adminGovt issues permit for US$100m Mall of Zim
Michael Chideme Municipal Reporter
Government has issued Augur Investments a planning permit for the construction of a US$100 million Mall of Zimbabwe in Borrowdale. The intervention follows delays in approving the project by the Harare City Council. Local Government, Rural and Urban Development Minister Ignatius Chombo invoked a section of the
Indian community donates
Herald ReporterTHE Indian community yesterday donated some groceries worth US$6 000 that will benefit over 1 000 people in Zanu-PF Harare Central District.
Zanu-PF Harare Central District handed over the goodies that include hampers and two tonnes of maize meal to the beneficiaries, mainly women and children.
Reassert Africa’s sovereignty, AU told
Takunda Maodza recently in ZAMBIA
NEW African Union Commission chairperson Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma must reassert the continent’s sovereignty, President Mugabe has said.
The Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces said this at a banquet held in his honour by his Zambian counterpart President Michael Sata last week.
“We want the new leadership to reassert that Africa is not only defined by geography, but also by a set of values and principles which we have freely adopted as independent states over the years.
“These values include freedom, respect for the sovereign will of the people, as well as sustainable development and the eradication of poverty, among others.
“We welcome the election of the new chairperson of the commission and look forward to the injection of new ideas and vigour into the affairs of our union.”
President Mugabe was on a three-day State visit to Zambia where he officially opened that country’s 86th edition of the Agricultural and Commercial Show in Lusaka on Saturday. He urged Dr Dlamini-Zuma to exude African values during her tenure.
Dr Dlamini-Zuma, who was South Africa’s home affairs minister, landed the post after beating the then incumbent, Gabon’s Dr Jean Ping, at the last session of the AU meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, last month.
Copac draft faces thumbs down
Herald Reporters
THE draft Constitution is organically unacceptable and Zanu-PF will not be pushed to endorse it without amendments, a senior party
official has said. Zanu-PF is expected to finalise its position on the draft Constitution tomorrow amid indications the document may be given the thumbs down.
This is the third time in two weeks that the party’s supreme decision-making body outside congress, the Politburo, will meet to pore over the draft clause-by-clause, auditing it against the national report.
The national reports contain the people’s views gathered during the outreach.
The two MDC formations have since endorsed the document which analysts say differs from the national report.
Zanu-PF spokesperson Cde Rugare Gumbo, who was reacting to accusations by MDC formations that his party was stalling the finalisation of the Constitution-making process by taking “too long” to come up with its position, said some issues that were not gathered during the outreach were smuggled into the draft Constitution.
The two MDCs claim three Copac meetings to work on the modalities of the second stakeholders’ conference have been stalled by Zanu-PF.
Said Cde Gumbo: “They want us to agree to something which is unacceptable. It is childish to do that because we are talking about a Constitution for generations to come.
Preventing workplace accidents
ABOUT 10 percent of the reported fatal accidents at work in Zimbabwe occur in the building and construction industry, where people are often working at dangerous heights or at risk of being struck
Thomas Mapfumo headed for home
Entertainment Reporter
A hero’s welcome awaits Dr Thomas Mapfumo when he comes home for his first gig after an eight-year absence from the local scene. The gig, which is scheduled for this September, comes after
Zim braces for Zahara Part 2
Fred Zindi MusicThis week all roads lead to the Borrowdale Racecourse’s Fusion Club where the fast-rising South African songbird, Bulelwa Mkutukana a.k.a. Zahara, will be giving her second Zimbabwe concert this
Poacher gets 16 months behind bars
From Noah Pito In HurungweAn elephant poacher, who was shot and wounded by game rangers in February before police arrested him, was last week jailed for 16 months by a Karoi magistrate. Magistrate, Mr Obidience Matare