adminVeld fires claim 16 lives
Crime ReporterSIXTEEN people were killed last year while more than 1,3 million hectares of land was destroyed by veldfires countrywide, a Cabinet Minister has said.
Environment and Natural Resources Minister Francis Nhema yesterday said a total of 1 861 fires were recorded during the same period. He said in
Govt mulls wheat contract farming
Herald ReporterGOVERNMENT is working on modalities to bring on board the private sector into contract wheat farming following models that have brought success in tobacco and cotton. Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Dr Joseph Made told the Senate on Thursday that wheat
Mutodi speaks on arrest
Herald CorrespondentTROUBLED businessman Energy Mutodi blames unscrupulous land owners for his failure to provide his clients residential stands. The businessman-cum-musician, the owner of Zim-Trust, was arrested on Thursday on allegations of swindling desperate homeseekers. Mutodi claimed that he had
Call for equal representation
Herald ReporterWOMEN, Gender and Community Development Minister Dr Olivia Muchena called for policies to ensure that women are equally represented in various councils and organisations. She said men and women were known to complement each other, hence the importance of having women in various
Security guard turns thief
Court ReporterA SECURITY guard, who was in the habit of breaking into apartments at a flat he was guarding in Westgate, will spend a month in prison. Tendai Sanyamandwe (33) hatched a plan and obtained a master key which he used to break into the apartments to steal food and cash while the residents
Mbuya Shamu to be buried today
Herald Reporter
MBUYA Mary Shamu, mother to Media, Information and Publicity Minister Webster Shamu, who succumbed to heart problems on Wednesday, will be buried in Musengezi today. A church service for Mbuya Shamu (90) was held at Moonlight Funeral Parlour in Harare yesterday morning before the body
President consoles Mutevera family
Farirai Machiwenyika Senior Reporter
PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday paid his condolences to the Mutevera family following the death
Tobacco selling season expected to be shorter
Agriculture Reporter
THE 2013 tobacco selling season is expected to be shorter by 90 days
Zanu-PF suspends chairman, 5 others
Tendai Mugabe Senior Reporter
ZANU-PF has suspended its Manicaland provincial chairperson Cde Mike Madiro and four other senior officials. The five were suspended on allegations of fraud and corruption involving over US$700 000 reportedly collected from diamond mining firms in Chiadzwa. They reportedly
No changes to ZEC secretariat: Chinamasa
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THE composition of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission secretariat will not be changed before harmonised elections expected this year and the matter is now a closed chapter, Justice and Legal Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa has said. He said in an interview yesterday that the three