admin‘Design training needs for each Sadc country’
Oliver Kazunga
Business Reporter
THE Chamber of Mines has challenged the Zimbabwe School of Mines to design courses that meet the unique mining features of each Sadc country.
Ghana’s President John Atta Mills dies
Ghanaian President John Atta Mills has died. He was 68.
Politicians urged to have unity of purpose
Chronicle Reporter
POLITICAL leaders should desist from fuelling divisions among Zimbabweans and have unity of purpose towards improving livelihoods of ordinary people in their communities, senior politicians said yesterday.
Disgruntled subject attacks village head
Chronicle Reporter
A village head from Nkayi district is lucky to be alive after he was allegedly struck with an unknown object by one of his subjects.
He used to sodomise me — murder suspect tells court
Court Reporter
A man accused of murdering an elderly man staying alone in Bulawayo’s Pumula North suburb and later burying the body in a shallow grave in the yard yesterday stunned the court when he claimed the old man had over the years sodomised him.
At his initial appearance yesterday, Daniel Sinkala told Bulawayo provincial magistrate Mr Shepherd Mjanja that each time the late William Longwe would have anal sex with him he would pay him $50.
He said events leading to the killing of the old man were that after having anal sex with him twice, Longwe told him that he did not have money to pay him.
It was then that he decided to kill him and sell his property so that he would get his $50.
Sinkala (24), of House Number 687 New Luveve, was not formally charged with murder as defined in Section 47 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, Chapter 9:23.
He was remanded in custody to 7 August and was advised to apply to the High Court for bail.
He had his warned and cautioned statements, which he made to the police after his arrest, confirmed meaning they can be used in a trial court as evidence.
Mr Masimba Saruwaka for the State told the court that on 13 July this year, Sinkala proceeded to House Number 6928 Pumula North where Longwe was staying alone.
Mthulisi Maphosa apologises
Sikhumbuzo Moyo
Senior Sports Reporter
HIGHLANDERS midfield general Mthulisi Maphosa, who missed a 71st minute penalty that could have given his side a momentous and confidence boosting win over old nemesis Dynamos at Barbourfields Stadium on Sunday, has apologised to the fans, his colleagues and technical bench for the casually taken kick.
Jomic approves Nyaminyami script
Bongani Ndlovu
Entertainment Reporter
ON-site filming of scenes of six episodes of the television series Nyaminyami began last week after the script was approved by the Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee (Jomic) three weeks ago.
Civil servants petition Parliament
Felex Share Herald Reporter
FINANCE Minister Tendai Biti yesterday snubbed civil servants and denied them access to his offices to hand over a petition outlining their grievances.
The workers, led by the Apex Council leaders, however, managed to hand over the petition to Clerk of Parliament Mr Austin Zvoma at Parliament Building.
In their petition, the Government workers implored the legislators not to pass Minister Biti’s Mid-Term Policy statement.
Mr Zvoma received the petition on behalf of Senate President Mrs Edna Madzongwe and the Speaker of Parliament, Mr Lovemore Moyo.
Accepting the petition, Mr Zvoma said: “I accept the petition and I am going to hand it over to the respective persons as per your request.”
The workers are demanding an all-inclusive salary of US$564 for the least paid worker and 15 percent of the basic salary as rural allowance.
The least paid Government worker is getting US$296.
EU sanctions extension non-event
Tendai Mugabe Senior Reporter
Government has dismissed as a non-event the European Union extension of illegal sanctions by another year.
Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi told journalists in Harare yesterday that Government wanted the EU to unconditionally lift the embargo.
He said the EU does not have the mandate to supervise implementation of the Global Political Agreement as a precondition to lift the sanctions.
Political commentators also weighed in condemning the extension, saying it was a violation of Zimbabwe’s sovereignty.
However, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was yesterday singing from a different hymn book from his colleagues in Government and welcoming the EU announcement.
Minister Mumbengegwi said the GPA was an internal document that has nothing to do with the EU.
Ghana’s President John Atta Mills dies
Ghanaian President John Atta Mills has died. He was 68.
President Atta Mills, who was suffering from throat cancer, died yesterday in Accra. A statement from his office said President Atta Mills died a few hours after being taken ill, but did not give details.
“It is with a heavy heart . . . that we announce the sudden and untimely death of the President of the Republic of Ghana,” the statement said.
Mr Atta Mills ruled the West African country since 2009. The BBC’s Sammy Darko, who was at the military
hospital in Accra, says Mr Atta Mills’ voice had been degenerating in the last few months.
A presidential aide told Reuters yesterday that the leader had complained of suffering from pains on Monday evening and died yesterday afternoon.
According to the Ghanaian Constitution, Vice-President John Dramani Mahama is to take over as interim leader. Presidential elections are set for December in a country seen as a rare example of stable democracy in West Africa.
The late president had recently travelled to the United States for what had been described as a routine medical check-up.