The termination of the deal comes amid revelations that there was no binding contract between the two parties.
Econet: Zim’s Superbrand for 2011
Herald Reporter
ECONET scooped the first prize in the country’s top 10 superbrands for the second consecutive year. It has been credited with
Sexed Tsvangirai: Manheru’s Parting Shot
What has the American ambassador to do with a Zimbabwean Prime Minister who gets deserved societal flak for promiscuous misbehavior? Which part of the Geneva Convention, or of our bilateral agreement with the US government, empowers this messenger of white America to intervene in what in effect is a parochial, internal or in-house debate by a people weighing the social misconduct of one of their own, misconduct of a man who would be a king?
What impact is this intrusion supposed to have on us, on our society as it measures its own moral standards against ever-changing mores? Is the envoy hoping to bully and browbeat us all out of that that debate? Is he out to remind and even warn us that the man we mistook for a Zimbabwean, for one of our own and with an ambitious drive for national leadership, is in fact America’s ward, indeed immunised against scrutiny by the American Embassy and the American Ambassador?
That Ray’s interpretation of his own diplomatic assignment here covers and protects one Morgan Tsvangirai? Or is Ray’s point greater, heavier, namely that our moral values are out of place in the scheme of national governance and leadership selection?
That we are moral prigs who can’t even assess leadership on our own, by our own yardstick, that our moral sensibilities are a drawback
Gorowa hits out at Cosafa Under-20 standards
From THANDIWE MOYO in Botswana
ZIMBABWE’S soccer legend Ian Gorowa says the standard of play at this year’s edition of the Metropolitan Cosafa Under-20 Tournamentwhich is underway in Botswana is below par and is not what they expected.
FC Platinum congratulate Dynamos for scooping double
By Sikhumbuzo Moyo
IN a true spirit of sportsmanship, Zvishavane-based outfit FC Platinum have congratulated Harare giants Dynamos for ruling the roost in the local Premiership.