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Ellina Mhlanga Sports Reporter
TOP seed Ronzai Saurombe booked his place in the finals of the Super Eight junior tennis tournament at Harare Sports Club yesterday after beating Nigel Muvuti in the semi-finals.
Sri Lanka reeling after SA pounding
CAPE TOWN. – Sri Lanka lost two wickets after taking a pounding from South African batsmen Jacques Kallis and AB de Villiers on the second day of the third and final Test at Newlands yesterday.
Indigenisation, empowerment: Engine for economic growth
Garikai Chengu
African hero Samora Machel once remarked that come voting day “people do not eat democracy, ideals and human rights. They eat food, schools and clinics.” One hopes that the MDC-T will realise that people cannot eat “change.”
‘Work4Youth’: Packaged for youths
At the workplace Wenceslaus Murape
The rate of unemployment in Zimbabwe has impacted negatively on youths. Prospective employers continue to overlook youths arguing that they are inexperienced. Besides the challenges of unemployment, the youths also face lack of funding for potential empowerment projects.
Let’s lead on green policies
David Dickson
Yet more failure to make much progress on climate change in Durban means that developing countries must exert stronger political pressure. For three years in a row, there has been a disappointing end to international meetings that should have agreed on the steps needed to prevent the human and ecological disasters likely to result from a failure to limit man-made climate change.
Zimra sets new rules
Lovemore Chikova Deputy News Editor
CROSSBORDER travellers are, with immediate effect, now required to declare their goods
Council, CABS seal US$15m housing deal
Michael Chideme Municipal Reporter
HARARE City Council has signed an agreement
New allowance for rural teachers unveiled
Felex Share Herald Reporter
RURAL teachers will get 20 percent of their gross salaries as an allowance to cover incentives which their urban counterparts receive monthly from parents and guardians.
Most rural teachers are not getting incentives, creating a huge gap in earnings between them and their urban counterparts.
Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart yesterday said they were working with other stakeholders, including the Ministry of Finance, on modalities of paying the allowance.
“The matter has been discussed in Cabinet and all the colleagues (ministers) were sympathetic with the rural teachers,” Minister Coltart said.
“We agreed that Government should deal with the imbalances existing between urban and rural teachers and the solution lies in a rural allowance for the educators.
“Everyone understands the financial constraints facing the Finance Minister (Tendai Biti) but solutions have to be found to the problems affecting the education sector as it is the backbone of every developing nation.”
Minister Coltart said teachers’ incentives will stay in the first term, which begins on Tuesday, while ways to improve civil servants’ conditions of service were being sought.
ZTE boss scoops top award
Business Reporter
President of the ZTE Corporation Mr Shi Lirong has been awarded the “Economics Figure of the Year” award by CCTV for being named the most influential economic figure of 2011.
From ‘terrorists’ to high-flying business leaders
JOHANNESBURG. – For decades, activists in the ANC were jailed and exiled as terrorists.