The Insider

Parliament, which had adjourned to 1 September, has been recalled to pass the Labour Amendment Bill which seeks to reverse the unilateral dismissal of employees that has been going on for the past month since the Supreme Court judgment which allowed employers to give workers only three months’ notice without any retrenchment packages.

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Gweru City Council is looking to set up a bio gas project from waste material to avert power problems at the city’s major pump stations, Amapongokwe and Gwenoro, which have disrupted water supplies, a council official has said.

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President Robert Mugabe’s government today issued new labour regulations that seek to reverse a July 17 Supreme Court ruling allowing employers to terminate contracts on notice, but analysts said the proposals could lead to more confusion and are open to legal challenge in their current form.

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Ousted former chief executive of resources group Mwana Africa, Kalaa Mpinga, and the firm’s former director Ngoni Kudenga have declined re-election to the board of  its 75 percent owned subsidiary, Bindura Nickel Corporation (BNC) at its annual general meeting to be held at the end of the month, BNC said today.

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Hospitality group African Sun has fired at least nine top managers and consolidated operational oversight under the chief executive’s office in a restructuring move that follows last month’s Supreme Court ruling upholding employers’ right to dismiss workers on notice and without severance packages.

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First Lady Grace Mugabe has told Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front officials to stop fighting for succession because when time for change comes, God will show them.

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Zimbabwe’s business chamber has expressed concern over the country’s widening budget deficit and said that government borrowings from the local market will weaken an already stuttering economy.

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Harare City Council says it intends to recover city and state lands that have been taken over illegally by land barons and sold off to desperate home seekers.

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Zimbabwe’s largest seed producer, SeedCo, has so far collected $16.2 million from a total of $56 million owed by creditors, a company official has said.

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Zimbabwe’s largest dairy processor, Dairibord Holdings, says it will import 500 heifers this year to help increase raw milk supplies which remain depressed.

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