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Ojijo PascalA ONE paragraph, two sentence, four line and forty-four word letter was delivered to the vice chancellor of Makerere University in Uganda, who is also a member of Uganda Academy of Sciences, asking his office to convene a forum to debate the de-colonisation, and de-enslaving of the
Multitudes coming back home to Zanu-PF
Cde PF ‘Gidi’ NgwindingwindiOne bus has a destination board inscribed “Nyamapanda” and the other is written “Somewhere”. They are both stationed at Mbare Musika and the touts are shouting above their voices competing to attract prospective passengers into their respective buses. The sweet-tongued tout is loading
Be exemplary, cops told
Crime ReporterPOLICE Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri yesterday said the force will remain vigilant to ensure the forthcoming Constitutional referendum and general elections are held peacefully. Speaking at a passout parade for 355 police officers in Harare, Comm-Gen Chihuri said people should be
A feast for the bush ants
Reflections Isdore GuvamombeBack in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, it is accepted that education is useful when one eventually plunges into the undergrowth of survival in a world of westernisation, mythology and ritual, of symbolism and belief. As each one of us picks his or her way between
No to hypocrisy, West told
From Caesar Zvayi at the UNITED NATIONS, New York
PRESIDENT Mugabe says the western world should condemn the cold-blooded murder of former Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi with the same contempt and platitudes it displayed in the wake of the killing of Chris Stevens, who was the US ambassador to Libya, earlier this month.
Col Gaddafi was murdered in front of world cameras last October by Nato-backed rebels.
The US ambassador was killed in similar circumstances when the US embassy was stormed by Libyan rebels this month.
In his address to the General Assembly on Tuesday, US president Barack Obama made an impassioned address about the death of the US envoy, a refrain that was picked by many speakers drawn from the western block.
President Mugabe reminded the US leader that his country was a member of the same Nato that killed Col Gaddafi, and slammed the US and its allies for practising double standards.
“Mr President, may I begin my speech with reference to the most moving and glowing speech delivered by the US president yesterday. The import of which was to get us to condemn the death of the US ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens. I am sure we were all moved . . . I think we were all moved by that. It was a tragic death and we condemn it.
“But Mr President, about a year ago we saw the barbaric and brutal death of the head of state of Libya, a representative of his country and a member of the African Union.
“As we join the United States in condemning that death, shall the United States also join us in condemning the barbaric death of Gaddafi. It was a loss, great loss to Africa.
Elections set for March next year
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Herald Reporter
HARMONISED elections will be held in the last week of March next year and the proclamation of the actual dates will be done in due course, President Mugabe has said.
He said the referendum was expected in the first week of November.
This came out in an urgent application which the Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces filed at the High Court yesterday seeking an extension of the deadline to proclaim dates for by-elections in three vacant constituencies.
“Accordingly, due to the unavailability of financial resources applicant is asking that the holding of the by-elections be further extended to 31st March, 2013, the idea being to subsume the holding of the by-elections in the harmonised elections to be held in the last week of March 2013,” said President Mugabe in an application filed on his behalf by Justice and Legal Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa.
“The applicant’s desire is to hold the harmonised elections in the last week of March, 2013 and a proclamation to this effect will be made at the appropriate time.” The High Court had given the President up to next Monday to announce dates for by-elections in Nkayi South, Bulilima East and Lupane.
This was after the President sought an extension of the initial deadline of August 30 by a month.
The constituencies fell vacant after the incumbents — Abednico Bhebhe (Nkayi South), Njabuliso Mguni (Lupane East) and Norman Mpofu (Bulilima East) — were fired by the MDC.
President Mugabe argued that Government did not have resources to fund the by-elections, referendum and harmonised elections within six months.
Diarrhoea outbreak forces school to close
Paidamoyo Chipunza
Health Reporter
ST DOMINICS Chishawasha Girls High School has been closed after a diarrhoea outbreak affected over half of the pupils.
When The Herald visited the school yesterday, parents were collecting their children.
No lessons were being conducted as most of the pupils had left.
“My daughter called this morning asking me to come and pick her up saying everyone else was going home. She just told me that there is a diarrhoea outbreak,” said a parent who declined to be named.
Pupils said the outbreak started last Thursday.
They said their affected colleagues were given medication from the school dispensary, but more children continued to exhibit the same symptoms.
This resulted in school officials calling in health officials.
“The nurses who were called in recommended that the situation is not safe to keep us here since it might spread to other children, hence the decision to send us home,” said a pupil.
The pupil who has been suffering from diarrhoea since Tuesday said she had no clue as to what could have caused the outbreak.
“I started having diarrhoea on Tuesday evening and it got worse yesterday evening. I was also vomiting badly. Today, I am no longer vomiting or having diarrhoea after taking some medication from the dispensary but I still have severe stomach cramps,” she said.
Libyan behind Gaddafi capture dies in France
One of the young Libyan rebels credited with capturing Muammar Gaddafi in a drainage ditch nearly a year ago has died of injuries after being kidnapped, beaten and slashed by the slain leader’s supporters.
Hundreds of civil servants duped
Midlands Correspondent
HUNDREDS of civil servants in the Midlands, most of them teachers, were allegedly duped of their cash by a housing trust
Ingwebu scales down operations
Mbongeni Ncube
A shortage of opaque beer packaged in TetraPak (shake shake) is looming as Bulawayo brewer Ingwebu Breweries has scaled down production due to a shortage of packaging material.