adminCivil servants to get own bank: Minister
Pamela Shumba/Talent Munda Chronicle Reporters THE National Social Security Authority (NSSA) is working on setting up a building society to cater specifi cally for civil servants so that the government…
Speaker set to rule on 17 MDC-T MPs
Farirai Machivenyika Harare Bureau NATIONAL Assembly Speaker Advocate Jacob Mudenda is today expected to make a ruling on a bid by the Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC-T to recall 21 MPs from…
Fools Day hearing for Mutasa
Daniel Nemukuyu Harare Bureau Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku yesterday ruled that the constitutional challenge by former Zanu-PF secretary for Administration Mr Didymus Mutasa and his nephew Mr Temba Mliswa was…
Editorial Comment: Zim-Japan ties boost welcome
ZIMBABWE and Japan have strong bilateral relations dating back to independence in 1980. The two countries have a long history of cooperation at all levels and this is largely due…
Hwange equipment arrives
Fairness Moyana Hwange Correspondent THE first consignment of new equipment procured for the resuscitation of Hwange Colliery Company Limited (HCCL) arrived at the plant in Matabeleland North province yesterday, signaling the…
US police racism and the Ferguson courts
Abayomi Azikiwe LAST week, United States Attorney General Eric Holder issued two seemingly contradictory reports. It was officially announced that Darren Wilson, the police officer who killed unarmed African American…
Mali rebels reject peace deal
BAMAKO — Rebels in northern Mali have rejected a preliminary peace deal after days of talks with grassroots supporters, saying the document did not tackle the root causes of the…
Disasters drive displacements
Kristy Siegfried THE risk of people being displaced by natural disasters has quadrupled in the last 40 years and, unless governments adopt national and global plans to address the main…
Venezuelan parliament OKs ‘anti-imperialist’ law
CARACAS — The Venezuelan parliament on Sunday approved a law giving President Nicolas Maduro the power to legislate by decree for nine months in the face of what he described…
Farmers abandon cotton
Lovemore Zigara Midlands Correspondent THE Cotton Producers and Marketers Association (CPMA) says cotton output will plummet by 11 percent this year as growers continue to abandon the crop in favour of…