August 2014

HARARE – Deputy Agriculture minister, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development responsible for Cropping, Davis Marapira, says private grain traders are being selfish in mounting a legal challenge on the constitutionality of the $390-per-tonne minimum maize and sorghum price set by Government. Marapira said the millers only had sights on their “selfish and artificial profits” and did…

HARARE – The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) is set to hold public interviews next month to recruit three more judges for the High Court. JSC secretary Rita Makarau on Thursday briefed the media on the development. She said the commission, on March  14, 2014, advertised three judges’ positions for the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe and…

HARARE – Zesa Holdings (Zesa) owes Harare City Council (HCC) $3 million for rentals accrued over a period of five years. According to minutes of the finance and development committee, switching centres which were on council land have been occupied by Zesa free of charge. “The director of works was now requesting authority to lease…

HARARE – Successive pronouncements by former PF Zapu heavies that “no one is assured” of a post under an arrangement with Zanu PF means party chairman Simon Khaya-Moyo is not guaranteed of the Zanu PF deputy presidency. While the ex-Zimbabwean ambassador to South Africa has had his fair share of supporters, among them former minister…

HARARE – President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday once again expressed bitterness at the way his father abandoned him and his siblings to start a new family in Bulawayo. Addressing delegates at the sixth national Women’s League conference, Mugabe said all his life, he was known as Bona’s (his mother) son as his father played no…