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The setting of March next year as the date of the harmonised elections makes a lot of organisational and financial sense. President Mugabe had been given until next week on Monday to proclaim dates for by-elections in Nkayi South, Lupane East and Bulilima East. The three seats fell vacant following the expulsion of Abednico Bhebe (Nkayi South), Njabuliso Mguni (Lupane East) and Norman Mpofu (Bulilima East) from the smaller MDC formation led by Professor Welshman Ncube. The three had sought the legal route to compel the President to proclaim dates for the by-elections.
Zifa, Ethics Commission clash
Goodwill Zunidza
ZIFA, stung by mounting public demand for a swift close of the Asiagate chapter, are now at loggerheads with their own Independent Ethics Commission for failing to release findings of their probe a year after they were constituted for the exercise.
Genesis depositors access funds
Depositors who had their monies locked up in closed Genesis Merchant Bank have started accessing their funds through the Deposit Protection Corporation (DPC), an official said yesterday.
Kee-Tui scoops Yvonne Vera Award
Entertainment Reporter
Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo has announced Violette Kee-Tui as this year’s winner of The Yvonne Vera Award for short story writing.
Tourists fined for stealing boat
Victoria Falls Reporter
THREE foreign tourists have each been fined $500 (or nine months in prison) after they were found guilty of unlawfully borrowing a fishing boat and peddling it at night in the Zambezi River. Appearing before Victoria Falls resident magistrate, Mr Archibald Dingana were Maciej Trzcinski (40) and Artur Krzysztof Dabrowski (41), both from Warszanka, Poland, and Francesco Perini (26), who resides at Via Bollitol East 19 Capri, Italy.
Firm seeks endorsement of cost effective houses
Business Reporter
A Bulawayo company is engaging regulators to approve construction of houses made from prefabricated material in the country.
Indigenisation: beyond the scare mongering
YOUTH Development, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Minister Saviour Kasukuwere stands accused of being anti-foreign investment, fascist and a thug for unapologetically pursuing the black economic agenda.
Firms benefit from Dimaf
Noble Ncube
COMPANIES in Matabeleland have received the bulk of the money released under the Distressed Industries and Marginalised Areas Fund (Dimaf) with 17 firms in the region receiving 80 percent of the $11,4 million disbursed so far, CABS managing director, Mr Kevin Terry, said yesterday.
He said companies in Matabeleland received a total of more than $9 million from the fund meant to revive companies facing financial difficulties.
Dimaf was set up by Government and is administered by the financial institution.
In a response to questions from Chronicle after State Enterprises and Parastatals Minister Gorden Moyo accused the building society of delaying the disbursement of the money to save the city’s industries, Mr Terry said as of last Friday, applications for funding totalling more than $14 million had been approved, while more than $11 million had been disbursed.
Kaindu hails player’s call-up for national duty
Lovemore Dube Sports Editor
HIGHLANDERS coach Kelvin Kaindu yesterday hailed the call up to the national team of his star attacking midfielder Masimba Mambare. He was included in a team to travel to Angola next month. In an interview yesterday the gaffer described the move as deserved.
PM loses court bid in maintenance case
Harare Bureau
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday lost a bid to have the $15 000 maintenance claim by his wife Ms Locardia Karimatsenga struck off the roll.
Harare Civil Court magistrate Mr Reuben Mukavhi ruled that the application was properly before the courts and that the hearing should be held.
PM Tsvangirai had argued that the application did not comply with the provisions of the Maintenance Act.
The premier’s lawyer Advocate Thabani Mpofu said the claim could have been brought up through summons and not a court application.
He also argued that service of the court papers was not done properly.
Adv Mpofu raised the objection just before the maintenance inquiry but Mr Mukavhi ruled against him.