adminChina’s cotton reserves expected to usher price stability
Agriculture Reporter Obert Chifamba
COTTON Outlook director Mr Michael Edwards has said China’s huge state reserves of cotton would this year bring stability to prices on the international markets. Mr Edwards told delegates who
Jailed for burning n’anga’s tools
Masvingo BureauA Gutu man has been jailed for burning regalia and tools of the trade belonging to his mother who is a traditional healer. Rafinos Dambwara (50) of Sungai Village under Chief Gadzingo will spend three
Chihuri calls on traffic cops to remain resolute
Crime ReporterTRAFFIC police officers have been urged to continue executing their duties diligently without fear or favour. Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri on Wednesday commended officers especially in
State to contest Gwisai sentence
Court Reporter
The State yesterday said it was appealing against the sentence imposed on former Highfield legislator Munyaradzi Gwisai and five accomplices convicted for plotting to commit public violence
Israeli pilot pleads not guilty to diamond possession
Court Reporter
The Israeli pilot who was allegedly found with US$2 million worth of diamonds yesterday pleaded not guilty to unlawful possession of the gems and entry into Zimbabwe by evasion. Shmuel Kainan Klein
‘Copac yet to produce draft Constitution’
Tendai Mugabe Senior Reporter
COPAC has not yet produced a draft to the new Constitution as the document produced does not qualify for that status, Secretary for Media, Information and Publicity Mr George Charamba has said.
Addressing the Joint Command and Staff Course Number 25 on the role of the media and information in promoting nation-building and economic development at the Zimbabwe Staff College in Harare yesterday,
Mr Charamba described the Copac document as an ‘‘attempted draft’’.
He said Copac should come up with a consensual document that will be submitted to the management committee.
The management committee is made up of negotiators to the inter-party dialogue that gave birth to the Global Political Agreement and the inclusive Government.
After interrogating the document, Mr Charamba said, the management committee would in turn
New industrial, trade policies launched
Sydney Kawadza Assistant News Editor
THE European Union should engage Zimbabwe in good faith for the total and unconditional removal of illegal sanctions, President Mugabe has said.
This would enable Zimbabwe achieve its aspirations in sustainable, balanced and equitable economic growth and development.
Officially launching the Industrial Development and National Trade policies in Harare yesterday, the President said sanctions undermined Zimbabwe’s full participation in world trade.
“As a full-fledged member of the World Trade Organisation, the time may have come for the Zimbabwe
Government, supported by Sadc and Comesa regions, to formally raise legal concerns over the hindrance posed by these sanctions to the free trade principles espoused by the WTO,” he said.
The Industrial Development Policy (2012-2016) seeks to transform Zimbabwe from a producer of
Family still wants Mujuru exhumed
Takunda Maodza Senior Reporter
THE Mujuru family is not happy with the findings of the inquest into the death of Retired General Solomon Mujuru and will seek permission to have his remains exhumed for a fresh post-mortem, the family lawyer said yesterday.
But legal experts yesterday said it was not permissible at law for the family to seek a review or to appeal against the inquest’s findings.
The lawyer, Mr Thakor Kewada, said the family suspected foul play despite magistrate Mr Walter Chikwanha’s finding to the contrary.
Mr Kewada said they will write to Home Affairs Co-Ministers Kembo Mohadi and Theresa Makone seeking permission to exhume the remains from the National Heroes Acre.
The family wants a second post-mortem done by a South African pathologist.
Gen Mujuru died in a fire in his farmhouse at Ruzambo Farm in Beatrice in August last year.
Where there’s a will
Fortious Nhambura and More Tirivashona Features WritersLITTLE Nyasha bolts out of a mud-and-pole hut and runs to school holding a small satchel in one hand and a boiled maize cob in the other. With one eye on the sun to tell the time and another on
Triangle’s bitter, sweet origins
Tichaona Zindoga Features WriterZimbabwe’s pioneering home of sugarcane production — Triangle — which lies in the southeast of the country, is a place of many interesting tales. First, the name and the brand that has been for long