adminTwo succumb to typhoid, 2 000 treated
Health Reporter
TWO people have died and about 2 000 patients have been treated of typhoid since the first case was recorded last year in October. Harare City Council Director of Health Services Dr Prosper Chonzi said one fatality was that of a 15-year-old boy who
Batchelor shoots to glory
Sports Reporter
CLARE Batchelor of Cleveland Pistol Club shot the smallest aggregate score out of five strings of five rounds each over the weekend to win the 100m League match of the Zimbabwe International Benchrest Association. With an aggregate group size of
Hamilton fights back
Dean du Plessis
After the disappointing performances in the ODI series, it was encouraging to see the refreshing attitude and positive approach shown by Zimbabwe in the two Twenty20 internationals against New Zealand. The first observation was the
Zifa seek funding for Asiagate probe
Petros Kausiyo Deputy Sports Editor
CASH-STRAPPED Zifa are expecting Fifa to assist them with funding in order to bring to finality the Asiagate chapter that has long gripped the domestic game. Zifa are under pressure to bring their probe into the national teams’ match-fixing
. . . as Mbada back Mighty Bulls
Eddie Chikamhi Sports Reporter
MOTOR ACTION are set to get a perfect boost ahead of their Confederation Cup campaign when mining giants Mbada Diamonds unveil their sponsorship package and kits at a send-off ceremony this afternoon. The Mighty Bulls are scheduled to
It’s a Diamond Week
Grace Chingoma Sports Reporter
Marange to sponsor women’s football. ZIMBABWE’S women football, revitalised by the resurgence of the Mighty Warriors, will have a flagship sponsor this week when their marriage with Marange Resources, is unveiled in the capital on Friday.
Businesses urged to go green
Ruramai Gatsi Business Correspondent
BUSINESSES in Gweru have been urged to go green in order to help protect the environment. Addressing business people and academics in Gweru over the weekend, Environment and Natural Resources Management Minister Francis Nhema said
ZimTrade to hold EPAs seminars
THE country’s trade promotion body, ZimTrade, will next week hold business seminars in Harare and Bulawayo on the implications and benefits of the interim Economic Partnership Agreement which the country signed with the European Union in 2009. EPAs are a scheme to create a Free Trade Area between the EU and a group of African, Caribbean and Pacific
US$90 000 for bankable leases
Lloyd Gumbo Herald Reporter
ALL commercial (A2) farmers who were allocated farms with improved infrastructure will pay the Government up to US$90 000 to get bankable 99-year leases, Parliament heard yesterday.
The payment will give the farm collateral value and enable the farmer to borrow money from banks.
Those who paid for the leases during the Zimdollar era will be spared, save for paying their annual rentals for the land.
The new conditions are in the improved 99-year lease agreement being crafted by the Government in consultation with the Bankers Association of Zimbabwe.
The money will be spread over 25 years and those who do not pay will not get the leases.
2012 tobacco selling season opens today
Agriculture Reporters
THE 2012 tobacco marketing season opens today with 150 million kg of the golden leaf expected to go under the hammer.
Firmer prices are expected following floods that destroyed the crop in the United States and Brazil, major world producers of flue-cured tobacco.
Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Joseph Made is expected to officially open the season at Boka Tobacco Auction Floors today.
A survey by The Herald yesterday showed that Millennium Tobacco Floors, Boka Tobacco Floors, Tobacco Sales Floor and Premier Tobacco Auction Floors were ready for the opening day.