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Michael Chideme Municipal ReporterHARARE City Council has 3 500 critical vacant posts that need to be filled, Mayor Muchadeyi Masunda has disclosed. The posts are for engineers, doctors, nurses, technicians and other specialised skills required in the daily operations of council. Council has struggled to raise the US$6,5 million
Provinces ready for Heroes Day commemorations
Herald Reporter
PREPARATIONS for this year’s Heroes and Defence Forces Day commemorations are at an advanced stage with the Harare province saying it is now ready for the day. All provinces have also confirmed their readiness to celebrate the days. Addressing journalists yesterday, Harare provincial
Civil servants deserve better: Mutambara
Herald Reporter
Civil servants are not properly remunerated and this is compromising service delivery, a Government official said yesterday. Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara made the remarks while launching the Africa Public Service Day in Harare. “It is not a secret that for a Government to deliver, public
Unions boycott Apex council elections
Herald Reporter
College Lecturers Association of Zimbabwe president, Mr David Dzatsunga, was yesterday elected new Apex Council chairperson in an election boycotted by other civil servants unions. Apex Council is a body that brings together all civil servants unions in salary negotiations. Fourteen unions
Indigenisation of conservancies starts
Herald Reporters
Government yesterday started indigenising conservancies by issuing hunting permits to 25 black farmers allocated lots at the wildlife-rich Save Valley Conservancy in the Lowveld. The issuing of the hunting permits to black farmers follows an almost eight-year stalemate between Government and
ZNA repairs hospital, children’s home
Herald Reporter
The Zimbabwe National Army yesterday repaired buildings at Beatrice Infectious Diseases Hospitals and SOS Children’s Village as part of its community assistance programme. The army carries out a community assistance programme a week before the commemoration of the Defence
Gono faces probe
Zvamaida Murwira Senior Reporter
PARLIAMENT has resolved to investigate the manner in which Reserve Bank Governor Dr Gideon Gono
Developmental projects shouldn’t be Harare-oriented — Senators
Herald Reporter
SENATORS have accused Government of coming up with projects that are skewed in favour of Harare ahead of other provinces.
Census training officially suspended
Herald Reporters
GOVERNMENT has indefinitely suspended the training of census enumerators to regularise their recruitment. This comes after training centres across the country were thronged by scores of people, some of whom were not qualified to be enumerators.
Acting Finance Minister Gorden Moyo, however, yesterday said the census dates, set for midnight August 17 and 18, remain unchanged.
“No training will take place until further notice, but we would want to assure Zimbabweans that the census will be held according to the Sadc and UN standards.
“We have stayed true to the process. How we have conducted the process in 1982, 1992, 2002 and 2012 is no different. As in the past, the starting date is not changing and we will be loyal to the midnight of 17th August,” he said.
Minister Moyo dismissed allegations that the census had been suspended owing to disturbances caused by security sector personnel who queried the exclusion of their members.
Zanu-PF finishes draft audit
Takunda Maodza and Lloyd Gumbo
ZANU-PF has finished auditing the draft Constitution and will produce a revised document it will hand over to principals in the inclusive Government after the Heroes holidays.
This follows a meeting of the Politburo on Wednesday that overlapped to yesterday morning as the party extensively dissected and digested the Copac draft.
Emerging from the meeting yesterday, party spokesperson Cde Rugare Gumbo said: “We really had an extensive discussion on the Constitution. We have sort of concluded what we needed. We are through it is just a matter of cleaning up.”
However, MDC formations accused Zanu-PF of deviating from agreed positions.
They argued that Zanu-PF should bring its reservations at the Second All Stakeholders Conference and the referendum, not to the principals.
The two formations have since endorsed the draft its current form.
Cde Gumbo insisted that Zanu-PF was not taking the Constitution-making process lightly like other political parties.
He said the party was not happy with some sections of the draft, which they wanted addressed.