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Oliver KazungaTHE monthly breadbasket for a family of six in July marginally dropped to $556,47 from $561,13 the previous month, the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe has said.
CBC team upbeat ahead of South Africa tourney
Sports Reporter
CHRISTIAN Brothers College’s (CBC) soccer team on Sunday left for Johannesburg, South Africa, in a bullish mood ahead of the Edmund Rice inter-CBCs tournament at Veritas Springs.
Govt 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.
Be objective, Mujuru urges media
Herald Reporter
ZIMBABWE places value to news agencies that report accurately about the political and economic situation in
Principals to launch census
Herald Reporter
PRINCIPALS in the Inclusive Government will next Wednesday launch this year’s national population census,
West’s bid to rebrand Tsvangirai exposed
Sydney Kawadza Assistant News Editor
MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai’s attacks on nationalists are inspired by his sponsors who are trying to rebrand him as a new African leader to pursue their neo-colonial agenda.
Mr Tsvangirai has been attacking African nationalists at various forums and recently took his attacks home calling for a “third revolution” against liberation heroes.
Australian premier Julia Gillard recently torched a storm when she put the MDC-T leader in the pantheon of South Africa’s founding president Nelson Mandela.
However, political analysts said Mr Tsvangirai’s attacks were not original as shown by his utterances after attending a white-dominated book launch where he started parroting the book title.
Addressing delegates at the launch of “Africa’s Third Liberation”, a book written by Geoff Hurst and Greg Mills, Mr Tsvangirai accused African liberators of betraying the ideals of the fight against colonialism.
“They (Africa’s liberators) went into office without a plan and today, the new crop of African leaders has to deal with the economy to provide jobs to the millions of our young people,” he said.
The launch also drew Malawi President Joyce Banda, South African opposition leader Ms Helen Zille of the Democratic Alliance and members of the Oppenheimer family. The Oppenheimers are opposed to Zimbabwe’s indigenisation policies, especially in the mining sector.
Chimombe burial today
Herald ReporterSINGER Freddy Chimombe who succumbed to tuberculosis on Sunday morning will be buried at Granville Cemetery in Harare today.