adminMupandawana to host 2012 Heroes Gala
Walter Mswazie
Masvingo Correspondent
THIS year’s Heroes gala will be held at Gutu’s Mupandawana Growth Point, Masvingo Province, on 17 August and the event is likely to invigorate the entertainment starved but busy service centre.
‘Group causes stir at Matopo’
Prosper Ndlovu
A GROUP of about 568 people, some of them war veterans, yesterday visited the Matopos National Park and performed rituals.
‘Census to go ahead as planned’
Makhosi Sibanda
Chronicle Correspondent
THE Government yesterday said it had suspended the training of enumerators for the 2012 population census until further notice but the census itself will proceed as planned from 17-28 August.
Tobacco sales rake in $189,6m
Business Reporter
ZIMBABWE has earned $189,6 million from the export of 43,5 million kilogrammes of flue-cured tobacco this year.
GMO agriculture in Zim would be a blunder
Elliott Siamonga
WITH climate change fast altering weather patterns, causing floods and droughts, the issue of food security has become a global concern that has seen some countries resorting to genetically modified (GM) agriculture in an effort to produce enough to feed their people.
Parly to probe Gono over farm implements
Harare Bureau
PARLIAMENT has resolved to investigate the manner in which the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono distributed farm equipment and inputs under the Farm Mechanisation
Gumbo in catch 22
Harare Bureau
THE Zifa Independent Ethics Committee has further delayed the release of their final report on the Asiagate scandal in a move likely to limit coach Rahman Gumbo’s options ahead of the African Cup of Nations qualifier against Angola next month.
Zanu-PF concludes Constitution audit
Harare Bureau
Zanu-PF has concluded auditing the draft constitution and will come up with a revised document that will be handed over to the principals in the inclusive Government after the Heroes holidays.
Byo boys soccer team book semis spot
From Godknows Matarutse in BINDURA
BULAWAYO Metropolitan Province boys’ soccer team rallied from behind to beat hosts Mashonaland Central 3-2 and booked a place in today’s semi-finals at the ongoing National Youth Games at Chipadze yesterday.EDITORIAL COMMENT: Resolve census impasse expeditiously
AUTHORITIES need to resolve the impasse clogging the holding of the national population census as a matter of urgency so that the process goes ahead smoothly and without fail on its allotted dates of 17-27 August.