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Leocadia Matsvaire Herald CorrespondentZIMPAPERS treated its secretaries to lunch at an upmarket restaurant in Harare yesterday to commemorate the annual Administrative Professional Assistants Week. The week is celebrated annually, bringing administrative professionals together and honouring them in various ways for a job well
Tsvangirai, Locardia in verbal war
Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s wife Locardia Karimatsenga says her husband became mentally unstable as a result of a miscarriage she suffered and now needs psychological and psychiatric help.
Karimatsenga, who married the PM in November last year, says her husband was angered by the miscarriage.
She claims the PM’s plan to wed a second wife he met a few months ago was a sign of a psychological breakdown.
Karimatsenga said this in an affidavit forming part of an urgent chamber application to stop the wedding between the PM and Ms Elizabeth Macheka slated for September 15.
Yesterday, PM Tsvangirai’s lawyer Mr Innocent Chagonda confirmed being served with the summons.
He said the application had no basis at law and was calculated at politically harassing the PM.
“There is absolutely no basis at law for the order sought. The only thing we can think of when looking at the papers, is that it is meant to either politically harass the PM or settle personal issues through abusing the court process.”
Mr Chagonda said his client denies that Ms Karimatsenga was his wife.
“The PM says no to the claims that Ms Karimatsenga is his wife. Even if what she claims is correct, there is no basis for the order sought.
“If such applications are granted, then no one will ever wed in Zimbabwe. Even girlfriends will stop legitimate weddings,” he said.
Mashonganyika raises profile
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Mother furious as dead daughter is called as witness
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Plumber lands US$255 000 lotto jackpot
Fortious Nhambura Herald Reporter“I lept into the air and shouted, ‘Thank you God!’ I had been transported into another world, a world of dreams that get fulfilled. “I did not wait to answer those who where asking to know the source of my joy. I only shouted, ‘Ndahwina!’ (I’ve won), and bolted out, heading home with the copy
‘Why I won’t be there’
Petros Kausiyo Deputy Sports Editor
TALISMANIC Zimbabwe forward Knowledge Musona has broken his silence over his absence from tomorrow’s blood-and-thunder 2013 Nations Cup qualifier against Angola with the star striker revealing that a combination of injury, and a horrible foul-up by Warriors’ team manager Nyika
Zanu-PF to meet over Hargreaves hero status
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Chiefs endorse Zanu-PF amendments
Zvamaida Murwira Senior Reporter
Zanu-PF wants traditional leaders to have authority and control over communal
President tours National Defence College
Farirai Machivenyika Senior Reporter
PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday visited the National Defence College on a familiarisation tour ahead of its official opening next Friday.
The college was built through a US$98 million loan from the Chinese government.
In his brief to the President before the tour, Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa said the NDC would act as the nation’s thinktank.
“The main role of the NDC is to act as a thinktank for the country and thereby contribute towards the enhancement of our national strategic design.
“Already, the NDC has started off with a year-long pilot programme with students drawn from the ZDF and other security organs such as the ZRP, the ZPS and the President’s Department.
“This will be extended to other strategic Government institutions,” Minister Mnangagwa said.
He said the Chinese People’s Liberation Army had pledged to assist the college with furniture.
Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander General Constantine Chiwenga said the establishment of the NDC was a culmination of the Look East Policy enunciated by President Mugabe following the imposition of illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe by Western countries.
“We attribute this phenomenal success story to the Look East Policy which is your (President Mugabe) brainchild,” he said.
“We have seen our relationship with the People’s Republic of China and especially us as ZDF, grow from strength to strength.”
ZDF Chief of Staff for Joint Operations and Command Major General Nicholas Dube thanked the President for mooting the idea to construct the NDC.
“The idea to construct the NDC was a result of your inquiries every time you officiated during the commandant staff courses on when we would have an