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The Herald, May 30, 1981 THE Government will announce the new name for Salisbury and new street names within the next month or two, the Minister of Local Government and Housing Mr Edson Zvobgo, told an annual ACCOZ congress here yesterday. The new ACCOZ president, Mr Abner Botsh, asked during the open business session when […]
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The Herald, May 29, 1981 THE Government is determined to take measures to keep prices under control, the Minister of Economic Planning and Development, Senator Bernard Chidzero, told the ACCOZ congress. He said people could expect a strengthening of existing controls and legislation as the need arose. But he said also that the measures would […]
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The Herald, May 26, 1981 ABOUT 120 peasant farmers are to be settled on two cooperative farms by Colcom, in association with Devag and the Pig Industry Board, with the aim of boosting pig production in Zimbabwe. The general manager of Colcom, Mr Mike Southhall, said the pilot schemes would be in Mashonaland and Matabeleland. […]
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THE Acting Prime Minister, Mr Simon Muzenda, last night paid tribute to African states for their total support of Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle and he bitterly attacked South Africa’s apartheid policy.
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A RHODESIAN-EDUCATED surgeon and his wife could face a public flogging for breaking the strict no-alcohol laws in Saudi Arabia.
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THE Government has taken the first step towards establishing seven growth-points in Mashonaland Central designed to change the face of rural areas there.
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The Herald, May 22, 1981 THE search for a national anthem for Zimbabwe through a competition has been re-opened, a Government spokesman said yesterday. The earlier competition had produced no acceptable entries, he said, and urged entrants to use words which “the mass of Zimbabwe’s population, particularly the children, can learn easily”. LESSONS FOR TODAY […]
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ZIMBABWE can make giant strides in bringing elementary education and advanced technical training to its rural areas if it adopts mobile training systems, Mr Stuart Scott, of World Radio Systems, technology and education division, said yesterday.
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The Herald, May 18, 1981 ZAMBIAN officials at the Victoria Falls Border Post dispensed with immigration formalities yesterday to allow the Minister of Local Government and Housing, Mr Eddison Zvobgo and his party to have an uninterrupted view of the Falls. The Minister is here for a two-day Local Government Association conference. Mr Zvobgo told […]
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The Herald, May 17, 1979 AUCKLAND. – A woman who had her womb removed eight months ago gave birth to a healthy 2,3kg baby girl on Tuesday. Mrs Margaret Martin (29), a mother of three girls, had a hysterectomy last September. But doctors said a fertilised egg already in her body survived the operation and […]
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The Herald, May 16, 1981 ONE of five men appearing at a Bulawayo magistrates court yesterday for sentence on charges of stealing tyres from Llewllin Barracks, said he committed the offences because of a threat on him and his family’s lives by the receiver of the property. Bobby Gibson Edwards (26) told the magistrate, Mr […]
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The Herald, May 12, 1981 THE chairman of Zimbabwe International Trade Fair, Mr Gordon Handover, said yesterday that only a minority of Zimbabwean industrialists had been unable to deal with export orders received at Trade Fair because of the foreign currency shortage. Reacting to reports yesterday which questioned the value of Trade Fair, Mr Handover […]
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The Herald, May 9, 1981 PREJUDICE and an unwillingness to accept women on an equal footing with men still prevail in Zimbabwe, the chairman of the standing committee, Mrs Jess Sanders, told the annual congress of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs here last night. She said a study had been made […]
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The Herald, May 8, 1981 A TRIP to China to promote the Zimbabwe tobacco industry was “highly successful”, Mr Roy Ashburner, vice president of the Zimbabwe Tobacco Association, said yesterday. Commenting on a Sunday Mail report on the possible sale of tobacco to the People’s Republic of China, he said the association did not accept […]
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A MEETING here today will launch a new concept in the care of the terminally ill and bereaved in Matabeleland.