adminRadioactive contamination fears allayed
By Propser Ndlovu and Mashudu Netsianda
THE Japanese government and experts yesterday allayed fears among Zimbabweans that some second-hand vehicles being imported from that country might be contaminated with radioactive material.
It is feared that exposure to radioactive materials can cause cancer through ionising radiation.
On Monday the Government announced that it has started working on mechanisms to ensure that the vehicles imported from Japan were safe.
This was after warnings by Zimbabweans based in Japan that some of the imported second-hand vehicles might be contaminated with radioactive material released into the atmosphere when the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant was damaged by a tsunami in March last year.
However, in a telephone interview from Harare yesterday, a consular at the Japanese Embassy, Mr Hideaki Harada, said it was impossible for any product manufactured in that country to be exported without being examined for radioactive contamination.
“The Japanese government policy in principle is that any product with radioactive material or radioactive contamination above acceptable limits, should neither be traded locally (in Japan) nor exported to overseas markets.
Matabeleland to mark World Consumer Day belatedly
Business ReporterMATABELELAND region will hold belated World Consumer Day commemorations next month after election of a new regional board of the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe, an official said yesterday.
Let’s try to save family life
By Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Last year, Zimbabwe’s courts handled a higher number of divorces than in the previous year, an indication that family life is tragically disintegrating in the 32-year-old nation.
Opening the current High Court session in Gweru recently, Justice Lawrence Kamocha said there were 1 551 divorce cases in 2011 compared to 2010’s 1 216, an increase of 27,54 percent.
Vice President Nkomo’s sister dies
Chronicle Reporter
VICE-PRESIDENT John Nkomo’s cousin sister, Mrs Alice Ncube, nee Nkomo, has died.
She was 97.
ZMF to engage Government on mining fees
Business ReporterTHE Zimbabwe Miners’ Federation (ZMF) will this week meet Government for final consultations for an exemption from paying the recently announced mining fees.
A few weeks ago Government increased rental and licensing fees by margins ranging between 500 percent and 5 000 percent in a move meant to curb speculative activity in the mining industry.
Coins importation hits snag: BAZ
Harare BureauPLANS to import coins from the United States may well have hit a snag after the Bankers Association of Zimbabwe (BAZ) revealed that there is an unwillingness on the part of shipping agents in that country to do business with Zimbabweans.
BCC run by ‘owindi’ — Mathema
Chronicle Reporter
THE Governor of Bulawayo, Cain Mathema, yesterday said the city was suffering as a result of poor service delivery mainly because it was being run by councillors of little education whom he described as owindi.
Woman found dead at railway station
Chronicle Reporter
MYSTERY surrounds the death of a woman who was allegedly hit by a train at Bulawayo Main Railway Station on Friday night.
Police gala cancelled
Sports ReporterThe Police Commissioner-General’s sports gala which was scheduled for next month in Bulawayo has been cancelled after the police failed to raise the required funding.
Senior Assistant Commissioner Mekiya Tanyanyiwa confirmed the latest developments in Harare last Friday.
ICC dismiss new match-fixing claim
Dubai — The International Cricket Council dismissed a claim in a British newspaper that Indian bookmakers were fixing the results of English county games and overseas fixtures.The chief executive of the sport’s world governing body, Haroon Lorgat, described a report in Britain’s Sunday Times that it was probing last year’s World Cup semi-final between India and Pakistan as “baseless and misleading”.