admin‘beyond aid’: The health agenda
Beverly Peterson Stearns
An international meeting aims to shake up donor-recipient relations in a quest for more enduring health gains. This year, a well-known international meeting on global health research will adopt a provocative new theme.
Western legal values a threat
Panganayi Kahuni
Zimbabwe’s constitution making process took the long and costly route of consulting the people so that the country would have the much-vaunted “people-driven” constitution. All the three parties to the inclusive Government agreed to respect and
Chinyama for Egypt
Augustine Hwata, Sports Reporter
DYNAMOS could plunge into a severe crisis, amid fears that they might lose virtually all strikers they registered for this year’s Champions League, as Zimbabwean players continue to attract foreign interest.
It’s high time govt, GMB prioritise agriculture
Zimbabwe continues to shoot itself in the foot by failing to sort out its agricultural production and make full use of its abundant land. The impact is going to be felt this year when it is projected that food prices will be high throughout the world. Any country that will be importing food will pay through its noses.
How real is the Green?
Franklin Lamb
This observer was stunned late last week when during a meeting in a Maghreb country with three high ranking former Libyan officials, among hundreds currently in hiding, and some organising, in countries bordering Libya, one of them, in all earnest,
Parly investigates flat allocation
Lloyd Gumbo Herald Reporter
THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Public Works and National Housing yesterday started probing circumstances surrounding the
Annual inflation closes at 4,9 percent
Tawanda Musarurwa Business Reporter
ZIMBABWE’S annual inflation closed the year at 4,9 percent in line with initial estimates, data from the Zimbabwe National Statistical Agency has revealed.
D-day for civil servants
Felex Share Herald Reporter
GOVERNMENT and civil servants are headed for confrontation following the expiry of a deadline issued to improve their salaries and
African leaders urged to stand their ground
Herald Reporter
AFRICAN leaders should stand their ground when foreigners try to impose their resolutions on the continent, an Ethiopian diplomat has said.
Chombo blocks 5 mayors’ US trip
Michael Chideme Municipal Reporter
GOVERNMENT has barred mayors and town clerks from five councils from travelling to the United States on a study tour.
Local Government, Rural and Urban Development Minister Ignatius Cho-mbo cited late notification and abuse of public funds as the reason.
This comes at a time when most local authorities are failing to pay salaries and deliver satisfactory services to rate-payers.
Minister Chombo said he stopped Masvingo Mayor Femias Chakabuda, his town clerk Adolf Gusha, Bulawayo Mayor Thaba Moyo, his town clerk Middleton Nyoni, Harare town clerk Dr Tendai Mahachi and director of urban planning services Mr Psychology Chiwanga, Plumtree secretary Mr