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Jeff Gogo Climate StoryTHERE are several policy blunders that Zimbabwe has scored since 1980, which for lack of other progressive options, can be forgiven. The ongoing careless human-sponsored disasters in the ethanol fuel industry is not one of them. As a nation, we
Cotton farmers, buyers deadlocked over price
Business ReporterLOCAL cotton farmers and merchants reached a deadlock over this year’s minimum cotton producer price last Friday and were due to meet the Government to help break the impasse, an official said. Buyers are offering US35c per kilogramme for the
Heavy losses for Greek pro-austerity parties
ATHENS. — Greece’s two main pro-austerity parties suffered major losses in elections yesterday, exit polls showed, throwing into doubt the eurozone country’s commitment to meeting the tough terms of its two bail-outs. The conservative New Democracy led by Antonis Samaras was the largest party with 17-20 percent of the vote, insufficient to give it an absolute majority andRising voice of shareholders
Gertrude TakawiraIt is acknowledged that a national financial system is only as solid as the soundness of its institutions, the efficiency of its market infrastructure and its governing practices. Good governance practices in financial institutions are necessary, in order
US, Israel are the existential threats
Just looking at the facts, it appears far more likely that the US will attack Iran again than Iran would attack the US or Israel, America’s Middle East pawn. I say “again” because the US has already an embarrassing record of aggression against Iran, so, if past is prologue, the US-Israeli alliance will strike Iran, not the other way around. A review of the historical record andSA traditional leaders against gay rights
JOHANNESBURG. — South Africa’s Natio-nal House of Traditional Leaders wants parliament to delete a clause in the constitution that guarantees equal rights to homosexuals, a media report said yesterday. The leaders, who advise the government on traditional laws and customs among ethnic groups such as the Zulu and Xhosa, made the request in reply to the annualUN asks Sudan to hand over captured deminers
KHARTOUM. — The United Nations has asked Sudan to hand over four of its staffers who were arrested more than a week ago by Sudan’s army along the tense southern border, a UN report said yesterday. “The four were UN staff who had been working on a humanitarian demining project in South Sudan. The UN has requested that the four staff be released and handed over
Minister blasts parastatal bosses
Martin Kadzere Senior Business Reporter
MOST State-owned firms are being run by incompetent managers as evidencec by their failure to come up with meaningful restructuring proposals, State Enterprises and Parastatals Minister Gorden Moyo has said. This has prompted Government to
1 200ha tourism park for Vic Falls
Business Reporter
Government has acquired 1 200 hectares of land in Victoria Falls for the construction of a tourism park as the country gears for the United Nations World Tourism Organisation General Assembly meeting next year. Zimbabwe will co-host the world tourism
Telecel to expand network coverage
ORASCOM Telecom Holdings has said its local unit, Telecel Zimbabwe, will expand its network to cover at least 85 percent of the country. Orascom has invested US$70 million in the company, which is expected to cover expansion, currently at 58 percent, and upgrading of both voice and data services to ensure Telecel’s clients are able to access a wider range of mobile