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Takunda Maodza Senior Reporter
DEPUTY Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has saluted Chinese investments in the country amid reports that Europe and
Schoogirl (9) wins EU drawing contest
Farai Kuvirimirwa Herald Correspondent
A-nine-year-old schoolgirl, Tapuwa Kabaira, yesterday became the first winner of the European Union Gender drawing
Zimpapers dominates National Tourism Awards
Masvingo Bureau
ZIMPAPERS on Tuesday night dominated the National Tourism Awards, scooping accolades in various categories. The group
Tsvangirai attacks indigenisation programme
Herald Reporter
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has attacked the indigenisation programme saying it has eroded investor confidence and damaged the country’s image.
Addressing a media briefing following his recent visit to the United States, PM Tsvangirai described the policy as toxic and controversial.
He said during his visit to the US investors had assured him that they were ready to do business with Zimbabwe provided that the country comes up with clear strategies that restore investor confidence.
Government pegs domestic workers’ wages
Peter Matambanadzo Senior Reporter
GOVERNMENT has set wages and conditions of service for domestic workers in a move that will result in the highest-paid such worker earning US$100 per month.
The new wages and working conditions were approved by Cabinet recently and are with effect from October 1.
Domestic workers – including child mi-nders, cooks and gardeners – will now be paid between US$85 and US$100.
Workers not residing with their employers are now entitled to accommodation, transport, electricity and fuel or cooking allowances.
A yard worker or gardener will now get US$85 per month or a weekly wage of US$19,60, while a cook or housekeeper is
Biti gets ultimatum
Agriculture Reporter
FINANCE Minister Tendai Biti should immediately release US$40 million to buy inputs and recapitalise the Grain Marketing Board to pay farmers for grain delivered, Cabinet has ordered.
Cabinet made the directive at its weekly Tuesday meeting.
GMB will receive US$10 million to pay farmers for grain delivered while US$30million will be used to pay input suppliers for subsidised inputs under the US$45 million Government facility.
Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Joseph Made yesterday said the money will be used to pay for maize seed, Compound D, agricultural lime and ammonium nitrate fertilisers.
The Herald tops readership market
Herald Reporter
MORE than 1,8 million Zimbabwean adults read The Herald, almost twice as many as its nearest competitor, according to an in-depth and independent survey commissioned by the advertising industry.
The Herald dominates both urban and rural markets.
During the second quarter of this year, the Zimbabwe All Media Products and Services Survey estimated that 1 820 018 adults read The Herald, around 27 percent of the entire adult population, urban and rural.
Penetration was better in urban areas, as with all newspapers, and The Herald was read by 34 percent of the entire adult urban population; about 23 percent of the entire rural adult population said they read The Herald.
Zamps’ official position
THE Advertising Research Foundation yesterday issued a statement to clarify the market position of Zimbabwe’s media
Gwisai case: Undercover cop infiltrated meeting
Court Reporter
A POLICEMAN working undercover infiltrated a meeting in which political activist Munyaradzi Gwisai and five others
Boy (8) tries to sexually assault girl in toilet
Court Reporter
AN eight-year-old boy at a Harare police school allegedly sneaked into the girls’ toilet and attempted to be intimate with a girl