adminCall to align investment plans to MTP
Herald Reporter
Zimbabwe’s strategic plans, investment programmes and budgets must be aligned to the Medium Term Plan, Vice President Joice Mujuru has said. In a speech read on her behalf by Minister of State in her office Sylvester Nguni at the launch of the first annual Medium Term Plan implementation progress report in Harare
US$90m needed to resuscitate SMM
Labour ReporterThe Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation requires US$90 million to resuscitate full operations at Shabanie Mashava Mines. SMM is the parent company of Gaths Mine and Shabanie Mashava Mines and is under management of the ZMDC. ZMDC chairman Mr Goodwills Masimirembwa yesterday said that they were not yet
US$2m needed for Zanu-PF conference
Herald Reporter
AT least US$2 million is needed for the successful staging of the 13th Zanu-PF Annual People’s Conference that will be hosted by the Midlands Provincial capital Gweru from December 4-9. Zanu PF spokesperson Cde Rugare Gumbo last week said 5 000 delegates are expected to attend the conference. “At least US$2 million
Council shifts attention to Musami Dam
Municipal Reporter
HARARE City Council has abandoned hopes that Kunzvi Dam would be built anytime soon and has begun mobilising funding for the construction of Musami Dam.
The city is facing serious water shortages. Investigations show that behind the scenes the city is seriously mapping the way forward after it felt let down by
Normalcy returns to Chibi High School
Masvingo BureauNormalcy has returned to Chibi High School in Masvingo where several boarding school pupils had to leave school and return home last week following an outbreak of mass hallucination and mysterious hysteria. A cloud of fear hung over the Reformed Church in Zimbabwe-run institution last week after some of the affected pupils
ZRP women’s club donates groceries
Herald ReporterThe corporate world should support widows and orphans from the security forces whose parents and spouses ensured national peace and stability, vice president of the Zimbabwe Republic Police Kuyedza Women’s Club, Mrs Isabel Chihuri, has said. Mrs Chihuri was speaking at Morris Depot in Harare on Sunday during a donation
Zimra ordered to reinstate employee
Labour ReporterThe Labour Court has ordered the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority to reinstate a revenue specialist it had fired for buying a vehicle in South Africa during the Zimbabwe dollar era. Andrew Dlomo bought the vehicle using foreign currency at a time when he was earning his salary in local currency. The vehicle was bought for US$2 000.
10 boarders steal, roast school pig
Farai Kuvirimirwa Herald ReporterTEN Murewa High School pupils were last week expelled after they stole and roasted a school pig. The pupils — who were all in Form Three — are aged between 15 and 17 years. Mashonaland East acting provincial police spokesperson Sergeant Tendai Mwanza confirmed receipt of a report on the
Authority decries ruling on electricity tariffs
Felex Share Herald Reporter
THE recent Administrative Court judgment nullifying the Zimbabwe Electricity Regulatory Authority tariff increase will plunge the country into darkness if effected, an official has said. ZERA chairman Mr Canada Malunga told journalists in Harare yesterday that the judgment was an impediment to private
Govt sets new law on diamonds
From Hebert Zharare in VICTORIA FALLS
GOVERNMENT has introduced a quota system which stipulates that 10 percent of locally-produced diamonds are cut and polished in the country, President Mugabe has said. He said this while officially opening the inaugural Zimbabwe Diamond Conference that is being held under the theme,