adminDynamos unveil 2012 official kit
Sports Reporter
Dynamos got a big boost ahead of the new season when they received two playing kits from Betta Ball Sports yesterday as part of the consignment pledged by the company at the club’s fund-raising dinner last month. Dynamos vice-chairman,
Half-a-dozen Warriors
Robson Sharuko Senior Sports Editor
KAIZER CHIEFS have created the biggest foreign base for Zimbabwean professional footballers and the club’s latest recruit, Brian Abbas Amidu, feels it’s a privilege to play for one of the premier sporting brands in Africa. The Amakhosi – who turned
‘No to fertiliser, chemical application in heavy rains’
Fortious Nhambura and Shiana Mhizha
HEAVY rains are expected to pound most parts of the country this week, with flooding expected in low-lying areas, the Meteorological Services Department has warned. Farmer organisations have urged farmers to make use of the rains and harness the water for future use.
They also warned them against applying chemicals and fertilisers during the period as there are high chances they will be washed away.
Zimbabwe Farmers Union executive director Mr Paul Zakaria urged farmers to harvest the water for future use.
“Farmers should take this as an opportunity to harvest water for later use. They should use ponds, ridging and other techniques to keep the moisture in the ground. We do not know whether the country will not be hit by prolonged dry spells like the ones experienced in the first part of the season,” he said.
Mr Zakaria, however, said there was little farmers could do to reduce damage from hailstorms and gusts of wind.
Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers Union official Mr Michael Mubvuma said farmers should delay the application of chemicals and ensure their animals are safe.
“The expected heavy rains are usually associated with falling power cables and trees. Farmers should ensure that their animals are away
Typhoid hits over 600 Harare residents
Municipal Reporter
OVER 600 Harare residents, among them a hotel worker, have been diagnosed of typhoid while 90 of them were admitted at the Beatrice Infectious Diseases Hospitals for treatment. This has heightened fears the disease has spread into the city centre.
Council has since confirmed the outbreak.
“We have confirmed that the disease is typhoid. It has been caused by contaminated foodstuffs sold in the open. We took samples of raw, cooked meat and fish from a shopping centre in Kuwadzana.
“All the samples had salmonella typhi. One of the confirmed cases is a person who works in a city hotel. If people eat food handled by the person, they risk contracting typhoid,” said city health director Dr Prosper Chonzi.
He ruled out water as the cause of the outbreak, saying the city’s water and sanitation levels were satisfactory.
Dr Chonzi urged residents to boil water for domestic use, including treating it with aqua tablets. The tablets are available for free at all council clinics.
He said there was one confirmed case of typhoid involving a hotel employee, heightening fears that if effective hygiene is not practiced,
Pay deal for civil servants
Felex Share Herald Reporter
GOVERNMENT has come up with a new position paper on salaries and working conditions for civil servants to be revealed to the Apex Council during tomorrow’s National Joint Negotiating Council meeting.
The NJNC brings together Government and workers’ representatives to the negotiating table.
The meeting comes at a time when the civil servants’ strike gathered momentum yesterday, paralysing the education sector.
Public Service Minister Lucia Matibenga yesterday said: “The Government now has a position paper on salaries and conditions of service for public servants, which will be presented to the NJNC on Wednesday January 25, 2012.”
The Apex Council yesterday described the first day of the strike as a “resounding success”.
The strike is expected to last until Friday and nurses are likely to join by end of day today if negotiations with the Health Service Board yield nothing.
The Apex Council comprises the Zimbabwe Teachers Association, Teachers Union of Zimbabwe, Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe, College Lecturers Association of Zimbabwe and the Public Service Association.
Western sanctions on Iran ‘futile’
TEHRAN. – The EU sanctions against the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) are completely futile and serve as part of the West’s psychological war on Tehran since the CBI has no financial assets in the European countries, an informed source said yesterday.
“One of the sanctions announced recently was blocking the central bank’s assets in the European countries, while the CBI does
Malema appeal hearing starts
JOHANNESBURG. – An appeal that will determine the future of South African ANC youth leader Julius Malema started yesterday, giving the firebrand a last chance to retain his influential position in the ruling African National Congress.
Malema, head of the ANC’s Youth League, rose to prominence with calls to nationalise mines and seize white-owned land.
Nigerian police kill 4 Boko Haram members
MAIDUGURI/KANO/ NOUAKCHOTT. -Nigerian police yesterday said they shot dead four members of the Islamist sect Boko Haram in the northeast city of Maiduguri and recovered explosive materials stored in a car, two days after the sect carried out its most deadly attacks. Bomb attacks and fierce gun battles between the sect and police on Friday in Nigeria’s second largest
protect Africa’s water bodies
Peter Kahare
Several years ago, Lakes Kamnarok and Ol Bollosat in Kenya were vibrant water bodies that supported and shaped the ecosystems around them. But today they are shells of their former selves, due to heavy siltation caused by human activities.
We have the right to know
Thabo Mbeki
The reality is that a small but powerful minority has the capacity to decide what society should “know”. It is in the vital interest of all our people that the historically inherited and contending understandings of “knowledge” should be given free