Landmark case ruling on sexual harassment

Fidelis Munyoro Assistant News Editor
COTTON spinning firm Scottco (Pvt) Ltd has fired one of its senior managers for sexually harassing a subordinate, in a landmark decision that has since been endorsed by the Labour Court. Saul Wande, who was employed as a financial controller and company secretary, was fired after a

President files urgent chamber application

Zimbabwe needs to fill up 16 vacancies in the House of Assembly, 11 in the Senate and 164 urban and rural wards. The President’s request comes after the High Court recently granted an application by the Zimbabwe National Youth Service Graduate Association compelling him and the Zimbabwe

Zanu-PF works on guidelines

Herald Reporter
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

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Herald Reporter
The Constitution Parliamentary Select Committee and some sections of civic groups yesterday resolved their differences, giving the green light for the accreditation of delegates to attend the second all stakeholders’ conference scheduled for today to proceed. The civic organisations had threatened to

Mumbengegwi arrives in Iran

Herald Reporter
FOREIGN Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi arrived in Tehran, Iran, yesterday to attend and co-chair the seventh joint commission between Iran and Zimbabwe aimed at strengthening co-operation between the two countries. The joint commission meetings, which entered their second day

Houses demolished

Herald Reporter
OVER 200 Epworth families have been left homeless after their houses were demolished as illegal structures by Sunway City, a subsidiary of the Industrial Development Corporation of Zimbabwe. Residents of Chinamano co-operative woke up yesterday morning to find a bulldozer demolishing

Commuters demand better facilities

Herald Reporters
COMMUTERS have urged Harare City Council to urgently renovate sheds at bus terminuses and provide adequate street ligh-ting.
They also want adequate street lighting, open public toilets and to provide refuse

PM, Locardia settle out of court

Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his estranged wife Ms Locardia Karimatsenga Tembo have agreed to settle their US$15 000 maintenance case out of court.
Lawyers representing both parties yesterday told Harare magistrate Mr Rueben

Insight into the Duma clan’s unique burials

George Maponga Masvingo Bureau
The Ziki people who are part of the Duma clan that is dominant in the eastern parts of Masvingo in Bikita have a unique way of interring the remains of their dead chiefs. The burial of the late Mr Ishmael Mutema (59), who was the 10th Chief Ziki at Nedombwe Village in Ziki communal lands on

Shabani braces for Platinum, Chinda Boys clash

From Paul Mundandi in Zvishavane
FC PLATINUM coach Tendai Chikuni has conceded that Shabanie Mine will not be pushovers when the two rivals meet in a blood-and-thunder Mbada Cup quarter final clash on Saturday afternoon. The two clubs are fierce rivals. “Shabanie are not pushovers. I respect them and they have been

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