adminDelays by GMB hamper preps for new farming season
Business Reporter
Delays by the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) to pay farmers for grain deliveries will hamper preparations for the coming farming season, Zimbabwe Farmers Union president Mr Silas Hungwe has said.
He said if farmers did not have funds, there was no way they could get inputs.
Zanu-PF embarks on vigorous development campaign
Chronicle Reporter
ZANU-PF has embarked on a vigorous national campaign to ensure development in all provinces as it gears for the forthcoming elections and its national conference.
Addressing party members at Davies Hall in Bulawayo yesterday, the party’s national political commissar, Cde Webster Shamu, said a development committee would be set up in the city to look into bread and butter issues affecting residents.
“The committee will work closely with the acting provincial chairperson Cde Killian Sibanda and Bulawayo’s Governor and Resident Minister Cain Mathema to ensure that Bulawayo people, who are hungry for development, get it,” said Cde Shamu.
Tsvangirai polygamist
Harare Bureau
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is officially a polygamist
Council ordered to cancel tender
Chronicle Reporter
THE Minister of Local Government, Rural and Urban Development, Dr Ignatius Chombo, yesterday said the Bulawayo City Council should cancel a tender it put out for the leasing of its shops in the city.
The council on Thursday last week invited tenders for the lease of 52 council shops in the four suburbs of Iminyela, Mabutweni, Njube and Pelandaba.
The move was condemned by sitting tenants some of whom wanted to buy the shops from the local authority.
In an advert in the Press, the council indicated that the kiosks at the Centenary Park, Barham Green and North End swimming pools were also up for grabs.
Teachers stranded as PSC rejects diplomas
Harare Bureau
THOUSANDS of teachers who attained a Diploma in Education from the Zimbabwe Open University have been rendered jobless after the Public Service Commission refused to recognise the qualification.
The diploma was launched five years ago and benefited thousands of people, most of them temporary teachers who had failed to get training vacancies at conventional colleges.
The first group graduated in 2010.
PM’s wedding off
Harare Bureau
HARARE provincial magistrate Mr Munamato Mutevedzi yesterday cancelled a marriage licence he recently issued to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his fiancée Ms Elizabeth Macheka.
High Court judge Justice Chinembiri Bhunu dismissed Mr Tsvangirai’s urgent chamber application to suspend the lower court’s decision early this morning.
The application also sought an order allowing the wedding to be held today.
Mr Mutevedzi was convinced that an unregistered customary law marriage existed after watching a video recording showing the PM’s emissaries paying lobola to the Karimatsenga family on November 11 last year.
The PM also had his bid to issue Ms Karimatsenga’s lawyers with a divorce token of US$1 before the magistrate thrown out.
Chunga defies club president
Harare Bureau
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Violence erupts over gold mine
Midlands Bureau Chief
Zuma hints at action against Malema
Cape Town — Government may be planning to move against former ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema, President Jacob Zuma suggested on Thursday.