HARARE – A leading agriculture expert Professor Mandivamba Rukuni says government and the private sector must work together to help increase wheat production in the country. Rukuni yesterday told delegates attending the Bakers and Millers Association breakfast meeting in the capital that there was no way wheat production can be increased without all stakeholders pulling…
HARARE – A Nyabira couple connived to use a National Identity card (ID) of the wife’s sister to process their marriage certificate. Brenda Bara, 22, legally married Tawanda Saunyama, 27, a soldier with the Parachute Regiment, using Norest Bara’s national ID. The marriage was solemnised at the Rotten Row Magistrates’ Courts. Brenda was sentenced to…
HARARE – The Harare City Council (HCC) should allocate 15 percent of its annual budget to health in line with the Abuja Declaration, rights doctors have said. African governments 12 years ago pledged in the Abuja Declaration to allocate at least 15 percent of their annual budgets to healthcare by 2015. Zimbabwe Doctors for Human…
HARARE – The announcement last week by Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa that the 2014 National Budget presentation has been postponed to next month makes sad reading for the country. Since the outcome of election results in August, Zimbabwe is desperately waiting for clear policy direction to steer the country out of the economic stagnation being…
HARARE – Those who believe that agriculture is the backbone of the Zimbabwean economy need to revise this fascination very quickly. Any country in the developing world that celebrates and accepts the notion that its prosperity will be anchored in primary and extractive industries will forever be condemned into the vicious cycle of poverty. Such…
EDITOR — Claims by Chief Chinamhora as reported in your paper that Harare’s Central Business District (CBD), including Africa Unity Square, belongs to his chiefdom are not only a lie but an attempt to re-engineer history so as to suit his ego and that of the erstwhile colonisers who crafted the current national and ethnic…
EDITOR — We have a lot of outstanding criminal and civil cases in our country which need solving. There are many victims of domestic violence and disputes where men with interim orders need Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) evidence to convince themselves they are the father or convince the court they are not. The only solution to…
EDITOR — There have been reports that Zimbabwean food outlets are selling Brazilian chicken imports which have been embalmed with chemicals normally used to preserve corpses. This is very disturbing and has to end. Why do we have to import chickens? That is a big question in a country where we claim to be the…
EDITOR — This is a suggestion to our Registrar General. The metal identity card was a good idea, and good things of course take some investment. In recent years, Zimbabwe has had accidents which ended in the unsightly charring of the bodies of the deceased. We are still battling with the recent Chisumbanje inferno where…
HARARE – France says it is not yet ready to extend any financial support or credit lines to Zimbabwe. Laurent Delahouse, the country’s ambassador to Zimbabwe, yesterday said his government was still assessing the economic and political situation before committing. “It is too early to go into details about us (France) unveiling any credit lines…
