adminZimbabwe: A terrible beauty
Sekai Nzenza
When I lived in the Diaspora I avoided conversations about Zimbabwe. I did not want to say that I came from that African country in Southern Africa. Standing among white people, sipping wine slowly
Man produces US$9 payslip
Court Reporter
A TEACHER who sired twins with a city vendor produced a pay slip bearing US$9 net earnings at the civil court, saying the bulk of his salary goes to loan repayments. Farisai Mbawa, who was carrying both
Women protest against loitering arrests
Wenceslaus Murape Senior Reporter
HUNDREDS of women yesterday protested against arrests by the police on charges of loitering.
The women were from various organisations including Msasa Projest, Women’s Action Group and
St Augustine’s faces closure
Peter Matambanadzo
Senior Reporter
Food shortages at St Augustine’s Mission, mainly attributed to fights within the Anglican Church, will force the school to close two weeks earlier, authorities have said.
The Manicaland Anglican Diocese aligned to Archbishop Nolbert Kunonga runs the school while a faction led by Bishop Chad Gandiya also claims to have authority over the school.
The diocese’s Bishop Elson Jakazi, who serves under Archbishop Kunonga, yesterday said that if the situation does not improve the school would have to be closed anytime from today.
Schools will close on August 1.
“We are saying fees should be increased to reasonable levels,” said Bishop Jakazi. “The US$333 was not enough considering the needs and challenges the school is facing.
“So, the school board after realising that the funds cannot cater for the whole term decided that the school has to be closed and children sent back to their homes.”
Bishop Jakazi said St Augustine relied on donations, but funding had since stopped and the school infrastructure was in a deplorable state.
‘Remove sanctions before elections’
Caesar Zvayi in ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia
Zimbabwe wants to go for elections without the burden of sanctions and calls on the African Union to condemn and call for their removal, President Mugabe has said.
Addressing the plenary of the 19th Ordinary Session of the AU Assembly here, President Mugabe hailed the assistance rendered by Sadc, saying the AU should pick the gauntlet.
“My country is still labouring under the burden of illegal sanctions; although Sadc has done its best, we still have Europe imposing sanctions on us, America continuing to impose sanctions on us,” he said.
“We would like to go for elections without sanctions, but there is no indication that there is a willingness on their part to get rid of these sanctions.
“May we get a word from this meeting that these sanctions are unjustified, these sanctions continue to impact on our people, these sanctions must go!”
Zimbabwe is expected to hold harmonised elections before June next year to signal the end of the inclusive Government that has outlived its set timeframe.
Zanu-PF says the elections should be held as a matter of urgency since they are now overdue, while the MDC formations want them delayed.
The MDC formations argue that the harmonised elections should be held under a new constitution.
Copac has missed a deadline to produce the new constitution by almost two years and hopes have since faded that the country will have it soon.
Thousands of marriage certificates to be cancelled
Felex Share
Herald Reporter
Marriages that were solemnised by at least 716 marriage officers that have gone underground face cancellation while mass weddings have been banned, the Registrar General Mr Tobaiwa Mudede said yesterday.
The RG said the marriage officers had gone underground after his office introduced a new register to flush out bogus officers.
He said those who had failed to turn up could be fake and the marriages they solemnised in the past would be cancelled.
Addressing journalists in Harare yesterday, Mr Mudede said his office had also banned mass weddings and that marriage officers would be banned from upgrading marriages.
Mr Mudede said since the introduction of the new marriage register in March this year, his office had not received any reports of marriages of convenience.
“A total of 1 253 marriage registers have been issued to marriage officers so far, yet we had 1 966 marriage officers in our marriage register,” he said.
“The figures speak for themselves. It means the difference might have been pseudo marriage officers.
“We still challenge them to come forward if they are pure (marriage) officers free from this blemish. As for now, no one has come out in the open.”
Wildlife conservancies must comply with indigenisation laws
Isdore Guvamombe
Features Editor
Wildlife is the mainstay of Zimbabwe’s tourism industry and has of late become the centre of conflict between National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority and white former farmers.
Prophets are from Jehovah
Takura Rukwati
More people are increasingly looking for solutions to cares of life in suspicious places. These people run the gamut from the uneducated to the educated, from the privileged to the unprivileged. They consult occult men and women.
Time to take care of our youth
Albert Nhamoyebonde
It has been a very frustrating year for many young people who fail to get an opportunity to do something useful either during vacation or waiting to commence further studies. School leavers, with no road map, are resigned to be staying at home without anything youthful to do.