adminPlant to produce 750 000l fuel daily
Peter Matambanadzo in CHISUMBANJE
THE Chisumbanje Ethanol Plant projects to produce at least 750 000 litres of ethanol per day
Civil service audit complete
Herald Reporter
THE Public Service Commission has completed the verification and validation of the payroll and skills audit conducted by Ernest and Young of India and dismissed allegations of ghost workers. Only a few irregularities were unearthed. The draft
Xin named top diplomat
Herald Reporter
CHINESE Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Xin Shunkang last week scooped the Diplomat of the Year Award Asia 2011 and first runner up award for the best dressed male diplomat sponsored by the Diplomat Magazine. The two prestigious awards were in
Call to use plastic money
Agriculture Reporter
THE Zimbabwe Farmers Union will at the start of this year’s tobacco marketing season partner some banks in educating farmers to use plastic money. In an interview in Harare yesterday, ZFU executive director Mr Paul Zakariya said the economy was going
Madonna makes Super Bowl history
New York. – Quarterback Eli Manning and his New York Giants may have beaten superstar Tom Brady and the New England Patriots at Sunday’s Super Bowl, but none of them could outmuscle Madonna – at least, where TV audiences were concerned. A record 111,3 million US viewers watched the Giants defeat the Patriots in the professional football
Christians divided over music
Edgar Moyana Christian Entertainment
Last week’s article “Praise “God with any genre of music”, attracted mixed responses among readers. of this column.
Those who supported my view said the word of God could be expressed through any genre as long as the intended recipients
SA’s Zahara expected in March
Richmore Tera Arts Correspondent
SOUTH AFRICA’S pop sensation, Zahara, is expected to stage her maiden performance in Zimbabwe on March 2 courtesy of May 7 Entertainment. Her concert – to be staged at the Harare International Conference Centre – will be the second in Zimbabwe
Faecal contamination blamed for typhoid
Health Reporter
Health and Child Welfare Minister Dr Henry Madzorera has said that the typhoid outbreak is due to people eating human waste. “The mode of transmission for typhoid is the faecal-oral route, that is, through ingestion of bacteria in food or water
Miners weigh down FTSE
LONDON. – Miners led Britain’s FTSE 100 lower early yesterday after Glencore’s merger with Xstrata received a mixed reaction and investors hung on for a resolution to the Greek debt deal. London’s blue chip index was down 4,93 points or 0,1 percent at 5 887,27 by 0849 GMT, hovering around six-month highs after the index added about 3 percent in the previous
Rand takes a break as Greece deal stutters
Johannesburg. – The rand’s resurgence took a breather yesterday when it weakened almost 2 percent against the dollar as Greek leaders struggled to reach an agreement on severe spending cuts in order to get aid and avoid a bond default. The JSE, which has been reaching record highs over the past week, tracked both US and European shares lower. “The Greeks are faced by a