adminColtart refutes Govt ban on holiday lessons
Herald Reporter
Education, Sport, Art and Culture Minister David Coltart has
President in Windhoek
From Robert Mukondiwa in WINDHOEK, Namibia
PRESIDENT Mugabe arrived here yesterday to attend a
Salamao under fire over Zim utterances
Herald Reporter
SADC executive secretary Mr Tomaz Salamao has no right to determine policies for the regional bloc as he only serves as an employee of the organisation, Government officials have said.
This follows his recent media reports that President Jacob Zuma’s mediation role in Zimbabwe was not on the Sadc summit agenda set for Luanda, Angola, next week.
President Zuma, who is the Sadc appointed facilitator to the inter-party dialogue in Zimbabwe, is expected to assume the chairmanship of the Sadc Organ on Defence, Politics and Security Co-operation in Angola.
The facilitator reports to the organ on Zimbabwean issues.
Government last week indicated that the summit should consider the possibility of President Zuma playing the two
Row over Tekere’s estate
By Daniel Nemukuyu
TWO wills have emerged in the estate of the late nationalist Cde Edgar Tekere, with a woman claiming the bulk of his property was bequeathed to her 16-year-old daughter.
The girl – whose birth certificate confirms the late national hero was the father – produced a second will through her mother after another one that Dr Ibbo Mandaza, as the executor, had already filed at the High Court.
The will that was first filed at the High Court was dated 6 May 2011 and it granted Ms Pamela Tekere, the surviving spouse, control and use of all the property in the estate as well as taking half of the money in bank accounts.
The other half, according to that will, was bequeathed to the St Augustine’s Orphanage in Penhalonga.
UK riots sign of poor governance — observers
By Takunda Maodza
RIOTS in Britain are a reflection of poor governance by the coalition between Conservatives and the Labour party and the violent crackdown on protesters by police has shown that the British are not “purer than other human beings,” political observers said yesterday.
Britain has been rocked by violent riots since Saturday that have so far claimed four lives.
The violence, observers say, proves the British are not champions of democracy and human rights.
Yesterday, British Prime Minister David Cameroon deployed 16 000 armed police officers in the streets with an instruction to use whatever tactic and resources at their disposal to crush the rioters.
By Petros KausiyoGhost of Rhodesia’s land tenure
From Opitato Guvamombe in Bindura
FROM a distance, the mountains and interlocking hillocks look awkwardly craggy but when you get close to them, you notice
Bees in war against poverty
By Ruth Butaumocho recently in Nyanga
Thirty-eight-year-old Judith Rutsito of Nyajese village in Nyanga was devastated when her husband died in 2002, leaving her
Focus: The key to acceleration
ONCE again The Arena hosts Ozias Mucheriwa, a motivational speaker and writer, who has sent the writer a number of his
Wildlife-based land reform way to go
By Johnson Siamachira
IN some areas of Zimbabwe, the number of wild animals is growing, not as a consequence of conservation but of utilisation.