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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 […]
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The Herald February 23, 1989 SOME people carry their lunch in their briefcases, others carry snakes, as passengers on a Harare bus discovered to their horror on Tuesday. The usual tiresome, but uneventful journey from Greendale to the city centre became a great deal more exciting when a baby python was seen emerging from a […]
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The Herald, February 21, 1989 THE 21st February Youth Movement celebrates its third anniversary today, the 65th birthday of President Mugabe, the patron of the movement along with Amai Sally Mugabe, the First Lady. The main anniversary celebrations will take place countrywide this weekend with the President addressing members on Sunday and with his address […]
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The Rhodesia Herald, February 20, 1971 EDINBURGH. – If a girl wants a happy marriage, she should steer clear of biologists, says a survey by an Edinburgh University research unit. It also says that if a girl wants a family, she should avoid classical scholars. One in eight biologists’ marriages end in divorce, and 41 […]
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COMPUTERS may be time savers but they are certainly not infallible, as members of the University of Rhodesia pension scheme have just discovered.
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The Herald, February 16, 1989 SALEM. – A woman was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Tuesday for force-feeding her adopted four-year-old daughter a fatal dose of salt as punishment for stealing sugar. Beth Michelle Riggs (36) wept as Roanoke County circuit judge Kenneth Trabue imposed the sentence on her second-degree murder conviction in […]
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The Herald, February 15, 1989 THE Public Service Commission will give further consideration to the recent issue of maternity leave in consultation with all interested people, the Secretary for the Public Service, Dr Sam Agere, said in a statement yesterday. Maternity leave was recently slashed from 90 to 60 days with effect from the beginning […]
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The Herald, February 14, 1989 THE Minister of Community and Co-operative Development and Women’s Affairs, Cde Joice Mujuru, yesterday told working women not to be so critical of their female bosses. Addressing the opening of a workshop for women managers of development projects, Cde Mujuru said women tended to be critical of members of their […]
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The Rhodesian Herald, February 13, 1971 LONDON. – Last night, thieves were chewing over the Great Potted Beef Sandwiches robbery. The gang set out to grab a payroll and ended up with Bert Barnes’ lunch. But that wasn’t their only blunder. They got the time of the pay-roll pick-up wrong. They attacked the wrong man. They […]
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The Rhodesian Herald, February 12, 1971 A BULAWAYO businessman, Mr J. H. Wolffe is going to calm down for three days before he “splashes out” with the first prize of $75 000 which he won in Wednesday’s State Lottery draw. “I don’t want to do anything rash,” he said today. This is the first time that […]
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The Herald, 9 February, 1989 THE British government, unveiled proposed new driving laws on Tuesday aimed at reducing the 5 000 deaths and more than 300 000 injuries a year on roads. Dangerous driving and drunk driving were the main targets, Transport Secretary Paul Channon told the House of Commons. “We are committed to cut […]
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The Herald, February 8, 1989 RATS climbing on the insulators of a substation in Harare’s Mufakose area and shorting a circuit caused the black-out of part of the suburb on Monday night. A spokesman for the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority, said yesterday the black-out lasted two hours. It was reported at 8.18pm and a maintenance […]