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Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa yesterday said he will address the issue of salaries for chief executives of state enterprises in his mid-term statement today.

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It is hardly news that the rich have more political power than the poor, even in democratic countries where everyone gets a single vote in elections. But two political scientists, Martin Gilens of Princeton University and Benjamin Page of Northwestern University, have recently produced some stark findings for the United States that have dramatic implications for the functioning of democracy – in the US and elsewhere.

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Zimbabwe is holding its third sale of diamonds amounting to 500 000 carats at Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC) in Belgium, the company handling the tender said yesterday.

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A Member of Parliament last week said the KFC franchise which reopened in Harare two months ago is importing sliced, peeled potatoes.

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There are huge deposits of limestone in the Mberengwa Mountain suitable for both soft cement and agricultural fertilisers and the Chinese are interested in exploiting the deposits, Deputy Mines Minister Fred Moyo said last week.

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Buhera South Member of Parliament Joseph Chinotimba says there is need to distinguish true war veterans from the rest because even sellouts during the Ian Smith regime were war veterans.

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Air Zimbabwe requires US$368 million for recapitlisation- The national airline Air Zimbabwe requires US$368 million to buy new aircraft and for operational costs, the acting chief executive Edmund Makona said today.  He said the airline requires US$330 to buy new aircraft and US$38 million for operations expenses, according to APA news agency.  The national airline has been paralysed by debts which amount to US$180 million according to Deputy Transport Minister Petronella Kagonye. She said the airline could not fly to London or Beijing because it owed US$32 million which had to be cleared first. Transport Minister Obert Mpofu said the airline was likely to resume flying to the two destinations as it was on the brink of signing a technical partnership to service the two routes. The airline has 10 aircraft but only two are said to be operational.

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