LAWYERS have hit out at government’s decision to spend thousands of pounds on wigs made in England for local judges, saying the tradition evokes a colonial past that should not exist in modern Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe’s Judicial Services Commission (JSC) has placed an order for 64 wigs from Stanley Ley Legal Outfitters in London, at a…
INDUSTRY and Commerce minister Mangaliso Ndlovu has said Zimbabwe is losing $100 million annually to wheat imports due to failure by farmers to produce enough stocks. Officiating at an exhibition gala organised by the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (Gmaz) in Bulawayo recently, Ndlovu commended millers for venturing into contract wheat farming to ensure the…
EARLY assessments of the crop situation at Meikles group’s Tanganda Tea estates in Chipinge show that some of the crop has been damaged by the catastrophic Cyclone Idai, which descended on Zimbabwe recently, according to a key executive at the company. The official said early indications show that the avocado crop has been negatively impacted…
FARMERS have expressed reservations over the effectiveness of the government-initiated land audits in resolving land ownership disputes across the country. This emerged at the second launch of the national land policy meeting held in Bulawayo recently. [GoogleAd] Farmers said the government had over the years carried out several land audits which failed to resolve the…
WHEN the 2013 Constitution came into force, it provided for devolution of power through the creation of provincial and metropolitan councils. Chapter 14 of the new supreme law of the land states that the objective of devolution is to give powers of local governance to the people and enhance their participation in making decisions on…
AS I walked past the infamous Matapi Police Station in the capital city’s oldest suburb of Mbare, thoughts raced through my mind as I remembered the famed former High Court judge Justice Fergus Blackie who spent a night at the station’s smelly cells as a guest of the State way back in 2002. Only in…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa continues to stoke heated debate over his excessive foreign trips, with analysts saying his advisors must counsel him to cut down on his costs of travel. In his 18 months of rule, Mnangagwa has made at least 30 foreign trips to March 31, 2019, some a day long and to neighbouring countries,…
ON MARCH 24 every year, the world commemorates World Tuberculosis (TB) Day. Pre-commemorations for World TB Day, which were slated for Mangwe District in Matabeleland South Province, took place in the second city of Bulawayo recently. Key among the deliberations of stakeholders who congregated there was the issue of the discrimination of patients afflicted with the…
GOVERNMENT, through the ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services and the Inter-Ministerial Taskforce (IMT) has drafted three draft Bills as part of its commitment and pledges to implement the long overdue media law and policy reforms. In that regard, government convened a legislative drafting workshop or Writeshop on March 22-25, 2019 at a Nyanga…
THE Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government is grappling with growing demands for compensation by victims of oppression and torture under his predecessor Robert Mugabe’s regime. The Mnangagwa government, which toppled the Mugabe regime through a soft coup in November 2017, has agreed to shell out thousands of dollars in taxpayer’s money as compensation settlement for Zimbabweans, mainly…
