adminLack of funds hampers MTP
Herald ReporterTHE implementation of the Medium Term Plan has been hampered by lack of resources and poor performance of the productive sectors, threatening the achievement of set targets. The MTP was launched by Vice President Joice Mujuru last year and is expected to run until 2015.
Chihuri lashes out at politicians
Crime ReporterPOLICE Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri yesterday lashed out at some politicians he accused of criticising the force for their failures. He said the force will continue to maintain law and order in the country without fear or favour.
Fight against hunger intensifies
Herald ReporterGovernment yesterday received clinical equipment worth US$110 000 to be used in the fight against malnutrition across Zimbabwe. The equipment sourced through the World Food Programme and Switzerland will be used as part of Government’s National Health Strategy.
Cop murder: Glen View sealed off
Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter
GLEN View 3 Shopping Centre in Harare was yesterday temporarily closed with heavy security deployed to allow the High Court to carry out an inspection in loco in the case of 29 MDC-T activists accused of murdering a police inspector.
A convoy of vehicles, led by a traffic police BMW, left the High Court at around 11am heading for Glen View.
Riot police were all over and The Herald had to seek written permission to be allowed at the shopping centre after earlier attempts to enter failed.
Inspector Petros Mutedza was killed in May last year while leading a reaction team after violence broke out at a bar where MDC-T was conducting a meeting.
Roads were barricaded and The Herald news team was stopped by six different groups of policemen before reaching the shopping centre.
There was no business at the shopping centre and residents could be seen jostling to catch a glimpse of the proceedings from a distance.
Journalists who had gate-crashed were escorted away by policemen.
The 29 suspects could be heard singing when they arrived in a Zimbabwe Prison Service truck popularly known as “magumete”.
Zuma visit unnecessary: GPA parties
Herald Reporter
PARTIES in the inclusive Government say South African President Jacob Zuma’s visit to Zimbabwe at the moment is unnecessary until Copac submits the final draft Constitution to the Global Political Agreement principals.
President Zuma was tasked by Sadc during the bloc’s extraordinary summit in Angola to urgently visit Zimbabwe and meet GPA principals to resolve their differences.
It was speculated that President Zuma was heading for Harare this week.
However, his office on Sunday said no date had been set for the visit.
President Zuma’s international relations advisor, Ms Lindiwe Zulu, said the facilitator would be attending an African National Congress policy conference in his country this week.
In separate interviews, Zanu-PF and MDC-T spokespersons Cde Rugare Gumbo and Mr Douglas Mwonzora said it would be sensible for President Zuma to visit Zimbabwe after the completion of the Constitution-making process.
Said Cde Gumbo: “President Zuma will only come after the draft Constitution has been submitted to the principals.
“It will be useless for him to come now when parties in the inclusive Government have not yet agreed.”
Fuel prices marginally slashed
Tendai Mugabe Senior Reporter
FUEL prices have gone down by at least US10 cents per litre, with dealers in the petroleum industry attributing the slump to political
Disband Cotton Ginners’ Association: Parliament
Herald Reporters
PARLIAMENT yesterday called for the disbanding of the Cotton Ginners Association, accusing it of exploiting cotton farmers.
Zim poised for greater heights
Stephen MpofuUniversities are to communities in which they are located what tower lights represent in their designated areas. Tower lights are extensions of daylight to intensify symbiotic relations for mutual benefits between people and their institutions in social and economic development for a secure future. As pinnacles of higher education
Support staff earn more than headmasters
Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter
SUPPORT staff at mission schools are now earning salaries higher than school heads, a development which has irked authorities who are now failing to pay them.
This has prompted 75 mission schools to approach the High Court seeking to bar their workers from subscribing to the National Employment Council for Educational and Welfare Institutions.
The application is viewed as a ploy by the schools to avoid huge salary bills.
According to the latest collective bargaining agreement for the NEC published under Statutory Instrument 6 of 2012, the most paid auxiliary staffers are getting a basic salary of US$509, exclusive of allowances, while most school heads are earning salaries in the region of US$400.
School heads and teaching staff fall under the Public Service Commission.
Mission schools are resisting to pay the gazetted salaries arguing that only schools that do not have school development committees should be governed by the NEC figures.
The 75 schools which are run by SDCs argue that their institutions were under the control of the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture.
Sadc local authorities meet
Municipal ReporterHeads of Sadc local government associations meeting in Harare were yesterday challenged to work together to proffer solutions to problems affecting municipal service delivery in the region. The leaders are gathered for a regional training workshop that was preceded