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Business ReporterTHE inaugural National Youth Awards organised by the Zimbabwe Youth Council are expected to be held in December this year to honour outstanding youths in various disciplines, a ZYC official said yesterday. The awards are guided by the Zimbabwe Youth Council Act Section 22, subsection (i), which
‘Economy to grow 9pc’
Tawanda Musarurwa and Kudzai KurevaTHE economy may grow by 8,9 percent next year on improved macro-economic conditions, Finance Minister Tendai Biti has said. “. . . Gross Domestic Product growth in 2013 is projected at 8,9 percent, while inflation will remain around 5 percent,” said Minister Biti in his 2013 Pre-Budget
‘Train Agritex officers in weather data interpretation’
Senior Agriculture ReporterGOVERNMENT has been challenged to intensify Agritex officials’ training in interpreting and conversion of weather data. Addressing delegates attending a stakeholders’ meeting yesterday, a senior Agritex official Ms Morleen Mupandawana said new staff members in her department were
Lack of inputs hampers agric season preparations
Agriculture ReporterPREPARATIONS for the 2012/13 summer cropping season have started, but stakeholders say more needs to be done to ensure farmers are ready.
Most of the farmers are concentrating on land preparations, while others are procuring inputs as they wait for the onset of the rainfall season which
Killer boat crew’s bail application thrown out
Innocent Ruwende Senior Court ReporterTHE High Court has thrown out an application for bail pending appeal by two crew members of the boat that killed 11 children in Lake Chivero on Christmas Day last year. Joseph Abrahams (37) and Fadil Ramon Weale (27) were recently jailed for five years each for culpable homicide. Also
Tobacco farmers go up seven-fold
Elita Chikwati Agriculture ReporterThe Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board has registered 49 000 growers to produce the crop in the 2012/13 summer season. The figure is seven times more than the total number of farmers who had registered to grow the golden leaf during the same period last year. Seven thousand growers
Cop positively identifies four MDC activists
Senior Court ReporterFour of the 29 MDC-T activists accused of killing a police officer in Glen View last year were yesterday positively identified by the investigating officer.
Constable Victor Mafavhuke, who is stationed at Glen View Police Station, also linked the suspects to members of the party who gathered at the shops
Mashingaidze saga — CIO agent jailed
Court Reporter
THE Central Intelligence Organisation operative and the Banket farmer who extorted money from Zifa chief executive Jonathan Mashingaidze were yesterday slapped with an effective two-year jail term each. Richard Mubaiwa (31) and farmer John Chari (32) pleaded not guilty when they appeared
Zim celebrates International Day of the Girl Child
Herald ReportersZimbabwe yesterday joined the rest of the world in commemorating the International Day of the Girl Child. The commemorations were held in Harare and Chitungwiza. The major highlights included performances by Zimbabwe’s top artists and the reciting of poems by school girls. In Harare,
Mutumwa Mawere loses SMM case
Zvamaida Murwira Senior ReporterTHE South African High Court yesterday ordered former shareholder for Shabanie Mashava Mine, Mr Mutumwa Mawere, to pay R18 million to the mining firm. Justice Nigel Willis upheld contentions raised by SMM that Mr Mawere used two South African firms under his control to divert funds due to