MDC-T top brass mocks Tsvangirai

Herald Reporter
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is a weak political operator who “does what the last person tells him to do,” and lacks strategic direction for MDC-T, his party’s senior officials; treasurer-general Roy Bennett and secretary-general Tendai Biti have said.

Bennett said Mr Tsvangirai remembers the advice of the last person he would have spoken to while Biti, who blasted his boss for ‘‘for lacking a strategic plan for the MDC in Government” in a cable dated June 30 2009, attributed Mr Tsvangirai’s rare moments of lucidity to prior preparation by party officials, him included.
The MDC-T leader is also given to taking advice from informal advisors, usually foreign, while ignoring the counsel of elected

No to illegal land deals with white farmers, President

Takunda Maodza Herald Reporter
GOVERNMENT will investigate reports that some land reform beneficiaries are leasing farms to displaced white former commercial farmers,

Stray lions cause havoc in Beitbridge

Beitbridge Bureau
VILLAGERS in Tshikwalakwala and surrounding areas in Beitbridge East continue to endure the pain of losing their livestock to

Govt demands senior councils’ salary details

Herald Reporters
GOVERNMENT has ordered local authorities to immediately provide details on salaries and allowances being given to

ZNFPC offers free contraceptives

Herald Reporter
ZIMBABWE National Family Planning Council (ZNFPC) has set integration Programme whereby people would access family

Government shelves Chitsa clan relocation

Masvingo Bureau
GOVERNMENT has abandoned plans to relocate nearly 1 000 families of the Chitsa clan who have been illegally staying in

Man jailed for contempt of court

Court Reporter
A SUSPECTED serial fraudster who allegedly swindled Minister of State in Vice President Joice Mujuru’s Office Sylvester

Court upholds ruling on suspected bogus estate agent

Court Reporter
A HIGH court judge has upheld the decision by a Harare magistrate not to grant suspected bogus estate agent Christopher

Gweru City Council defies Government directive

Midlands Correspondent
Gweru City Council is defying a Government directive to reinstate fired chamber secretary Mr Richard Masinire amid reports that

Irrigated tobacco planting season begins

Agriculture Reporter
FARMERS have started planting irrigated tobacco for the 2011-12 cropping season. Irrigated tobacco is planted from September