adminKaukonde sets up committee to investigate DCC
Herald Reporter
ZANU-PF Mashonaland East provincial chairperson Cde Ray Kaukonde has set up a committee to investigate the party’s
Biti to inject more money into economy
Walter Muchinguri Assistant Business Editor
FINANCE Minister Tendai Biti will next week announce a raft of measures aimed at easing the current liquidity challenges in the economy.
Minister Biti said that the liquidity challenges should only be seen as temporary.
“We have a temporary liquidity crisis in the economy and not a banking crisis. However, to ensure that we address the situation, I will in the course of next week announce measures to deal with the situation,” he said.
The minister will announce measures to deal with statutory reserves that will see banks that are owed US$82 million by the central bank recovering that money.
Empowerment: Learning from Rhodesia
My instalment last week generated quite some response warranting a second take on the same subject. Of course a good many of my readers struggled with the word “zeitgeist”, wondering whether this was English English or German English. Well, I shall have occasion to revisit this same matter in future. I need to hurry to another matter which is just as crucial, but evenZambia’s approach exposes ZIFA
The Zambians have shown us the way and you get a feeling that the biggest problem with our football, in terms of its national management structures, is the recycling of leadership, the majority of it being deadwood.
Somehow this feels like ’94 and you don’t have to be a Zambian to be swept away by the tide of nostalgia that has turned 2012 into a carbon copy of 1994.
Nine Mozambicans fined for border-jumping
Beitbridge Reporter
NINE Mozambicans who were arrested for illegally entering the country through Beitbridge Border Post were on Monday each fined $20 or 30 days in jail.
Call for more women in UK boardrooms
LONDON – British Prime Minister, David Cameron, has said there are not enough women in British boardrooms and that the UK can learn from Scandinavian countries.
Man gets four years for attempted murder
Court Reporter
A man from Tsholotsho District who stabbed his uncle thrice with an Okapi knife during a beer drinking session was yesterday sentenced to seven years in prison.
Sata invited for economic bilateral visit to US
LUSAKA – The United States government has invited Zambian President Michael Sata to pay an economic bilateral visit to that country later this year, Zambian’s official news agency reported yesterday.
President meets Botswana Defence Forces Commander Lt-Gen Masire
Harare Bureau
President Mugabe yesterday met the visiting Botswana Defence Forces Commander Lieutenant General Tebogo Carter Masire and discussed several bilateral issues.
Passion for reading sees more libraries
Chronicle Reporters
BULAWAYO has a long standing and strong policy of supporting education and life long learning activities to its residents, the Mayor, Councillor Thaba Moyo, said.