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Knowledge Mushohwe
The Internet is a place where you find everything. For news there is a whole range from the most reliable and authentic to the most malicious, one-sided set of information. Zimbabwean news sources on the web fall in two categories. The first
Silencing the knowledge of elders
Sekai Nzenza
At St Columbus primary school our motto was: Knowledge is Power. We recited it each morning at assembly as we walked barefoot in single file into the classrooms. My father liked the motto so much that he used the red ink from the mubvamaropa
Let’s empower the majority
Innocent Katsande
The origin, inspiration and compelling desire of having empowerment policies in Africa, particularly, Southern Africa, was based on the realisation that an economy can thrive and at the same time meeting the needs of its ordinary citizens and
KPCS must treat Zim fairly and with due respect
THE admission by the chairperson of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, Ambassador Gillian Milovanovic that Zimbabwe’s diamonds are not blood diamonds should put to rest Western interference in the trade of our gems.
Zimbabwe has always argued that its diamonds are not conflict diamonds and has co-operated with the KPCS to put in place
Inquest findings final, say experts
Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter
THE presiding magistrate in General Solomon Mujuru’s inquest has absolute control of the proceedings and there is no room for family members and interested parties to appeal against the court’s decision, legal experts said yesterday.
Only the Attorney-General can use his discretion whether or not to agree with the magistrate’s findings and recommendations when they are finally forwarded to his office.
Lawyers who spoke to The Herald yesterday referred to the Inquests Act, which they said did not provide for any contestation of the findings of the court during and at the end of the proceedings.
10 Zim perish in SA accident
Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau
TEN Zimbabweans died on the spot, while 15 others were seriously inju-red when a Harare-bound Iveco mi-nibus collided with a haulage truck 25km outside Makhadho town along the N1 Highway in South Africa ear-ly yesterday morning.
The accident occurred at around 4:50am.
Nine of the deceased, including a child, were in the bus while the 10th victim was the driver of the truck.
Police spokesman for Makhadho Captain Maano Sadike confirmed the accident yesterday saying they were now investigating a case of culpable homicide.
He said the Iveco minibus was travelling from Bandeleirkop
Tobacco farmers eye rich pickings
Zvamaida Murwira Senior Reporter
ZIMBABWE’S tobacco farmers could make rich pickings when the auction floors open next week as the world’s main competitors expect low yields owing to floods.
Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board chief executive officer Dr Andrew Matibiri said Brazil and the United States had their crops swept away by floods.
He said the situation will create a deficit in the world market.
Dr Matibiri was giving oral evidence before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Water, Lands and Resettlement chaired by
Chikomba Central MP Mr Moses Jiri (MDC-T).
Goromonzi North MP Cde Paddy Zhanda (Zanu-PF) had
Cabinet approves Zim-Zambia bid to host UNWTO assembly
Herald Reporters
CABINET yesterday approved Zimbabwe’s joint bid with Zambia to host the 20th session of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation General Assembly scheduled for August 26 next year. Zimbabwe and Zambia won the right to co-host the event
Kunzvi Dam project must start by April — Govt
Municipal Reporter
GOVERNMENT will withdraw the contract awarded to a consortium of local, regional and international companies to build Kunzvi Dam if it fails to implement the project in April as agreed. The consortium was awarded the multi-million dollar contract
Zanu-PF Masvingo sets up empowerment committee
Herald Reporter
THE Zanu-PF Masvingo Provincial Co-ordinating Committee last month established a sub-committee on Land, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment to deal with land allocation problems and other challenges affecting the province. Former