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Herald ReporterGovernment will open a technical college in Mashonaland West in September in line with the policy stipulating that every province should have such a college and a university.
The development follows the appointment of a steering committee to spearhead the establishment of the polytechnic college in May this year.
Tsvangirai booed
Herald ReporterMDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai was last week reportedly booed by his party’s angry Manicaland provincial executive members and supporters after he declared that National Housing Minister Giles Mutsekwa was the party’s candidate for Chikanga-Dangamvura ahead of lawyer Arnold Tsunga.
Editorial Comment:We hope SA will continue to maintain good neighbourliness
The concept of neighbourliness demands that parties treat one another in a manner they would want to be treated themselves. Also, a good neighbour does not interfere in your domestic processes but lends support when invited to in order to achieve certain goals that will be in sync with the neighbour’s aspirations.Aspiring councillor attacked
Peter Matambanadzo recently in CHIWESHEZanu-PF secretary for the commissariat for Mutaradundu district and an aspiring councillor in Chiweshe communal lands have had one hut each burnt down by suspected MDC-T activits which resulted in them losing property worth a combined US$3 000.
Mutodi fraud probe widens
Crime Reporter
POLICE have urged all the civil servants who lost their money in a housing scam involving businessman and musician Energy Mutodi to come forward and assist with investigations.
Duo in the dock for stealing Zanu-PF party regalia
Court Reporter
Two Beatrice men who were offered a lift by Home Affairs co-Minister Kembo Mohadi’s driver along Harare-Masvingo Road and stole 46 various Zanu-PF party regalia were on Friday spared a jail term.
PM’s director fined
Tendai Rupapa Senior Court ReporterDirector of research in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s office Thabani Mpofu was last week fined US$400 for failing to renew his firearm certificate and keeping the gun in a non-secured place.
MDC chairman to perform community service
Court ReporterMDC chairman Joubert Mudzumwe and his accomplice Phellistus Wazulu will perform 140 hours of community service after they were convicted of two counts of fraud and theft of trust property.
US Think-tanks meet to scuttle polls
Lloyd Gumbo Herald ReporterTHE West has intensified efforts to discredit the harmonised elections with various US think-tanks converging at a conference organised by the National Endowment for Democracy to discuss the elections in Washington DC today.
MDC-T’s rich friends sing blues
Herald ReporterWHILE MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai continued his “rich friends’’ mantra at rallies he held in Bulawayo and Gweru over the weekend, the pledge rang hollow as dire news emerged from his chief backers in the United States over the weekend with Detroit, a city at the heart of the US auto industry, filing for bankruptcy.