adminCourt okays 2013 poll dates
Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter
PRESIDENT Mugabe’s application that all by-elections be held during the harmonised elections slated for March next year has been granted.
Judge President George Chiweshe yesterday extended dates for by-elections in three vacant Matabeleland House of Assembly constituencies to March next year.
Government bonus, pay negotiations off
Felex Share Herald Reporter
NEGOTIATIONS for bonuses and salary increments for civil servants have been stopped after Government ordered the worker representative unions to first resolve their leadership squabbles. Acting Secretary for Public Service Mr Rodgers Sisimayi said the Government would
Dry taps for Harare suburbs till weekend
Municipal Reporter
HARARE’S western and parts of southern suburbs will have no water until weekend owing to a major pipe burst within the Morton Jaffray Water Treatment Plant. Water shortages pose a great health risk high-density suburbs. Each time the suburbs run dry, residents resort to fetching water from
We’re ready to conduct elections, says ZEC
Zvamaida Murwira Senior Reporter
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission is ready to conduct a referendum and harmonised elections in March next year if Treasury provides funds on time, a senior official has said. ZEC acting chairperson Mrs Joyce Kazembe said they needed US$104 million for the referendum. Mrs Kazembe was responding to questions from
Savanhu donates to the elderly
Herald Reporter
ZANU-PF Politburo member Cde Tendai Savanhu yesterday handed
War veterans storm Biti’s office
Herald Reporters
Hundreds of war veterans yesterday stormed Finance Minister
Teacher arrested for abusing six pupils
Chronicle Reporter
POLICE in Matabeleland North have arrested a 42-year-old male teacher from Sipepa High School in Tsholotsho District for allegedly sexually abusing six schoolgirls.
Water crisis committee to sell water conservation promotion material
Chronicle Reporter
THE Bulawayo water crisis committee will next week start selling water conservation promotional material in a bid to fund-raise towards the duplication of the Insiza pipeline, the Mayor, Councillor Thaba Moyo, said yesterday.
Parties in poll hearing
Harare Bureau
PARTIES in the case in which President Mugabe is seeking extension of by-election deadline will today address the court on the merits of the case.
Judge President George Chiweshe yesterday said the presentation of the merits would enable him to make a decision on the application.
Ministry short of $45 million to complete PSIP projects
Diana Muringisi
THE Ministry of Public Works requires about $45 million to complete some of the 550 Government projects under the Public Sector Investment Programme (PSIP).
Work on the projects has been on a standstill for the past 15 years.
Minister of Public Works Joel Gabuza Gabbuza said that an audit by his ministry revealed that 106 projects were almost 60 percent complete and require $45 million to be completed by the end of the year.