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Clean up housing cooperatives

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HARARE – An idea that easily gets traction with desperate home-seekers is the proposed clean-up of the housing cooperative sector to make leaders of such organisations accountable to members. Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo speaks to this intention by spearheading a commendable campaign with recent instructions, orders and regulations announced this week. Members have been…

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Abandon slum clearance policy

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HARARE – The Harare City Council will tomorrow commence a slum clearance drive in this commercial hub and bustling metropolis with four million inhabitants. In 2005, over 700 000 people were evicted from the townships in another slum clearance drive dubbed Operation Murambatsvina. But eight years after Murambatsvina, the slums have sprouted everywhere again. It’s…

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Improve food in State hospitals

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EDITOR — I recently had the chance to visit a relative at a State hospital in Harare. Notably the situation of the quality of food has not improved despite the dollarisation and the availability of food in this country. I wonder if the relevant authorities are deliberately saving food by making sure that it is…

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Govt must prioritise health system

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HARARE – It has become common for indigent families to launch heart-wrenching appeals for funds to take relatives for medical treatment abroad. Most tear-jerking of these appeals relate to children. Recently, the family of five-year-old Natasha Sanyanga, launched an appeal for $100 000 to pay for a life-saving bone marrow transplant in India. The parents…

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Give agric inputs to all, not on political lines

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EDITOR — I applaud the government on their serious drive to rescucitate the agricultural sector and ensure food security for this country. Huge amounts of inputs are being distributed to families in most parts of the country and right in time for the farming season. I urge the government to also ensure that these inputs…

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Plight of surveyors needs urgent attention

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EDITOR — I would like to react to comments by the honourable minister for Lands and Rural Resettlement Herbert Murerwa that the country is facing an acute shortage of land surveyors hence the delay in issuing out 99-year leases to newly-resettled farmers. This is indeed true, but I must point out that while this shortage…

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Housing projects raise hope

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HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF government, though it is too early to pass a verdict, appears to have set itself on delivering to long-suffering Zimbabweans. Directly or indirectly, the government has provision of housing to impoverished and low income earners among its top priorities, at least judging by what is unfolding in post…

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Let us fight against abuse of children

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EDITOR — It is high time authorities come hard on child abusers as these evil acts have now reached alarming levels. Hats off to the organisers of the recent demonstrations by children against child abuse as it will go a long way in helping curb this vice. The children have played their part it is…

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‘Zanu PF rigs own election’

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HARARE – The Zanu PF provincial elections appear to be the icing on the cake of  the farce that has characterised the election of 2013. The allegations and counter allegations by the rival factions in the analogue party as it prepares for an elective congress in 2014 go a long way in showing that the…

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Eric, Eric, Eric, why?

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EDITOR — This is just one manifestation of the tactical errors of the MDC. People like Eric Knight and Ezra Tshisa Sibanda were just imposed candidates to contest as MPs though their membership and status in the party is quite dubious. MDC leaders must open their eyes and keep their ears to the ground. The…

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