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5,5m registered to vote, voter registration to resume
Harare Bureau
ZIMBABWE has slightly over 5,5 million registered voters, with the number expected to increase when mobile voter registration begins on 3 January.
Mobile voter registration would be done ahead of harmonised elections expected in March next year.
Although Registrar General Mr Tobaiwa Mudede could not be drawn to comment on the figures yesterday, he said as at November, registered voters were 5 589 355.
The number is lower than those who registered to vote in the 2008 polls by nearly 300 000.
There were 5 612 464 registered voters by December 2007, but the number rose to 5 934 768 by February the following year following a mobile voter registration campaign.
February was the cut-off date for new registrations for the 2008 elections.
The fall in the number of registered voters could be a result of deaths.Chanakira appointed Investment Authority chairman
Harare Bureau
PROMINENT banker Mr Nigel Chanakira has been appointed chairman of the Zimbabwe Investment Authority’s 11-member board with immediate effect, Economic Planning and Investment Promotion Minster Tapiwa Mashakada announced yesterday.
Small-scale miners contribute 1,8 tonnes to gold output
Small-scale miners have this year contributed at least 1,8 tonnes to national gold output, an official said yesterday.
Dinesh Naran spared agony of jail life
Court Reporter
PROMINENT Bulawayo businessman Dinesh Manilal Naran heaved a sigh of relief yesterday when he was spared the agony of jail life and instead fined $2 000 (or 12 months in prison).Radio DJs invade Byo
Entertainment Reporter
A number of DJs mainly from Harare will this weekend take turns to entertain patrons at Bulawayo’s Club Forty40.
Banks brace for holiday rush
Makhosi Sibanda
THE Bankers Association of Zimbabwe (BAZ) yesterday said it would make provisions to accommodate last minute transactions by clients following the declaration of Monday as a public holiday by President Mugabe.
The declaration of Monday as a holiday, the eve of Christmas Day, has left members of the public with only today to do their banking transactions and shopping, as tomorrow is also another public holiday, Unity Day.
The Ministry of Home Affairs said in a statement yesterday that the President declared the public holiday in terms of Section 2(2) of the Public Holidays and Prohibition of Business Act (Chapter 10; 21).
In an interview yesterday, BAZ president Mr George Guvamatanga said they have in the past made efforts to accommodate last minute transactions.
“In any case we have other means that can enable members of the public to withdraw their money, such as the Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) and point of sale systems,” said Mr Guvamatanga.
He said they were committed to offering the public convenient banking services during the holiday.
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Sikhumbuzo Moyo
‘Address plight of people living with disabilities’
Lungile Tshuma
On 3 December Zimbabwe joined other nations in commemorating the day of people living with disability.