Candid Comment:Green Fuel: Ministers’ ‘ignorance’ of project shocking

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Candid Comment:Green Fuel: Ministers’ ‘ignorance’ of project shocking http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Friday, 18 May 2012 09:03 Itai Masuku GREEN Fuel has dominated newspaper headlines over the past few weeks, but not for reasons that are unlikely to turn anyone green with envy. In fact, it is a classical case of why Africa continues to be backward. Only yesterday, we …

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Govt to tackle inflated interest rates –– Biti

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Govt to tackle inflated interest rates –– Biti http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Friday, 18 May 2012 08:41 Gamma Mudarikiri GOVERNMENT will introduce a policy framework to reduce banks’ inflated interest rates, currently hovering between 15% and 25%, Finance minister Tendai Biti has said.Biti told journalists in Harare yesterday his ministry had fruitlessly engaged the Bankers Association of Zimbabwe (BAZ) to consider …

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Zimbabwe poachers target rare anteaters amid growing Asian demand for exotic animal parts

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Zimbabwe poachers target rare anteaters amid growing Asian demand for exotic animal parts http://www.washingtonpost.com/ By Associated Press, Published: May 17 HARARE, Zimbabwe — An animal welfare group in Zimbabwe says poachers are now targeting rare anteaters because of a growing demand for exotic animal parts for Asian traditional medicine. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty …

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‘UK won’t fund land reform now’

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‘UK won’t fund land reform now’ http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Thursday, 17 May 2012 16:57 Owen Gagare BRITAIN’S Ambassador to Zimbabwe Deborah Bronnert (pictured) says she does not see her country funding Zimbabwe’s land reform programme in the near future despite an agreement by the three political parties to Zimbabwe’s Global Political Agreement for the country’s former coloniser to pay compensation for …

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Policy failures render Zim a basket case

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Policy failures render Zim a basket case http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Thursday, 17 May 2012 16:58 Herbert Moyo ZIMBABWE’S growing reliance on food imports, particularly from regional countries such as Zambia and Malawi, is testimony to the country’s general regression over the years blamed on the government’s policy failures by players within the agricultural sector, the mainstay of the economy.The country …

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Forget the environment, we need hotels

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Forget the environment, we need hotels http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/ A government minister recently dismissed as trivial the call to preserve wetlands, urging instead that the natural environment should be exploited to boost tourism.16.05.1211:19amby Tonderayi Matonho Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister, Walter Mzembi. Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister, Walter Mzembi. At a recent media briefing, Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister, Walter Mzembi, …

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Attorney General Ordered To Pay Pension Arrears

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Attorney General Ordered To Pay Pension Arrears http://www.radiovop.com/ By Professor Matodzi Harare, May 16, 2012 – Justice Nicholas Mathonsi has ordered the country’s Attorney-General, Johannes Tomana, to pay more than $4 260 to National Social Security Authority (NSSA) as payment for allegedly defaulting on remitting workers’ pension contributions. Court papers seen by Radio VOP, said Tomana, who owns …

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350 Chimani families denied maize by ZPF chef at GMB

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350 Chimani families denied maize by ZPF chef at GMB http://www.swradioafrica.com/ By Tererai Karimakwenda16 May 2012 At least 350 starving families were recently denied maize seed under the government’s grain loan scheme in Chimanimani, because officials at the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) refused to deal with their MDC-T councillor. The GMB is required to release the maize …

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