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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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Movement for Democratic Change secretary-general Tendai Biti, who was Finance Minister just seven ago, today said the informal economy is a dead economy and it was a tragedy that the government was celebrating the creation of such an economy.

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South African police say they cannot investigate crimes against humanity committed in Zimbabwe because Harare is not a signatory of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

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