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ZWRCN Desk Women Empowerment
The 56th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) started on February 27, 2012 in New York with participants grappling with the economic status of rural women. The theme for the CSW 2012 session is “Empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication,
Ariston share proposal gets the nod
Golden Sibanda Senior Business ReporterARISTON Holdings’ shareholders have approved a directors’ proposal to raise US$8 million through a rights issue to recapitalise the horticultural firm and retire its debts. Shareholders passed three proposals, including increasing authorised share capital and placing unissued shares under the directors’ control, at an
Shareholders in last bid to save RioZim
Bright Madera Senior Business ReporterRIOZIM shareholders are set to meet for a make-or-break Extraordinary General Meeting later this month in a last-ditch attempt to approve a combination of fund-raising initiatives to solve its indebtedness and recapitalise operations. The mining giant is seeking to raise US$56,5 million for working capital and to settle
Policy vacuum unsettles Diasporans
Martin Kadzere recently in South Africa
ZIMBABWEANS living abroad say they are concerned over the absence of a framework to promote investment into the country by locals living in the Diaspora.
This was the bold message raised during a session at the Zimbabwe Investment and Trade Conference that was targeted at encouraging Zimbabweans in the Dias
Shamu steps up anti-piracy war
Richmore Tera and Mandla DinganiGOVERNMENT is going to lobby the judiciary to ensure that laws designed to eliminate piracy are observed. This was said by Media, Information and Publicity Minister Webster Shamu during an anti-piracy meeting held in Harare recently. The meeting was a follow-up to one held in December last year where members of the
Colonial arts, culture laws must go
As Zimbabwe is in the throes of indigenisation, it is time to re-examine some old colonial Bills still existing today. Many of these Bills were designed to exclude the indigenous African people. Yet following 32 years of Zimbabwe’s independence, it is disheartening to note that many Government and quasi-GovernmentPlaxedes courts Mzansi’s finest
Jonathan Mbiriyamveka Entertainment ReporterPlaxedes Wenyika has set her sights on the Southern Africa market with her latest collaboration with DJ Cleo, one of South Africa’s most sought-after kwaito producers. Plaxedes, who is fondly called the “Queen of Ballads” by her fans, engaged DJ Cleo on a remix of her title track “Brighter Day” taken off her fifth album.
Peter, Tryson out of legends’ shadows
Entertainment Reporters
dynamite comes in small packages and this adage will be proven right when young musicians Peter Moyo and Tryson Chimbetu go it alone without riding on the coat-tails of music legends Oliver Mtukudzi and Alick Macheso. The duo has been curtain-raising for the big artistes but this time around they decided to stand on
Litterbugs face arrest
Michael Chideme Municipal ReporterBUSINESS owners and commuter omnibus operators without refuse bins at their premises and inside their kombis face arrest with effect from next Thursday.
Harare director of amenities Mr Dombo Chibanda said businesses and kombi operators have been given a seven-day grace period to have refuse bins. Mr Chibanda
Chief Nhema’s throne challenged
Court ReporterA chieftainship wrangle is raging in Zaka District, Masvingo, as an aspiring chief and three farmers have mounted a High Court application seeking to dethrone the substantive Chief Nhema arguing that his installation shows bias towards one family. In papers filed at the High Court, Manunure Mbwende, Taurai Masikati, Kennedy