adminLack of information blamed for youth’s failure to access funds
Masvingo Correspondent
THE failure by the youths to access funds under the Indigenisation and Empowerment Programme is a result of bottlenecks caused by a lack of information, an official said.
Chiefs fight over land
Munyaradzi Musiiwa
Chronicle Correspondent
BATTLE lines have been drawn between Chief Wedza and Chief Mafala both of Zvishavane over the control of Zvegona area, Oret and Zugaburg Resettlement.
ZNCC AGM kicks off
Oliver Kazunga
Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) annual general meeting and congress start in Victoria Falls today with more than 100 delegates having registered.
Egypt’s Morsi gets to work on cabinet, economy
CAIRO — President-elect Mohamed Morsi was yesterday drawing up a battle plan to confront Egypt’s economic and security crises as he pushed ahead with selecting a government of technocrats, a senior aide said.
Resettled farmers delivered 43pc of auctioned tobacco
Agriculture ReporterResettled farmers have contributed over 43 percent of the tobacco sold so far with the A1 sector leading. Tobacco growers have increased as a result of the land reform programme. The Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board statistics show that as at June
EasiPark realises US$1,3m profit
Municipal Reporter
THE parking management firm formed by Harare City Council and EasiHold of South Africa, EasiPark made a US$1,3 million profit from its operations between March 2010 and December 2011. Harare now stands to receive US$775 555 from profit-sharing as part of its 60 percent share.
Lack 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”.