ZWNEWS.com "Harare - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has awarded civil servants with big pay rises ahead of a general election on March 29, state media reported Wednesday. 'Just yesterday (Monday), I was signing a new salary schedule of big salaries for teachers and civil servants,' Mugabe said at a campaign rally in the southern district of Inyathi, The Herald newspaper reported. 'I hope they will be happy because we have worked out very good salaries.' He did not elaborate on the increases, saying respective ministers would make their announcements. Zimbabwe's public sector has been plagued by strikes in recent months with workers pushing for pay increases that can keep up with a galloping inflation rate which now stands at over 100,000 percent."
Nyasa Times "Minister of Women and Child Development Kate Kainja-Kaluluma has passed away in United Kingdom. “Indeed Hon Kate Kainja Kaluluma has died,” confirmed family friends in London. The 57-year-old minister was admitted to a North England hospital – York Hospital. Diplomatic sources at Malawi High Commission in London have said arrangements are being made to send her remains to Malawi. Kainja who was Dedza South West Constituency parliamentarian flew to United Kingdom for medical attention after a long-illness. She is survived by a husband, Emanuel Kaluluma and three children."