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A legislator for Mashonaland West has urged Zimbabweans to embrace indigenisation now so that they will not be left out like those who played watch-and-see during the land reform programme but are now demanding audits so that they can be accommodated.

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The Deputy Minister of Agriculture responsible for livestock Paddy Zhanda said the government is looking at ways of resuscitating the Cold Storage Commission and has so far held two meeting with the CSC board.

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Harare West legislator Jessie Majome said there was no reason to celebrate when a rogue who raped 23 women was sentenced to 230 years in jail because the sentence was too lenient. The effective jail term was just 10 years for each rape.

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The government is not going to subsidise the price of the maize it is importing from Zambia and South Africa. In fact, Zimbabweans must now realise that the time for free or cheap things is over.

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The government is to raid foreign-owned businesses operating in sectors reserved for locals to make sure they comply with the law, the head of the National Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Board said yesterday.

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Deputy Justice Minister Fortune Chasi yesterday dodged answering questions about whether any crime had been committed in the Premier Services Medical Aid Society saga in which the chief executive Cuthbert Dube was reported to be earning nearly US$500 000 a month yet board members, Luxon Zembe and George Charamba professed they did not know about salaries.

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Someone once said: “If you want to see Mugabe at his best, put him in a corner.” That is what the West did. In the process they committed a cardinal error.

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Chombo reinstates Mahachi – Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo today reinstated Harare town clerk Tendai Mahachi who was suspended for three months this week by the mayor Bernard Manyenyeni for failing to provide the salary schedule for all senior council employees. Mahachi’s suspension had been welcomed by residents keen to know how much the city officials were earning following reports that Mahachi himself was earning US$37 000 a month and the top 18 officials were raking in US$500 000 a month at a time when the council could not even afford to replace street bulbs. Chombo’s action raised eyebrows as the Harare city council is run by the Movement for Democracy Change and his move was seen as condoning corruption by council officials known to be sympathetic to the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front as it was interfering with investigations.

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“Ndiri Tsvangirai ndaipihwa mari ndozvigarira ku Canada or Sweden nevana vangu ndichingonyora mabhuku chete nekubuda pa CNN ne BBC,” a facebook fan said in response to a story on the internet that Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai had turned down a US$3 million offer to retire and demanded US$7 million instead.

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The PSMAS Cuthbert Dube saga reveals a very interesting dimension to the architecture of our economy, our financial value system and our psyche as Zimbabweans.

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