adminECZ needs $500 000 for engineers’ regulatory body
Business ReporterTHE Engineering Council of Zimbabwe (ECZ) needs at least $500 000 to set up legal and inspectorate departments to monitor and regularise operations of engineers and technicians in the country.
Hydro power plant for Masvingo
Masvingo Correspondent
An independent power producer will build a hydro power station at Lake Mutirikwi in Masvingo, the chief executive officer of Masvingo Rural District Council, Mr Clemence Makwarimba, has said.
China vows to continue to support Zimbabwe’s economic revival
Prosper Ndlovu in Beijing, China
Man collapses, dies during healing session
Chronicle ReporterA 70-YEAR-OLD Tsholotsho man reportedly collapsed and died during a church healing session when he was given water to cure an undisclosed illness.
Suspected cop killer in intensive care after another accident
Chronicle Reporter
A BULAWAYO motorist who allegedly crushed a female police officer to death when he failed to stop at a roadblock is in the Intensive Care Unit of a private hospital after he was involved in an accident.Farm worker jailed for rape
Court ReporterA man who took advantage of a girl staying where he was employed in the Shangani area and raped her twice after sneaking into the girls’ hut at night was yesterday sentenced to 20 years in jail.
All set for Hwange show
Victoria Falls Reporter
ALL is set for the Hwange Agricultural Show, which begins tomorrow and ends on Sunday.Drama as pair found intimate in public toilet
Midlands Correspondent
A POPULAR fast food outlet in Gweru was turned into a pornographic theatre at the weekend when a 21-year-old man was allegedly caught being intimate with his girlfriend in one of the toilets.Man (73) sued for maintenance
Leonard Ncube
A 73-year-old Bulawayo man has been dragged to court for failing to look after his child.
President calls on tertiary institutions to redirect focus
Harare Bureau
President Mugabe yesterday called on local universities and other tertiary institutions to redirect their focus to producing graduates equipped with entrepreneurial skills and capable of engaging in research that develops local communities.
President Mugabe, who is the Chancellor of all State Universities, said this while delivering a lecture at the opening of the Research and Intellectual Exposition at the Harare International Conference Centre.
“The challenge to institutions of higher learning is to engage in research aimed at boosting production in all sectors,” he said.
“But they cannot lead us into realising this noble cause of our economic reconstruction if they are in their current forms, which reflect by and large colonial structures and purposes.
“Our considered opinion is that the task of colleges, polytechnics and universities is not so much to produce certificates, diplomas and degrees for the shelf, but also to promote impact-oriented research and knowledge which is promotive of our various underdeveloped communities.”
The Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces challenged the tertiary institutions to include the indigenisation programme in their curricula as part of efforts to change the mindset of students.
“It is sad to note that our graduates keep flocking to work in Western countries and NGOs, this shows the lack of baptism in national consciousness,” he said.