adminByo Province launches rabies vaccination exercise
Chronicle Correspondent
THE Bulawayo Province Veterinary Services Department has launched a rabies vaccination exercise targeting 6 000 dogs in the city.Rentals row erupts in Victoria Falls
Victoria Falls Reporter
A ROW over rentals has erupted at Landela Complex in Victoria Falls as the property owner has increased rentals, a development that will see the smallest shop paying about $2 000 up from $1 400 per month.
National bilharzia treatment training programme begins
Pamela Shumba
THE Ministry of Health and Child Welfare has embarked on a training programme to carry out a treatment exercise for bilharzia, following increased cases of the disease and intestinal worms in the country.
Clearing agents nabbed for smuggling
Beitbridge Reporter
All set for Njelele cleansing ceremony
Prosper Ndlovu
Chronicle Reporter
CHIEFS and spirit mediums from Matabeleland South have stepped up preparations for the cleansing of the Njelele Shrine in Matobo District and hundreds of people are expected to attend the ceremony on Saturday.
Gold panners flee census enumerators
Marvelous Moyo and Makhosi Sibanda
ILLEGAL gold panners popularly known as omakorokoza or otsheketsha operating in Matabeleland South’s Gwanda District are reportedly running away from census enumerators in fear that they might be in the company of police officers.
Njelele not just a rain-making shrine
Hilary Marizani
NJELELE, one of the oldest and most revered religious shrines in the country, has been at the centre of controversy over the past few months.
Ethanol plant to reopen, Mutambara assures workers
From Tendai Mugabe in CHISUMBANJE
CHISUMBANJE Ethanol Plant should be reopened urgently to benefit the
‘MDC to defy principals’ resolutions’
Lloyd Gumbo Herald Reporter
MDC president Professor Welshman Ncube says his party will defy all decisions made by principals in the inclusive Government at their Monday meetings because his party is not represented at the forum.
He accused Zanu-PF and President Mugabe of facilitating Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara’s stay in Government despite losing the mandate at the party’s congress last year.
Prof Ncube said DPM Mutambara had no mandate to represent MDC at the meetings.
“We will not be bound by decisions of that forum where we are not represented,” said Prof Ncube, who is also Minister of Industry and Commerce.
“If that forum makes decisions that are to come to Cabinet, myself, Minister David Coltart (Education, Sport, Arts and Culture) and Minister Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga (Regional Integration and International Co-operation) will not co-operate with that.”
Minister Ncube said DPM Mutambara attended the meetings pretending to represent the MDC.
DPM Mutambara could not hide behind the appeal against the High Court interdict in purporting to represent the MDC, Prof Ncube said.
“It’s very clear that principals are the leaders of their parties and no party can be represented in the principals’ forum by someone who has been imposed by another party.
Zanu-PF popularity surges: Poll
Farirai Machivenyika and Zvamaida Murwira
ZANU-PF’S popularity among Zimbabweans is increasing while that of its main rival, MDC-T, is plummeting, a survey commissioned by Freedom House, a US-based non-governmental organisation reveals.
The survey results are contained in a report titled “Change and ‘New’ Politics in Zimbabwe” commissioned by Freedom House.
A local research institute, Mass Public Opinion Institute, conducted the research on behalf of Freedom House.
In its executive summary, the NGO said MDC-T support had fallen from 38 percent to 20 percent between 2010 and this year.
“In terms of the declared survey-based support, it appears the MDC-T has been suffering, falling from 38 percent to 20 percent in the parliamentary vote from 2010 to 2012, in a period of approximately 18 months between the 2010 and 2012 Freedom House surveys.
“In contrast, the survey data points to Zanu-PF having experienced a growth in popular support, moving from 17 percent to 31 percent in the same period,” reads part of the report.
The findings of the report showed that Zanu-PF’s popularity increased across all the country’s 10 provinces since 2010 while that for MDC was waning.
For example in Harare, MDC-T support declined from 50 percent in 2010 to 17 percent, while that for Zanu-PF rose from eight percent to 22 percent.
In Bulawayo, Zanu-PF increased its support from four percent to 15 percent, while that for MDC-T declined from 51 percent to 29 percent.