LOOKING BACK
The Herald 100 years ago SALISBURY, 15 November 1919. — In common with other communities of Rhodesia, Umvuma received copies of the King’s message for the anniversary of Armistice Day, and the inhabitants loyally carried out the injunctions imposed.
The Falcon mine hooter was sounded at 11am, thus enabling the residents of the township reverently to observe the two minutes’ pause for silent meditation.
At the police camp the local contingent of the B.S.A Police mustered in full force under Lieut. W, Lawrence.
The flag was reverently “dipped,” and a royal salute fired. The whole proceedings were carried out in a very soldierly manner.
The Public School also kept due observance of the event. After the pupils had been lined up under their respective teachers the principal (Mr. J. W. Watkinson), in a few appropriate words, impressed upon the children the great event they were commemorating that day.
The Herald 75 years ago SALISBURY, 15 November 1944. — Considerable concern has been expressed in the local native weekly newspaper at the increase in the traffic in skokiaan.
“Lately,” reads one passed in a long editorial article, “prosecutions of African people found in possession of skokiaan in the Salisbury brickfields have been steadily increasing, and the number of people imprisoned through the use of skokiaan embarrasses anyone who has the interests of the Africans at heart. It seems as if, before long, the Colony will be filled with skokiaan criminals, and there will not be enough gaols to accommodate them.”
These are grave words. Up-to- date statistics of prosecutions are not available to us, but readers of the daily newspapers must have been struck with the frequency with which reports appear in the news column of skokiaan cases heard in the Magistrates’ Courts; struck, too, perhaps, with the heavy fines imposed and apparently paid, showing what a highly lucrative trade this is.
The Herald 50 years ago SALISBURY, 15 November 1969. — A series charges and penalties for the Jameson Parkade, due to be opened early next year, were accepted by the Salisbury City Council at its monthly meeting on Thursday.
The charges are covered by the parking garage by-laws and were part of a Public Works Committee recommendation.
The rest of the recommendation dealt with the parkade’s rules which were adopted.
Details of the recommendations were published in The Rhodesia Herald on October 31.
They include charges ranging from 6d. (5c) an hour to £50 (100 dollars) a year.
Among the penalties is one of 10s. for incorrect parking.
The Council also agreed to the submissions of a revised report which would allow the parkade to be built one floor higher.
The extra floor which will be the parkade’s sixth storey, will cost about £60 000 at present building prices.
The Herald 25 years ago HARARE, 15 November 1994. — Zimbabwe will introduce new legislation aimed at reducing market segmentation and strengthen supervision in the banking sector and meet challenges of a more liberalised economy.
The Acting Senior Minister of Finance, Cde Emmerson Mnangagwa, told delegates attending the two- day Danish Development Agency symposium, “Structural Adjustment; Lessons Leaned”, yesterday that the legislation would encourage more competition in the financial sector.
Already, he noted, new institutions had emerged in Zimbabwe’s financial sector
These included the National Merchant Bank of Zimbabwe (capital market), Inter-Bank Discount House (money market) and Zimbabwe Building Society (mortgages market).
“It is envisaged that the introduction of the new financial firms will encourage more competition in the provision of financial services with positive spin-offs for the whole economy as competition sets in.”