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Seed CO Profits Take a Tumble
ZIMBABWE Stock Exchange-listed seed producer Seed Co's after-tax profits plunged 34 percent to US$12,6 million in the year to March 31, 2013, weighed down by a decline in sales. Revenue for the 12 months also took a knock at US$111 million, representing a 6 percent retreat on the previous year. In a statement, group secretary Mr John Matorofa said the intake rate of the Government's ...
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Poultry Products Now Competitive
The regularising of imports and removal of import duty on soya meal has resulted in the local poultry producers competing with the South Africa, Zimbabwe Poultry Association chairman, Mr Solomon Zawe, has said. Speaking at the ZPA annual general meeting in Harare on Wednesday, Mr Zawe said there has been a remarkable decline of imported poultry products on the market. He said Brazilian ...
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Philips to Invest in Zim Health
Royal PHILIPS, the leading global healthcare and lighting company, has expressed its commitment to help improve health care infrastructure in the country. Debriefing journalists in Harare yesterday about their annual roadshow, the company's general manager in Africa, Mr Peter van de Ven, said technology enhanced lives as it enabled early detection of complications. This year's ...
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Zimra Faces Internet Challenges At Beitbridge Border Post
Beitbridge Bureau - The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority has engaged their internet service provider to attend to the technical fault at Manica Transit Shed in Beitbridge where the processing of vehicle imports has been seriously affected by connectivity problems. The development follows an outcry by car importers forcing the parastatal to revert to calculating duty for vehicle imports at Beitbridge ...
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The Case for Buying Local Goods
AS we edge towards the Buy Zimbabwe Procurement Conference scheduled for Monday May 27, at the Meikles Hotel, the demand for decisiveness in taking practical steps to reduce the current unsustainable import deficit by, among other things, definitive local procurement quotas, has gained momentum On Wednesday, the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development held the last of its public consultation ...
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Water Situation in Harare to Ease
POTABLE water supply to all parts of Harare is likely to stabilise in another 10 months once work on the first phase of the African Development Bank funded Water Supply and Sanitation Rehabilitation Project (UWSSRP) is complete, a senior council official has said. Town clerk Dr Tendai Mahachi gave the assurance after he confirmed that work had begun at Morton Jaffray Water Treatment Plant and ...
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President Signs New Constitution Into Law
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has signed into law the country's new constitution which aims to bolster human rights and curb presidential powers. As a next step, lawmakers must set a date for general elections. "This is a happening of joy, great joy indeed," Mugabe said at the signing ceremony on Wednesday to loud applause from lawmakers. "We want now to build the ...
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Masekos Burial Programme Begins
THE body of national hero and former Matabeleland North Governor Retired Major-General Jevan Maseko will be taken to his farm in Nyamandlovu today after a morning service at the Selborne Park Seventh-Day Adventist Church here. Rtd Maj-Gen Maseko, who succumbed to renal failure, amyloidosis cancer and diabetes on Monday, will be buried at the National Heroes Acre on Sunday. The body is expected ...
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ANC U.S. Congratulate Zim On Constitution
South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) and the United States ambassador to Zimbabwe have congratulated President Mugabe and the generality of Zimbabweans following the coming into law of a new Constitution for the country on Wednesday. Zimbabweans from across the political divide also saluted the inclusive Government for successfully sealing the constitution deal without ...
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President Leaves For AU
President Mugabe left for Ethiopia today to attend the African Union's golden jubillee celebrations that will take place in that country's capital Addis Ababa on Saturday. He was accompanied by his daughter Bona, Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara and several Government officials. President Mugabe was seen off at the Harare International Airport by Vice President Joice Mujuru, ...
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More Farmers Turn to Tobacco
The tobacco grower base continues to grow with 90 638 farmers having registered for the 2013 marketing season. This is an improvement on the 68 604 growers that had registered during the same period last year. Of the total registered farmers for this year 27 799 are new growers. According to the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board, 74 083 of the 90 638 registered farmers have delivered their ...
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Majority of Poor in Rural Areas
MORE than 90 percent of the country's poor people are living in rural areas, a survey by the University of Zimbabwe's Institute of Environmental Studies has revealed. The survey that was conducted in 16 districts of the country show the continued deepening of rural poverty and further increase in the rural-urban divide. The survey was carried out in Hwange, Hurungwe, Mbire, Mazowe, ...
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Mijintu Plays in Own Backyard
FIERY rhythm guitarist Innocent Mijintu returns to perform on a one-off show at Gute Executive Nightclub in Chitungwiza's Ziko Complex tomorrow. The former Barura Express and Orchestra Mberikwazvo member considered as one of Zimbabwe's most gifted composers and instrumentalists is expected to serenade music lovers with a long playlist from his five albums. The gig, which kicks off at ...
