adminChitungwiza salary bill slashed by US$400 000
Municipal Reporter
The resuscitation team appointed to manage the affairs of Chitungwiza Municipality has cut the council’s salary bill by US$400 000. The salary bill now stands at US$1,3 million. The amount is part of the illegal salary increments and
Mumbengegwi urges Norway to help lift sanctions
Herald Reporter
FOREIGN Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi yesterday urged visiting Norway’s State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Gry Larsen to use her country’s influence among European Union member states to have illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe
SK Moyo speaks on new constitution
Herald Reporter
ZANU-PF is not happy with drafters of the constitution for diverting from the views expressed by the people during the outreach programme, party national chairman Cde Simon Khaya Moyo said yesterday. In separate meetings with Indonesian and
136 students leave for South African universities
Herald Reporter
ANOTHER group of 136 students left for South African universities yesterday under the Presidential Scholarship
Copac co-chairpersons retreat to Vumba
Herald Reporter
CO-CHAIRPERSONS of the Constitutional Select Committee retreated to the Eastern Highlands yesterday to complete the
World Theatre Day preps on course
Stephen Chifunyise Theatre corridors
The International Theatre Institute (Zimbabwe Centre) has decided to the celebrate World Theatre Day on March 26. The day which falls on March 27 and was first commemorated in 1961, is celebrated the world over by national centres of the
2 million dead people on US voters roll
Tendai Mugabe Senior Reporter
THE United States’ pretences on democracy received a major knock on Tuesday in the wake of revelations that the country’s voters roll has close to two million dead voters.
A report by Pew Centre, a renowned US thinktank, estimates that among 24 million voter registrations, about one out of every eight are either no longer valid or inaccurate.
The Washington-based research centre provides information on issues, attitudes and trends shaping the United States and the world.
The centre and its projects receive funding from The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Of the invalid or inaccurate registrations, 1,8 million belong to deceased individuals and 2,75 million belong to people
China bans foreign shows at primetime
BEIJING. – China’s media regulator has issued new rules banning foreign television shows from being shown at primetime as the country tries to encourage domestic programming, state media reported on Tuesday. Foreign television series must be capped at a total of 50 episodes and the running time for an imported series must not exceed 25 percent of the total time a given channel
The agony of hot-sitting
Farai Kuvirimirwa Features Correspondent
THE bell rings and Takudzwa jostles with other students while he enters the school gate. Mud squirts from under his shoes as he heads westwards to the assembly point. It’s his first day at a Harare high-density suburb secondary school and he is excited
Tobacco sales open on high note
Agriculture Reporters
THE 2012 tobacco-selling season opened in Harare yesterday with the price averaging US$4 per kilogramme.
The bulk of the crop was bought for more than US$ 4per kg, a price that many farmers feel was fair while the industry expressed satisfaction with the quality of the leaf.
Most farmers at all the four auction floors expressed satisfaction at the state of the infrastructure and the service they were getting.
Boka Tobacco Auction Floors, Millennium Tobacco Floors, Tobacco Sales Floor and Premier Tobacco Floor are the licensed floors.
Farmers said they were happy with the ablution, water and health facilities.