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Parliament acquires ISO 9001 certification

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Parliament of Zimbabwe last Friday became the first parliament in

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Zimasco suspends buying chrome from small-scale miners

Sydney Kawadza Assistant News Editor
Zimasco, the major Zimbabwean chrome producer, has stopped

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31 perish in weekend road accidents

Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Reporter
AT least 31 people were killed, while several others were injured in road accidents that occurred in one of the bloodiest weekends on record.
The country recorded 13 fatal accidents between Friday and Sunday.
On Friday, 15 people died when a commuter omnibus collided head-on with a haulage truck in Rusape along the Harare-Mutare highway.
The figure rose to 21 on Saturday after a bus smashed into a rock and killed six more people along the Matange-Mkwasine Road in Masvingo.
At least 26 people were injured in the same accident.
Another person died yesterday in an accident at Shangani along the Harare-Bulawayo Road.
Nine others were killed in separate road accidents in the last three days in several provinces.
National traffic police spokesperson Inspector Tigere Chigome confirmed the accidents, saying they were mostly attributed to speeding, faulty vehicles and substandard tyres.
“This weekend we have recorded 13 fatal accidents in which 31 people were killed countrywide,” he said.
“Several people were injured as a result of the accidents. We suspect that most drivers are speeding. For example, in the Masvingo case, the bus driver lost control of the vehicle and veered off the road before hitting a big rock and landing on its left side.
“There is an element of speed and drivers should abide by the speed limits.

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Harare mayor faces probe

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GOVERNMENT has appointed a team to probe Harare Mayor Muchadeyi Masunda on allegations of conflict of interest in awarding 3 000 residential stands to CABS and Old Mutual, companies he chairs.
But the mayor says he followed rules, made a full disclosure of all outside interests and recused himself from any meeting where there could be conflict of interest.
The team is primarily investigating the awarding of all council tenders since 2010, a move that could implicate several councillors.
Local Government, Rural and Urban Development Minister Ignatius Chombo has since ordered that the deal on the 3 000 stands be reversed.
He said the stands should be allocated directly to residents.
Under the deal, Old Mutual and CABS serviced the land, putting in roads, water and sewers, before allocating the developed stands.
Minister Chombo said by alloting the stands to CABS and Old Mutual, Mr Masunda was “double dipping” since he was the board chairman for both.
He said Mr Masunda had 60 percent stake in John Sisk, the company sub-contracted to service the stands.
Minister Chombo told a meeting with Harare residents last week that some councillors were enriching themselves at the expense of residents.
“Council must take back the 3 000 stands allocated to CABS and Old Mutual to benefit local people instead of benefiting two companies where Muchadeyi Masunda is the chairman.
“That is the kind of double dipping which Zanu-PF and the people do not accept.”
The committee to probe Mr Masunda and his council will be headed by Mrs Ellen Chivaviro, the finance and administration director at TelOne.
Other members of the team are Deputy Attorney-General Mrs Florence Ziyambi (deputy chair), Mr Jabulani Nyoni, Mr Shingai Ndoro, Ms Charity

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Supreme Court to decide on Anglican row this month

Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter
THE five-year wrangle over property owned by the Anglican Diocese of Harare is set to end on October 22 with the Supreme Court deciding on all the seven outstanding appeals.
The appeals were grouped following a directive by Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku last year in a bid to finalise the dispute.

The cases will be heard one after the other on the same day, but the parties are yet to agree on the order to be followed.

In 2007, the Diocese of Harare under Bishop Nolbert Kunonga withdrew from the Church of the Province of Central Africa and founded a new independent Angican Province of Zimbabwe with Bishop Kunonga

elected as Archbishop.

The new dioceses in the new province claimed the ownership of the property owned by the original Harare diocese.

The Church of the Province of Central Africa continued to function in the area of the old Harare diocese and elected Bishop Chad Gandiya as the Bishop of Harare within the older province.
The core of the dispute is whether a synod of the Harare diocese could retain the property when it switched provinces without the consent of the former province.

The High Court dealt with numerous applications and judgments were made, resulting in both parties appealing to the highest court.
The Supreme Court is now expected to determine the following cases on October 22:

• Bishop Elson Madoda Jakazi and another versus The Anglican Church of the Province of Central Africa and two others (SC118/10).

• Anglican Church of the Province of Central Africa versus Diocesan Trustees of Harare (SC180/09).