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For ordinary people indigenisation is a lie http://www.thestandard.co.zw Nevanji Madanhire What exactly does the proposed indigenisation of foreign banks mean to ordinary people? A bank to the man on the street, in the circumstances Zimbabwe finds itself in now, is a place where often-underpaid workers withdraw their monthly salaries. The bulk of salaried people are civil servants, who …
Irrigation improves food security in Gutu http://www.thestandard.co.zw Sunday, 08 July 2012 11:22 BY STEPHEN TSOROTIGUTU— A three-year sustainable livelihoods intervention project launched by an international non-governmental organisation in Gutu has improved the food situation in parts of the drought-prone district, an official has said. Oxfam Advocacy and Policy officer, Lucina Machanzi said over 240 households in two wards …
ZimPride urges young Zimbabweans to register to vote in elections http://www.swradioafrica.com/ By Tichaona Sibanda06 July 2012 ZimPride, a new election awareness and advocacy group targeting the youth, is urging young people to have their voice heard and register to vote in the next harmonized election. John Vincent Chikwari, director of the group, told SW Radio Africa’s Election Watch …
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Hwange thermal on stream next year http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Thursday, 05 July 2012 16:54 Gamma Mudarikiri THE rehabilitation of Hwange thermal power station is set for completion by end of 2013 and this should significantly address erratic power supply in the country, incoming permanent secretary in the Ministry of Energy and Power Development Patterson Mbiriri said this week.The on-going rehabilitation …
Agricultural policy flip-flops damaging http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Thursday, 05 July 2012 15:57 Peter Gambara THE current impasse between cotton growers and ginners has seen disagreeing parties point fingers at each other as the marketing season progresses without the crop being sold. Cotton growers in the 1980s were respectable farmers as they got good returns from cotton and were able to …
New rules a body blow for tourism http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Thursday, 05 July 2012 17:53 Paidamoyo Muzulu ZIMBABWE seems to have shot itself in the foot once again following the publication of controversial indigenisation regulations which threaten to deal the country’s recovering tourism industry a body blow.Indigenisation and Empowerment minister Saviour Kasukuwere last Friday published the contentious General Notice 280 …
‘Drought-stricken villagers getting rotten maize from GMB’ http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Thursday, 05 July 2012 18:02 Wongai Zhangazha THE Grain Marketing Board (GMB) is facing accusations by a civil society monitoring organisation of distributing rotten maize to villagers hard-hit by drought mainly in Chinhoyi, Mhangura and Banket.A recent report released for the period January to March 2012 by Civil Society Monitoring …
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Zim debt now US$10,7 billion http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Friday, 06 July 2012 10:40 ZIMBABWE’S external debt overhang is now estimated at US$10,7 billion and, at 111% of GDP, has become an impediment to external sustainability, according to an IMF report seen by the Independent.This debt overhang was as at end of 2011, with the equivalent of 59% of GDP being …
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War vets invade black-owned farms http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/ Suspected war veterans here have invaded commercial farms owned by fellow blacks in a move that flies in the face of Zanu (PF)’s purported empowerment drive.03.07.1206:49pm by Brenna Matendere Munyati Midlands Provincial Chief Lands Officer, Joseph Shoko, confirmed receiving reports of the invasions. “We have ordered everyone who has illegally settled on …