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JOHANNESBURG. — Over 30 000 striking workers at Anglo American Platinum’s Rustenburg mines in South Africa rejected the firm’s new return-to-work offer at the weekend, a labour leader said. Amplats said last Friday it offered a 4 500 rand (US$520) one-off payment and agreed to start wage talksIsrael to escalate attacks
Israel said it was poised to escalate attacks on the Gaza Strip yesterday following a surge of rocket and mortar salvoes by Hamas and other Palestinian factions. A missile strike wounded four Israeli troops on jeep patrol along the Gaza boundary on Saturday, triggering army shelling thatArafat’s death probe: Russia to assist
RAMALLAH. — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday said Russia will take part in investigating the death of his predecessor Yasser Arafat alongside France and Switzerland. “There is a complete co-ordination between us and the French and also experts from the Russian government to
SK Moyo hails Tanzania
Herald Reporter
ZANU-PF national chairman Cde Simon Khaya Moyo has extended Zimbabwe’s
Prove that diamonds are funding army: Mnangagwa
Tendai Mugabe Senior Reporter
Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa has challenged fellow Cabinet ministers to
Management committee throws back Copac report
Herald Reporter
THE management committee has orde-red Copac to rewrite its report on the Second All Stakeholders’ Conference after it reportedly once again failed to capture important submissions. Irked by the wishy-washy job, the management committee last Thursday ordered Copac co-chairpersons to “go
Harare to erect three new sewage treatment plants
Michael Chideme Municipal ReporterCOUNCIL has approved the construction of three new sewage treatment plants at Crowborough, Gwebi and Lindhurst Farms. The plants will cater for the western suburbs, Marlborough, Mabvuku, Tafara, Ruwa and Epworth areas. With a capacity to treat 20 million litres a day, the plants will cost
Hospital holds mass burials for 700 neo-natal infants
Tendai Rupapa Herald ReporterHarare Central Hospital Last Friday conducted mass burials for 700 neo-natal infants, which had gone for several months in its mortuaries due to resource constraints. The hospital had been unable to incinerate or bury the bodies due to financial constraints. The burials were done through
Hijackers bleed cigar exporters
Fidelis Munyoro Assistant News Editor
ZIMBABWE is investigating possible industrial espionage amid reports that South African tobacco firms are hiring hijackers to pounce on export cigarette consignments in transit to that country. In the past year or so, indigenous producers exporting to South Africa lost an estimated R100
Neto: Angola supports regional integration
Herald ReporterAngolan Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Pedro Hendrik Vaal Neto, has stressed his country’s commitment to integration in the Sadc region through increased investment in transport and communication. Ambassador Neto said this at a ceremony to mark his country’s 37th independence anniversary