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Harare Bureau
AIR Zimbabwe has decided to lease aircraft because neither the Government nor the national airline have resources to buy new planes,
Election Watch 2012: The MDC-T Perspective
The last time this writer engaged Senator Obert Gutu on his routine publications on political commentary was when he wrote about the indigenisation policy and what he thought of its chief presiding executive, Minister Saviour Kasukuwere.
Mayors not bitter about cancelled US trip
Chronicle Reporter
BULAWAYO mayor Councillor Thaba Moyo and his counterparts from other cities yesterday said they did not have hard
Why it’s important to get tested
Were we to conduct a random survey and ask who knows his/her HIV status among the general populace we would receive many a baffling response. Some would argue that since they are fit and healthy the need to know or undergo a test falls away. Another lot would use the bus stop gauge and say thus far no one has died from the circle of those they have been
Mujuru wanted to sleep in car: Maid
Lovemore Chikova and Innocent Ruwende
A STAR witness in the ongoing inquest into the death of General Solomon Mujuru yesterday told the court that the General sometimes slept in his car and had contemplated doing so the day he died in an inferno that gutted his house.
Gen Mujuru’s maid, Ms Rosemary Short, said when the General left the farm on August 11, he said was going to Harare.
He returned on August 15, and died that night in the inferno.
She had knocked off early that day because she was unwell, but a child told her around 8pm that there was a vehicle outside her house, which was in the workers’ compound about 3km from the farmhouse.
Government, civil service unions cross swords
Sydney Kawadza and Felex Share
CIVIL service unions yesterday declared that the planned nationwide strike will go ahead as scheduled today after Government failed to address their leadership.
Government had, however, yesterday issued a plea to its workers to report for duty while a lasting solution was being sought.
Public Service Minister Lucia Matibenga yesterday remained adamant that she would not entertain questions from the media.
“Handisi kuzotaura nezvazvo, uye handichada kutaura nezvazvo (I am not going to talk about that issue and will never do so),” she said.
8 million litres ethanol lie idle
Sydney Kawadza Assistant News Editor
ZIMBABWE is sitting on eight million litres of ethanol amid reports that fuel companies are yet to regularise processes to enable them to start blending petrol.
Government last year introduced mandatory petrol blending at the ratio of 90 percent petrol to 10 percent ethanol. The introduction of the E10 was followed by regulations to legalise the process following the completion of the US$600 million Chisumbanje Ethanol Plant.
Petrol blending, expected to help Zimbabwe serve US$200 000 worth of petrol imports daily, was further enhanced when the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority issued licences for petrol blending.
Shamu consoles Moyo family
Shiana Mhizha Herald Reporter
MEDIA Information and Publicity Minister Webster Shamu has sent a condolence message to the Moyo family following the death of ZBC Current Affairs and Research manager Freedom Moyo. Moyo (37) died on Tuesday morning after succumbing to
Farmers urged to continue planting
Felex Share Herald Reporter
GOVERNMENT has urged farmers countrywide to continue planting various crops until the first week of February to ensure food security. Presenting the 2011/12 crop situation report in Harare on Tuesday, Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation
Council autions residents’ property
Municipal Reporter
THE Harare City Council has started auctioning property belonging to residents failing to pay bills and those that have not made payment arrangements. Ruby Auctions duly instructed by the messenger of Court Harare, is auctioning the property on council’s