LOOKING BACK
The Herald 100 years ago
LONDON, 28 October 1919. — Addressing a meeting of agriculturists in London, Mr Lloyd George outlined the Government’s policy as regards agriculture. It was, he said, the greatest industry in the country and the Government wanted to restore its previous prosperity.
Before the war the country produced two-fifths of the foodstuffs necessary for the support of the population and imported three-fifths. He urged that there was vital necessity for restoring four-and-a-half million acres of land which had come out of cultivation since 1870.
The cultivator, naturally, asked for security, and it was essential that a guarantee should be given him, covering a sufficient number of years to justify the farmer breaking up his land.
Mr Lloyd George further declared that he farmer should be protected when his land was sold over his head, and it was therefore proposed to secure his tenancy. On the other hand, there must be a guarantee that the farmer would do his best to get the maximum production. The Herald 75 years ago SALISBURY, 28 October 1944. — Slum clearance and housing legislation is being pressed for by the Salisbury Council from the Government, a decision to ask for such laws at the next session of Parliament was made at a meeting of the Salisbury Council on Thursday afternoon, when a lengthy, debate took place on the whole problem of housing natives in urban areas.
As an interim measure, the Government is also to be asked to provide financial assistance to local authorities for housing natives on terms not less favourable than those given by recent legislation in the Union.
Its Housing Committee recommended that the Government be approached to secure financial assistance in the building in houses for natives in the Location on terms of at least as good as those given in the Union of South Africa and that if the Government was not prepared to assist on those lines no further houses should be erected by the Council in the location.
The Herald 50 years ago
SALISBURY, 28 October 1969. — The theme of the annual conference of the Association of University Women of Rhodesia tonight will be the promotion of peace “in the minds of men”.
The meeting, which will take place in the Arts lecture Theatre, University College of Rhodesia, will be presided over by the association’s national president, Mrs E. Thompson. The full text of the theme, upon which five guest speakers will base their addresses, is the preamble to the constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation ( UNESCO).
It runs: “Since war begins in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed.” Mrs D. P. Cooper, president of the Salisbury branch of the AUWY and chairman of its standing committee on education, will examine some aspects of education, the family and the home.
The UCR acting principal, Professor Robert Craig, will talk on the educational and theological points arising out of the theme.
The Herald 25 years ago
HARARE, 28 October 1994. — The establishment of export processing zones in Zimbabwe would help absorb the vast numbers of unemployed people and would launch the country on the path of sustainable economic growths.
The Acting Minister of Finance, Cde Emmerson Mnangagwa, told Parliament yesterday that the establishment of the zones would promote export-oriented investment, result in transfer of technology and widen the employment base.
“Export processing zones are one of the strategies which Government would like to use to encourage export-led growth,” said Cde Mnangagwa in his second reading speech to Parliament on the Export Processing Zones Bill. The Bill seeks to establish the Zimbabwe Export Processing Zones Authority which will be responsible for creating and regulating export processing zones in the country.
Cde Mnangagwa said if nothing is done to reduce unemployment within the next 10 years, unemployment levels could reach “socially catastrophic” levels.