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Herald Reporter
MDC-T factions clashed during the party’s restructuring of Zvishavane-Ngezi district assembly in Zvishavane at the weekend with a member stabbing his rival with a screwdriver. Ward 8 Assembly organising secretary Mr Maxwell Chipa was arrested for
Zimpapers mourns Bwititi
Herald Reporter
ZIMPAPERS and Southern Times yesterday paid tribute to veteran journalist Makuwerere Bwititi who died in Namibia on Sunday. He succumbed to renal failure. Zimpapers group chief executive officer Mr Justin Mutasa said Bwititi performed his
BAZ extends deadline
Herald Reporter
THE Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe has extended the deadline for submission of applications for local commercial radio broadcasting services to February 29 2012. The initial deadline ended yesterday. The extension was announced yesterday by
Kereke leaves central bank
Business Reporter
Advisor to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Munyaradzi Kereke has left the central bank after an eight-year stint.
Announcing his departure yesterday, RBZ Governor Dr Gideon Gono said Dr Kereke had been reassigned to take charge of
Chombo fires two Chitungwiza councillors
Takunda Maodza Senior Reporter
LOCAL Government, Rural and Urban Development Minister Dr Ignatius Chombo has fired two Chitungwiza Municipality special interest councillors on charges of incompetence. Councillors Tichaona Chapfika and Brighton Chirongwe were served
Banks get ultimatum
Fanuel Kangondo and Golden Sibanda
UNDERCAPITALISED banks have been given a two-week ultimatum to comply or exit the banking sector.
Presenting the 2012 monetary policy statement to bank executives and journalists in Harare yesterday, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe
Governor Dr Gideon Gono said there will be no further extensions after the deadline.
All undercapitalised banks should finalise their capitalisation initiatives by February 14 or ship out.
He proposed that those that cannot meet the regulatory minimum capital requirements could consider mergers.
In other instances, shareholders needed to dilute their stake to inject fresh funds to save banks instead of clinging to their shareholding.
Among the affected banks are Royal, ZABG and Genesis Investment Bank.
“I warn very strongly these institutions to desist from playing politics because there is no politics in our management of things. We shall act without fear or favour regardless of your shareholding structure,” said Dr Gono.
“The message also from the Minister of Finance (Tendai Biti) is that the idea of clinging on to ownership structures which have no money or capacity must go because you will be swept under with your 100 percent shareholding.”
‘Some African states used as fronts by Europe’
Munyaradzi Huni recently in ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia
PRESIDENT Mugabe has said some African countries have become “just bodies” used by Europe as fronts.
He said this yesterday following what transpired at the just-ended 18th African Union summit in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.
He said even if Africa had no means to establish a force to stop NATO from bombarding Libya, at least the continent should have protested and said “no” to the wanton killing of people and destruction of infrastructure in that country.
Speaking to journalists on arrival at the Harare International Airport yesterday, the President said the Peace and Security Commission should not have rushed to recognise Libya’s National Transition Council as this was the responsibility of the AU Summit.
He described the NATO actions in Libya as criminal, adding that: “we said absolutely nothing. Even if we could not raise a force, at least we should have protested. How did we fail to say even no?”
The Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces said the continent’s founding fathers had fought to regain lost territory in Africa.
He said they fought for self-determination and non-interference, the founding principles of the Organisation of African Unity, the predecessor of the AU.
City to seal contaminated boreholes
Herald Reporters
HARARE City Council will seal contaminated boreholes and increase water supplies in high-density suburbs to contain typhoid and other diarrhoeal diseases. Council has since shut down some outdoor places patronised by people for braais such as Mereki in Warren Park D, Zindoga in Waterfalls and KwaFatso in Glen Norah B.
However, the affected vendors have vowed to build toilets.
Harare Water director Engineer Christopher Zvobgo yesterday said 26 boreholes in high-density suburbs have been condemned and could be sealed.
Town clerk Dr Tendai Mahachi said low-density suburbs will receive water twice a week.
“We are going to starve the “dale dales” (low-density suburbs) because we feel the people there can afford to buy water,” he said.
Dr Mahachi said water cuts severely affected people in high-density areas who resort to unprotected water sources.
This, he said, exposed residents to water-borne diseases like typhoid.
More than 1 000 people have been affected by typhoid in Harare.
Dr Mahachi said Harare was failing to meet water demand and is producing 705 mega litres per day against the required 1 200 mega
Zifa blacklist 80
Grace Chingoma Sports Reporter
ZIFA have blacklisted 80 players, implicated in the Asiagate scandal, barring them from being selected to play for the Warriors until they have been cleared by the Independent Ethics Committee appointed to bring the saga to a close.