Herald Reporter
PARLIAMENT has ratified the protocol that seeks to control tobacco smoking amid concerns by legislators of the potential effects on the tobacco growers.
Health and child Welfare Minister Henry Madzorera steered the motion in both the House of Assembly and Senate last week.

Herald Reporter
THE land wrangle pitting a white Beatrice commercial farmer Mr Grant Patterson and a newly-resettled farmer Mr John Hapazari has taken a new twist with the former last week producing an offer letter a day before the expiry of his court deadline to leave the farm.

Chinhoyi Bureau
THE Environmental Management Agency has ordered Chinhoyi University of Technology to immediately stop operations at its multi-million-dollar brick moulding plant citing failure to adhere to environmental laws and misrepresentation of facts in its application.

Senior Reporter
AFRICA is mineral-rich and only needs to be more organised to exploit its strengths, Indian Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Jeitendra Triphati has said.
Speaking on the India-Africa trade recently, Mr Triphati said trade with the continent is expected to top US$90 billion by 2015.

Senior Reporter
VILLAGERS from Nkayi South constituency have vowed to vote out the MDC-T deputy organising secretary Mr Abednigo Bhebhe in the next election, saying the former legislature was a “foreigner”.

Municipal Reporter
HARARE Mayor Muchadeyi Masunda says the nerve centre from which the Central Business District should expand will be the proposed civic centre in the area surrounding Rowan Martin Building.

Masvingo Bureau
GOVERNMENT has commenced the rehabilitation of 10 schools in Mwenezi and the Limpopo Valley ravaged by a hailstorm that swept through the area a few months ago.
Several schools had their roofs swept away while others had window panes shattered when a 30-minute hailstorm affected the southern parts of Chiredzi and Mwenezi district at

Herald Reporter
CASH-STRAPPED Redcliff Municipality has appealed to Harare businessman Dr Philip Chiyangwa to settle their long standing land dispute out of court, The Herald has learnt.
Dr Chiyangwa and Redcliff town council have been embroiled in a land row for more than three years after the local authority first backtracked before reversing the land deal which

Herald Reporter
HEADMASTERS should recruit teachers with a high standard of professionalism to help maintain the country’s competitive edge in the educational sector at local, regional and international levels, a senior Government official says.

Takunda Maodza in MUTARE and George Maponga in MASVINGO
THE MDC-T confirmation exercise and primary elections in Manicaland and Masvingo were characterised by chaos yesterday, with some being abandoned midway to protect sitting candidates

Herald Reporter
GOVERNMENT is working on formulating a national road safety policy that is set to reduce road carnage.
This follows a sharp increase in road traffic accidents on Zimbabwe’s roads, which have claimed 416 lives and injured 2 463 people between January and March this year.