HARARE – The National Aids Council of Zimbabwe yesterday urged church leaders to embark on massive campaign against all forms of gender-based violence (GBV) that is fuelling HIV and Aids. In an address to churches leaders, Madenyika Magwenjere, the provincial Aids action council chairperson, said church leaders must advocate for zero tolerance to gender-based violence….
HARARE – Two crucial days followed each other recently. They both had significance for Zimbabwe: October 24 was Independence Day for neighbouring Zambia, which played a crucial role in our own independence in 1980. Then on November 11, 1965, a group of whites decided to grab independence from the British and declare an independent Rhodesia….
HARARE – That our government is broke is a fact of life but the desperate and embarrassing levels this administration has reached in trying to tax churches is shocking as it shows a regime with no ideas to take the nation out of the current economic quagmire. Government now wants to tax churches. This is…
EDITOR — I need to register my shock and disapproval at government’s alleged ploy to tax churches. Need I remind you that they are not businesses but places of worship? The mere thought of government officials targeting churches is vexatious and disturbing because it translates to religious persecution. I know that people who have never…
EDITOR — I understand the economy is in a bad state but milking money from the people is not laudable. Zimbabwe’s cities are not that big, such a system might work in America but it is likely to cause unrest in this country. The price of kombis is already too high for the average person….
CAIRO – Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi has warned that the country cannot be stable until he is returned to power. In a statement read out by lawyers who met him in prison, he said he had been kidnapped and held against his will since the military deposed him in July. He also denounced as…
BERLIN – Former German President Christian Wulff is going on trial accused of receiving and granting favours in office. He is alleged to have accepted the payment of hotel bills by a film producer in return for lobbying while he was premier of Lower Saxony in 2008. Mr Wulff – who stepped down in February…
EDITOR — The Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA) has learnt that, there was never a full council resolution to demolish houses deemed to be illegal. However, there is a standing full council resolution on the illegality of structures built incognito, without any council approval. Further to that, a local daily paper carried an article which…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s sugar producers are seeking government’s intervention in restricting imports of the commodity, Hippo Valley Estates (Hippo) said. The group — 50 percent owned by South Africa-based agricultural commodities processor Tongaat Hulett — said “local market sales were being lost to imports as a result of the current low world price.” “The sugar…
HARARE – Automation of the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE)’s trading system is expected to boost equities’ daily turnover to more than $5 million, the Securities and Exchange Commission of Zimbabwe (SecZim) says. The local bourse’s daily turnover — which is the value of shares traded per day — currently averages $1,5 million. “Experience elsewhere shows…
