adminMake ICTs affordable: Shamu
Harare Bureau ZIMBABWE needs more affordable information communication technology to bridge the yawning digital divide, Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services Minister Webster Shamu has said.
ZimTrade urges Govt to offer incentives to market research companies
Business Correspondent ZIMTRADE Chief Executive Ms Sithembile Pilime has urged the Government to offer incentives to local industries that carry out market research and solo exhibitions in other countries and…
The HR practitioner as an agent for national development
HR column Hector Moyo I AM a student of the systems approach, a concept that recognises the fact that there are sub-subsystems that form subsystems, and subsystems that eventually form…
Working on public holidays and the law
Labour Matters Davis Ndumiso Sibanda MANY employers think that workers should not be paid while away from work during public holidays and end up on the wrong side of the…
Kenya president unlikely to attend ICC
Nairobi – Kenya’s foreign minister says no sitting president in the world has had to appear before a court, a statement that comes as Kenya appears to be laying the…
Obama nominates first woman Federal chief
Washington – US President Barack Obama planned to nominate Janet Yellen yesterday as the first woman to head the rate-setting Federal Reserve, according to media reports citing White House officials.
UN faces lawsuit over Haiti cholera epidemic
Lawyers representing Haitian victims of a cholera epidemic they blame on UN peacekeepers announced they were filing a lawsuit against the UN, with a New York court seeking compensation from…
Iran says owns more uranium than needed
Iran has more enriched uranium than it needs and plans to use that as a bargaining chip at nuclear talks in Geneva next week, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said…
Chemical watchdog seeks Syria ceasefire
The head of the world’s chemical weapons watchdog has called for temporary ceasefires in Syria’s raging civil war in order to meet tight disarmament deadlines.
State division triggers blackouts in India
Millions of people in south-eastern India have been facing widespread power blackouts after talks between the government and striking electricity workers failed.