Day: March 12, 2024
Parly to fast track age of consent and PVO Bills
PARLIAMENT has resolved to fast-track the revised Private Voluntary Organisations Amendment Bill, Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Protection of Children and Young Persons Amendment Bill, and the Administration of Estates Amendment Bill as the Second Republic moves to close potential gaps in the laws. The three Bills were tabled before the National Assembly last week […]
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3 investors eye sugar industry
THREE potential investors have expressed interest in tapping into investments in the country’s sugar industry amid plans to set up a new milling plant in the Lowveld, which could break the Tongaat Hulett-dominated monopoly in the sugar-producing industry. Government is working on facilitating the widening of the sector, as it believes this would result in […]
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Business community commits to President’s vision
Wallace Ruzvidzo-Herald Reporter THE business community cherishes the conducive environment ushered in by President Mnangagwa and will play its part to ensure supermarket shelves are stocked with local products and maintaining price stability. Responding to President Mnangagwa’s call for the business sector to step up to the plate in the quest for an upper middle […]
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‘Sino-Zim medical efforts impressive’
Mukudzei Chingwere–Herald Reporter Medical collaboration between Zimbabwe and China has impressed Government, especially after it has now matured into the twinning arrangement involving Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals and Hunan Provincial People’s Hospital in Changsha, Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga said yesterday. In a speech read on his behalf by the Minister of Health and Child […]
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Tobacco marketing season opens amid high hopes for better prices
Precious Manomano-Herald Reporter Farmers have started delivering tobacco to the two licenced auction floors ahead of the opening tomorrow, with high expectations for better prices this season. Deliveries of the contract crop start on Thursday. Tobacco growers were affected by poor rains and those who have a good crop expect better prices on the back […]
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Embassy deploys to aid SA crash victims
THE Zimbabwe Consulate in Cape Town has sent a team to the scene of an accident where 13 Zimbabweans were killed and others injured, including 12 still in hospital, when their coach collided with a haulage truck on the N1 highway near Hex River Pass, Western Cape, South Afric Tragedy struck on Saturday night when […]
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