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Britain is pursuing the Zimbabwean government to pay former Rhodesian pensioners but it has told the pensioners that it cannot fund any ex-gratia payments because it has no legal responsibility or obligation to pay the pensions which are solely the responsibility of the Zimbabwean government.

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Mzembi kwana – Zimbabweans say about hosting 2034 World Cup- Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi today came in for a lot of flack after he said that Zimbabwe would bid for the 2034 FIFA World Cup. “I spoke to FIFA president Sepp Blatter during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa and he told me that it was possible for Zimbabwe to host the 2034 FIFA World Cup as long as we keep on having such big dreams and vision. Nothing can stop us from hosting the 2034 FIFA World Cup and we are going to put our bid to host it no matter what,” he was quoted by The Herald as saying. “Kikikikikiki iwe Muzembi ………..kwana wazvinzwa ka?,” commented one reader. ” Yaaah mufesi ichi chigrade chinenge chekwaMutoko,” said another. “This is daydreaming at its worst. Does he believe himself? If he does, he needs urgent psychiatric help,” said yet another. But Mzembi had a few supporters. “It seems some of the junior politicians are doing much more than their seniors by far. We can do it, let’s go comrade,” one said. “We held a lot of successful birthday parties for the president. Surely what’s the World Cup compared to these massive parties?” wrote another. “It is an achievable dream; let us rope in the other SADC countries, then our bid becomes truly serious! Keep up the good work Engineer Mzembi.”

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The rehabilitation of ZISCO Steel, now known as Zim Steel, is likely to take some time as 80 percent of the machinery had become obsolete but the Indian investor ESSAR is geared up and will start importing some of the raw material required by local industry.

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Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said President Robert Mugabe never said that whites should not own land in Zimbabwe. They can own land if they are citizens of Zimbabwe and right now there is not a single province which has no white farmers.

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The Zimbabwe government has started implementing policy measures aimed at addressing the 2014 fiscal gap, improving the quality of public expenditures and enhancing financial sector stability, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday.

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Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi today told parliament that it was possible for Zimbabwe to host the 2034 soccer World Cup. All that was needed was vision. People should not be short-sighted as this was 20 years away and by then a lot would have changed including players for the national team.

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Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda yesterday ruled against a resolution by the National Assembly to adopt a motion to appoint an Ad Hoc Committee to thoroughly inquire into and recommend measures to restore corporate governance and investigate cases of corruption in private and public entities.

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The Zimbabwean government commissioned a Canadian company to do exploration work covering the entire spectrum of the country’s mineral wealth but the company disappeared without giving the government the results.

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The Deputy Minister of Finance Samuel Undenge last week told Parliament that the government entered into an arrangement with departments that collect fees to retain that money which would in turn be offset against their expenditure allocation implying that the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority boss Gershom Pasi lied to the Public Accounts Committee that police were collecting as much as US$7 million a month from roadblocks but did not remit that money to treasury.

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Let’s speak more positively about ourselves- RBZ chief- The Reserve Bank governor John Mangudya yesterday said Zimbabweans should speak more positively about themselves because there was already a negative perception about the country. “We must speak more positively about ourselves. We are renowned for being educated, but we are so negative about ourselves and those negative perceptions lead to more negativity and that leads to lack of confidence. But if we were to measure it, we are not a country with very bad policies. The policies are good, but we may not be publicising them very well. We have a number of comparative advantages which we can exploit. We have good weather, the seventh wonder of the world, the Victoria Falls, and we have peace. We take these factors for granted, but to an investor they are very critical. If we were to put a very huge investment around the Victoria Falls and target one million arrivals and they spend US$1 000 each, we would raise US$1 billion and this could fund ZimAsset.”

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