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Zimbabwe’s agricultural sector is collectively losing nearly $5 million per month due to power shortages, a government official has revealed.

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President Robert Mugabe is to address both houses of Parliament in a joint session on Tuesday, the president of the Senate Edna Madzongwe announced yesterday.

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Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai treasurer Theresa Makone yesterday told the Senate that Zimbabwe was being forced to bulldoze a Labour Amendment Bill after thousands of workers were laid off because people were not investing in the country due to a crisis in governance.

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Zimbabwe has made several interest payments to the China Exim Bank for a $355 million loan extended to the southern African nation to finance expansion of its Kariba South Power Station, an official has said.

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State-owned fixed line phone operator TelOne has cut salaries for all staff by 15 percent with effect from August 1 and ruled out paying annual bonuses as part of measures to streamline costs at the cash-strapped parastatal.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s spokesman Luke Tamborinyoka today said a facebook page allegedly for Elizabeth Macheka Tsvangirai, the MDC-T leader’s wife since  September 2012, is a hoax as she is not on facebook.

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Kuwadzana East Member of Parliament Nelson Chamisa has applauded the government for coming up with the Labour Amendment Bill especially the controversial aspect that the remuneration of workers fired after the 17 July Supreme Court ruling that employers could dismiss workers on three months’ notice was retrospective.

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The unlikely revival of Bulawayo-based garment maker Archer Clothing has raised hopes there could be life yet in the second capital’s rusty factories after years of seemingly inexorable deindustrialisation.

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Zimbabwe employers say the proposed amendments to labour law — which were passed by the National Assembly last night — would hurt the already struggling economy and accused government of ignoring its contributions.

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Movement for Democratic Change-Ncube legislator Priscillah Misihairabwi-Mushonga yesterday accused Members of Parliament of trying to be populist by ignoring an adverse report on the Labour Amend Bill by the Parliamentary Legal Committee saying their move would not benefit workers.

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