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The Herald, 19 March, 1980 AN empty desk, three telephones, a desk lamp and a row of settees and chairs greeted Mr Robert Mugabe when he first set foot in the Prime Minister’s office yesterday. The richly carpeted and curtained office on the first floor of Milton Buildings, once the official office of the former […]
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The Herald, March 18, 1980 TWO top officials of Mr Peter Mandaza’s National Front of Zimbabwe said yesterday they had resigned from the party, and would join Zanu (PF). Mr Christopher Rambanapasi, the party’s election director and economic planning secretary, and Mr Crispen Chitando, the publicity secretary, said in a joint statement their decision had […]
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The Herald, March 15, 1991 ZIMBABWE’S largest bus company, Zupco, has crossed a landmark in its history of passenger transportation by introducing bus drivers. The company has been quietly recruiting women bus drivers for the past few weeks for its fleet of mini and train buses and the 76-seater conventional buses. “Zupco is a dynamic […]
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The Herald, March 14, 1998 LONDON. – A jailed fraudster in Britain is earning more than £30 000 (Z$900 000) a year working for an advertising agency while serving his prison sentence. He drives from the prison in North Yorkshire every day in his own car to work in nearby York, returning to his cell […]
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The Herald, March 13, 1998 PHNOM PEΝΗ. – Three people were killed and more than 10 wounded when a playground dispute between children was settled by their fathers with a hand grenade, police and witnesses said yesterday. Police said the dispute between the children, the origins of which were unclear, but which had been largely […]
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The Herald, March 12, 1991 A ROTTWEILER bit passers-by and police on Paris’ central Champs Elysees, as the French government made plans yesterday to ban breeding and imports of dangerous attack dogs. The animal was shot and wounded by police on Tuesday after its master, a boy of 14, took off its muzzle and set […]
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The Herald, March 8,1980 A MAN who tried to steal cables from a pylon in the Salisbury suburb of Hatfield last September fell from the pylon after being shocked, was shot in the leg and savaged by a dog. And this week, he was jailed by a Salisbury magistrate. He was one of three men […]
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The Herald, March 7, 1980 NINE women will sit in the House of Assembly when the first Parliament of Zimbabwe convenes. Six will be ZANU (PF) members and the rest Patriotic Front. The ZANU (PF) MPs will be Mrs Shebba Tavarwisa (Victoria); Mrs Julia Zvobgo (Midlands), wife of the party’s elections director, Mr Eddison Zvobgo; […]
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The Herald, March 6, 1980 DEFENCE staff somewhere in Rhodesia announced that a highly skilled helicopter pilot is on the loose. He is a wanted man. Combined Operations want to know what prompted him to steal an Alouette helicopter belonging to the Rhodesian Air Force. A spokesman for Combined Operations Headquarters, confirmed last night that […]
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The Herald, March 5, 1980 A RECORD 80 000 copies of The Herald’s second edition were sold in Salisbury yesterday – coming off the presses just over three hours after the election results were announced. A roar broke out from the crowd waiting for the papers and as the vans pulled away they were mobbed […]
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The Herald, March 1, 1980 MORE than 2,6 million people had voted by late yesterday in the independence election, which ended last night after three days of polling. And election officials were last night predicting that the final poll would be well over 90 percent of the estimated 2,9 million black electorate. Although the number […]
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The Rhodesia Herald, February 29, 1972 SECOND marriages are frequently stable, happy and “magnificently blessed by God”, says a major church report on marriage released in South Africa yesterday. The report, by the Anglican (Church of the Province) Commission on Marriage, puts forward proposals which could revolutionise church regulations about the remarriage of divorced people. It […]
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The Herald, February 28, 1989 HARARE City Council will from June this year introduce a medal of honour to be awarded to three citizens chosen for their outstanding contributions to the welfare of the city and its people. The cost of awarding the medals will be $1 400 this financial year and will be reduced […]
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The Herald, February 27, 1989 AFRICAN foreign ministers have ended their annual conference with a request to the United Nations to ensure there is a formal ceasefire between South Africa and South-West Africa People’s Organisation. The request to UN Secretary-General Dr Javier Perez de Cuellar was in a form of resolution adopted in a Saturday […]
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The Rhodesian Herald, February 26, 1971 A PROPOSAL by the Town Planning Committee that the Minister of Local Government and Housing should be advised that the Salisbury City Council intended to allow the old building in a corner of Cecil Square to be used as a publicity bureau was referred back at yesterday’s monthly meeting […]