adminWheat growers abandon crop
Obert Chifamba Senior Agriculture Reporter
MOST traditional wheat growers this season abandoned the crop citing a host of challenges, chief among them prolonged power cuts and poor access to finance. The Herald established on Wednesday that many farmers had not even prepared
EU, FAO in deal to improve food security
Agriculture Reporters
THE European Union and Food and Agriculture Organisation have signed an agreement of nearly six million euro to improve agriculture productivity and ensure food security. The Euro 5,9 million fund with a duration of 24 months is set to benefit 20
Big fight condemned
LONDON. — The British Boxing Board of Control has condemned the proposed fight between David Haye and Dereck Chisora and threatened to remove the licence of anyone involved. Haye and Chisora are set to meet on July 14 in a fight sanctioned by the Luxembourg Boxing Federation. The BBBoC said: “Those behind this proposal are not concerned with the interests of the
MDC-T’s monkey approach myopic
Farirai Chubvu
British premier David Cameron announces that British aid would go to those who support homosexuality, Morgan Tsvangirai wakes up singing the ‘‘virtues’’ of sodomy. Barack Obama announces he backs same-sex marriages, the MDC-T component
Editorial Comment: Re-engagement talks: Team Zimbabwe spirit commendable
We hail the approach taken by our re-engagement team to the Zim-EU dialogue that began in Burrussels, Belgium, yesterday where the three main parties in Government spoke with one voice about the removal of the bloc’s economic sanctions regime. As we report elsewhere in this issue, the re-engagement team yesterday met the EU delegation that was
Tough ‘coconut’ kid
While most of his friends enjoy a spot of cricket, 10-year-old Manpreet Singh loves nothing more than sitting back and having a coconut cracked on his forehead with a baseball bat. He also laughs in the face of a terrifying stunt which could leave him blind as fluorescent light tubes are smashed across his chest, sending shards of glass flying into his eyes. Manpreet could wellMan kills self over cat
A grief-stricken pet owner killed himself because he struggled to cope with the death of his beloved cat, an inquest heard.Bachelor Michael McAleese (44) was devastated after 13-year-old tabby cat Sophie died in his arms after suffering a stroke.
The recluse — who was not known by his neighbours — was so traumatised by the loss that the dead cat “slept” on his bed for
Suicide kit seller on tax rap
A great-grandmother who made headlines by selling suicide kits from her California home was placed on five years of supervised probation on Monday and ordered to pay a US$1 000 fine for a tax-related offence stemming from her mail-order business. Sharlotte Hydorn, a retired science teacher, pleaded guilty in December to a federal charge of failing to file incomeParadigm shift on minority languages a welcome move
Steven Mpofu
A major paradigm shift is set to begin in Zimbabwe to end the marginalisation of indigenous languages, other than Shona and Ndebele, by elevating them from a Cinderella status to which white settlers first relocated them when colonising this
Putin: Continuity in change
Special Correspondent
On May 7 Vladimir Putin was sworn in as President of Russia. This marks a new stage in our country’s life and history. Many political observers here and abroad ask themselves what consequences it does have for Russia as one of the major world