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Masvingo correspondent
ZANU-PF leadership in Masvingo has resolved that there should be a re-run of elections in three District Co-ordinating Committees (DCCs) after the initial election results were disputed.
The Provincial Co-ordinating Committee (PCC) said there would be a re-run in the districts that had disputed elections, adding that the situation was under control.
DA, Cosatu in violent clashes
DEMOCRATIC Alliance (DA) leader Helen Zille was interrupted while speaking at a protest against Cosatu over the youth wage subsidy when violence erupted in Johannesburg yesterday.
Tension was in the air as she took the microphone in the city centre.
The louder she spoke, the louder chants from Congress of South African Trade Union (Cosatu) supporters at the event became. At some point, they hurled chunks of cement and rocks at DA supporters.
Wire car maker eyes tourism conference
Bongani Ndlovu
EMAKHANDENI-based artiste, Roland Moyo, is set to make a name for himself as he intends to showcase a wire car he made for next year’s United Nations World Tourism Organisation General Assembly in Victoria Falls.
Landlord snatches tenant’s wife
Freedom Mupanedemo
Midlands Correspondent
A GWERU man recently went berserk and severely assaulted his landlord after he allegedly caught him red-handed, pants down, having sex with his wife.
Lions terrorise Nyamandlovu villagers
Chronicle Reporter
A PRIDE of lions is wreaking havoc in Nyamandlovu and they have killed more than eight cattle and two donkeys belonging to villagers.
Copac delay necessitating polls: SK Moyo
Lloyd Gumbo Herald Reporter
PRESIDENT Mugabe will call for elections using the current Constitution if Copac continues to delay completion of the new supreme law, Zanu-PF national chairman Cde Simon Khaya Moyo has said. Cde Khaya Moyo yesterday said Copac drivers were
Tiens to venture into platinum, diamond mining
Fungai Lupande Herald Reporter
President of the Chinese firm Tiens Mr Kevin Hou yesterday said his company is set to venture into diamond mining as part of their diversified programme in Zimbabwe. Speaking shortly after his arrival at Harare International Airport yesterday, Mr Kevin
Zvoma clarifies Prof Moyo’s Parliamentary attendance
Herald Reporter
MAGWEGWE MP Mr Felix Sibanda (MDC-T) yesterday said he will soon move a motion calling for the
Vice President Mujuru calls for support for ex-convicts
Felex Share Herald Reporter
THERE is need to support ex-prisoners as their re-integration into the society has economic and social benefits to the country, Vice-President Joice Mujuru has said.
VP Mujuru said allowing ex-convicts to return to jail was costly to the taxpayers as it drained the economy.
She made the remarks in a speech read on her behalf by Minister of State in her office Sylvester Nguni last Saturday in Harare during the launch of the 2012 Prison Outreach and Re-integration Programme.
The launch was held under the theme “Donate a Bible to a Prisoner”.
Said VP Mujuru: “The country has limited resources and offenders should not return to prison once released.
“Often prisoners and ex-offenders grapple with the issues of rejection, not only by society but their relatives as well. Society tends to label them according to the crimes they committed, thus denying them the opportunity to start life on a clean page.”
She said it was also difficult for ex-prisoners to re-enter the job market due to the stigma attached to them.
“This group therefore needs support to enable them to cope with changes in their socio-economic context for them to contribute meaningfully to society.
MDC-T backs youth service
Herald Reporter
MDC-T legislators yesterday made a major climb-down by admitting that vocational training centres are important for youth development.
The party has in the past discredited the training centres, claiming that they are used to train youths partisan politics. The MDC-T legislators said the vocational training centres were noble, adding that there was a misconception by their party that vocational training centres were used as torture bases.
The MPs said this while contributing to a portfolio committee report on Women Affairs, Youth, Gender and Community Development, chaired by Sunningdale MP Margaret Matienga (MDC-T) on the challenges and constraints affecting operations of VTCs.
The MDC-T legislators joined their Zanu-PF counterparts in lauding the centres, and urged the Government to adequately resource them and increase their numbers to assist youths. The report stemmed from a tour of several centres by the committee.