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One More Witness in Madiro Case
Mutare - THE State will call its last witness next Wednesday to testify in the stock theft case involving suspended Zanu-PF Manicaland chairman, Mike Madiro and his deputy Dorothy Mabika. The two allegedly stole 10 beasts meant for the 21st February Movement celebrations held in Mutare last year. Provincial magistrate, Mrs Lucie-Anne Mungwari, deferred the case to May 29 after area public ...
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Defence Security Meeting Ends
The three-day meeting of the Sadc Inter-State Defence and Security Committee Human Resources Working Group ended in Harare yesterday with delegates resolving to strengthen the security of the region. Addressing delegates at the closing ceremony, Zimbabwe Defence Forces Chief of Staff Service Personnel and Logistics, Air Vice Marshal Titus Abu-Basutu, commended the ISDSC for calling for ...
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Hospitals Face Blood Shortage
Government hospitals are facing a serious shortage of blood following the National Blood Services Zimbabwe's decision to demand cash upfront for blood and its products from the hospitals, it has emerged. Most of the hospitals cannot afford to buy blood on a cash basis because of shortage of finances. Masvingo provincial medical director Dr Robert Mudyirandima said on a monthly basis, the ...
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Zanu-PF Probe Team in Chinhoyi
ZIMBABWEANS should vote resoundingly for Zanu-PF to defend the legacy of President Mugabe, the party and freedom fighters to avoid revolutionaries being yoked with reactionaries, a senior party official has said. Addressing Politburo, Central Committee and provincial executive members in Mashonaland West province national chairman Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo said the party faced a watershed ...
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Supreme Court Complies With Constitution
The Supreme Court started complying with the country's new Constitution yesterday when nine judges, instead of the previous six, sat on the bench to deal with a case brought by an HIV and Aids activist. The previous constitution provided for only six judges to sit on the bench when the Supreme Court is dealing with constitutional matters. In its first court session held in terms of the ...
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U.S. $25 Million Needed for Voter Registration Exercise
At least US$25 million is needed for the country to carry out a comprehensive mobile voter registration process, Co-Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi has said. Minister Mohadi said the normal voter registration process was going on well. "If we are to get more money we will have more teams on the ground for the mobile voter registration. "I cannot give you an exact budget but we ...
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Zimbabwe Churches March for Peace
WORSHIPPERS from different churches yesterday held a peace awareness campaign in Mhondoro ahead of the country's watershed harmonised elections this year. The event, one of the biggest in a rural area, saw hundreds of worshippers marching from Watyoka Clinic to Muzavazi Primary School calling for a peaceful environment in their community. Methodist Development and Relief Agency(MeDRA) ...
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Zimbabwe Key Allies Dump MDC-T
KEY allies snubbed MDC-T's national policy conference last Friday, scuttling party leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai's bid to form an electoral pact with them ahead of a watershed election set for this year. The Herald is reliably informed that MDC-T sent written invitations to Professor Lovemore Madhuku's National Constitutional Assembly, Mr Munyaradzi Gwisai of the International ...
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President Mugabe Makes Two Safe Appointments to the Supreme Court
Two more judges have been appointed to the Supreme Court bench in line with the country's new constitution which was gazetted this week. Justices Ben Hlatshwayo and Bharat Patel were sworn in by President Robert Mugabe at State House on Wednesday, bringing the total on the bench to nine. The new judges were said to be elated at their promotion from the High Court to the superior court, ...
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Zimbabwe June Election Unlawful in Terms of New Constitution
The new Constitution that was formally gazetted by Robert Mugabe on Wednesday makes his desired June election date technically unlawful, with months worth of preparations constitutionally required. Mugabe and his ZANU PF party have been pushing for elections to be held as soon as the current Parliamentary term comes to an end on June 29th. This is the official date that marks the end of the ...
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Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission Pleads for Funding
The dysfunctional Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has approached parliament in a bid to get funding for its operations, a few months before the end of its tenure. The commission was set up in 2009 under the current inclusive government, to investigate human rights abuses following the bloody 2008 elections. But four years later and a few months from the expiry of its life on June 29th, ...
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Zimbabwe HIV Test Case Heard By Zimbabwes New Constitutional Court
A rights activist, who is living with HIV, filed a test case in the newly constituted Constitutional Court on Thursday to highlight the challenges and ill treatment facing people living with the virus in the country's prisons. The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights said Douglas Muzanenhamo's landmark legal application becomes the first case under the new constitutional dispensation, ...
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