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Union demands $800 a month for diamond mine workers- The Associated Mineworkers Union of Zimbabwe is demanding a minimum wage of $800 a month for diamond mining workers, $700 for those in platinum mining and $573 for those in gold mining and other mine workers, according to a report published today. The present minimum wage is $227 a month. The Chamber of Mines wants an inflation-linked adjustment. Inflation is currently 0.59 percent.

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Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo is benefitting personally from the current demolitions of illegal structures across the country, the legislator for Zengeza East Alexio Musundire said this week.

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Queues at the passport office will be a thing of the past with the aim being to reduce the waiting period for a passport to nine days.

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The Parliament of Zimbabwe must relocate to Bulawayo as part of devolution and to bring life to Zimbabwe’s second city, non-constituency legislator Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga said in the national assembly on Tuesday.

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Zimbabwe will not allow the introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to protect its own seed industry because right now it has developed a hybrid seed maize variety that is capable of yielding up to 18 tonnes per hectare.

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Britain is incensed that its aid money was used by the Zimbabwean government although investigations have revealed that the money was properly used and for the intended project.

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A Bulawayo legislator said it was deplorable that Zimbabwe, which was once the breadbasket of the Southern African region, is now importing maize from Zambia on some “eat now and pay later scheme”.

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Farmers have stopped growing maize because the Grain Marketing Board takes up to two years to pay them, the Member of Parliament for Hurungwe West Temba Mliswa said. Besides, the farmers get a lower price that the government pays to import maize.

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Zimbabwe academic and writer Blessing-Miles Tendi today said the threat by Britain to topple Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, whether real or not, pushed the military to support the Zimbabwean president.

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President Robert Mugabe has put his neck on the line this time. He has put the implementation of the government’s economic recovery programme- the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation- under his office which means that he will have no one but himself to blame if the programme fails.

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