adminMutambara faction seeks alliance
Harare Bureau
MDC faction led by Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara is reportedly looking for a party
Zanu-PF working onelections guidelines
Harare Bureau
Zanu-PF is working on guidelines that will regulate the conduct of primary elections ahead of harmonised elections set for early next year.
The guidelines, which are being worked on by the party’s department for legal affairs, are expected to address issues to do with the imposition of candidates and factionalism.
Zanu-PF spokesperson Cde Rugare Gumbo confirmed the development in an interview yesterday.
“We are working on guidelines on how to conduct primary elections. The guidelines will provide mechanisms dealing with such issues as the imposition of candidates, which was being caused by factionalism. We have not yet finished drafting the guidelines but they will be completed before we go for national elections,” he said.
Rahman’s fate to be decided
Harare Bureau
RAHMAN Gumbo faces a bleak future as Warriors coach after his team blew up a golden opportunity to qualify for the third time for the Africa Cup of Nations following a dismal performance which ended in a 2-0 defeat in Angola at the weekend.
Rahman’s fate to be decided
Harare Bureau
RAHMAN Gumbo faces a bleak future as Warriors coach after his team blew up a golden opportunity to qualify for the third time for the Africa Cup of Nations following a dismal performance which ended in a 2-0 defeat in Angola at the weekend.
Tsvangirai wields axe
Harare Bureau
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday reportedly fired his senior secretary Mr Ian Makone and three other high-ranking officials for allegedly meddling in his marital affairs.
The other officials reportedly thrown out of the PM’s Office are protocol officer Mr James Maridadi and policy implementation principal director Pastor Lazarus Muriritirwa.
Mr Gandhi Mudzingwa was redeployed from the PM’s office to the MDC-T’s Harvest House headquarters.
It is understood that the PM made the drastic changes at the instigation of his wife Ms Elizabeth Macheka.
Headmaster loses exam papers
Pamela Shumba
THE acting headmaster of Sijahugwe Secondary School in the Siganda area of Bubi District, Matabeleland North, allegedly lost O-level examination question papers while travelling from Bulawayo to the school on Sunday.
Sources close to the matter said the examination papers included those of English Language, Mathematics, Geography, Ndebele, Integrated Science and Commerce for the November examinations.
The acting head, Mr Panganai Zimhuno, reportedly lost the examination papers which he had collected on Friday last week in Bulawayo.
By end of day yesterday, he was reportedly still trying to locate the question papers with assistance from the police in Bulawayo and education officials.
Asiagate players get life bans
Harare Bureau
NEARLY a year after they embarked on the final phase of the match-fixing probe,
Leather manufacturers urged to target foreign markets
Business Reporter
SMALL to Medium Enterprises have been urged to manufacture high quality products that can compete on the international markets to boost the country’s exports.
Parly team get Mat’land’s input for 2013 budget
Oliver Kazunga
THE Parliamentary Committee on Budget, Finance and Investment Promotion will from today until Friday hold marathon meetings in the Matabeleland region to get stakeholders’ input for the 2013 national budget.
Pharmaceutical sector ‘must revert to single pricing system’
Victoria Falls Reporter
The pharmaceutical industry must come up with a single pricing system to curb price disparities now rife in the industry, an official has said.